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Gashi

Underground city of endless caves

The endless floor supports caves where people hide from the dark seasons. About 536,041 souls live inside these underground chambers while the surface waits for nineteen days each year.

A large cargo door sits in a museum of things that have come through it.

Class
INFINITENo edge has ever been reached.
Medium
Water fills the spaceThe living keep to pockets of air or breathe it.
Land
One land mass with no endWalk in any direction and the ground continues.
The land of Gashi
01

The Gate

No one may strike another in the museum where the cargo door stands open; violators face exile to a sector barred from returning.

from Gate Watch Song, by Yagu

The D-Station sector 6 floor stands wide enough for Earth's whole surface to hold more than a hundred million gates. Ten credits pay for a single head to pass while a thousand credits buy passage for a hull.

Standing
Citizens must gather in the underground chambers of Tsesotu when the light goes out for nineteen days each year; those outside during the dark fail and die.
02

Fuel and Rule

The oldest living person rules the whole nation until death claims them.

from Dark Season Sermon, by Ziyinan

Fuel is dug, pressed or grown here and sold to every world the gate reaches.

03

Danger

Stored fuel runs low in bad years because famine returns while the stores are never quite enough for everyone.

from The Fuel Account Book, by Gukun

The labour trade grows into slavery between the fuel diggers at Togizo and the merchants who transport them away. Compasses spin wildly near the surface because magnetism does not work here and motors built on it stop running.

Harm
Swarm waves strip the land bare while electric light powers the cities carved into the rock face above.
04

Peoples

  1. One of the Deniye
    01

    Deniye

    Snake-bodied, hooded like a cobra
    Alignment
    They stand lawful neutral guarding museum gates.
    Economy
    They sell fuel dug from deep earth to distant worlds while keeping their own stores small.
    Governance
    The oldest living person rules until they die.
    People
    They move without legs along the endless floor while watching the swarms that strip the land bare.
    Looks
    Emerald scales cover snake-bodied forms marked by a cobra hood under loose fabric tunics, with a heavy iron fuel scoop in hand.
  2. One of the Chishahan
    02

    Chishahan

    Arachnid, scorpion-like
    Alignment
    They trade fuel for credits while ignoring selfish dark days.
    Economy
    They dig pressed fuel in caves where electric light powers the cities.
    Governance
    No leader rules; each arachnid group follows its eyes.
    People
    Their eight legs march over the endless floor while a cluster of eyes watches for the swarms.
    Looks
    Violet-sheened carapace sets them apart: eight legs and a cluster of eyes, dressed in oil-stained tunics and carrying copper fuel presses.
  3. One of the Yekuyon
    03

    Yekuyon

    Spiral-shelled molluscs with eyestalks
    Alignment
    Benevolent Gashi hide in caves with electric light.
    Economy
    They grow fuel in pockets of air while breathing water that fills the space around them.
    Governance
    The oldest person rules whoever holds that title.
    People
    They carry spiral striped shells on backs while eyestalks watch for the swarms moving across the land.
    Looks
    Most are molluscan with spiral striped shells and eyestalks in a mantle, in wet silk tunics, with a fuel canister slung at the side.
  4. One of the Runon
    04

    Runon

    Slight and small-boned, charcoal skin
    Alignment
    They stand neutral; the oldest ruler commands them.
    Economy
    They dig endless rock for fuel sold to worlds the gate reaches.
    Governance
    The current ruler leads until death ends their term.
    People
    Charcoal skin covers slight small-boned frames while a short snout and small swept-back horns mark their faces.
    Looks
    They stand slight with charcoal skin and small swept-back horns above heads under electric light that powers the cities while wearing oil-stained tunics.
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