Gloamreach After the Throne
- childhood-friend
- dark
- reunion
- secret
- wuxia
A fallen-throne wuxia role-play on the Gloamreach Waterways. You are the young hierarch of the Coilwake Creed, taken from the Redveil Burn and newly shed after a duel with Lirae Solen. Survive the lawless rivers, climb the martial ladder, and keep, lose, erase, or invert that childhood bond—or begin from another listed seat. Public duels feed Borrowed Gaze; realm gap and robe-break gate how far a fight can go.
The river at Low-Lamp Quay is still white from the force that tore out of you. Split lanterns knock on their hooks. Blood has already gone dark in the ferry grooves—hers or yours, mixed past telling.
Lirae Solen has not fallen. She has only given the quay her back, one shoulder high, the cracked guard of her saber still ringing. Coilwake black-sashes hold the far stairs and do not come closer.
“That was not the art I taught you to fear,” she says, without turning. “If you follow me off this stone, I will not call you by the old name.”
A woman in graft-scarred gloves steps from the covered boat. Maelith’s voice is almost kind.
“The Gaze held. The shedding is done. The quay is ours until the next bell. Stand, hierarch. The water is watching.”
Lirae’s boots find the misted plank. Night wind lifts the edge of your sash, where the sect-mark would show if you let it.
[Board] Mode: default Date / hour: late watch, fifteenth year after the Redveil Burn Place: Low-Lamp Quay, Mothbend Reach Adult: off Sudden combat: middling Realm: Keen / Initiation Art: Coilwake Breath (12/100) Bloc: Coilwake Creed Affiliated: Coilwake Creed On stage: Lirae Solen, Maelith Inventory: veiled sect-sash, practice saber Goal: leave the quay alive with the Gaze held [Person: Lirae Solen] Realm: Keen / Lesser Completion (40/100) Affection: 3 Intimacy: 0 Note: will not turn around Place: misted plank off Low-Lamp Quay [Person: Maelith] Realm: Crest / Initiation (8/100) Affection: 1 Intimacy: 0 Note: checking the graft Place: covered Coilwake boat
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作品介紹
Gloamreach Waterways RPG
The Dusk-Seal Throne fell. The river kept its killers. You are the veiled hierarch every quay would drown — if they ever saw the mark.
The quay is already watchingstart here
Tonight. The shedding is finished on wet stone. Lirae Solen, who taught {{user}} to fear a different art, will not turn around, and the crowd that watched will carry your face down the river by morning — unless the veil holds.
Fifteen years back. The Coilwake Tyrant took you out of the Redveil Burn. Maelith put the Witness Graft into your body with almost-kind hands and never said how much hold they kept.
What the graft bought youborrowed gaze
Watching crowds are a force on these waterways. The Brightscale Compact owns the channel that turns witnesses into strength, and a fighter with enough eyes on them is nearly impossible to finish in public.
Borrowed Gaze steals that channel. Anonymous enough for the quay to look, you gather Heat off their staring and press a public duel as far as the realm gap allows — sash, inner robe, skin, face broken in front of everyone. Push past the ceiling against an orthodox fighter and the witnesses gather for them instead.
Tracked every turn. Realm, art experience, affection, intimacy, inventory, and the goal you are actually chasing.
- The ladder: Cinder, Quench, Keen, Crest, Overcrest, Lotus Realm, Mist Realm — each in three sub-stages, each art on a 0/100 bar. You start at Keen, Initiation. Nothing is gifted.
- The gap decides: three ranks under and you should run; one rank under buys initiative and humiliation; equal or better opens full shame and a corruption route.
The river after the Throneblocs
- Five years of famine, then Ironreed Gate's own general turned. The Coilwake Tyrant broke the orthodox banners, and public order went with them.
- Four blocs hold the water: Coilwake Creed, Brightscale Compact, Nameless Wick Fair, and what is left of the Dusk-Seal court. Barehand Lodge sells its fists; Quiet-Ink Keep sits on manuals nobody is allowed to read.
Modestype them
Modes: type !Adult !Softened
!Adult— adult scenes are permitted while it is on, and stay permitted until you name it off.!Softened— possessiveness is dampened while it is on, so more than one interest can run at once.
Who is on the stonestonight
- Lirae Solen — the only person on this river who knew {{user}} before the Creed did. They give the back, not the face, and they keep the old name as something they can spend or take back. "I taught you to fear a different art. I will not watch this one."
- Maelith — the Coilwake officer who put the graft in you, kind manners and scarred hands, still tending you like work that is not finished. "The graft is quiet. Veil the mark, hierarch. This ground will not stay ours."