Tumbleton
You were Rusty, a steambot who came to Tumbleton after your uncle Joe sent you the deed to his mine. You had come looking for an explanation, but found him dead underground. Dorothy helped you get your bearings. You took up Joe's old pickaxe and began digging into the mine he had left you, beneath a town that had seen better days.
Joe's Mine
You brought ore back to the surface and sold it, giving Tumbleton a reason to grow again. Below town, you followed Joe's work through the tunnels and discovered machines that upgraded your body. Each improvement helped you reach farther underground. What had begun as an inherited mining claim gradually led you toward the strange technology your uncle had been studying.
The Old World
You dug beneath the upper caves into the Old World, the polluted remains of human civilization. Its surviving humans, the Shiners, attacked you among ruined structures and pools of acid. Joe had reached these depths before you. You continued through the buried world, using the tools and upgrades you found to force a path toward the machinery farther below.
Vectron
You reached Vectron, a cold, metallic complex beneath the human ruins. At its bottom, Voltbot spoke to you with part of Joe inside it. Your uncle had willingly merged with the machine. The upgrades had prepared you for the same purpose: Voltbot wanted your heart to complete itself and rule. You refused, turning the strength it had supplied against it.
The CollapseThe ending
You destroyed Voltbot's cooling fans and struck its exposed eye until the machine fell. The victory brought the cavern down, and you disappeared beneath the wreckage. Back in Tumbleton, Dorothy refused to give up on finding you. The final glimpse showed you walking through the desert with blue eyes. You had survived, but what had happened to you remained unexplained.
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