The bore camp surrounding a vast frozen shaft

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The Numb Digger

A grim excavation survival game where every descent trades warmth for debt, truth, and things that should have stayed under the ice.

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The Trailer

Seventy seconds. The page is open.

What the camp records. What the shaft has been writing. What the page does not yet have a column for.

The Bore

Go down with tools. Come back with proof.

The Numb Digger is built around the quiet pressure of a run: choose a tool, read the ice, spend body heat, and decide how far you can go before the climb costs more than the find.

A laddered shaft descending into black ice

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Tool: ice chisel Climb cost: high

Literary Survival

A novel-shaped machine you have to survive.

The Numb Digger is a story told through cold, debt, hunger, and the things you choose to bring back. Every recovered object asks who gets the truth and who has to pay for it.

BODY

Numbness is not a number. It is a voice.

The colder you get, the more the world changes what you notice, what you can endure, and which choices still feel available.

pain hidden, control lost

Every object is evidence.

A letter, a boot, a warm flower, a sealed wage packet: finds are priced by factions, but they are also testimony.

coal, bodies, relics, wonders

CAMP

The surface is another kind of danger.

The camp has doctors, debt clerks, priests, buyers, rivals, and people who need the truth only if it can be made useful.

contracts, recovery, rumor

PEOPLE

The people in camp remember what the bore does.

Crewmates and rivals carry private histories. They can be hired, lost, protected, betrayed, or changed by what you recover.

old debts, new wounds

What Waits Below

Survival, debt, and awful little choices.

BODY

The cold writes on you

Warmth, breath, stamina, pain, morale, and feeling are spent on every descent. A good tool can still leave your hands too numb to climb.

warmth, stamina, numbness

CAMP

A settlement with a ledger

Between descents you buy rope, patch injuries, pay debt, hire help, take contracts, and decide who gets the things you drag back.

rope, debt, contracts

DEEP

Finds that change the story

Coal buys another day. Bodies carry names. Relics and impossible objects pull buyers toward you for different reasons.

coal, bodies, relics, wonders

FACTIONS

No patron is clean

The Bore Guild, Chapel, Heat Syndicate, Claimants, and Surveyors all want the bore made useful. Their favors cost more than money.

5 powers around the shaft

The camp at night with tents, ledgers, lamps, and workers

Camp Return

The camp is not safety. It is accounting.

Sell finds, buy fuel, treat injuries, settle debts, accept contracts, and listen for which faction has started saying your name like a tool they own.

Camp Roster

Meet the people the bore is already working on.

The camp is full of people who want warmth, proof, forgiveness, leverage, and a way out. Some can join you. Some can hurt you. All of them have reasons.

15 named people private histories crew, rivals, claimants

Wage-office clerk in camp

Camp Dossier

Gashek

"His ledgers know what the Guild refuses to count."

Gashek keeps the wage books and knows which numbers were made to look clean. If he helps you, it is because your debt has become interesting.

Affiliation: Bore Guild ledgers
Record: Last seen: depth 4

ledgerdebtwithheld mercy

Recovered Finds

Objects with prices. Objects with consequences.

historical

Frozen Letter

Ink preserved by cold. It was never sent.

impossible

Warm Flower

Sealed in ice, alive, and still warm.

impossible

Ringing Bell

You can hear it before you break the ice.

historical

Forbidden Map

Routes the Guild says do not exist.

Five Interested Parties

Every buyer wants a different version of the truth.

Your finds are not neutral. A body, a map, a fuel cache, a sealed letter: each one moves reputation, access, and suspicion around the camp.

Bore Guild

Quotas, permits, contracts, and the official right to underpay you.

Chapel

They pay for the preserved dead and call warmth a kind of violence.

Heat Syndicate

Fuel runners and tool dealers who know warmth is the only currency.

Family Claimants

Names, photographs, and specific bodies wanted from the ice.

Surveyor's Office

Maps, strata, relics, and records the camp pretends not to need.

The main bore descending through dark ice

NumbDigger.com

Coming soon.

The lamps are lit, the ledgers are open, and the bore is still taking names. Public release news, wishlist links, and descent details will surface here.

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