ORDINALC24

A Half-Life 2 roleplay server set in City 24 of District 2. Housing, rations, shifts and civil records are persistent, and the server decides what happened.

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The City 24 emblem and red banners above District 2, with the Citadel in the skyline.
DISTRICT 2City 24
ORDINAL

A quiet interface over a city that remembers.

PERSISTENT

Apartments, furniture, containers and records survive a restart. What you leave in a room is there the next day.

DECIDED BY THE SERVER

Every action is checked before it happens. A door you have no key for doesn’t offer Unlock. Without a crowbar you don’t see Breach.

ON THE RECORD

A citation names one of 37 offences, each with a fixed loyalty penalty. An officer cannot invent a charge, and you are told about every line written about you.

THE WORLD IS THE INTERFACE

At rest the screen draws nothing. There is no clock on it; terminals tell the time, and the public address tells you when curfew is near.

THE CIVIC DAY

Ninety minutes, curfew to curfew.

An hour of daylight and half an hour of night. The day is the same for everyone in the city, and the bar below is drawn to its real length.

  1. 06:00Curfew lifts and the ration cycle opens. One ration a citizen, nothing owed and nothing carried over.10 MIN
  2. 08:00The shift. Labour posts sign citizens on, the CIU packing line runs and the CWU trades are at their benches.20 MIN
  3. 11:00The café and the restaurant open, and stay open until curfew.
  4. 12:00The shift ends. Free time in daylight.30 MIN
  5. 18:00Dark. Free time in the evening.15 MIN
  6. 21:00The public address warns that curfew approaches.
  7. 22:00Curfew. A citizen outside a residential block is in violation, and the cameras say so.15 MIN
FACTIONS

Most of the city works. Some of it watches.

Everyone arrives as a citizen. Union membership is applied for at the employment clerk, and it is a privilege.

EVERYONE
Citizens

A citizen carries an identity card, lives where housing assigns them, eats what the ration window gives, and keeps the curfew. Loyalty is recorded. Work is how it is earned.

CWU
Civil Workers’ Union

Runs the cafés, the restaurant, the tailor and the newspaper.

CIU
Civil Industrial Union

Keeps the city working, from the packing line to the workbench.

CMU
Civil Medical Union

The city’s first aid. When a unit calls for a medic, the CMU is paged to where it stands.

UCA
Union Civil Authority

The city’s police. The Union does not recruit citizens; it consumes them. A citizen issued civil authority becomes a unit with a designation, and there is no way back.

The ladder and the divisionsTHE CITY
JOIN

New arrivals come by train.

The server launches on 10/23. You need Garry’s Mod. Everything else downloads when you join.

  1. 01

    Get the content

    The map and its content packs come from the Steam Workshop and the rest from the server. Subscribing to the [Workshop collection] first makes the first join quicker.

  2. 02

    Launching on 10/23

    Connection details will be shared when the server launches. Join our Discord for launch updates.

  3. 03

    Create a citizen

    Five steps: appearance, identity, description, skills and review. The physical description is how strangers will see you until they learn your name.

  4. 04

    Read the rules

    Read the [server rules] before your first shift.