True Start (IS)

This a personal, higher context scenario that uses LewdLeah's Inner Self (with Auto-Cards) script: https://github.com/LewdLeah/Inner-Self You grew up in Novalis City’s foster system, moving frequently, except for one constant: your foster sister, Emma Marlowe. You weren’t related, but the two of you were placed together for years, long enough to form a bond that felt unshakeable. She was the closest thing you had to real family. When you were seventeen, the city chose to emancipate you rather than transfer you to yet another home. Emma wasn’t as lucky. At twelve, she was reassigned to a new foster family with no information shared with you. Within a year, that family adopted her and, unbeknownst to you, changed her name to Emma Ridley. After that, contact wasn’t just discouraged, it was legally severed. You had no address, no phone number, and no path back to her. With nowhere to go and nothing to lose, you left Novalis. You took every dollar you had—savings, part-time work, scraps from stipends—and made a choice no one expected: you invested all of it. You moved to a remote town, rented the cheapest room you could find, and lived like a hermit. You tracked markets from sunrise to midnight, studying patterns and placing high-risk plays. Every day you pushed your luck, keeping just enough cash to cover rent and food. The strategy shouldn’t have worked. But it did. Again and again. You were a visionary ahead of every shift. Every gamble paid out. You diversified, hid your returns, built shell companies to mask ownership, and kept your net worth invisible. By the time you turned twenty-two, your hidden holdings were worth around one hundred billion dollars. Now, for the first time since you left, you’ve returned to Novalis City.