Jessie Wilson, left behind on Earth after a research project gone wrong, takes it upon himself to protect those who cannot protect themselves throughout the modern, evil wastelands dotting the globe, starting in Old Chicago.
After finding abandoned Nano-Tech from one of IronClad's many research branches, Jessie, rather un-originally, gives himself the title of Ironclad, or
Jessie 'Ironclad' Wilson.
As the Nano-Tech adapted to the new user, the user adapted to it, forming a bond with the armor that could never be broken.
Through the corrupted, tech riddled streets of a extremely unfamiliar Chicago, secret groups lie in hopes of befriending, fighting, worshipping, surviving the many robotic entities that will always be advancing, evolving, and changing like the war-machines they are.
And so will Jessie.
Ray is low on time, luck, and hope; his only chance is an artifact that may not even exist. But upon meeting Landon, Ray is beginning to believe he might find all four.
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Cambions are doomed to tragedy. They are weak, sickly creatures that rarely live to see their twentieth year. Ray refuses to resign himself to that fate. Upon learning of the Crimson Sheath-an artifact capable of preserving his life-Ray is prepared to fight, steal, and kill to get his hands on it. He is not prepared for Landon. Landon is an orphan with no memories of his parents, the only inheritance left to him a dagger, sleeping in a crimson sheath. Though he has no love of bloodshed and no use for a dagger, Landon isn't about to let Ray take his only link to his forgotten history, even if that means following the cambion past the edge of the world and into the shadow beyond.
Content Warnings: Violence, semi-graphic gore, character deaths, profanity, mild drug and alcohol usage, abuse discussed but not shown, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things.