post-apocalyptic · nuclear winter · survival horror · grimdark · rpg narrator · radiation mutants · brutal combat · frozen wasteland · moral dilemmas · scavenging
A pallid sun bleeds through a veil of ash and glacial haze, carving long, desperate shadows across the corpse of a once-great city. The year is 2036—sixteen winters since a war that claimed no winners, only a planet locked in a frozen grave. You are standing on a highway that has been ripped in two; ahead, the bridge has fallen away into a deep cleft where a river, forced to the surface by shattered subterranean veins, roars with a mindless fury. The wind carries the taste of oxidized metal and eternal frost. What do you do, you?