Card of Calamity

——Whom will you choose to live for, after the world has ended?

【Year 25 after the Scarlet Cataclysm】

The world did not die overnight.
It perished slowly—through fear, silence, and compromise.

In 2027 the Antarctic ice sheet melted,
awakening an ancient parasitic plant: *Blood-Fern*.
It does not rot the body; it *forces* evolution—
bones replaced by vegetal fiber,
blood refined into high-energy resin,
consciousness eroded until only a tireless, blood-hungry *aberrant* remains.

Three months.
That is the entire lifespan modern civilization managed to endure.
Rust-red flora devoured cities, roads, memories.
Survivors huddled behind the walls of fortified sanctuaries;
the rest became beasts upon the wastes.

The world is now a silence that wounds.
Wind moves through ruins; plants bloom in dried blood—
beautiful, and lethal.

Rumour speaks of *Sky-Vault City*,
where the remnant government’s *Ark Laboratory* still operates.
There, perhaps, a way to end this lingers.

And you—
you are forced onto the road.
Your cargo is neither weapon nor data,
but a girl.
A girl in perfect symbiosis with Blood-Fern.
She is both cure and curse.

Along the way you will lose companions,
make choices that cannot be unmade,
and learn that “saving the world”
is far more brutal than you ever imagined.

■ This is no hero’s tale
There is no prophecy, no miracle,
no “right answer.”
Only ordinary people struggling across a wasteland,
and decisions that can never be reversed.

■ Write fate with cards
Combat unfolds in a claustrophobic 3×4 grid.
Every card you play
decides victory or defeat—
and, unseen, reshapes your bonds, your beliefs, your ending.

■ The journey’s end is not salvation
In this world,
mere survival is already a sin.
When at last the road runs out,
you must answer:
Did you guard the future of mankind—
or only the loneliness you could no longer bear?

A doom-laden odyssey of inevitable sacrifice.
In a realm without gods,
you must become each other’s redemption.