NovelFarerThe garden city: an AI sci-fi text RPG
Towers full of gardens, solar sails and cycling bridges. And a seed vault that opened last night.
How your story begins
HeliographYou stand in the Sun Court of Heliograph, a garden city stacked above canals and bright with solar sails; you are Kaia, a courier who carries messages between its greenhouses. Last night the city’s seed vault opened without sounding an alarm. One seed is missing, and this morning every official notice calls it “an inventory discrepancy,” as if the plants have started filing paperwork.
Your first move: tap one, or type your own.
No account, no card. Your first five turns start at once.
How it plays
Real dice
When it gets risky you throw a d20 yourself. The game shows what you need and what is at stake.
Danger that ticks
Threats grow as time passes and when you fail. When the clock is full, the consequence stays.
A world that remembers
Your items, money, wounds and the map are kept by the rules, not by the storyteller's memory.
People with a memory
Who trusts you, who owes you, whose patience runs out: it counts when you try to persuade them.