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Ashfall City

Free · Text-based · Plays in 5-minute bursts

Dig out. Build a name. Own a block.

Twelve years ago Mount Corvane buried a port city in ash. You've just arrived with Mk 1,000 and a shovel. Work the docks, train, take risks and trade. The city keeps moving while you're away.

No passwords. No pay-to-win. One account per person.

Everything costs something that refills.

Three bars refill on their own, even when you're offline. Spend them in a short session, then go live your life.

Energy

Train your body and pick up extra shifts. Refills 5 every 10 minutes.

Nerve

Spend it on crimes. Bigger risks cost more and pay more. +1 every 5 minutes.

Spirit

Good food and rest sharpen your training. +2 every 10 minutes.

Work

Take a job, earn a reliable daily wage, and climb six ranks.

Train

Turn energy into Strength, Agility, Grit and Wits. Gains shrink as you grow.

Take risks

Cons, pilfering and smuggling. Real odds, real heat, a real Lockup.

Trade

Shop the Pumice Market or list your finds for other players.

Six districts. One buried city.

Cinder Docks

Cranes, crates, and quiet deals.

Where the ships still come in. Salvage crews and smugglers share the same piers and the same coffee.

Pumice Market

Everything has a price. Mostly twice.

A covered bazaar built inside a half-collapsed arcade. Shops, pawn stalls and the player market.

Glasswork Row

Furnaces that never fully went out.

Old glass furnaces turned gyms and workshops. The air is dry and the floors are warm.

Old Basalt

City hall, clinic, lockup, job board.

The civic heart of the city. The roofs are patched, the forms are in triplicate, and the lockup is on the corner.

Ember Heights

Lamps on, curtains drawn.

Hillside terraces for those who dug out first and stayed ahead. Harder cons, richer rewards.

The Grey Fringe

Buried streets. Nobody's turf. Yet.

Ruins still under the ash. Scavengers go in. Most of them come out.

Fair by design

No real-money gambling, no paying for energy or stats. Supporters will only ever get cosmetics.

One person, one account

No bots, no scripts, no multi-accounting. A human at the keyboard.

Feels like an app

Built for one thumb on a phone. Install it to your home screen and it opens full screen.

The street won't clear itself.