MÖRKTOBER 6 - FOG
IN WAY OF EXPLANATION - This series of MÖRKTOBER posts allows me to indulge world building revolving around my home-brewed CY_BORG setting, MALTA 213X. Here we have a whole chunk of world building fluff, if the kind that I think can inspire some potentially neat stuff.
Once the capital of the island, the Valletta of 213X is the site of a calamity dubbed the Dimensional Distortion Event (DDE). No one knows why or how it happened - some say it was a weapon detonated in the Grand Harbour, others blame researchers working in the Valletta branch of the University of Malta - but in any case the DDE sees what can be described as an alien weather passing through the city and its whereabouts, mutating the architecture and leaving indescribable flotsam as it does. The island government quickly locked down the city as a no-go zone, but lax security soon led to a culture of explorers, obviously known as Stalkers, that make their way into the place to take a chance at the potentially valuable artefacts found within.
The aforementioned alien weather usually takes place as a storm confined to the city but at other, rarer, times it involves what is known as the Fog. This is not regular fog, of course. The Fog seemingly spews from the city grounds before it spills over and starts rolling across the rest of the island. A lockdown is announced in the case of a Fog phenomenon, since it does lead to almost zero visibility and potentially toxic effects. As such it makes the perfect weather for a spot of trouble, but look out for the mysterious entities that show up in the Fog… as these are reportedly more than happy to stab anything they come across.