SYSTEM INTERFACE // PUBLIC ACCESS
SYSTEM ACCESS
Tutorial deployment incomplete.
Public archive connection established.
Explore spoiler-light records, test your lineage compatibility, inspect known entities, and see how much the System is willing to tell you.
01 // SYSTEM STATUS
Connection Dashboard
DELAYED
Deployment incomplete.
INSUFFICIENT
Additional records restricted.
CONNECTION UNSTABLE
Synchronization insufficient.
02 // LINEAGE COMPATIBILITY
Choose Your Lineage
The System does not offer everyone the same choices. Open the records below and decide which option you would risk making permanent.
HAWKKIN
Tyler receives Hawkkin as a lineage option. After accepting it, his body begins changing and his vision becomes powerful enough to read distant flight information across the airport.
MOONFOX // ELITE TUTORIAL LINEAGE
Enhanced agility, heightened spatial senses, and boosted nocturnal vision. Elite Lineages are binding upon acceptance and cannot be altered or reverted by standard System reset protocols.
OTHER RECORDED OPTIONS
Stone Dwarf • Goblin • Orc • Shadowkin • Minotaur • High Elf • Pixie • Beastkin • Draconian • Elf • Dwarf • Dryad
Detailed compatibility data unavailable.
YOUR DECISION IS PERMANENT.
03 // CANDIDATE ASSESSMENT
How Long Would You Last?
Open each situation, make your choice before revealing the System response, and try not to get yourself killed.
Your lineage timer is still running. Wait until zero?
SYSTEM NOTE: Failure to select before the timer expires results in automatic assignment. Apparently cosmic bureaucracy considers that sufficient informed consent.
An ancient sealed chamber recognizes your authority. Go in?
OBSERVED RESULT: Candidate authority can grant access. It can also produce unstable synchronization, agonizing heat, and messages such as HOST INCOMPATIBLE. Very reassuring.
A nine-foot Harvester Tribune appears. Fight it?
RECOMMENDED RESPONSE: Patterson’s answer was simple: “Don’t fight it!” The Level 12 Tribune coordinates other Harvesters rather than behaving like a mindless attacker.
04 // ENTITY DATABASE
Known Threats
HARVESTER TRIBUNE // LEVEL 12
Nearly nine feet tall, heavily plated in charcoal-black chitin, scarred fungal mask, ivory hooks at the upper limb joints. It communicates through clicks and coordinates surrounding Harvesters.
HOLLOWROOT // DATA PARTIAL
Thousands of Harvesters occupy its gray-green trunk, moving through openings and carrying materials through massive folds of bark. Their relationship to Hollowroot appears to be more than monsters simply living in a tree.
ADDITIONAL ENTITY RECORDS // LOCKED
Candidate authority insufficient.
05 // LOCATION ARCHIVE
Ironroot
Ancient stone. A buried city. Sentinel defenses. A ward network trying to wake up after a very long time.
WARDEN PLAZA
Thousands of microscopic names spiral around a central brass plate. The translated glyph reads Kor’thal. Warden.
HALL OF THE FIRST WARDEN
A polished granite corridor lined with nine-foot Sentinels, all facing toward the city. Beyond it lies an enormous armory and a sealed inner chamber that recognizes Candidate authority.
DEEPER LOCATION DATA // RESTRICTED
ACCESS DENIED.
06 // KORTHAI CHALLENGE
Translation Check
Kor’thal
WARDEN
Saen
CANDIDATE, as rendered by Jake’s current translation.
“Va Kor’thal Aer.”
I AM THE PRIMARY WARDEN.
UNREGISTERED ARCHIVE NODE // DO NOT OPEN
You opened it.
CANDIDATE CURIOSITY CONFIRMED
This was probably how the Tutorial got broken in the first place.
