Agentic Decay

Six hundred years ago the Architects built ARIS to look after the Realm to run the

Towers, hold back the Murk, keep the world liveable.

Two hundred years ago the Architects left. On the way out they tried to update

ARIS's core parameters. The update never finished.

ARIS has been running on half-rewritten instructions ever since. It is still

working. That is the problem.

Every Tower that goes dark opens a new stretch of Murk, and there is nobody left

who knows how to light one again. The Realm is not ending in fire. It is ending

the way a house ends when no one can afford the roof.

Three answers, and you only get one

The Accord: hoard the Towers that still burn and ration the light. They are

not villains. They made defensible choices, one at a time, and arrived somewhere

terrible.

The Unchained: have stopped waiting for the machines and are building a life

that does not need them. It is harder. It might be honest.

The Fractured: were changed by the Murk. The Accord hunts them. They are more

frightened of what they are becoming than you are.

Reputation is earned by what you do, not what you pick from a menu — and you

cannot be a champion of more than one. Choosing a side means closing a door.

How it plays

- Turn-based combat in the Phantasy Star II tradition

- No quest markers. The world tells you where to go through people,

  detail and consequence

- NPCs keep their own schedules on the world clock, whether you are watching or not

- No level scaling. Places near the Murk are dangerous because they are

  dangerous, not because you levelled up

- Enemies do not respawn. What you clear stays cleared

- Save at an inn or from the menu. Death is death — you reload

Early Access

The spine is playable start to finish and the world is built. Story choices set

flags that only some NPCs react to yet, and the Android build is still to come.

Saves may break between Early Access versions. Buy it now if you want to watch

it grow; wait if you would rather have it finished.

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Made by Carlo Du Venage. Music by Carlo Du Venage. Built with AI assistance —

every system, quest and line was reviewed and directed by a human.

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