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BAAL continues The Broken Tavern saga with The 3rd Cull on December 11. After the events of the Root Directory, the survivors are redeployed across thousands of dying worlds to fight The Rot, a cosmic parasite that turns whole sanctuaries into mutated thralls.
Following the apocalyptic events of the Root Directory, where the survivors cleansed the Prime Infection encasing the Golden Core, the Tavern’s Final Purge Protocol evaluates their Rule 10 permanent scars and karmic debts. Rather than erasing or freeing the survivors, the Tavern reclassifies the Radiant Aegis, Void Syndicate, and unaligned anomalies into System Immune Assets. The threshold opens not to a home dimension, but to the Deployment Strata – a massive, interconnected operational floor spanning thousands of dying worlds and fractured reality sectors.
In the Third Cull, the Apex Constructs discover that The Broken Tavern is an apex predator that has been amputating its own infected sectors to stop a cosmic, necrotic parasite (“The Rot”) from consuming the Root Directory. This cosmic rot digests conceptual data, turning entire sanctuaries and false pantheons into weaponized, mutated thralls. The Apex Constructs are deployed to excise these infected nodes before the cosmic pin snapping destroys all connected universes.
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