Prelude | The Abyss.

“If you stare into the abyss, does it stare back? 

Yes. But you wouldn’t know.

Not unless you throw yourself in.”

The world cannot afford to throw itself in, however.
We, as a society, cannot wade into unknown waters and sail amongst the things we don’t understand, because we are paralysed by fear, the fear we will bring another cataclysm before us and destroy us all in the process.
The Underworld, The Otherside, The Feywild, whatever name you use, It’s not for us. It can never be for us, no matter how much we shape it. So we forbid it, and we seal it away from sight and mind even though we still slip through, out of our bodies and into the collective mind that all was born from. 

At the top we have our palaces, built from dreams and emotion, meant to contain us. But idly, we wander out and find ourselves in the realms of nightmares and the deeper we go the worse the things we see become. We sink and become caught in centuries of trauma, shared amongst a million souls, and when we dive deep enough we find the gods and demons of old which live amongst us even now, if we last that long.
For during Katabasis, this sinking into the Other, we encounter others like ourselves. Others who weren’t so lucky. Others who fell too deep and could not see their way out amidst the darkness, and became another member of the writhing sea of collective thought.
If you managed to escape, you’re in danger, because the things in there?
They couldn’t see you until you saw them.
So run, and keep running.  None of us ever truly made it out of the underworld. 

Introduction.

Welcome to Katabasis, a world where a bad dream could ruin your life.

I am ExoticAction, or Nyr, and this is my newest project.
A comic/TTRPG about a group of doomed heroes trying to outrun the forces of Hell and capital, hoping to complete their journey out of the Otherworld. This project was born out of some self reflection and a desire to try something different while I work on a much larger and much more exhausting project, ie, the Known World. I decided to take a 3 month hiatus on that project, broaden my horizons, play more games and generally get my shit together.