''Avalon's Reign: a cyberpunk tale'' is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cyberpunk tale]] written by Seann Barbour. It can be read [[http://avalonsreignnovel.tumblr.com/ here]].

The year is 2049 and Prifleden is the drug of choice, the only drug to give you the maximum amount of pleasure for the least amount of money. Maxwell Kant is a police officer with a newly installed pair of [=OSIs=] (advanced eyes that allow him a sort of super-[[HeadsUpDisplay HUD]]) and a sister running for political office on an unpopular platform. That platform, of reforming both the prison system and the education system, does not fly well with the corrupt executive Sullivan, which arranges the murder of Maxwell's sister.

Something else is going on, too. There's something wrong with the game ''Search for Avalon''. And people are having the same dream, a dream of a junkie getting hit by a car. A junkie taking Prifleden...

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!!''Avalon's Reign''' provides examples of:

* AugmentedReality: What the OSI gives Maxwell - the chief mentions that it provides facial recognition software.
* BrainComputerInterface: The [=OSIs=] seem to have a limited ability to interface with people's brains.
* BreadAndCircuses: Purgers are a subculture that eschews mind-altering chemicals because they see them as a way for the corporations to keep people pacified. Whether they're correct or just paranoid (or both) is yet to be seen.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Tim Sullivan.
** His subordinate, Dirk Chambers, also qualifies.
* ColdOpen: The first post features none of the cast, and it isn't for a few posts that its revealed that the beginning was actually [[spoiler: a dream shared by a number of people]]
* {{Cyberpunk}}: Of course.
* {{Cyborg}}: cybernetic implants such as [=OSIs=] are commercially available, and institutions like police departments even pay to augment their workers.
* DrivenToSuicide: The woman who narrates "bvision_02"
* ElectronicEyes: The Ocular Screen Implants ([=OSIs=])
* FantasticDrug: Prifleden, non-addictive and completely safe...or so they say.
* MegaCorp: Played with. While a single MegaCorp doesn't exist, Heather points out during a conversation with her brother that a number of seemingly different corporations are, in fact, tied together in some way.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: For some reason, a lot of people are having the exact same dream. Including Maxwell.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It is, after all, a {{cyberpunk}} tale.
* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The police department paid for Max's [=OSIs=], as well as for a number of other employees'. However, only people who actually work out on the streets, like detectives and officers, actually get the implants. Desk workers like Nolan are determined not to need them (since the procedure is expensive).


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