#postcyberpunk

Technosky Grippers

This is what they took from us. This is how we get it back.

THE GEFFINE MANIFESTO A call to the terminal-lit, the weird-coded, the myth-soaked. Not nostalgia—resurrection.

Signal is awake.

🜃 🜂 🜁

[GEFFINE OS booting...]

DEMO (tba) | CHARACTER PROFILES | GUIDE | NAVIGATION | PINTEREST | AUTHOR

Welcome to the Underworld...

Play as a deceased chef given the opportunity of an (after)lifetime in Hades' Kitchen. The story follows a cooking competition set in the Underworld from Greek myth. Hades' Kitchen is a character-driven interactive fiction story about rivalry and redemption.

Hades' Guide, a codex containing the lore bible and character database for both Hades' Kitchen and Neo Olympus (a second series that will take place in the same universe), is available here.

The demo release is currently tbd. The first season will consist of eight chapters: seven episodes + a prologue.

Content Warning: Hades' Kitchen, this blog, and its discord server are rated 16+ and the game will eventually have optional 18+ content. The game will contain swearing, alcohol and drug use, sexually suggestive content, light violence, and discussions about trauma, grief, terminal illness, and death.

So you died - very sorry about that - but this doesn't have to be the end of your story. Since you're such a talented chef, we want to make you an offer. We can either send your soul to Asphodel now, or you can refuse to accept that dull fate and audition to become a chef for our royal family.

Now, this isn't a guaranteed position. You'll be competing against twelve others for one spot and it'll all be filmed for a TV show. I understand these shows are quite common in the Upperworld, so you're likely familiar with the concept. However, it'd be wise to expect the unexpected. We aren't limited by mortality, so we can afford to spice things up with magic and monsters and you'll probably be fine.

You could end up in Asphodel, but you might not. Each time someone's eliminated their fate is randomly reassigned. The longer you stick around, the higher your chances of getting sent somewhere better (...or worse).

If this sounds a bit overwhelming, remember you don't have to go through this alone! You'll have the crew, the judges, Adonis, and, of course, your fellow contestants. I've met them all and I can assure you, for the most part, they're lovely people. You may even recognize some from your mortal life.

So, what are you gonna do? Do you believe you can win? Will you risk your fate for a chance at something greater? What do you say?

Will you compete in Hades' Kitchen?

- Fully customize your protagonist

Name and nicknames

Gender and pronouns (custom options)

Physical appearance

Taste and culinary background

Personal history and key life events

- Define your protagonist's personality and watch the narrative voice evolve with them

- Use and improve various skills to unlock unique choices, scenes, and dialogue

- Build relationships (good and bad) with a compelling cast of characters including your fellow contestants, mentors, and a handful of Greek gods

Six love interests (five gender selectable)

Complete storylines for asexual, aromantic, aro/ace, or simply uninterested MCs

Two poly routes (either T + K or Hero + T/K/C/[redacted])

- Explore a world that blends Greek myth with science fiction

Shar Patil

The Artist. A culinary wizard with a stoic yet playful nature. They keep their distance and do their best to avoid getting close to people.

Shar is romanceable and gender selectable: Sharvari - cisgender female (she/her), Sharva - agender (xe/xem/xyr), Sharvin - cisgender male (he/him)

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K Ishida

The Home Cook. An altruistic goof who claims they just want to help, but there's something hiding beneath that grin. There has to be. Right?

K is romanceable and gender selectable: Kenji - cisgender male (he/him), Kairi - transgender female (she/her), Kira - x-gender neutral (they/them)

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T Sarpong

The Influencer. A free-spirited, chaotic troublemaker who uses their supernatural charm to mask their true intentions and intelligence.

T is romanceable and gender selectable: Thema - cisgender female (she/her), Tano - cisgender male (he/him), Tawiah - pangender (she/he/they/xe/ey)

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Cecil Gray

The Celebrity. This arrogant genius has been your bitter rival for years. They behave as if insults and anger are all they've ever known.

Cecil is romanceable and gender selectable; Cecil has the same name whether transgender nonbinary (they/them), transgender male (he/him), or cisgender female (she/her)

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Hero of Thebes

The Assistant. Even though they always look and feel panicked, this self-conscious satyr has far more talent and power than they realize.

Hero is romanceable and gender selectable; Hero has the same name whether genderfluid (they/she/he), genderqueer (they/them), cisgender female (she/her), or cisgender male (he/him)

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Adonis

The Prince. Creative, clever, and compassionate, this god has a hard time convincing others to see him as a person, not just a pretty boy.

Adonis is romanceable but gender-locked. He identifies as a cisgender male and uses he/him pronouns.

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Chef Alex

The Legend. A tempestuous visionary, she's remembered as a prolific inventor and one of the first chefs to explore cooking as a science.

Alex is not romanceable. Alex identifies as genderqueer (nonbinary butch) and uses she/they pronouns.

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Chef Julio

The Icon. The first celeb chef and still the most famous, he's known for his kindness, enthusiasm, and humor as well as his many cookbooks.

Julio is not romanceable. Julio identifies as a cisgender male and uses he/him pronouns.

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For more on any of these characters: head over to this post, check out their MyShade profiles in Hades' Guide, send me an ask, or join the discord server.

Thanks for reading, all reblogs are greatly appreciated!

Special thanks to the Hades' Kitchen beta readers:

ciels-tears, manonamora, momomilk, piscesaf, roguesgame, sistersolaris

Ismail Inceoglu • "Gifts of The Immensity"

Concept artist & Illustrator

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We’re living in the Cyberpunk Future that we were promised in the 1980s. I know everyone associates cyberpunk with a different aesthetic - and that’s a trap. Mega-corporations control substantial parts of our lives, and the protections offered by an increasingly hostile to citizens government are being diluted or willfully ignored. Everyone is a gig worker now, a contractor without protections, glued to tech that is both designed to break and that we are obligated to have to participate in society. No phone? No job. No computer? How do you get anything done?

Our things are listening to us and giving us ads for more things. Your identity is data that everyone seems to have - what you wear, what you eat, where you go, who you hang with, your sexuality, your preferences in every single fucking thing. And that information is sold like currency.

We are the products being passed around in our society.

Solarpunk is being tossed around like a fashionable answer to the horrors of today - but isn’t that the logical response to the cyberpunk reality that we are inheriting?

I say they can and should be the same thing. How do we take back ourselves from the data-space that owns us? We must:

Repair our things

Recycle-hack new items

Open-source material necessities

Expand our green-spaces

Reject hi-tech, high energy solutions for low energy problems

Begin the reclamation of discarded raw materials

Recenter the focus of every civic policy: health and environment at the core of every law.