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@rose-colored-fancy alright!  I’m warning you, this is long!

So basically, Spire is about a city under the control of a corrupt corporation.  The city of Spire is located in a sort of territory under a bigger nation, but with very little governmental oversight, which is how the situation got so bad (btw, if you want a slightly similar situation irl, read Black Death at the Golden Gate – it’s a very fascinating and yet sad chapter of US history that’s very little known.  It’s so good!).  This territory has rich natural resources, including an element that collectively makes up the Veil (the fabric of reality).  Because of this, Spire has been producing weapons for it’s country in a sort of cold war arms race scenario.  The main character, Saskia, and the main antagonist, Sasha Gunnerside/The Shrike are two of many super soldiers who were developed after the rival nation (Kardova) reportedly began developing one of it’s own.  Sasha was the best of these soldiers, but he wasn’t perfect – and that’s where Project Goldenseal comes into play…

So, as the poster child for this whole program, Sasha was invited to this fancy dinner thing, and having admired Saskia for awhile (but never actually spoken to her), he asks her to come as a date 🙂

And it’s all going really well, there’s chemistry and mutual respect, and eventually he mentions that he’s been selected to participate in a rather cutting edge experiment.  He confides in her that he’s scared, even though he’s been assured that there’s no risk of harm.  Saskia suggests that maybe they meet again afterwards, and that instead of being scared of the experiment he should look forward to going on another date, and besides, how wrong can it really go?

Well, neither of them were quite sure about that last one, but of course they weren’t going to say it.

The goal of Project Goldenseal was to see if a few of Sasha’s quirks could be ironed out by manipulating the Veil.  Perhaps, an alternate reality could be created where he was big and strong enough to match Kardova’s Vasily, or be loud and boisterous like Vasily, or, you know, just be better than Kardova’s precious super soldier in every way.  And it worked, kind of…

An alternate reality did come into being that night.  And his name was Sasha Gunnerside.

In the following chaos, many of the super soldiers did escape, including Saskia, who becomes a bounty hunter obsessed with the idea of hunting surveillance androids, and the Red Lady, who becomes obsessed with the idea of killing Saskia (that’s a whole different plot line that I’m not going to go into right now, but if you want I can tell you 🙂 )

So basically the plot picks up when Saskia gets hired by a resistance cell trying to stop the production of a super bomb that could potentially create rifts in the Veil, and as they pick up party members (like Misu, who kind of accidentally got sucked into the whole thing lol) they soon discover that Sasha, now the Shrike, is intent on erasing Spire from reality in order to undo all of the harm it did to him and countless others.  The others are forced to make a decision: to let Spire and its citizens face the consequence of decades of corruption and willing ignorance, or to save it.

To save it even though it will never change, even though no one will ever thank them, even though for all purposes it doesn’t even want to be saved at all.

To save Spire, simply because it’s the right thing to do.

And of course that’s what they decide!

I’m sorry for the rambling, I’m not quite sure how to make it concise lol.  I’m still working out a lot of the quirks in the story and setting, and it’s still far from finished.  I can honestly say though, these character castles have been such a huge help, especially with finding out more about the Shrike (I didn’t actually know that much about him as a character prior to entering him into the villain castle)

Also, don’t worry, it has a happy ending!

What’s the plot of Liorah’s story?