The world didn’t end.
It shattered, but that’s not the end.
It’s always ending & being born.
Welcome to the Midapocalypse.
Welcome to Oldie.
What’s left of America’s west coast, as far as we know, is The Chain: seven islands held together by ancient relics & a family of seven immortal “Dreamers” who have guided humanity through the wreckage for centuries.
But on a quiet morning on the Arizona Coast, the candles go out. The family is snuffed out — all of them, all at once. and When they wake up on the pale sands of a strange beach, they’re reborn, but they’re hollow.
They’ve forgotten their names, their powers, the fact that they were ever a family. Now, they have to find the seven Aces to unlock their memories and stop whatever’s hunting them — before the Chain falls apart for good.
Oldie is a story about the weight of forever, the cost of being a hero & the trauma we inherit from our past selves.
“see, The world didn’t end — it just got tangled.”
after the shattering, the reality we knew was replaced by the Chain — a jagged, shimmering expanse where memory has weight & the laws of nature are subject to a wilder, older magic.
Oldie is about what remains when the logic of the old world fails: the grit in the gears, the ghosts in the machine…
and the seven dreamers trying to wake it up.
The Dreamers
The family is defined by the seven Dreams they embody — they are primal forces of the old world, baked into fragile & powerful human bodies.
- Holder Stone: Dreamer of the Stone. She’s the only one who didn’t die, the 1,000-year-old healer and assassin left to herd her amnesiac family through the dark.
- Our Lady Maeve: The Wind’s Dreamer. A copper-haired Goddess in a golden dress who’s used to being worshipped but can’t remember why.
- Queene Death: Dreamer of the Glass. A terrible angel in a horse-skull mask and bells, born to protect Maeve and capable of surgical, white-hot violence.
- The Bard Thomas: The Flame’s Dreamer. A charismatic rogue with a red shirt and a silver tongue who suspects there’s something rotten in his forgotten history.
- Sailorboy: The Sea’s Dreamer. The scruffy captain of the living ship Actæon, defined by a deep, silent sadness and a love he can’t quite put into words.
- Benjamin: Dreamer of the Wood. The Prince of Trees, a wild boy who can flicker into a bearcub or a wolf, and hears the trees talking.
- The Diamond Dogs: Dreamers of the Night. Synchronized figures in chrome fox masks who serve the mysterious Baseline state and fear the biological mess of the world.
these are the dreamers.
This is their dream.
The Chain
To find the Aces & regain their memories, the Dreamers must navigate the distinct, dangerous realities of the seven islands of the chain.
- Santana: A sun-scorched desert of red veils and poppies, where the Dry Witches guard the gate to underground Mysteries.
- Redwoods: A primordial forest where nature has swallowed a 20th-century shopping mall, overseen by the 30-foot-tall Entwife.
- Ællaë: Hot pink fire on a razorblade wire. A crumbling city of concrete and neon, where the faithful pray to a digital version of their Goddess via social app & payment processor.
- Ventura: A land of permanent mist and the decaying ruins of Fairylande, a theme park where the mirrors show you your dreams — and your worst possible futures.
- Arcadia: A perfected prison where the hive-mind Common Link makes sure no one ever feels pain — or thinks for themselves.
let every memory be an arrow in your quiver.
collect them all and see what they make.
we are coming home to ourselves. we are putting ourselves back together.
we are putting home back together.
we are becoming something strange and new, wonderful and terrible, and not all of us will survive the journey.
nor will any of us be unchanged.
this is the story of the seven dreamers of the chain, how they died, and what happened next.