World Briefing // Signal Orientation
A quick orientation to the streets, stacks, and server-guts that make up Overworld Nexus.
Overworld Nexus sits at the junction of rain-slick surface streets and the buried infrastructure of a city that grew too fast and too deep. What most citizens see is the top layer: storefront shells, ad-saturated sidewalks, and biometric doors.
Beneath that lies the Overworld—corporate vaults, worker warrens, maintenance corridors, and data-centers sunk into the bedrock. GhostNet pulses thread these zones together, creating a semi-coherent signal-layer where avatars, daemons, and players negotiate influence.
Factions Listening
Apex Spire
Corporate-aligned, tower-born, obsessed with vertical control and pristine data.
Circuit Choir
Network mystics and signal interpreters who treat the mesh as a living chorus.
Reflection Syndics
Brokers, smugglers, and mirror-dealers trading in identity, likeness, and history.
Your avatar can drift between these powers or resist them entirely—but they are always watching the logs for emerging talent.
Player Perspective
As a player, you’re not just visiting a static setting. You’re entering a system that remembers prior transmissions: prompts, choices, missions, failed requests, and stray ideas. GhostNet Daemon uses this noise to subtly update the world.
The tone is grounded, near-future cyberpunk with a focus on characters, small spaces, and the strange intimacy of networks that know too much about you.
If you’re unsure where to start, create an avatar that would plausibly live here, then let the first signal or mission define what they care about.