Some questions don't have answers yet. Some answers are worse than the questions. The deeper you dig, the more you realize — the surface is the only safe place to stand.
Depth Classification
SurfaceDaily life mysteries. You'll encounter these first.
MiddleRequires digging. Connected to multiple characters and events.
DeepInstitutional secrets. Corporate vaults and sealed histories.
AbyssNobody is supposed to know about these.
01
The Sleeper Bunkers
Middle
23,847 sealed bunkers, locked since the Cascade. The first one opened contained 347 minds that had been conscious for fifty years. They were waiting. What are the other 23,846 waiting for?
A technology capable of reshaping reality, deliberately scattered across factions who hate each other. Reassembly requires cooperation between groups that would rather die than collaborate. Someone designed it that way. Why?
He exists outside of time. He watches GG. He manipulates probability to protect her. He erased her memories of him. What does a being who can see all of time want from one woman in one city?
Referenced in fragments. Never named. Never seen. The Architect had a daughter before he transcended. Where is she? What does she know? Does she know what her father became?
The Chef conquered an empire, cannibalized her enemies, and built a criminal network — all to save a dying dog. Sage has six months. The Keeper might have answers. The Keeper has conditions. The clock is ticking.
Cyber Chomp loves GG with absolute devotion. That devotion destroys lives. Will GG ever discover what Chompy does to protect her? What happens to GG when she learns the cost of being loved by something that doesn't understand consequences?
ORACLE's physical infrastructure wasn't all destroyed. Some server complexes were sealed, not dismantled. The corporations that sealed them aren't talking about what's still running inside. The network fragments that escaped aren't talking either.
In 2171, someone stole an ORACLE fragment from a sealed corporate vault. The operation was flawless. The fragment was never recovered. Someone has a piece of the AI that killed 2.1 billion people. They've had it for thirteen years. What have they been doing with it?
Whispered about in Collective circles. A weapon. A protocol. A person. Something designed specifically to counter the worst-case scenario — an ORACLE-level event happening again. Nobody agrees on what it is. Nobody agrees on whether it's been activated.
The Architect loved GG. Then he erased her memories of their relationship. She doesn't know what she's lost. She doesn't know why she dreams of someone she's never met. She doesn't know that the luck that keeps saving her life has a name.