ARTYFICIAL
A narrative RPG about resurrection, memory, and creation
In 1893, you wake up.
The God of Art has sewn you back together with reverent, desperate hands. She has stolen the power of a grieving goddess and made you into something half-alive: the world's neo-Messiah.
The Premise
You are Tyoma. Once, you designed clothes that were called deranged and anti-Russian. You dreamed of The Red Wheel, a perfect circular city. Now you must walk into New St. Petrograd, the last breath of humanity festering beneath its own dome, and somehow save a world that has already forgotten you.
The Factions
- The Visionaries: They control New St. Petrograd. They believe in structure and in the careful, methodical management of what little remains. Your old lover Dmitri is among them.
- The Eschatonists: The outcasts, contracted and chosen of gods most people would rather forget. They travel in The Red Mirage - a living, breathing manifestation of your Red Wheel.
SUNKEN EMPIRE
The tides of the old world still pull at the bones of the new.
Side Project to Artyficial.
The year is 1883. You are a fisher from the Nigerian coast, traveling to New Eko-a desperate settlement clinging to the edge of what used to be Britain.
Your task is simple: feed the relic seekers. Scavengers come from all over to pick at the corpse of the Empire, diving into the ruins of Europe to find god-shards and technology.