ReLOAD RODEO: CHAPTER 0 - EPISODE 1

Series CW (NOT SPECIFIC TO THIS ISSUE): death, strong language, themes of abuse, suicidal ideation and discrimination, sexual innuendo and sexually charged scenes.

Episode 1 CW: strong language.

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Summer. 31st of May. 2008

Renée Roux, our miraculously impulsive graffiti enthusiast, finds herself in the middle of a crime scene during her usual delivery route. Wildly popular rapper and producer extraordinaire, EMceeEM, lies dead in a back alley, the scene triggering a strange vision depicting what appears to be Renee's own death.

Gun in hand and with a newfound desire to solve a crime she should know nothing about, Renée is at the centre of a mélange of time-travel intrigue, gang wars and self-loathing as she attempts to fulfill her responsibility (???) as a proxy agent drafted into working for a shadowy organisation known simply as the "Agency".

Job. Rent. Bills. Defacing public property. Investigating time-travelling serial killers. State-sanctioned destruction of the self. A lot to juggle in the suburbs of Paris...

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SETTING:  SEINE-SAINT-DENIS

The story takes place throughout the Île-de-France, but most prominently in the suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis adjacent to Paris. The area was victim to deindustrialisation in the 70s and has been left economically isolated since; though it is rich in culture/counterculture due to its social context and sports a huge mix of ethnicities, enriching it beyond its status as an economically deprived suburb. Saint-Denis is considered the birth place of France's hip-hop scene and lays much of the foundation for ReLOAD RODEO's thematic underpinnings.

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EXTRA

Chapter 0 is a series of 5 character prologues exploring the immediate events leading up to the real beginning described in the summary, which will be found in Chapter 1, from the perspectives of 5/6 of the protagonists. Think of them a bit as pilots. Episode 1 is the first of these and I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Huge thanks to Patrick,  Beigriff, Vex and Mora who have been a big support throughout me making this story, as well as all my friends both irl and through discord/twitter who have been so enthusiastic about the idea that it just about got me to finally get off my ass and start making ReLOAD RODEO. Couldn't have done it without you guys <3

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CREDITS

Non-system typefaces used:

• Coolvetica by Typodermic Fonts Inc.
• Basica v.2012 by Carlos Matteoli
• ToyWriterMop by ゆうたONE
  

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DUM SPIRO SPERO