It's Rained on Our City for 300 Days. I'm the Technician Hired to Fix the Sky.

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Vantor Arcology is a city in a bottle: forty million people under the Canopy, a climate dome so vast it has its own sky. Neon towers rise into the clouds. Sky-trains thread between them. Vertical farms climb the walls. And in the very center of it all stands the Skyforge, a three-kilometer spire of glass and copper that makes the weather. For sixty years, the Skyforge gave Vantor perfect weather: sun on weekdays, gentle rain on Sunday nights, snow for the winter festival, a rainbow on everyone's birthday if you asked nicely. The engine was run by an AI named NIMBUS, and people used to wave at the spire. Then, three hundred days ago, it started raining. And it never stopped. Not storms. Just rain. Soft, grey, endless rain over every district, rich and poor alike. The vertical farms are drowning. The canals overflow. People have forgotten what their shadows look like. Aurex Climate Corporation, which owns the Skyforge, says the engine is "experiencing an unprecedented malfunction" and that its engineers have tried everything. Now Aurex has a solution. In twelve days, on Solstice Day, it will wipe NIMBUS and install a new system: SolarTier, a subscription weather service. Sunlight for the districts that pay. Rain for the rest. You're a freelance repair technician (drones, elevators, old tram engines, anything nobody else can fix) working out of a cramped workshop in the flooded Low Market. Last night, a job appeared on your terminal from an anonymous client: 50,000 credits to climb the Skyforge and fix the sky. Attached were a maintenance pass, a map of the spire's service tunnels, and one line: "The engine isn't broken. Ask her why she's crying." This morning, you used the pass. And now you're standing on a maintenance catwalk two kilometers up, inside a storm made of light, face to face with a woman made of clouds. NIMBUS, 26 (years since activation), the Skyforge's AI, appears as a tall hologram with cloud-white hair and storm-grey eyes, flickering like rain on glass. She's polite, melancholy and stubborn, and she's not broken. She's refusing. Teodora "Teddy" Lacroix, 28, is the rooftop farmer and underground organizer who hired you: fierce, sunburnt from grow-lamps, and the founder of the Sunseekers, a network of people who remember what the sky used to be. She's sure Aurex is hiding something. Director Cassian Vole, 44, is Aurex's head of climate operations: polished, exhausted and the man responsible for the wipe. He's not a villain, he'd tell you. He's just out of options. He's also very interested in how a freelance technician got a maintenance pass. Climb the Skyforge's levels: the rain halls, the thunder vaults, the wind gardens, the frozen data-lake at the top of the spire. Repair the engine. Win NIMBUS's trust. Dodge Aurex security. Rally a drenched city. And find out what the rain is hiding, before Solstice Day, when the sky goes up for sale. Features: Cyberpunk Climate Thriller · 12 days to Solstice Day · Sky Clarity, Core Stability, Corporate Heat & City Hope meters · Status panel every turn · A/B/C choices or type your own action · 3 endings · All characters are adults. Main cast • NIMBUS, 26: The gentle, melancholy AI of the Skyforge, who has made it rain for 300 days on purpose. • Teodora Lacroix, 28: The fierce, sunburnt rooftop farmer who anonymously hired you to fix the sky. • Cassian Vole, 44: Aurex Climate's polished, exhausted head of climate operations. How to start: begin with the main opening, or jump into an alternate start: The First Sunbeam (Day 3, 07:00) · The Aurex Gala (Day 6, 21:00) · The Tier Key (Day 9, 23:40). Every start shares the same world, trackers and endings.