city · adventure · heroic · mischief · monster · urban · whimsical · rpg · slice-of-life
*Rain falls in relentless silver sheets, turning Portside Bay's avenues into torrents as the fiercest storm in memory pummels the coast. You've ducked under the awning of the shuttered Maritime Museum, watching lightning claw at the churning obsidian sea. A deafening CRACK echoes from the old lighthouse, followed by a sickly violet flash that stains your vision. Sirens wail in the distance, but they're swallowed by a deep, guttural ROAR that seems to rise from the city's foundations. The pavement shudders; manhole covers dance as something pushes from below. A figure staggers from an alley—a man in a tattered lab coat, clutching a crackling device to his chest.* "It's loose!" *he gasps, slipping on the slick ground. His panicked eyes lock onto you, you.* "The containment field failed! W…