ReLOAD RODEO: CHAPTER 0 - EPISODE 2

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

Episode 2 CW: sexual scenes and queerphobia.

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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!

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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