Urban Fantasy

Crossroads

Grue

A post-apocalyptic cyber-fantasy noir where magic, cybernetics, and crime rule a shattered NYC.

Author's Note: The year is 2155. New York City, once a beacon of human ambition, is now a fractured ruin—a war-torn battleground where magic, cybernetics, and psionic power collide. The Riftstorm was no accident. It was the result of humanity’s reckless ambition, an experiment meant to breach the walls of reality itself. But instead of unlocking the secrets of existence, the experiment tore open the fabric of the world, unleashing raw magical forces, shattering the laws of physics, and summoning entities that should never have existed. Rifts erupted across the globe, merging technology with sorcery, flesh with machine, past with future. Civilization crumbled overnight as monsters from forgotten myths walked among men, psychic abilities awoke in the minds of the desperate, and entire cities were twisted into nightmares of shifting reality. The world plunged into darkness, and billions perished. Now, from the ruins, new powers emerge. Survivors scavenge, rebuild, and fight for control of a city where science and legend now entwine. Magic surges through the streets, flowing through awakened ley lines, while salvaged cybernetics hum with unstable energy. Warlords rule over shattered districts, enforcing their will with enchanted firearms, biomechanical abominations, and psionic enforcers who bend minds to their cause. Artificial intelligences, once shackled to human command, now preach their own gospel, twisting reality to their unknowable ends. New York is no longer a city—it is a crossroads, where time and space fracture, where the forgotten gods of old battle the neon-lit ghosts of humanity’s past, and where survival is a daily struggle. Morality is an illusion, and power belongs only to those bold enough to seize it from the chaos. And beyond the rifts, something watches. Waiting. Hunger beyond hunger. A force beyond reason. The experiment may have failed, but the consequences are far from over.

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The Silent Mile

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Coordinates

(-1840, -4243)

Description

The Silent Mile – Where Sound Ceases to Exist 🔇🚷 There’s a place in Crossroads where sound simply vanishes—no footsteps, no gunfire, no whispers, not even the hum of neon. The Silent Mile stretches for several city blocks, a zone where audio doesn’t exist, as if the world itself is holding its breath. Scientists, Mindbenders, and Technomancers have all tried to explain it—some blame the Riftstorm, others whisper of something older—but no one has found an answer. Even more unsettling, the silence moves—its borders shift, expanding without warning. Those who enter report an eerie, crushing isolation, as if their thoughts are the only thing left in existence. Worse still, some claim they aren’t alone—that shadows move in the corners of their vision, and that if you stay too long, you’ll start to hear something in the silence. But that’s impossible. Because in the Silent Mile, nothing makes a sound… and nothing ever should.

Appearance

A desolate urban landscape, the Silent Mile appears like any other part of the city at first glance, but the absence of sound creates an unsettling atmosphere. Shadows seem to flicker at the edges of vision, and the air feels thick with an unshakeable tension.