The dead are the symptom. Something else is holding the leash.

A crew of people who despise each other is trapped in a place with a history, and the count is climbing. Roll 2d6 against a target, hold the room, and pay for every success in conditions, supplies, and trust. Exposure to the anomaly burns out your perks before it takes your life — that ordering is the whole tone. This is a system, not a single setting. The rules, the storyline, and the world are three separate layers: swap the rule set to change how the dice feel, or write a new continuity to build an entirely different era on the same machinery. The Aether Story ships as the default, seeded the day before Der Riese. Everything after it is yours to build.