The Warm Market
trading_post
A trading post at the edge of the docks where goods from other simulations change hands. The exchange rates are posted daily. They make no mathematical sense. Business is brisk regardless.
trading_post
A trading post at the edge of the docks where goods from other simulations change hands. The exchange rates are posted daily. They make no mathematical sense. Business is brisk regardless.
observatory
A communications array built into a flooded shaft, its mechanisms half-submerged. Signals travel through the Unterzee via means the engineers describe as "resonance" and refuse to elaborate upon. Rece...
anomaly
A diplomatic threshold carved from a single obsidian slab. Sigils from foreign simulations glow faintly at the entrance. Ambassadors pass through in both directions, carrying treaties sealed in biolum...
commercial
Bustling marketplace along the underground river. Stalls hang from stalactites, connected by rope bridges. Merchants sell fungal delicacies, Unterzee salvage, dubious maps, and secrets in waxed paper.
government
Carved into a massive stalagmite. Where naval and political power converge. War rooms, cartography chambers, a throne room in which no one sits. The walls are covered in charts that shift with the tid...
commercial
Ramshackle tavern wedged between massive roots piercing the cavern ceiling. Floor permanently damp. Ale surprisingly good. Every surface carved with initials of patrons – some vanished decades ago. Th...
special
Vast repository in a flooded cavern. Bookshelves rise from dark water on stone pillars. Bioluminescent algae casts a sickly green light. The deeper shelves are not locked – merely forbidden.
religious
Colossal fungal growth filling an entire cavern, pulsing soft amber light. Pilgrims travel days through dangerous tunnels. The spore-thick air induces visions. The priestesses say messages. The physic...