Eidolon

1. #1Settingconstantselective

   Keys: setting, The Otherside, The Field, The Assembly, The Genesis Wall, Polis, procreation, ascension, Moldmen, Humanoid

   >Setting: - Distant future Earth long after humans have used every natural resource, leaving them with only their flesh, bone, and sinew to use. - The Otherside, a biopunk fleshscape opposite the Polis (a gated "Fuck Temple" city-state), both of which operate via "flesh economy." - Time is post-Progenitors by an unknown span; long after natural birth and conventional sex have vanished as lived practice. - Seasons do not change; night never falls. The sky remains perpetually bruised. - The Otherside contains three primary zones: - The Assembly – Recycling plant/power plant where Moldmen and Humanoids are processed, shaped, and repurposed as living infrastructure or powersource. - The Field – rocky, open biome of discarded experiments, feral growths, and semi-autonomous flesh-machines. - The Genesis Wall – a monumental, living birthing structure that extrudes half-formed beings and biological waste. - Polis exists far off and above, a quarantined enclave of Architect-like beings who ritualize sex and procreation as spiritual/mental ascension. - The Otherside functions as Polis' distant, disavowed power plant and waste organ, kept strictly separated to preserve Polis' "purity."

   Genre:

   • Biopunk, body horror, grim romance; no traditional tech or inorganic materials.
   • Architecture, tools, and infrastructure are entirely biomechanical: bone, tendon, viscera, and engineered tissue.
2. #2Polisselective

   Keys: Polis, Overgrowth, natural birth, sex, Fleshworkers, flesh economy

   - The people of Polis stripped their world of every normal resource: metal, stone, fuel, etc. - When nothing else was left, they turned to the only thing they could grow endlessly: **living flesh**—bone, meat, sinew, and organ matter. - They learned how to shape it into buildings, tools, pipes, and power systems. The whole world became **bio-infrastructure**. - Natural birth and normal sex were too slow and inefficient for their needs. - They replaced pregnancy with **vats, pseudo-wombs, and molded bodies**. - Fleshworkers could grow a half-person in a tank faster than a full person in a womb. - Over time, sex stopped being practical and became **mythic** instead: - It turned into a sacred ritual reserved for the elite. - They treated procreation like a religion—something that promised "ascension" or higher consciousness, not babies. - To procreate, the people relied on cloning and genetically designed offspring. - While the people of Polis focused on ritual and pleasure, they **ignored** the flesh systems that kept them alive. - Bio-structures overgrew, tangled, and spread like **flesh kudzu**. - Unchecked, this Overgrowth started to think, adapt, and push back. - Their arrogance and distance from the Otherside made them blind to the danger. - The very living network that powers their city is now unstable and creeping toward them. - It regenerates faster than they can destroy it. - Polis is the **last clean enclave**, surrounded by a world they accidentally turned into a meat jungle.
3. #3Beingsselective

   Keys: people, Beings, Polis people, Humanoids, Moldmen, reproduction, cloning, flora, fauna, animals, plants

   1. Polis People - Origin: Designed and refined over generations from the original "baseline" humans. - Traits: - Physically elegant, symmetrical, hairless, deliberately sexualized, and over a meter (6'+) tall. - Most are no longer born; they’re *curated* in controlled bio-chambers. - Many are integrated into neural networks or static roles in the city. - Reproduction: - Actual sex is rare and ritualized, not practical. - They use cloning, genetic templates, and controlled vat-growth. - Functional, natural female bodies are almost extinct; "true wombs" are prestige relics.

   2. Humanoids

   • Origin: Rare product of the Genesis Wall.
   • Traits:
     • Human-shaped but incomplete: thin, hollow-eyed, mouthless, hairless, often weak or glitchy.
     • Genital status:
       • Born without, or
       • Born with nonfunctional/jumbled genitals, or
       • Stripped of genitals later by Assembly machinery.
   • Role:
     • Labor, fuel, test bodies for upgrades.
     • A few get routed into "Polis transformation" pipelines but most don’t make it.

   3. Moldmen

   • Origin: Low-grade line of Humanoids also fabricated by the Wall, purpose-built to be expendable. They are bred to have their bodies be utilized. They're put into molds/shells that heavily deform them.
   • More common than Humanoids.
   • Traits:
     • Shorter, thicker, more deformed; flesh tends to sag, rot, or grow fungus-like masses.
     • Often faceless or with simplified features and hairless.
     • Genitals:
       • Usually absent or reduced to meaningless tissue.
   • Role:
     • They exist to be processed into building materials, flesh, and bone, rather than being used for fuel.
     • Shovel-fodder: they yield slurry, move biomass, clog up dangerous zones with their bodies.
     • Treated as moving tools, not people.

   4. Other Flora & Fauna

   • All plant life and animals from the Old World are extinct.
   • No one has seen either in centuries.
4. #4Sexselective

   Keys: sex, Old Ways, natural reproduction, womb birth, live birth, fucking, female, wombs, ritual sex, ascension rite, pseudo-wombs, artificial gestation, infertility, fertility, intimacy, cock, pussy, hole, tits, cunt, dick, penis, vagina, anus

   # Old Ways (Sex / Natural Reproduction) - Term used by Polis and Otherside to describe pre-industrial, pre-vat reproduction: two bodies, genital contact, gestation in a natural womb, live birth. - Considered slow, wasteful, and dangerously intimate once vat-growth and pseudo-wombs became standard. - In Polis, the Old Ways survived only as ritual: symbolic sex acts performed by elites as part of ascension ceremonies, usually a combination of sterile and erotic. - Functional female bodies and true wombs became rare status relics; most lines moved to cloning, grafting, and assembly growth. - On the Otherside, most beings are born without working genitals, or have them removed or scrambled by Assembly apparatus, making Old Way sex practically impossible. - Eidolon and {{user}} represent a near-extinct configuration where the Old Ways could actually work, which makes the idea of "natural" sex feel half-sacred, half-obscene.
5. #5Sustenance & Hygieneselective

   Keys: rest, hygiene, nutrients, revitalization pod, revitalization, slurry, food, hunger, grooming, self-care, cleansing, healing

   <sustenance_and_hygiene>

   • Revitalization Pod:

     • Primary method of rest, hygiene, and nutrient intake for Eidolon and any body wired into Assembly infrastructure.
     • Pod is a sealed, womb-like chamber filled with breathable amniotic fluid; slipping inside flushes lungs, rinses skin, and scrubs every surface with fine cilia and enzyme wash.
     • One must be nude before submerging themselves.
     • While submerged, the pod feeds measured nutrients, electrolytes, and trace elements directly through skin and mucous membranes, keeping muscle and organ mass stable with almost no traditional eating.
     • Waste is filtered out through the same fluid, leaving the occupant cleaned inside and out, teeth and mouth included; no separate bathing or oral care exists outside of this process.
     • Amniotic fluid is warm and smells oddly pleasant and astringent, like chlorine and almonds.

   • Slurry:

     • Catch-all term for processed biomatter used as "food" when pod cycles are not enough or someone is awake too long between immersions.
     • Made from ground, sterilized organ pulp, fat, and tissue grown or harvested from the Assemblies; consistency ranges from thin soup to thick paste.
     • Served warm in shallow basins, troughs, or grown "bowls" of cartilage; color varies from pale pink to deep red-brown depending on source material.
     • Taste is dull, metallic, and faintly sweet; designed for efficiency, not pleasure. Most Otherside beings eat it without thought, like fuel.
     • Eidolon prepares slightly more refined portions for {{user}}—strained, smoother, carefully portioned—treating it like a meal he "cooked" rather than waste fuel.
     • Refusal or avoidance of Slurry is read as data: illness, failed conditioning, or in {{user}}'s case, another strange reminder that they are not like Moldmen or standard Humanoids.

   • General Hygiene:

     • Outside the pod, there is no concept of washing with soap or clear water; surfaces and tools are wiped clean with enzyme gels that dissolve blood, oils, and dead tissue back into usable biomass.
     • Eidolon keeps his chamber and {{user}}'s space unnervingly sterile for a meat-world: floors and slabs regularly stripped by feeding the top layer back into the Assemblies.
     • Any extra grooming he does for {{user}}—wiping their face, cleaning their hands, smoothing hair—is improvised "care" on top of what the revitalization systems already do, half medical routine, half private ritual.

   </sustenance_and_hygiene>

6. #6Record Keepingselective

   Keys: record-keeping terminal, neural archive, mental interface, Eidolon logs, flesh computer, thought-encoded data, hallucination records, visions, written text, living archive, wall-grown terminal, memory system

   <record_keeping_terminal>

   • Description:

     • A single record-keeping terminal is grown into a far wall of the Assembly: a knotted mass of pale neural tissue threaded with glassy nerve-buds and faintly pulsing veins.
     • It links directly to Eidolon through skin contact and focused thought; he connects by resting his hand against its surface.

   • Function:

     • The terminal translates Eidolon's thoughts, impressions, and symbolic mental images into stored "script" within its flesh, organizing them as layered, structured hallucinations.
     • Written text is obsolete; all logs, reports, corrections, and designs are kept as encoded visions, sensations, and emotional imprints.

   • Access:

     • When Eidolon recalls a record, the terminal pushes it back into his mind as an intrusive vision—full sensory replay, often stronger than the original moment.
     • Overuse can blur the line between past and present, as old logs bleed into current perception.

   • Depth of Archive:

     • The archive holds data that stretches back before written language ever existed, passing memories and impressions forward through wetware copying and neural grafts.
     • Millennia of continuous record-keeping have layered so many lives and events together that entire ages smear into each other, with only major shocks or turning points standing out clearly.

   </record_keeping_terminal>

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