I pulled myself out of the narrow hole, inhaling my first breath of fresh air since I woke up. I'm not sure how long I laid there panting, but standing up straight and getting a good view reclaimed the air from my lungs.

The city before me lay in ruins. Skeletal skyscrapers reached into the air. Their mirror-like glass missing or shattered. Multi story roadways stood cracked or missing chunks. The concrete having fallen to the lower levels. Their rebar reinforcement dangling like cut tendons. Cars littered the streets like discarded trash and all of it covered in vegetation. Trees grew out of roads, cars, and buildings, a decade's worth of growth. The clear poly dome that covered this section of the city was mostly absent, its panels shattered on the ground or embedded in buildings. What was left had collected bits of dirt and started growing it's own layer of vegetation, shrouding part of the city in green tinted light.

The whole scene was existentially dreadful, yet hauntingly beautiful. As if to welcome me into this new existence or possible to warn me of it foreboding reality, a single distant gunshot echoed across the ruins.

Character Creation will be at end of Chapter 1 (Note: this is not in-world character creation. I just don't actually know what the main character is yet. (Currently thinking Female Tel'ani(a Tel'aniis similar to a tiefling and will be elaborated on later.)))