Community world · Lower Zenith Sector · 2400

Arun-Dhal the Iron Shell, 2400

Urban pressure, Survival focus

Arun-Dhal is a tiered ecumenopolis where the atmosphere is recycled and every heartbeat is a billable asset. In the lightless Lower Zenith, the population survives by scavenging data-scraps and dodging predatory credit-gangs while dreaming of the neon-soaked Upper Spill.

Created by Rainwashere

Arun-Dhal the Iron Shell, 2400 cover image

Runs

5

Likes

0

Locations

6

Characters

4

World premise

A playable world seed with consequences.

In the lightless depths of the Lower Zenith Sector, the air is a lukewarm soup of recycled oxygen and industrial grease. Within the vertical poverty of Arun-Dhal, survival is a frantic math of billable heartbeats and dwindling credits. You begin your week in the crowded corridors of Hab-Block 7, where the flicker of dying neon and the constant hum of the massive air-scrubbers provide the only rhythm to a life of debt-bondage. Between predatory gangs and corporate enforcers, the pressure to find a 'lick' or a shift is immediate, and the social cost of failure is an air-tax debt that no one can outrun.

Rising hardship and failing hab-unit systems are tightening daily margins across Hab-Block 7.

A local Synth-Vendor is offering credits for anyone willing to move a package past the V-Sec Hub.

Authority, rumor, and household expectation are all moving faster than your current salary allows.

The Wire Jackals have begun seeking 'interest payments' on debts shared by your entire residential floor.

Map

Locations

urban

Neon Intersection

The highest point of the Lower Zenith where black-market tech meets the desperate; the daily crossroads for work, trade, and survival hustles.

market

The Sprawl Bazaar

Where synth-food, body-parts, and data-shards are traded under flickering holograms; the primary hub for price volatility and underworld contacts.

residential

Hab-Block 7

A decaying residential tower where thousands compete for a single functioning elevator; a pressure cooker of household debt and shared strain.

authority

V-Sec Security Hub

The fortified station of private police who protect corporate oxygen rights; a place where small infractions become major fines.

social

The Link Chapel

A sanctuary for tech-priests offering free Wi-Fi and terminal access; a place of shared help, ritual, and local mediation under visible strain.

travel

Ventilation Shafts

Dangerous vertical tunnels used by runners to bypass toll-gates; a route offering opportunity, danger, and people you do not fully control.

Power

Factions

political · influence 75

V-Sec Corporation

The heavy-handed corporate enforcers who control the oxygen and the law, protecting corporate interests above all.

economic · influence 58

The Wire Jackals

A brutal network of credit-sharks and organ-harvesters who run the bazaars and exploit the desperate.

social · influence 42

The Undergrid

A loose union of lab-workers and runners fighting for better rations, air-rights, and dignity.

Pressure

Opening rumors

Credibility 74

market talk

People in Lower Zenith Sector say air prices are moving faster than official assurances.

Credibility 57

street gossip

Whispers say an ID-accounting sweep or inspection may land on the wrong households by morning.

Credibility 51

travelers

Some runners insist the ventilation shafts have become more dangerous due to Wire Jackal activity.

Begin

Start a life inside Arun-Dhal the Iron Shell, 2400.

More worlds to play

Destined settlement, 1220

A small settlement destined for something greater. Each settlement is situated on top of a giant dead God, as these bodies are the only fertile places in the world anymore, and the only places protected from monsters. These bodies still move on their own, so...

The Tangle of Chionthar, 1492

In the dense, magical periphery of the Wood of Sharp Teeth near Baldur's Gate, the reach of the Flaming Fist is thin. Settlers and outcasts struggle against encroaching fey-corrupted flora and the economic squeeze of city-state tariffs while surviving on the edge of the Coast Way.

Jakarta Freshmen Reality, 2024

You are a 19-year-old freshman in Jakarta, Indonesia, possessing a mysterious software that allows you to alter your own physical, financial, and social data. While the software provides a 'digital edge' for seduction and self-improvement, you must still navigate the concrete realities of university life, traffic-heavy commutes, and the strict social hierarchies of the capital. Balance the pursuit of affection and high status with the practical demands of rent, grades, and survival in a city that never stops judging.

The Steerage Restoration, 1894

You were once the master of your own kitchen in Ireland, but the failures of the Old World have driven you to the docks of lower Manhattan. Arriving in 1894 with the culinary skills of a restaurateur but the legal status of a penniless arrival, you must navigate the brutal competition of Five Points and the Waterfront. Your goal is to regain your dignity and perhaps, eventually, own a stove of your own again in a city that views you as just another mouth to feed.

Sol's Silence, 2247

In 2247, the Solar System fell into absolute radio silence. Every colony from the Venusian clouds to the Titan shipyards ceased transmission in a single hour. As Commander of the Eos, returning from a twelve-year Oort mission, you are the last living witness to a dead system. You must navigate the ghost-hulls of Earth, Luna, and Mars to determine if the cause was a viral extinction, a cosmic intrusion beyond human comprehension, or if the alien signatures detected in the belt are hunters or merely scavengers of what we left behind.

Super Gene First Sanctuary, 150

In the near-future, humanity has entered God's Sanctuary, a world where modern technology is useless and survival depends on martial prowess. You are a 'Non-Evolver' in the First Sanctuary, hunting creatures to consume their flesh and harvest Geno Points to increase your physical fitness. In this harsh urban-wilderness frontier, status is dictated by the quality of your Beast Souls and the rarity of the meat you consume. Every kill offers a chance at a Beast Soul—spectral gear or companions that provide the only edge against escalating monstrous threats. While elites chase Sacred-Blood spirits, you must navigate the brutal competition of the shelters to survive.