The Lore
A wound split the sky above The Otherside, and from it came the Blight. Ancient Kodas gathered what could be saved as darkness spread across the land. From the ruin came Soma Fragments—splinters untouched by corruption. Now the portal opens for eight stages, and only the bravest can outrun the Blight, save the resources, and carry your community toward salvation.
Chapter I
The Rift
No one saw it open. One night the sky above The Otherside simply had a wound in it, a slow, breathing tear that leaked something older than dark.
The Koda felt it first and went quiet. Then the ground began to soften, and the things that grew from it did not grow toward the light.
They called it the Blight, because naming it anything grander felt like an invitation.
Thousands of years B.C. — before Curtis — a cosmic ripple tore through space, perhaps from a black hole or an exploding star. The Ancient Kodas declared it a Cosmic Blight that swept across the Otherside, almost destroying all living creatures and resources. It was only then that every living creature had to gather and preserve resources before it was too late.
Chapter II
The Harvest
Where the dark shadow passes, blighting out the Koda's world, the world is unmade, but not cleanly. It leaves Soma Fragments: crystallized splinters immune to the Blight, remnants humming with what they used to be.
Soma Fragments are the only advantage the Koda have. Carry them out and they are yours forever, burned into your very soul, impossible to steal, yet quietly able to save what resources remain from the Blight. Spend them, and the old machines of the Otherside will still answer: shields, speed, a moment's mercy.
The communities of ApeChain sent their bravest, most clever, and most relentless.
Chapter III
The Gauntlet
Eight stages hold unique obstacles that stand between you, salvation, the Blight, and its resources. Each week it corrupts another, and each week the portal holds just long enough for the runners to go in and save the resources from the Blight.
Every run feeds a ledger no one can forge. Every deed leaves a mark no one can take. At the end of the eighth week, the gauntlet closes, and what remains in the pool of blood goes to those who endured.
The Blight is patient. Score higher for yourself and your community, and save the Otherside as your Ancient Kodas did before you.