Downwind
A valley that hangs together
Air, water, weather, wages, businesses and politics are all one connected system. Buy a business, sign petitions, vote, or open God Mode to watch the whole valley from above at up to 240x speed.
The story
Millbrook is a small lake town in a mountain valley, and you run the farm on the edge of it. On your first morning your neighbour, Wren Hollis, is waiting at the door to show you the ropes: water the wheat, milk a cow, sell at the stand, cast a line in the pond.
Across the lake, Gunnar Halvorsen's coal plant keeps the lights on and the stack smoking. Tessa Vance's Cumulus data center wants more of its power and more of the lake for cooling. At the Town Hall, Dr. Fischer is trying to get a council with its own motives to listen before the weather turns.
None of it is scripted. Smoke drifts on the wind, the water carries whatever goes into it, and jobs, prices, votes and moods push on each other. Leave it alone and, over the years, the heat domes, cold snaps and storms get worse until neighbours start to pack up. Get involved and you can change where the valley goes. Or go fishing. That's allowed too.
