https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/ 2026-04-16T04:54:30+00:00 https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/ https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2024-03-05T09:04:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:achlys?rev=1709629488&do=diff Achlys of the Shadows Eternity Final Whisper “My child...” It was like a whisper on the wind, too quiet to hear and then gone. Even in the darkest hour of the night, Mother Darkness could not come here - Overground. That was what she had always believed. text/html 2024-03-05T09:04:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:adela_sterling?rev=1709629497&do=diff Adela Sterling Eternity Hidden Depths The Underground – Overground – Principality? - settles, eventually. Aurelia is calmed, Eden and Micah older now (how do they grow so quickly), and when Adela tells her daughter about her plans, she smiles and nods. There is a restlessness in Adela Sterling. Some weight has left her, and with it, an old nature reignited. text/html 2024-03-05T09:14:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:alexis_knight?rev=1709630099&do=diff Alexis Knight Eternity An Unforgettable Moment As secretaries, Alexis and Constance worked at Caput. Not just the Caput of the Underground, the little station tucked away behind Terminus with the old, drab carpets, nor just the Caput of the Overground, the long-abandoned and now-reclaimed tower that stood above Principality city. They worked in both Caputs, now with new, bright carpets by order of Director Mirax Caspian. text/html 2024-03-05T09:17:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:amandine_jackson?rev=1709630236&do=diff Amandine Jackson Eternity Listening When he takes their first steps onto the sand of the desert Overground, Amandine does so in the same way that he did on that first, bright, terrible, beautiful day: clutching fast to the hand of Nikola Dobos, half a step behind his best friend. There is no sun, this time, and they are not fleeing from the threat of maybe-real bombs, which means that he can take the time to look, to see, to watch where they are coming from and what they are stepping out into. text/html 2024-03-05T09:08:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:ariel_wolfe?rev=1709629687&do=diff Ariel Wolfe Eternity Family Freedom. Not bound by the walls of the Underground anymore. No longer restricted by the gun of the Director. No longer forced to stand by idly as the Underground wastes way. Now, the wind blows. It causes Ariel's hair to fly into her face, blinding her. Cicero chuckles. text/html 2024-03-05T09:17:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:ash_burrows?rev=1709630254&do=diff Ash Burrows Eternity Ash's contribution to the chronicle On the back of the paper Ash sends to the archives is part of a list of the dead. The names are printed neatly, bureaucratically, as if they had never been anything more than letters on a page. Some are struck through roughly, others ticked off. Most are unmarked. There has been so much death; too much to keep up with. text/html 2024-03-05T09:05:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:ash_keifer?rev=1709629541&do=diff Ash Keifer Eternity Beyond The Yellow Line The footage begins in an empty station. In one corner is the time elapsed since the video began. In the other the current speed of zero metres per second. Ahead lies the darkness of a tunnel. Beneath are rails. text/html 2024-03-05T09:56:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:avgust?rev=1709632605&do=diff Avgust Editor's Note I first met Constance J. Delaware almost a century ago, yet the memory of her first impression remains as clear as if it were yesterday. She asked me: “Does the Overground have a Director?” I thought long on whether or not to publish this biography, for it is not about Avgust: it is about Constance. It is about her journey to understand herself through understanding him, and says far more of the author than the subject. As such it is both a vital part of the history of Pr… text/html 2024-03-05T09:05:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:azriel_henley?rev=1709629516&do=diff Azriel Henley Eternity Everything Between, Everything Beyond Azriel, meaning ‘angel of god’. God, meaning ‘that which lies above’. Azriel’s mother had always been praying. The sand is soft, and everywhere. It’s in their hair, in their shoes. It blankets the expanse of ground from here to the horizon. The sun is setting and the world is golden. A breeze blows slowly over the dunes, passing gently across Azriel’s skin. It feels like their mother’s touch. text/html 2024-03-05T09:19:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:chasm?rev=1709630343&do=diff The Chasm The tunnels are quiet, now. The stations still see the bustle of work, the Overground still the humming of life. But the cavern systems, the nooks and crannies and caves and chasms, those that lie in the near-forgotten depths of the Underground… they lie still. Silent. text/html 2024-03-05T09:20:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:clouseau_jacques?rev=1709630412&do=diff Clouseau Jacques Eternity A Final Inspection Clouseau stands hunched behind a new oven, attaching the wiring into the wall. Helios would install it himself—but on account of his bad back, Clouseau insisted on helping him make sure the wiring was installed correctly. text/html 2024-08-06T09:41:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:creating_the_underground?rev=1722937288&do=diff Creating the Underground Dane created the 'Disaster'. He caused a factory handling nuclear materials to blow up, and faked explosions around the rest of the city to push everyone Underground for their own safety. This allowed Dane Lawrence to keep his 'job' as Director of Principality. However, this decision wasn't made on a whim, Dane Lawrence had been planning the creation of the Underground since he found out his sacking from Principium was in the pipeline. text/html 2024-03-05T10:44:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:don_castle?rev=1709635463&do=diff Don Castle Eternity What might have been… Don Castle loves both his children. He sees them, now and then, as best he can. It’s always a little tense, every other word hiding an accidental barb or tooth, but he tries, and he thinks they do too. He thinks maybe they even both love him, in their own very different ways. text/html 2024-03-05T09:05:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:duncan_vicquemare?rev=1709629501&do=diff Duncan Vicquemare Eternity A Fifteen Year Old Goodbye Some time, perhaps a day, perhaps a week, perhaps a month, on the sandy remains of Principality City, Duncan visits the gravesite of an old friend. Old and withered, the 15 year-old grave of Harrier Humboldt stands. Detective, partner and dearest friend. text/html 2024-03-05T09:09:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:edward_murk?rev=1709629741&do=diff Edward Murk Eternity Legends Never Die There will always be darkness and shadows in the Underground. Where the people do not watch, there are the places they forget exist. And rats thrive when you forget they exist. In a nook in a cranny in a shadow, the rats congregate. A chaotic rabble is quietened by a leader tapping a glass. text/html 2024-03-05T09:14:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:edwin_morari?rev=1709630044&do=diff Edwin Morari Eternity Memento Mori It’s quiet here, now. The machinery rolls on, of course. The gentle whir of ventilation, the rhythmic clanking of the pipes, the hum of the lights that never quite succumb to inattention - Bibere will never be silent. But somehow, at last, it’s… peaceful. text/html 2024-03-05T09:05:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:elektron_kovac?rev=1709629507&do=diff Elektron Kovač Eternity Kovač One a.m. It is surprising just how little there is to pack up. Only a handful of personal items; a wrench, clothes, a sodium lamp that used to sit on a dining table. Xyr bags are light. ... Elsewhere, graphite scrapes against paper, the fans in Caput whirring quietly. There are only a few personal items here, as well. The most used object is a coffee-stained mug. text/html 2024-03-05T09:15:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:elias_secan?rev=1709630147&do=diff Elias Secan Eternity The Poets' Society There is no getting rid of grief. No removing the weight, no removing the memories of the people you once knew. Loss does not mean forgetting. We don’t move on, we move with it. We learn how to carry our people with us. They aren’t ghosts, never ghosts, not as long as we keep them alive, we carry them. We honour them. text/html 2024-03-05T09:05:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:elias_shaw?rev=1709629528&do=diff Elias Shaw Eternity New Job Elias Shaw the rubbish sorter doesn't exist anymore. In fact, there are no more rubbish sorters in Principality. Not since Robotics Expert Elias Shaw renovated the system. Now, advanced robots are able to quickly discern between various rubbish types: from general to recycling to glass and more. Not only are they faster, but they're more accurate. The recycling system in Principality has already improved massively since its days underground. text/html 2024-03-05T09:08:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:fyn_turau?rev=1709629704&do=diff Fyn Turau Eternity An Ending I wince again, as harsh flecks of sand sting the skin of my face. The baking desert wind rakes my body. It almost feels as if it's blowing clean through me - that there's hardly any substance left of me at all. The sunlight pounds against my retina. Will I ever get used to this? I feel it wearing me down with every passing moment. Each step is an effort - not just against the sun and sand and wind, but to pull my self away from everything still clinging to me. The… text/html 2024-03-05T09:07:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:heather_clef?rev=1709629671&do=diff Heather Clef Eternity The Work Is Never Done Whose idea was it to build a city in the desert? The dunes have been pushed out of the streets, however the flora placed to block their return has yet to reach maturity, and so every now and again, when the wind howls across the desert, they march their way back into the city. text/html 2024-03-05T10:44:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:jubilee_and_dodge?rev=1709635451&do=diff Dodge McArthur and Jubilee Line An advertisement in Terminus... Dodge McArthur welcomes you to the Jubilee Line! Tired of toiling away Underground, the only lights the artificial flicker, the finest food Amandine’s impeccable mushroom selection? Sorely in need of a break to renew your valiant rebuilding efforts? text/html 2024-03-05T09:11:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:katrina?rev=1709629879&do=diff Katrina Eternity Katrina's Story In the deep, isolated Underground, Where shadows dance and secrets trace, There dwells a soul with fire bright, yearning for the unseen light. Katrina, with her heart so bold, In search of truths yet to unfold, text/html 2024-03-05T09:09:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:kurson_castle?rev=1709629758&do=diff Kurson Castle Eternity A Eulogy “I don’t think I ever understood you.” A farmer stands before a row of graves. Each of them is new, carefully dug, honoured in the ways that the Underground has learned to honour the dead over a century. He is alone. text/html 2024-03-05T09:21:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:logistics?rev=1709630465&do=diff Secrets Of The Logistics Map The Unstable Mine The Unstable Mine was actually stable. It was a secret of a player who dropped out early in the game, and no one ever investigated it. Obficina, The Abandoned Foundry Obficina was abandoned because as the capacity for industry decreased rapidly in the years following going Underground there was no longer a need for a second Foundry. text/html 2024-03-05T09:04:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:luna_ilam?rev=1709629441&do=diff Luna Ilam Eternity Moonlight It was sunrise, dawn, when they opened Terminus station's doors. In the panic of it all, they still found time to appreciate the sky as the sun awoke from her slumber. But that was not what Luna wanted to see the most. No, she waits by the steps as the sun slips down past the horizon, 12 hours later, watching as the sky darkened from Underground. She clutches the astronomy book to her chest, her first gift from Old Archivist Ilam. It is dusty, its pages yellowed wi… text/html 2024-03-05T09:11:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:mina_stokely?rev=1709629897&do=diff Mina Stokely Eternity Need A Hand? Screams echo mutely through the grey concrete fog, the high pitched noises punctuated by the bass roar of the earth’s movements. Mina presses through the throng of shocked bystanders coughing as their bodies reject the stone in the air. They need help, but others can direct them to safety, and it is not long before she hears Fatima’s voice yelling orders at them behind her. What the former Enforcer lacks in bedside manner she more than makes up for in her abi… text/html 2024-03-05T09:18:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:mirax_caspian?rev=1709630314&do=diff Mirax Caspian Eternity Two Years On Mirax, Nora and Minnow - the Caspian family - stand on a sand dune overlooking Principium. Mirax holds in her hand a drawing. Not a drawing of an imaginery place, but a drawing of the real life city which sprawls out in front of them. A picture of the place captured in blue ink. A picture of a city surrounded by sand and filled with people, with life, with pre-dawn light. Elenor soars overhead in both the picture and on the page, revelling in the cool mornin… text/html 2024-03-05T09:16:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:ninator_kermada?rev=1709630192&do=diff Ninator Kermada Eternity Puzzles Ninator Kermada picks up the chalk and rubs it between his fingers until the ends turn white. His good eye scans the concrete: that final 15×15 grid, etched in lines of white that he himself drew upon this wall many months ago, looms before him. The grid is half-filled with letters, hastily written, forming words, phrases - concepts and ideas, reduced to their individual letters - their raw linguistic ingredients. He looks at the spaces already filled: text/html 2024-03-05T10:43:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:oak_hansford?rev=1709635434&do=diff Oak Hansford Eternity Quercus There stands tall an oak tree Oak sighs and closes the notebook. They like the opening line they’ve come up with for the poem but, despite staring at the near-empty page for hours now, they can’t work out how they should continue it. He sits on a bough near the top of the tree in Caput Park, easily one of his favourite spots in Principality City. It’s quiet, save for the gentle swishing of the leaves, and the feeling of the wind ( text/html 2024-03-05T09:09:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:old_archie?rev=1709629769&do=diff Old Archie Eternity Family Product There's a stand in Principality. It sells all sorts of stuff: food, clothes, and also an other junk. If you browse for long enough, you would come across a peculiar bottle. “Old Archie's family juice”. The list of ingredients is long, and you're half sure that some of the ingredients are just made up. The description on the back reads: text/html 2024-08-06T09:43:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:politics?rev=1722937406&do=diff (Director's) Office Politics Politics! For most of Terminus, the lines of power have been unclear to the denizens of the Underground. This is because, ultimately, the power was entirely with them, however much of that fact was deliberately obfuscated. text/html 2024-03-05T09:10:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:principality_and_the_desert?rev=1709629834&do=diff Principality and the Desert By the time the people of the Underground returned to Principality, they'd seen relatively little of it. It took months of expeditions with CROWN, FLITE, and other aerial robots to build a full picture of the lonely city in the desert. text/html 2024-03-05T09:10:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:promethea_delphinium?rev=1709629855&do=diff Promethea Delphinium Eternity Magnum Opus There is something comforting about staring at the same white stone wall for the thousandth time. Lit up brilliantly by white, fluorescent lights, unwavering and unblinking. The lights in Medicus will always stay on for those who need them. Whether that is someone in the throes of sickness, feverish and delirious; a loved one deafened and suffocated by grief; or a Doctor, hiding from their own cowardice and claustrophobic anxieties. A Doctor who once w… text/html 2024-03-05T16:50:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:razmatazz_tussle?rev=1709657426&do=diff Raz’ma’tazz Tussle Eternity The Morally Ambiguous Cowboy: And His Journey Into The Desert “An outlaw in his hometown of Principality, Raz’ma’tazz is forced to confront the consequences of his actions: forced to abandon his home, and abandoned by his partner, he embarks upon an epic journey through the vast and perilous Desert, with no-one beside him and no possessions but the cowboy hat on his head, and the cowboy boots on his feet. text/html 2024-03-05T09:08:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:secrets_of_the_logistics_map?rev=1709629729&do=diff Secrets Of The Logistics Map The Unstable Mine The Unstable Mine was actually stable. It was a secret of a player who dropped out early in the game, and no one ever investigated it. Obficina, The Abandoned Foundry Obficina was abandoned because as the capacity for industry decreased rapidly in the years following going Underground there was no longer a need for a second Foundry. text/html 2024-03-05T09:11:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:sophia_trinketson?rev=1709629868&do=diff Sophia Trinketson Eternity To See The World... If you had asked Sophia a few months ago what her life would be like right now, it would not have been this. She would have been positive it would still be a life of sneaking around, selling trinkets, and attempting to get Archie to truly notice her. It certainly wouldn't have entailed spending days away from Elias in an unknown world. text/html 2024-03-05T09:20:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:stanley_medar?rev=1709630423&do=diff Stanley Medar Eternity The End of Stanley Medar Stanley Medar died. And yet, in every ending, there is the chance for a new beginning. To start things again, and take a different path. And that is what Steven Rupert did. Standing in front of his discarded clothing, he said his goodbyes. The long coat that had been in the Medar family since before they had gone underground. The small pouch he had cobbled together from scrap fragments to hold his possessions. text/html 2024-03-05T09:06:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:svetlana_popova?rev=1709629583&do=diff Svetlana Popova Eternity Last Breath [CN: Description of death.] The lift in Bibere – the Church of the Sun – has been out of order for a century. And yet there is something nagging at the High Priestess, making her itch to investigate its every familiar corner just one more time. She tinkers, toils away, steals supplies from the power plant to aid her own work, and finally the old metal beast heaves a shuddering breath, and the lift works. text/html 2024-03-05T09:57:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:the_moth?rev=1709632642&do=diff The Moth Eternity Archives The archives of the Underground are in greater demand than ever before; people, now, look for the truth of the place, any hint to what has been going on under their noses for a century. But that’s not where she looks first. The information she needs is elsewhere, in a filing cabinet in a room in Caput that has been near-totally destroyed. text/html 2024-03-05T09:06:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://terminus.oxfordrpg.com/eternities:tilly_obfusc?rev=1709629588&do=diff Tilly Obfusc Eternity A Free Spirit Who is that young woman, running through the fields? Who twirls and laughs, and picks flowers by the stem, and falls down to nap atop the moss? How is it that she is always so gleeful, and so bright? There is none of that strange gas up here. And yet