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Greatwalker

You were born on the back of a mountain-sized beast that has walked the world for a thousand years. Every nine seconds a foot the size of a town comes down a mile below you, the horizon rolls, and every hanging lantern swings. The Greatwalker is dying. Walk the length of its body — from the tail-fens through the terraced haunch, the rib cathedral, the windy shoulder and up to the crown around its lantern eye — grapple, glide, ring the stridebell, fight five bosses inside its own body, and decide whether to keep it walking or let it finally lie down.

Counterjib

You are the operator in the cab of a hammerhead tower crane, sixty metres over a city site, for one build season. Everything that matters happens on the end of a wire: two tonnes of rebar still swinging after the trolley stops, a gust across an open slab, a rigger on the radio who can see what you cannot. No health bar — a load chart, a slew brake, and the fact that a load still moving when it reaches the column will not go on it. The load is a real spherical pendulum, so the two-impulse anti-swing catch works because it falls out of the physics. Three sites, twelve shifts, seventy-two lifts.

Benchcut

A 21-tonne tracked excavator, a clay hillside, and drawings that say exactly where the ground has to end up. Cut benches, trim batters to 1:1.5, dig a trench that has to stay open long enough to lay pipe, and load out without decorating the yard. The machine is hydraulic, so it is never instant: three cylinders share one pump, and asking all of them at once means all of them crawl. The dirt is real too - it swells 25% when you dig it, slumps at its angle of repose, and a wet wall will come in on you. Fourteen tasks, two sites, graded on tolerance, volume, cycles and fuel.

Apogee Club

1962, a dry lakebed, a folding table of teenagers with slide rules. Design a model rocket on graph paper — Barrowman's centre of pressure, a parts-based centre of gravity, real black-powder thrust curves — swing-test it on a string, then launch it into an enormous bleached sky and track a real six-degree-of-freedom flight that disagrees with your arithmetic. Fifteen club challenges, a free field, and a documented Three.js model library.

Deadrift

A chalk stream at first light, a four-weight rod, and a trout that has seen every fly in your box. The current is a real solved velocity field with seams and eddies; your fly line is a physical chain that lies on it, and the moment the water runs faster under the belly than under the tip, the fly starts to drag and the fish knows. Load the rod, land a drag-free drift in the feeding lane, mend to buy another second, and play the fish on a tippet that breaks at 1.6 kg. Twelve authored sessions, three beats, thirty named trout, twenty-four dressed patterns.

Keen Ice

Championship curling, from inside the hack. Throw a 19.96 kg granite stone 45 metres down pebbled ice and watch it break four feet in the last five, because the running band melts a film under itself and its front scratches pebble the back rides over. Sweep to steal three metres of run and hold the line; sweep one side to steer it. The whole World Curling rule book is here - the five-rock free guard zone, the hog line, the burn, the hammer, the blank end, the button measure - plus an eight-game season, a 24-drill practice range and an opponent that picks its shot by expected end value.

ZERO ARMORY · PIXEL CROWN

Six entirely code-drawn pixel mecha. Choose a three-frame relay, master cancel combos and fight through six arcade arenas. Original synthesized chiptune score. Touch and keyboard play.

ZERO ARMORY · IRON CROWN

Six signature mecha. Six cinematic home worlds. Build a three-frame relay team, master blade, shield and quantum attacks, and fight through the IRON CROWN championship.

LUMINARA · Knowledge Library

Explore 188 worlds in 9 domains, 19 official sections and 7 routes, with 181 live Remixes.

Laplacian Memory Relief Hall

Operate a ten-act alabaster relief hall: emboss a field, pull immutable stencils, compare boundaries and modes, repair instability, refine grids, and file every claim by authority.

Hundred-Year Bonsai

An idle garden measured in seasons. One tree, one pot, one veranda: a real L-system bonsai with thousands of leaves that grows in real time and while you are away. Prune, wire, repot, water, feed, defoliate, jin and turn it — every verb changes future growth, not the shape in front of you. Seasons crossfade from blossom to snow, judges grade your form against seven classical styles each autumn, and at a hundred years the tree is printed in ink onto a lineage scroll and passed to a successor with heirloom traits. Six species, ten pots, no fail state.

Forty Days Adrift

A raft, a hook and a living gouache ocean, seen in cross-section: the sky and the swell above the waterline, and everything circling below it. Hook drifting debris, grow the raft plank by plank, still your water, dry your fish, read the foam to find the shipping lane, hold the tiller through a storm you saw coming three days out, and keep the shark off the corner post. Forty days to reach the lane or the island. The log book writes the last page either way.

INKHORN

A letterpress word-hand deckbuilder. You are the printer's devil and the quota is impossible. Set words from a rack of lead slugs into a composing stick, pull the press, and watch the score flare through your sorts — jokers of movable type that double vowels, pay for prefixes and square your multiplier. Three chapters, eight deadline constraints, fifty sorts, five type specimens and a bundled 371,739-word dictionary. Shop the type foundry between rounds, then hand the device to a second printer and run the same seed against them.

The Thorn Court

A mortal bard walks into a fae court with a lute and no invitation. A trick-taking card RPG played on a living illuminated manuscript: gold-leaf miniatures land on vellum with an ink bleed, a marginal beast uncurls to name the trump, and a won trick spirals into the gutter. Nine courtiers duel you, each with a custom that rewrites the hand — sworn ranks, cursed suits, a misere where the lowest leaf wins, a turning trump. Draft a sheaf from sixty leaves, spend three mortal favours, and choose the boons that decide which of three endings closes the book.

SIGNAL & NOISE

A cryptanalysis campaign on a bakelite desk of working instruments. Twenty-four intercepted messages, six families of cipher, and a frequency counter, substitution board, Vigenere slide with a Kasiski drum, transposition grid, three-rotor KESTREL machine and crib bench to break them with. Every slip is a real, solvable puzzle with one deterministic answer: read the day's brief, take the promised crib, form a hypothesis and watch the clarity meter rise as the plaintext comes out of the noise. No trivia, no luck, no hidden information — only deduction, and a green lamp over the work.

Thistledown Hall

You arrive at Thistledown Hall the night the old owner is buried. The house is yours if you can find the deed by dawn — and the house rearranges itself every time the moon moves. You play by typing commands into a real parser, and above the text an ink illustration draws itself line by line for every room you enter and every object you examine. Nothing is pre-rendered: sixty-odd engravings, all of them stroke lists laid down by hand while you watch. Twenty-eight rooms, fourteen puzzles, four people, four endings, and two hundred and forty minutes of moon.

One More Take

A cel-shaded Three.js wuxia duel on a film soundstage. You are the stunt double paid to lose on cue — until the take where you refuse to fall. Twelve takes across three rule-breaking acts: parry the finisher you were scripted to eat, weaponise the wires, fans, breakaway props and the camera itself, then cut, slow, rewind and delete the scene against the Director. Twenty 'wait, that's allowed?' bloopers to discover, two endings, a Director's Cut mode and a cloud Studio Score board.

Route 99 Motel

1978. An empty desert highway, one night, a dying radio. Steer through the fog, tune real songs on a real dial, decide which neon stops to make, and trust a rear-view mirror that only moves while you look. Miles are the score; dawn is the finish line.

Salem Testimony

Salem Village, 1692. Your sister Mercy is accused of witchcraft and you were in every room the accusers describe. Across seven court days, tear their stories apart card by card under a dying candle, buy time until the Governor's letter, and decide whom you will protect when protecting everyone is impossible. A woodcut courtroom drama with five endings printed as a village roster.

Grail Cartographer

A logic puzzle painted as an illuminated map: ink the land of the Grail quest from the knights' conflicting testimony, seal the chapel, and watch a knight walk the map you drew. Twelve authored quests, a daily seed, a gallery of illuminated plates.

High Noon Hollow

Ride into a sun-bleached territory town with a bounty list. Stare each gunfighter down in a split close-up, read his true tell through the feints, and draw one frame before he does across a randomized eight-duel run. Lose, and your tombstone joins the boot-hill graveyard for good.

Speakeasy Sixteen

Run a 1926 Chicago speakeasy for thirty nights where the money, the police heat and the jazz are one system. By day you stock the cellar, pay off the beat cop or the Outfit and rehearse the band; by night you play the band, and every note you land is the note the room hears over a Suno-composed rhythm section. Fill the tip jar without bringing the law down the stairs, survive the Feds, and play out the New Year's Eve gala. Cloud save, leaderboard and a back-room shop through the Paean host.

Null Meridian Flyby Array

Aim, launch and reconstruct finite-observer Schwarzschild rays inside a retained analogue flight-optics array.

Chromatic Reflection Drum

Hinge a 1968 optical drum, place a chiral acetate seed, and develop nine exact reflection-group contact sheets.