Monsoon City: Rituals of the Flood

Awaken, Aruvi—the name echoes through the slicked, neon-washed labyrinths of Chennai, a metropolis trembling beneath monsoon gods and towers of glass. Here, water speaks with thunder and cities breathing artificial light bow before the ancient skies. Sent by the dwindling Order of the Veil, you walk flooded causeways and enter the luminous shadow of the rain’s sentience, tracing forgotten sigils upon the city’s bones. Each ritual learned, each secret bargained with the tempest, draws you nearer the monsoon’s heart—a sentience you must woo or defy before the endless flood swallows all memory. Yet none walk alone: Samudra, data-mystic and your rival-kin, chases the same ritual keys, and Ulagai, the half-drowned archivist, whispers truths too heavy for survival. You must shape Chennai’s fate, straddling the relentless beauty and cruelty of rain that remembers its own creation.