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Mortals and Monsters

American towns on a layered afterlife. Hunters take cases. Older things borrow other people's faces. You type commands; the world keeps running when you log off.

Play in your browser Discord

Same account as telnet. Works on Chromebooks and locked-down networks.

Alpha build. Your character stays in the world when you disconnect. Discord is OOC.

News — what changed, same list as in-game changes.

Why this one

You stay in the world

Log off and you are not shelved. Your body stays as an Echo. Get hurt and you may wake up in clinic. Nobody loots you for going to dinner.

Origins, not a class tree

Mortal, monster, or celestial — hunter, vampire, angel, witch, and worse. Every Origin and Path is on this site. In-game: help origins.

The actual map

Drive the American overland atlas. Towns and dungeons sit on real geography. No convenience teleport.

The town keeps living

NPCs work, eat, hunt, and get into trouble on the same verbs you type. This is not a lobby.

First ten minutes

  1. Pick a name at the prompt. Same login as telnet.
  2. look — the room and who is here.
  3. n s e w — walk.
  4. Origins — families and Paths. In-game: help origins.
  5. Help — the same hubs as in-game help. Starter commands too.
  6. bug what broke. suggest an idea.

What is a MUD

A text MMO. You read room descriptions and type commands — look, n, say, help — like a book you can interrupt. No art budget, so the weird stuff stays weird. We put a browser client on the front so you do not need a telnet program to try it.

Connect

Screen reader: type config screenreader once in-game to flatten framed UI. The browser client also has a high-contrast theme. The game never signals anything by color alone.

House rules

18+. Horror and violence are part of the world. Roleplay MUD, not hard RPI: level, trade, explore, hang out. In-scene OOC, griefing, and wrong-franchise walk-ons are not allowed.

Free. No pay-to-play and no pay-for-perks.

Player versus player is allowed. The rules around it are still being written. You can play a peaceful character — jobs, town, the road — without hunting other players.

America

Towns and dungeon mouths sit on real geography. Hover or tab a mark. Drive there in play — this map is not a teleport button.

Town Dungeon mouth
Lower forty-eight United States

Hover a mark.

All towns and dungeon mouths

Towns

  • Seattle
  • Los Angeles
  • Denver
  • Dallas
  • Willis, Texas
  • Chicago
  • New York
  • Miami
  • Lebanon, Kansas
  • Lawrence, Kansas
  • Men of Letters bunker

Dungeon mouths

  • Roosevelt Asylum
  • Burkitsville Orchard
  • Elkins' Ridge
  • Monster Mafia Underground
  • Besieged Parish
  • Lloyd's Crossroads
  • Shattered Mirror District
  • Bunker Outskirts
  • Reaper's Convergence
  • Stull Convergence
  • Fossil Butte Convergence
  • Rivertown Remnant (Croatoan)
  • Calumet Truth District
  • Canton Wax Museum
  • Dearborn Judgment Farm
  • Tomahawk Billhook Plant
  • Laramie Auction Warehouse
  • Hartford Whitmer Farm
  • Muncie Elysian Ruin
  • Sonoran Coyote Shrine