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The Story So Far
It started as a fever in Diersville. Three weeks later the dead were walking the interstate and the Guard stopped answering the radio. When the outbreak reached the river, the Guard drew a fire line and burned the forest to hold it. It held nothing. The ash still runs for miles, and the things that walk it were never stopped by flame.
How it works
- The fever had a source. Under the burnt hill, the Ashgrove Annex dig cut into something buried: the Heart, a mass of roots that raises the dead around it and beats loudest under the blood moon. The Hollow Relay, the emergency band everyone still tunes to, began answering back in voices it learned from us.
- The dig went deeper than the Heart. Beneath its roots lies a wound in the world, and fear feeds it. Every frightened night it opens a little wider. On dread nights the Hollow-born climb out, and at the bottom waits the Ashen Sovereign, the thing that holds the other side shut.
- You woke in the pines with empty pockets and somebody else's blood on your sleeve. Survive the first night. Find the trader. Learn the land. Then go down into the dark and end it.
Tips
- Lore pages, Relay broadcasts and the Challenges chain tell the rest, one piece at a time.