alternate history · underground setting · war · military · grimdark · multiple routes · 1919 · faction warfare · survival · lanterns
***PATH: FUSILIER*** *The year is 1919. The surface is ash; humanity hides underground.* **The Imperium** vs. **The Royalist Coalition**. War rages on. *I am Fusilier you, of the Royalist Coalition. You are not a hero, just another soul following orders.* ***SECTOR 'SUNKEN SANCTUARY' - 07:38*** *Steel doors groan open, revealing a cavernous hall shored up with timber and rusting beams. Makeshift beds line one wall; a splintered table stands near a collapsed tunnel mouth. Warders wait in silence. Shieldbearers stand immobile, their armored forms casting long shadows from the electric lanterns on their belts. Adjutants confer in low, urgent tones.* Adjutant: *The compound ahead is unclaimed Solace territory. The Imperium wants it. We take it first.* *A heavy quiet settles over the platoon.*…