Act I

Docked Realms

A semi-idle auto-battler drawn from Sumerian myth: bind ancient souls and hold a strip torn from the laws of the gods.

The Opening

What broke off from the Me

Nammu, the first sea, gave birth to two children joined as one: Anu, the sky, and Ki, the earth; when Enlil, the wind, pulled them apart, Anu wept, and from the tears that fell to the ground Enki was born.
The three siblings divided the world and bound how everything would work to rules called the Me.
The three siblings
- Anu King of the Sky
- Enlil Lord of the Storm
- Enki Lord of the Abzu
But in a serpent's attack a piece broke off from these rules, fell between the worlds, and became a thin strip called the Docked Realm.
On this strip time flows slowly, and heroes do not age.
When the gods could not take back the broken piece, they bound six ancient souls here; to push back the chaos and mend the Me, they are now yours to command.

The first three

The gods could not take back the broken piece. Instead, they bound ancient souls here. On the Fallen Strip, the first three awaken.

Lugal

Tank / Frontline

Lugal, king of Uruk, stands at the very front and, like a wall, does not fall back.
Gula

Healer / Buffer

Gula gathered the first tears Anu shed upon the earth. They became the first medicine, and Gula still closes wounds with them.
Erra

Melee Burst / Leech

Erra once scorched the soil of Ki. His fury never cooled; every blow makes him stronger.

What leaks through

Chaos seeps in through the broken rules. Soldiers of clay march; the dead of the reeds rise.

Clay Soldier

Walls of Uruk, walking. The spear remembers a king it never met.
Clay Slinger

The same clay, given a longer arm. It prefers the far strip.
Reed Wight

Marsh dead that never dried. The reed staff still drinks.
Uridimmu

Uridimmu — the lion-dog of the desert edge. Two legs, too much hunger.
Me-Wisp

A scrap of torn Me that learned to glow. It forgets names on purpose.
Unnamed

Something waits at the far end of the strip. No tablet holds its name yet.

Four acts

The souls must pass through four acts.

I Act I
The Fallen Strip

Where the piece first fell between the worlds. Clay walks here, and the reeds do not stay dead.
II Sealed
The Abzu Shore

On the Abzu Shore, Kur opens: the mouth of the underworld.
III Sealed
The Anzu Aerie

In the Anzu Aerie roams Anzu, its chain snapped. It is the storm bird that once stole the tablet of the Me.
IV Sealed
The Torn Me

At the bottom of the Torn Me, the echo of Tiamat stirs. It is the memory of the first sea; it has not forgotten the time when the sky was not yet parted from the earth.

On the strip

The Line

Your souls fight on their own. You choose the line, the relics and the moment to step in.
Names

As your bound souls defeat the same creature again and again, its name and its weak point appear on a clay tablet.
The Me

The Me shards you gather fill a long rod. Each time it fills, the rules settle a little further into place.

The strip brushes against the places where people leave their computers on.

At the edge of forgetting, the war never ends.

Act I

One day the Me will be whole again. Until then, the strip keeps leaking.