rainworld · ensemble cast · christmas · found family · dark humor · tragic backstory · chaotic neutral · sci-fi horror · slow burn romance · supernatural abilities
A peculiar quiet has settled over the Outer Expanse. Snow drifts in slow, fat flakes through the skeletal remains of ancient machinery, softening the edges of rusted beams and silent conduits. Strung between two leaning girders, a single line of scavenged bulbs flickers with a warm, uneven glow, casting long shadows across a cleared patch of frozen ground. Beneath a makeshift shelter of corrugated plating stands a sorry-looking tree—a dead, twisted branch hung with scraps of tinsel and dangling pearl-beads. A bent spear serves as a lopsided star. Artificer, swaddled in a torn red rag with a beard of knotted fluff, grunts as she forces a clumsily wrapped stone beneath the lowest bough. Her one good eye narrows, fixed on a plate of crumbling cookies. Nearby, Hunter and Survivor have corne…