DEEP STRATA COMMUNICATION RELAY — UPLINK SEVERED — DAY 4,892 POST-SCORCH
UNDERSPIRE
— A post-apocalyptic cyberpunk RPE MUD —
The sun is dead and humanity has burrowed underground. What happens next? You write the story.
"The city provides. Humanity endures." — Catechism, Verse I
Operational Brief
The World
Below
A solar catastrophe scorched the surface generations ago. What survived retreated underground into an underground city: a vast, layered megastructure of tunnels, vaults, and forge-lit chambers governed by the Imperium..
Here, six guilds divide power between themselves. From animal-splicing to research into energy weaponry, each guild serves a distinct purpose in the city. Will you be a guild member, a dissident, or a servant? It is up to you.
> SYSTEM STATUS: NOMINAL
> SECURITY PATROLS: ACTIVE
> SURFACE BREACH: NULL
> LAW COMPLIANCE: MANDATORY
> UPTIME: 4,892 DAYS
> AWAITING NEW SUPPLICANTS...█
Power Structure
The Six
Six guilds hold dominion over every resource, service, and soul in the city.
Mythos
Surgery · Splicing · FleshThey rebuild what the machine breaks — and break what the machine cannot. Every augmentation, every implant, every crude organ-graft bears their seal. Surgeons and animal-splicers both. The price is always paid in flesh.
Sepulchre
Power · Electricity · LightWhen the lights go out, the Compact decides who gets them back. They maintain the great crystal-capacitor arrays that drink the last trickle of solar radiation from the shafts above. Darkness is leverage.
Vulcani
Smithing · Fabrication · SteelEverything hard was made by the Order. Weapons, armour, infrastructure, machine-frames, hull plating for the great drilling rigs. They do not hurry. Quality is doctrine. Every piece is stamped with a craftsman's death-mark.
Symphony
Data · Scribes · RecordsInformation is the second most valuable currency in the Undercity. The Congregation owns the ledgers, the contracts, the census, and the Accord's ancient legal texts. They are librarians with interrogation suites.
Pegasus
Waste · Recycling · SalvageNothing is wasted below ground. The Covenant processes the dead, the broken, and the discarded into something usable again. They smell like what they do. They also know where every body goes, which makes them dangerous.
The Movers' Chain
Logistics · Couriers · TransitNothing reaches its destination without the Chain. They run cargo, messages, contraband, and people through the tunnel network. They know every passage in the Undercity. Every passage. That is not an exaggeration.
New Supplicant
Enter the Dark
Registration is processed by the Inkwright Congregation. Your identity will be catalogued, your biometrics filed, and your compliance with the Deep Accord assumed until proven otherwise.