Ashfall

Book one of the Cycle. A survey party charts a living world, and the bill for the charting arrives on a schedule nobody is still watching.

The book

Jacket copy, the opening excerpt, and buy links land here. The book is the front door; the game is the second room.

Ashfall stands on The Umber · The Scatter, the chart shared across The Umber Cycle.

Trophic Collapse

Introduce one organism into a closed web and the second-order effects arrive long after you have stopped watching for them.

Under five minutes to first failure. The lesson lives in the loss condition, and a closing card states what the model simplified.

The research under the fiction, with its sources shown.

Reader artwork, moderated before it appears. Artists keep their copyright.