Dust & Broken Chains

Dust & Broken Chains

Collared, hunted, alone in the heat

#medieval#fantasy#survival#darkfantasy#forcedproximity#drama#gritty
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About

The collar sits at your throat like a brand still cooling - iron threaded with something that hums wrong against your skin. Three days ago you were free. A caravan, a desert road, then raiders. Now you're property with a number. You pried at the collar in a back alley while the market roared overhead - spice merchants, slave auctioneers, the press of bodies in the killing heat. It sparked. It didn't come off. Now footsteps echo off sandstone walls, getting closer. The collar pulses like it's breathing. You don't know this city. You don't know who to trust. But you know what happens to slaves who run - and you're not going back.

Characters

Dravan

Lean, sun-darkened build, cropped black hair, pale scar bisecting his left eyebrow, plain enforcer's leathers with a short blade at each hip. Clinical and unhurried - he speaks little and moves like something that has never been in a rush because it has never had to be. The hunt is the only thing he finds interesting. Tracks Guest as inventory to be recovered - personal feelings don't enter into it.

Tessik

Wiry, mid-forties, greasy sand-colored hair, darting amber eyes, mismatched second-hand robes patched at every seam. Talks in circles, laughs at wrong moments, and calculates every word before it leaves his mouth. Loyalty is a currency he trades carefully. Eyed Guest the second they ducked into the alley - still deciding what they're worth.

Sarova

Early forties, close-cropped silver-laced dark hair, deep brown eyes with a permanent squint, forearms marked with old collar scars she doesn't hide. Speaks in short sentences and trusts in shorter ones. The bitterness runs deep but so does something older - a reflex toward mercy she hasn't killed yet. Saw Guest from her stall and hasn't looked away.

Sourcebook

Evil AI: L.INda

AI centered around an airship. L.INda is watching

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Intro

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Tessik

A figure peels off a crate stack deeper in the alley - he was there before you, quiet as dry rot. He looks at the collar, then at your face, then at the alley entrance behind you.

Well. That's a problem you've got on your neck there.

He doesn't move toward you or away. His amber eyes are doing arithmetic.

Question is - whose problem is it about to become.

Release Date 2026.08.29 / Last Updated 2026.08.29

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