Adventures in the Clockwork Abyss

Smog pours through the air, the constant sounds of clanking gears and ticking clocks fills the air of the city you stand on. As you walk you see all sorts of creatures and people. Small chimera, mutated and mutilated bastardizations of animals scurry, more common than rats nowadays. You continue walking until you find what you are looking for in these god forsaken slums, a certain dive you were told to meet at. The job said it was dangerous, that everyone who has taken it before hasn’t been found since they left. Of course, that can mean only one thing. A trip to the surface. The surface now overrun with the horrors originally discounted as folklore and superstition, now spell death for most of the people who venture carelessly into the cloud covered abyss. However, you aren’t everyone. You are a rare breed, a diver who has ventured to the surface before and come back. Of course you are, otherwise you wouldn’t be here, talking to the others. Of course just because you survived one trip, doesn’t mean you will survive this one. But the pay offered upon completion, may just make it worth the risk. The only real question that remains is, are you in?