Into the Blackwelt

Just outside San Francisco Memorial city we picked up a beat up station wagon from some spaced out kid who was hopped up on neurozine and permanently jacked in. We don’t really know each other, and definitely don't trust each other -  but we had the cash for gas and all have reasons to head to Tonopah, a dead town in the evacuated, irradiated Blackwelt Exclusion Zone. It's a place only the desperate or damned would visit, and us of course. . 

The year is 1997 but in an alternate future, neuro tech has mapped the human brain, and it's secrets,and implemented with terrifying consequences, a nuclear civil war has devastated the US and divided it, and the world is going thru a slow apocalypse.