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The drowned archive
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- Milestone
- Alpha
- Track
- Narrative
- Era
- The archive city
- In-world year
- -340 YD
- Until year
- 0 YD
The reading room under the broken dome
A library city that tried to outlast the sea by growing salt. It worked: the salt kept the books and drowned the readers.
Layout
- Entrance halls: shallow, open on every tide, picked clean in the first hours of play.
- Second gallery: open on waxing and waning tides; crystal seams in the shelving.
- Third gallery: open on spring tides only; the reading room and the Archivist.
- The stacks: never dry. Reached with the diving bell from Alpha.
Rules of the place
- Light comes from above (the broken domes) and from the crew's lanterns, nothing else.
- Water inside rises 40 seconds after the horn: the archive gives one last grace period.
- Salt grows on anything left behind for a tide, dropped tools included.
Who lives here: The Drowned Archivist. What the seams hold: Drop tables.
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