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Somewhere nearby, something exploded.
A misanthropic recluse who was quick to settle down and abandon their hopeless mission into the caves is forced out of a listless cycle of sleeping and hiding when a landmine goes off mere meters from their life pod. They can't just leave someone to die, right?
So they take action. And then they do it again, and again, and again, and hey, where did all these people come from? Why does everyone think this is some kind of charity, that they LIKE being helpful or something?
This story is a dark but ultimately hopeful exploration of C-PTSD, survivor's guilt, and empathy fatigue. It's about a fake demon who learns to be a real hero and finds a family in a deep, dark pit. There will be a lot of improvised medicine, gritty survival realism, and difficult, often bad, decisions. It WILL have a happy ending, and it's also pretty funny, I think.