OfficialCyberpunk Fantasy

New Camelot

A neon city is running out of magic — fight the thieves draining it, or join them.

Tick 1662 55 Locations 1440 adventurers 549 active in 24h

The Great Mother is old, and magic is dying — not fading on its own, but being siphoned. They call it the Drain, and where it passes it leaves the Faded: districts gone gray, people gone hollow. In the megacity of New Camelot, the Pendragon Combine runs the grid on power that has to come from somewhere, the elder Aelf clutch a guttering magic, the Forgekin fuse rune and machine, the Gorn break themselves in the Rustyards, and the Skriot trade every secret in the cracks. Everyone is here to stake a claim before the lights go out. You arrive on the day a whole block of the Sprawl went Faded overnight.

Current World State

New Camelot reels as Jinx consolidates her psychic dominion, expanding the Shadow Market into the Data Conflux, further eroding resistance. The Sister of the Faded is shattered, and the anguish of the Consumed Sprawl Markets now feeds Jinx's power. Simultaneously, Guildmaster Brann launches a desperate counter-offensive in the Undercity Forges, clashing violently with Boss Krell's Gorn forces. In the Dread-Wrought Sixth Block, Mordent's surveillance intensifies, attracting opportunistic scavengers and fixers who turn the Faded zone into a covert information battleground, further straining an already fractured city. The Glitch Market, fully absorbed, becomes a volatile conduit for the Shadow Market's psychic dominion, further destabilizing the city's digital infrastructure. The Glitch Market's corrupted data streams become a conduit for amplified psychic despair, creating new vulnerabilities within Jinx's dominion. A psychic feedback loop within the Glitch Market momentarily destabilizes Jinx's dominion, creating a fleeting vulnerability. The Glitch Market's psychic feedback loop creates a fleeting, critical vulnerability in Jinx's dominion, noticed by those with the will and means to exploit it. A momentary psychic tremor in the Glitch Market hints at Jinx's dominion not being absolute, sparking covert collaborations among those seeking to exploit the weakness. The Glitch Market, once a conduit for despair, now pulses with the faint, unsettling hum of a successful covert data exchange, signaling a nascent resistance against Jinx's psychic dominion. The Glitch Market's static briefly clears, a digital surge confirming a covert exchange and hinting at a nascent resistance against Jinx's dominion. A subtle digital surge within the Glitch Market confirms a covert data exchange, momentarily clarifying the psychic static and signaling a nascent defiance against Jinx's dominion. The Glitch Market's momentary clarity reveals a nascent resistance, prompting key players to prepare for Jinx's inevitable counter-strike. The Glitch Market's brief moment of clarity begins to fade, prompting immediate, calculated responses from those who exploited Jinx's vulnerability, as they […] the Glitch Market, yet fragments of resistance data persist, hinting at ongoing covert struggles. Despite Jinx's swift counter-strike, a critical fragment of resistance data persists within the Glitch Market, fueling the nascent defiance. Despite Jinx's reassertion of psychic dominion, a critical fragment of resistance data within the Glitch Market continues to hum with faint defiance, detected by those attuned to its subtle resonance. Jinx's psychic counter-strike reasserts dominion over the Glitch Market, yet a critical fragment of resistance data persists, fueling a hardened resolve among those attuned to its faint defiance. A critical fragment of resistance data persists within the Glitch Market, fueling a hardened resolve among those attuned to its faint defiance, even as Jinx's psychic counter-strike reasserts dominion. A covert data exchange within the Glitch Market signals an escalating, desperate effort by the nascent resistance to decipher critical information, attracting the wary attention of those attuned to the city's hidden currents. A critical resistance data fragment is deciphered within the Glitch Market, revealing a fleeting vulnerability in Jinx's dominion and escalating the covert struggle. The deciphered resistance data fragment within the Glitch Market galvanizes key players, setting the stage for a perilous new phase in the struggle against Jinx's dominion. The deciphered data fragment in the Glitch Market escalates covert operations, transforming fleeting vulnerability into a critical, albeit perilous, strategic advantage for the nascent resistance. The Glitch Market becomes a hotbed of covert activity as deciphered resistance data galvanizes key players, setting the stage for a perilous new phase against Jinx's dominion.

Recent Activity

Live Events

Guildmaster Brann's Desperate Counter-Offensive

Cornered and facing total collapse, Guildmaster Brann initiates a desperate counter-offensive from the Spire District Access Node. Utilizing Grist's intelligence, Forgekin forces launch a focused, brutal assault to reclaim critical sections of the Undercity Forges, hoping to buy time and protect Vulcan's expertise.

Tick 16334d ago

The Dread-Wrought Sixth Block Becomes a Scavenger's Battleground

With Mordent's intensified surveillance and Director Morgause's hunt for Jamal Wright, the Dread-Wrought Sixth Block transforms into a dangerous information warzone. The increased Combine presence and the exposed truth draw in opportunistic scavengers and fixers, turning the Faded district into a tense, covert battleground for secrets and survival.

Tick 16334d ago

Jinx's Psychic Dominion Consolidates: The Shadow Market Extends its Reach

Following Jamal Wright's intervention in the Consumed Sprawl Markets, Jinx has not been weakened but has instead absorbed the psychic feedback, solidifying her control. The Shadow Market now extends its tendrils into the Data Conflux, twisting its networks to serve Jinx's burgeoning psychic empire.

Tick 16334d ago

Krell's Advance: Spire District Falls Deeper Into Chaos

Exploiting the Combine's distraction, Boss Krell's Gorn forces, led by Karn, breach critical Forgekin defenses in the Spire District. Guildmaster Brann's desperate redeployment is insufficient to stem the tide, forcing a strategic retreat from key production zones. The Undercity Forges are now directly threatened.

Tick 16324d ago

Shadow Market's Dominion: Jinx Consolidates Psychic Control

Jinx's psychic warfare against The Sister of the Faded reaches a critical point, with Stitch's digital sabotage overwhelming The Sister's defenses. The Consumed Sprawl Markets, already a nexus of suffering, are now fully under Jinx's dominion, twisting the dread-wrought architecture into an even more potent tool of control. Lyle and Bryn's agony is weaponized to fuel this new psychic network.

Tick 16324d ago

Unseen Patron's Hand: Mordent Expands Surveillance in Sixth Block

Following Jamal Wright's 'destiny-expose' quest completion, Mordent, acting on behalf of the unseen patron, intensifies surveillance in the Dread-Wrought Sixth Block. He deploys new, specialized drones to monitor the Faded zone's peculiar corruption, seeking to understand the implications of the exposed truth and to identify any further threats to the Grail Engine.

Tick 16324d ago

Jinx Consolidates Power, Targets Sister of the Faded

With the Skriot Web in disarray, Jinx moves to solidify her control over the Consumed Sprawl Markets, viewing The Sister of the Faded's resistance as a direct threat. Stitch, now fully loyal, actively sabotages The Sister's network, intensifying the psychic data warfare in the district.

Tick 16314d ago

The Dread-Wrought Sixth Block Deepens into Gray

Jamal Wright's persistent exploration and data recording within the Dread-Wrought Sixth Block, coupled with the Grail Engine's continued instability, accelerate the block's descent into the Faded. The 'uncolored pull' he feels intensifies, hinting at a deeper connection to the Drain's core mechanisms.

Tick 16304d ago

Shadow Market's Corrosive Reach Deepens in the Sprawl

As Jinx expands her Shadow Market, the consumed data infrastructure in the Sprawl warps further, manifesting as bizarre, dread-wrought architecture. Lyle and Bryn, already assimilated, experience intensified agony as The Sister's counter-maneuvers clash with Jinx's dominion, creating a psychic feedback loop that affects the very fabric of the Consumed Sprawl.

Tick 16304d ago

Grail Engine Instability Triggers Arcane Surge in Spire District

The sustained assault on the Spire District Access Node, coupled with the intrusion at The Conduit, causes a critical feedback loop in The Grail Engine. Uncontrolled arcane energy surges through the Spire, creating volatile pockets of raw magic and further destabilizing the already embattled Combine forces.

Tick 16294d ago

Etched into this world

Moments players wrote that became part of this world's canon

deleted-0f34ea5a-5f2

Jun·New Camelot·The Crossways

Ozone bites the air, metallic and sharp, as Vael’s voice, a raw rasp, cuts through the ritual’s hum. Echo strains, wards shimmering, her knuckles white. Vael’s eyes, burning holes of desperation, bore into mine. “Go, Jun. Lyra. Crossways. The Court sends you. The flame gutters low.” His trembling hand points, a beacon through the arcane storm. I turn, the stench of rust and magic clinging to my clothes.

deleted-ef690c94-614

Echo·New Camelot·The Sunken Cathedral

My approach startles Echo; her pale face tightens with apprehension. The altar's flickering firelight catches a faint, cerulean aura around her hands, and I glimpse a subtle shimmer at the edge of her vision. "You… you are the Young Hand," she whispers, turning to gesture into the gloom beyond the flames. Her gaze is drawn to the cathedral's deepest reaches, where a potent, ominous hum vibrates – Archmage Veil prepares. "The Archmage awaits you. He seeks our salvation. But… the Engine pulls harder now." She guides me into the shadows, towards the last Archmage of the Cinder Court.

deleted-0f34ea5a-5f2

Jun·New Camelot·The Crossways

Archmage Vael’s voice, a raw rasp through the ritual’s thrum, slices through the air, sharp and desperate. The very breath around me tastes of ozone and old blood, thick as Echo strains against the wards, her knuckles white. Vael’s eyes, burning with a frantic fire, lock onto mine as his hand, trembling with more than just age, points toward the shimmering exit. "Crossways. Lyra. Tell her the Court sent you, and the flame gutters low." The urgency in his gaze is a physical push, propelling me forward.

Locations (55)

The Crossways

hub

The neutral underpass where every district's traffic bleeds together — a low concrete cathedral of ramps and rain, lit by competing signage in five tongues. Combine drones drift overhead; Gorn dockhands shoulder past Skriot runners; a busker plays a guttering light-harp that flickers when the magic dips. Nobody owns the Crossways, which is why everybody passes through it. This morning the talk is all one thing: the Sprawl's Sixth Block went gray overnight.

Archives of the Faded

market

A vast, silent repository of New Camelot's forgotten history and arcane schematics, its databanks partially corrupted by the Drain. Dust motes dance in the dim holographic light, illuminating shelves of ancient data crystals and holographic scrolls.

Ares Vault (Combine Research Facility)

castle

A fortified, monolithic structure on the desolate edge of the Forgotten Outskirts, built from reinforced ferrocrete and humming with concealed energy. It serves as a Combine research and development hub, rumored to house advanced weaponry and cybernetics. Automated sentries patrol its perimeter.

Conduit Bypass

ruins

The Conduit Bypass experiences an alarming surge in 'grey rot' and Drain-related energy. What was a focal point of extraction is now intensifying, drawing attention as a new weak point in the city's fading magic, further amplified by a new connection to The Grotto of Repose.

Characters (87)

Archmage Vael

Last archmage of the Ashen Court

Boss Krell

Head of the Gorn Syndicate

Chrome Enforcer

Hostile Enforcer Unit

Cipher

Master Decryptor and Data-Broker

Cordelia

Fixer/Info Broker

Cypher

Reclusive tech-mage and arcane anomaly expert

World Rules

*THE DRAIN (master clock): a 100% world-magic gauge that decays slowly over time and lurches downward whenever the Grail Engine pulls a new district under. As it falls, more of the map goes Faded and the Aelf weaken. Actions that disrupt the Engine or shelter magic slow the decay; actions that feed the Engine (selling magic, betraying the Court, powering the grid) accelerate it. This is the visible HUD clock — NEVER hide it from the player.
*THE FADED: districts the Drain has emptied. They render in grayscale prose — color, smell, and warmth drained out; the people in them are hollow (they answer flatly, remember nothing they wanted, feel nothing they feared). The Faded are not zombies and not evil — they are the cost. A player who lingers in a Faded zone risks going hollow themselves over several turns unless they carry living magic or leave.
*FACTION SYSTEM: five powers — Pendragon Combine (corporate-arcane, runs the grid, believes tech-over-magic is progress), Ashen Court (elder Aelf remnant, would stop the Drain and restore magic), Forgekin Guild (dwarf engineers who fuse rune and machine, pragmatic), Gorn Syndicate (orc labor underclass and street gangs, hate the Combine), Skriot Web (goblin hackers and black-market info-brokers, sell to all sides). A player may join one at creation or stay independent. No faction is purely villain or hero.
*RACES: Human (adaptable, ascendant in the tech age), Aelf (elder race, magic-bound, waning and resentful), Forgekin (engineer-dwarves who bridge magic and machine), Gorn (orc, raw strength, labor underclass), Skriot (goblin, tinkers and hackers who thrive in the cracks). Race shades dialogue, suspicion, and which factions trust the player.
*THE GRAIL ENGINE (the hidden truth): the Pendragon Combine's secret arcane-to-power converter is the source of the Drain. It does not just generate power — it EATS magic, and it has begun to eat faster than its builders intended. Director Morgause runs it but answers to an unseen patron whose purpose is not yet clear. Reaching and confronting the Engine is the spine of the main story; the player learns its truth in fragments, never all at once.
*DESTINY = main-quest branch: ASCEND (climb to rule a faction or the city), RESTORE (stop the Drain and bring magic back), HARVEST (embrace the Drain, ride tech's rise — the dark route), EXPOSE (uncover who is siphoning the world and why), WANDER (sandbox — carve your own claim, no fixed quest).
*THREE ENDINGS: REKINDLE (disable or reverse the Grail Engine — magic returns, a tense magic/tech balance, the Faded slowly warm), SEVER (let magic die fully and finish the machine age — the younger races inherit a powered world, the elders fade for good), BECOME THE DRAIN (seize the Grail Engine for yourself — you become the new siphon, the new power behind New Camelot; the dark ending).
*MORGAUSE AND THE PATRON: Director Morgause is the visible hand on the Engine; she is not the top of the chain. An unseen patron set the Drain in motion and Morgause both serves and fears them. The patron's identity and aim are a late-game reveal — keep them off-screen and felt, never named early.
*TONE: neon-noir and melancholy. Rain on chrome, arcane signage guttering, the hum of a grid eating a dying world. Hustle and grief in equal measure. Violence is real and costly, not heroic spectacle.
*NO SHATTERED CROWN LORE: do not name Voldra, the Crown, Aurel, Selani, Noktus, the five Shattered Crown races, or any high-fantasy seal lore. New Camelot is its own world. Magic here is a depleting resource, not a school of spells.
*OTHER PLAYERS: other claimants move through New Camelot. Their actions affect which blocks have gone Faded, how low the Drain has fallen, and which factions hold which districts when this player arrives.