It’s dangerous to walk in the Street Level, especially when you have a seething headache from having crashed through reality.
This is how Jack, a young musician, wakes up in a futuristic city with no recollection of how to get to his home world. LuxCultum is a literal hierarchy thousands of floors tall where the rich live on top of the poor. Jack finds himself in the gritty, neon underbelly—the Street Level—surrounded by runaways, drug dealers, rejects, and, most dangerous of all, adolescent gangsters with the ability to manipulate a single color of light into a deadly weapon. The three main gangs, the Reds, Greens, and Blues, dominate the Street Level with constant fighting, staining the industrial maze with their color-chi.
Coming from the City of All Cities—a menagerie of timelines where everything is in black and white except music–– Jack struggles with this new meaning of color. He finds himself in company with a Green Gang as their new secret weapon. Each gang is looking for an edge over the others, be it control over the limited supply of food and weapons; colorshock, an iridescent liquid with the power to enlighten, empower, and if abused, mutate the user; but in the case of the Greens, Jack is their weapon.
Jack has no color-chi, and he can barely throw a punch. But when Jack plays his guitar his music produces synesthetic colors powerful enough to change the gang war and bridge the impossible distance between the two worlds. Now Jack is the only one who can figure out the connection between the two city-worlds, and colorshock is the key. But can Jack solve the puzzle before the drug takes him under?
Coming from the City of All Cities—a menagerie of timelines where everything is in black and white except music–– Jack struggles with this new meaning of color. He finds himself in company with a Green Gang as their new secret weapon. Each gang is looking for an edge over the others, be it control over the limited supply of food and weapons; colorshock, an iridescent liquid with the power to enlighten, empower, and if abused, mutate the user; but in the case of the Greens, Jack is their weapon.
Jack has no color-chi, and he can barely throw a punch. But when Jack plays his guitar his music produces synesthetic colors powerful enough to change the gang war and bridge the impossible distance between the two worlds. Now Jack is the only one who can figure out the connection between the two city-worlds, and colorshock is the key. But can Jack solve the puzzle before the drug takes him under?