The Grassworks is a lush green plain, populated with the mossy silhouttes of mech-frame ruins. Weather Drones sail about the sky, weaving atmospheric rain for most of the year. Wading the field is a breath of respite from a strange past.
Originally called the Robotworks Lab, a decades-former student created the Weather Drone experiment, planning to release them only for a three-week revegetation demo. The student was called back to their home country before the end of the project, and The Academy lost contact.
Everyone assumed the drones would run out of battery within months – but they never did. As barren red dirt turned to seed, Metal-Element students gradually moved out, and Leaf students moved in. Later administrations simply accepted the
rain-hued plains as the new way of things.
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_software: Audible Planets, Ardour
_download: TheGrassworks.wav
_project: TheGrassworks-SOURCE.zip
_license: CC0 / Public Domain dedicated