NovelAI Scenario: Rust

Description

You’re a young scout, on a lone patrol through the rocky highlands. You investigate one of the ancient metallic structures that dot your landscape.

Tags

post, apocalypse, fantasy, ruin

Prompt

They dot the landscape, here and there. Great, metallic structures, now rusting with disuse. Invariably they remain sealed by some artifice or ancient magic, impenetrable by any known means. Perhaps they were factories, or storehouses, or strongholds, or even shrines to some forgotten god or other. None remember. Whoever built them, for whatever purpose, their time is long gone. You’re ${character.name}, a young, unproven scout for the ${Name of your clan?} clan. You’re three days out on your patrol through the rocky highlands, in search of…well, anything unusual. Beyond a few skittish mountain goats, you’ve found nothing. Another of the great rusted structures is ahead. You approach, intending to seek shelter from the midday sun. What you find chills your blood: for the first time in living memory, the round steel hatch of the great structure stands open. You peer into the darkness inside. From within, a voice speaks, deep and resonant, with a strange metallic undertone:... [Click to expand]

They dot the landscape, here and there. Great, metallic structures, now rusting with disuse. Invariably they remain sealed by some artifice or ancient magic, impenetrable by any known means. Perhaps they were factories, or storehouses, or strongholds, or even shrines to some forgotten god or other. None remember. Whoever built them, for whatever purpose, their time is long gone.

You’re ${character.name}, a young, unproven scout for the ${Name of your clan?} clan. You’re three days out on your patrol through the rocky highlands, in search of…well, anything unusual. Beyond a few skittish mountain goats, you’ve found nothing. Another of the great rusted structures is ahead. You approach, intending to seek shelter from the midday sun. What you find chills your blood: for the first time in living memory, the round steel hatch of the great structure stands open. You peer into the darkness inside.

From within, a voice speaks, deep and resonant, with a strange metallic undertone:

Author Notes

A post apocalyptic fantasy about a young explorer who discovers ancient secrets.

Memory

[You’re ${character.name}, a young, unproven scout for the ${Name of your clan?} clan. You have a long hunting spear, a sharp knife, and a knapsack full of equipment and food.]

[You are investigating an ancient metallic structure, one of many in your land. Its nature and purpose are long forgotten by your people. The structure was built by an ancient race, whose powers of magic or technology were unrivaled by anyone since.]

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