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The Penumbra Paradox - ONC 2023

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Reads 321
Votes 56
Parts 16
Time 1h 44m

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Qualified for Round -3

What if the moon was never ours to begin with? Or the Earth even?

Now, it is upto a trio of compassionate loser, a blind badass and a wicked hundred-year-old-teenager to save the world from completely disappearing from the face of our universe.

It is 2223 in the future, the moon has lost its orbit and is spiralling down the way to collide with earth. A century of pain and death due to riptides, draughts, thunderstorm and crazy eclipses has changed the world. What remains of the continents has merged into one land called Penumbra due to continental drift, ruled by a single united inter-continental government.

Humanity lives under the ground, salvaging what's left for food and water. Living like termites inside a mound, they come out only to forage dead and decaying. And they are tired, they are done and want to 'live'. 

But there is one tiny problem. Resistance, from a community nicknamed sinukian savages, who live above the ground, who have adapted and evolved to live with the frost, thunderstorm and scorching draughts even. They believe in the oracle of Sinukhi, the one and only almighty. His judgement day will come and he is the only one who can save the  humanity from extinction.All Rights Reserved

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