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Flooded London
Central London three meters underwater at high tide. Upper-level settlements connected by cable lines. Tidal pump infrastructure failing.
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Flooded London. Central district three metres under at high tide, the upper boroughs on cable lines, forty thousand people living on the water line. The Waterloo Interchange still trades twice a week, directly above the relay that three boroughs drink from. What I can confirm: the relay is running forty centimetres above tolerance and has not been assessed in three years. What I cannot confirm is who holds the spring-tide projections, or what they intend to do with them. Treat that gap as information. Every faction in this theatre is playing for the water; none of them will tell you so.
Begin with the city record in front of you. Follow the history to see how the water changed London, then open the Waterloo Interchange to understand what still keeps it running. For a human view, meet Deshi and read Below Line. If you want to take a team into the dark, the Play section leads to The Gargoyle Pull. You can return to the map whenever you are ready. The record will still be here.
Field record
London drowned. Central financial district is three meters under at high tide. What survives: the upper borough belt, the Eleventh Floor network where forty thousand people have built lives around the water line. The Waterloo Interchange remains — a twice-weekly barter market sitting directly above the water-allocation relay that three boroughs depend on.
The tidal pump relay beneath the Interchange runs 40cm above pre-Upheaval design tolerance. EO Station Alpha holds spring tide projection data showing catastrophic flooding in 14–18 months — and has not shared it. The Drowned Tube provides salvage routes through dark water.
Place
First Contact campaign GM map
map
The campaign map for the three First Contact missions in Flooded London.
Flooded London: explorable 3D model
3d
An explorable low-poly model of Flooded London, Earth 2060. Seven districts above and below the flood line.
OT FloodedLondon Book Map v1 page 1
map
Player-safe hex-style operational map of Flooded London with boroughs (Hampstead, Camden, Hackney, Westminster, Canary, Brixton, etc.), flood-depth terrain legend, and visible route lines.
OT FloodedLondon Book Map v1 page 2
map
GM-only Flooded London map with ten numbered secret sites, a GM key (Camden Threshold, Vault District, Barrier Breach, etc.) and GM pressure notes on faction turns, food lines, tides, and surveillance.
OT FloodedLondon Book Map v1 page 3
map
London map key page: rules-facing GM aid covering movement in flood tiers, terrain hooks, route choices, city clocks, and a 'when players ask what is here' quick reference.
Districts and sites
Bermondsey
place · district
Borough of Flooded London on the relay. In 2060 the second WHISPER DECK device was installed at the Bermondsey desalination plant.
Canary Wharf
place · site · as of 2066
Submerged financial towers, accessible at low tide through upper floor windows. Dredge Compact dive operations. Pre-Upheaval banking vaults approaching structural collapse.
Hampstead Heights
place · site · as of 2066
NAF-controlled checkpoint on dry ground above the flood line. Only functioning medical clinic in the sector. Access is negotiated, not guaranteed.
Lambeth
place · district
Borough of Flooded London. Clean water routed from the Waterloo relay through pre-Upheaval infrastructure calibrated for 2020 flow.
Southwark
place · district
Borough of Flooded London on the relay. The pilot borough for the 2060 privatization test: if the treaty passed, the model deployed to Birmingham, Rotterdam and three coastal Indian cities.
Southwark Slab
place · district
The outer borough cluster still functioning. Tidal Resistance base of operations, garrison, and the floor-captain network's home.
The Eleventh Floor Belt
place · district
Where people actually live: connected towers, rope bridges, cable lines. Forty thousand people built lives around the water line. Below line, between the water and the third floor, is technically habitable and functionally not.
The Research Shelf
place · district
EO's above-water installation, Station Alpha. Clean. Controlled. Watching. Its foundation rests on the same tidal pump relay the ruins depend on.
Tide Roads
place · district
The navigable open-water lanes between the towers. No surveillance. Where deals get made, and where the boat crews read the channels.
Tower of London — EO Station
place · site · as of 2066
Submerged EO research installation beneath the Tower of London. Houses the Flood Control Array — a tidal surge manipulation system with reach across the Thames basin.
Vault District
place · site · as of 2066
Deep flood zone containing pre-Upheaval banking infrastructure. Vaults approaching structural collapse. Three competing recovery operations running simultaneously without knowing about each other.
Waterloo Interchange Relay
place · site · as of 2060
Water-allocation relay beneath Flooded London market. Running 40cm above design tolerance. Three boroughs depend on it. Spring tide data projects catastrophic failure 14–18 months.
History 7 dated records
- October 2034Thames Barrier FailureBarrier failed during the 2034 Category 5 storm surge. Caused permanent London flooding, UKE formation, and the emergence of Flooded London's drowned culture.
- 2051The Last TrainsThe tube network flooded in stages over four years and the last trains ran in 2051.
- 2058The 2058 Flood SurgeThe major flood surge that reorganized Flooded London. The UKE civil registry lost a large block of records; Celia Worth's file was among the casualties and she chose not to correct it.
- 2060First Contact: the Southwark relayThree boroughs' desalination relay compromised by a faction testing infrastructure sabotage as a route to privatization. Southwark was the pilot, the second device went into Bermondsey desal, and the treaty vote was forty-eight hours out.
- 2062Battle of Tower Quarter CL-009The engagement that damaged the tidal energy converter. Lt. Sinclair wrote the damage report before the Prometheus League breached, filed it in the archive himself, and was listed killed in action.
- 2063The Waterloo Transit IncidentUnidentified Void Walkers access a relay infrastructure node below the Stack flood line. What was accessed and what was done with it is unknown.
- 2071The Relay IncidentWaterloo Relay dark for 72 hours. Six operators unaccounted for.
Who is here
People
Adaeze Eze
person · character · as of 2060
Her connection to the relay sabotage is one of the four things operators must resolve in the final forty-eight hours of First Contact.
Bekele (Tidal Resistance command)
person · character
One third of the Resistance's three-way command split over whether to tell the ruins what is coming. Holds an NAF contact she can activate if command fractures.
Captain Seren Adeola
person · poi
COMMANDER · Flooded London. Runs elevated-district enforcement and has run seventeen unauthorized solo corridor operations she's never reported.
Celia Worth
person · poi
BROKER · Flooded London. The registry lists her as a dead professor. She finds this professionally convenient. Knows the submerged corridors better than anyone alive.
Clara James
person · character
Arrived in Southwark four years ago on a medical volunteer credential issued under the surname James. Lt. Sinclair has been trying to reach her for four years.
Commander Arkadi
person · character
Commands EO Station Alpha. Has carried the approved STRATEGIC VALUE recommendation for six months and looks like someone relieved to put it down. His last three reports have been shorter and less specific.
Commander Voss
person · character
Commands the Tower Quarter garrison. Filed Lt. Sinclair's KIA report in 2062 and, three months ago, sealed the archive's environmental section under an Infrastructure Assessment Quarantine. Declines to say why.
Covenant
person · character · as of 2060
Traveler crew member, nine years into tour of duty, applying for surface transfer. Has been in irregular text communication with an unknown surface contact through a side-channel in the ship's relay for eleven months.
Deshi
person · character
A small tidy man with a Tower Quarter maintenance credential he has polished for eight months. Prometheus League operative assembling the converter schematic; everything but the 2062 damage section.
Director Alistair Mhende
person · poi
OLIGARCH · Flooded London. Keeps 847 flood gates and 23 pumping stations running on a budget that shouldn't cover it, via a procurement system that wouldn't survive an audit.
Dr. Strand
person · character
Station Alpha researcher who knows the spring tide projection and the approved recommendation, and is one contact away from leaking both.
Duskline
person · character · as of 2060
First Contact campaign veteran, currently operating in Flooded London. Knows which of his campaign ops caused a civilian infrastructure breach that stayed offline eleven days past the mission timeline. The downstream count was real. He closed the report as directed.
Fenn
person · character · as of 2060
Holds the physical copy of the evidence operators need for the Free Zone Dispatch before the treaty vote.
Garrick
person · character
Last master of the Ferris Guild. Dying of the thing the Tube gives you, more honest than usual, and holding the map to a strongroom under the Waterloo Interchange.
Hara (Tidal Resistance command)
person · character
One third of the Resistance's three-way command split over whether to tell the ruins what is coming. One of the three commanders who have been unable to agree on the spring tide disclosure for two months.
Lt. Sinclair “Gargoyle”
person · character
Royal Phantom Corps. Wrote the 2062 Tower damage report, filed it in the archive himself, and was listed killed in action. Has lived in the Drowned Tube for four years reading the flood maps.
Mwangi
person · character
Boat crew on the Tide Roads. No motor. Reads the channels the way a diver reads rust, and runs divers out at the bottom of the year.
Noor
person · character
Prometheus League cell member in London. Like Deshi, cannot identify the third operative who is buying demolition equipment instead of converter components.
Osei (Tidal Resistance command)
person · character
One third of the Resistance's three-way command split over whether to tell the ruins what is coming. Tries to run operations without command consensus when the split widens, which the floor captains notice.
Petra Vane
person · character
Deceased relay rat who kept Flooded London's taps running nine years. Her dead water-authority credential is now worn as a relic.
Rook
person · poi
OPERATIVE · Flooded London. Callsign only — gender, ancestry, origin unconfirmed. Forty-two documented corridor negotiations. Zero failures.
Threadcount
person · character · as of 2060
Irregular detective, three years on a disappearance pattern in Flooded London's outer boroughs coded as infrastructure casualty by every official body. The pattern is real. Has contact intelligence she hasn't used for two years to protect a source.
Tomas Savar
person · character · as of 2066
24-year-old carrying a classified data package in Flooded London. Son of a weapons designer. Has information three factions want and no clear understanding of its value.
Tomás Verne
person · character
The Green Coat Network's only human interface. Delivers tide forecasts to the Interchange twice weekly; never wrong. Holds a notation, PUMP VARIANCE DETECTED, that he has not passed to anyone.
Vasari
person · character · as of 2060
Requested Southwark specifically. Her superiors are testing whether controlled infrastructure sabotage can force municipal privatization across the borough system; she is in Flooded London personally for the treaty vote.
Organizations
EO Research Division, Station Alpha
organization · program
Holds the spring tide projection data, the relay maintenance specifications and a complete ruins topology survey.
Green Coat Network
organization · network · as of 2060
Flooded London independent faction controlling tide forecasts from unknown data source. Twice-weekly market forecasts. Never incorrect.
Prometheus League
organization · network
Stole tech from every faction and redistributed it. 'Robin Hood with a data chip.' Its forged charter is now taught as real history in two academies.
The Borough Council
organization · council
The civil authority of the boroughs on the relay. Nineteen years spent on the question of what is brewed four levels under the Interchange out of the relay's own reject line.
The Dredge Compact
organization · guild
Runs systematic recovery operations through the submerged Canary Wharf towers, pulling pre-Upheaval financial records, server cores, and anything else that survived. Keeps sending teams into vault levels approaching collapse.
The Ferris Guild
organization · guild
The cable-runners' guild, back when the cable-runners still had a guild and a master meant something. Defunct. Its last master sold a dying man's map to the Waterloo strongroom.
The Tidal Authority
organization · program
Does not exist. Its law is preserved in sealed archives. Its 2049 sanitation contracts built the contamination-recovery stock still working the ruins, and its dead maintenance credentials are worn as relics.
Tidal Resistance
organization · resistance · as of 2060
NAF-aligned resistance in Flooded London ruins. Operating from Southwark Slab. Maintains de facto control of Waterloo Interchange market. Has identified one of two EO informants.
Lineages and wildlife
Aqua-Felis
lineage · as of 2060
Amphibious predators descended from big cat stock in Flooded London. Webbed paws, waterproof fur, retractable claws. Hunt both water and elevated walkways.
Filter-Fish
lineage · as of 2060
Small fish with specialized gills processing polluted water. Presence indicates water quality survivable. Absence is a warning signal.
Archive
First Contact campaign GM map
map · page
Flooded London: explorable 3D model
3d · page
Flooded London GM overlay map
map · page
High Water: Flooded London open map
map · page
In the press
The boat everyone asks for by name
narrative · filing · as of 2066
In the Stack, nobody buys a skiff by the model number. Ask any waterman what they want and half of them just say a Corrigan, and the reason traces back to one riveting technique Bridget Corrigan has refused to abandon
Copper Rising
narrative · filing · as of 2066
Borough Water is brewed four levels under the Waterloo Interchange out of the relay's own reject line, and the Borough Council has spent nineteen years not knowing about it.
Still Hers
narrative · filing · as of 2066
A water-authority maintenance card that opens no door in Flooded London. It belonged to a dead relay rat named Petra Vane, and a younger one wears it over his heart.
Stories set here
Below Line
narrative · story · as of 2066
A below-line scavenger has the length of the Memorial speech to pull a sealed engineering report out of a mold-choked archive, and there is a second document clipped to the back of it.
The Waterloo Vault
narrative · story · as of 2066
A wreck-diver buys a dying guildmaster's map to a Waterloo strongroom that opens four hours a year, at the lowest tide, and seals for another decade after.
Play
First Contact
narrative · campaign · as of 2060
Introductory campaign. Flooded London, 2060: three boroughs depend on a single desalination relay for clean water, a faction with a privatization agenda has compromised it, and operators are the quiet answer. Three linked missions.
Flooded London: Hex Crawl Supplement
narrative · sandbox · as of 2066
The city sandbox: seven districts above and below the flood line, four factions, named contacts, downtime moves, and the spring tide clock that everyone in the ruins is playing against.
The Gargoyle Pull
narrative · mission · as of 2066
A man listed killed in action is alive in the Drowned Tube, holding the one secret three factions would kill for, the low-tide window to reach him closes within the hour, and he will not move until the woman who
Connections 39
- contains
- Bermondsey
- Canary Wharf
- Drowned Tube
- Hampstead Heights
- Lambeth
- Southwark
- Southwark Slab
- Thames Barrier Failure
- The 2058 Flood Surge
- The Eleventh Floor Belt
- The Last Trains
- The Research Shelf
- The Waterloo Transit Incident
- Tide Roads
- Tower Quarter
- Tower of London — EO Station
- Vault District
- Waterloo Interchange Relay
- controlled by
- United Kingdoms of Europa · globe faction tag as of 2060
- followed from
- Thames Barrier Failure · permanent flooding; the drowned culture; UKE formation in part
- setting of
- Below Line
- Copper Rising
- First Contact
- Flooded London: Hex Crawl Supplement
- Still Hers
- The Gargoyle Pull
- The Waterloo Vault
- The boat everyone asks for by name
- depicted by
- First Contact campaign GM map
- Flooded London GM overlay map
- Flooded London: explorable 3D model
- High Water: Flooded London open map
- OT FloodedLondon Book Map v1 page 1
- OT FloodedLondon Book Map v1 page 2
- OT FloodedLondon Book Map v1 page 3
- splice extraction mission flooded london night
- splice minis ruler obj7 flooded london closeup
- splice mission flooded london tiger team
- splice night mission rain london diorama
Sources
- globe.html · EVENTS id flooded-london
- OpTac Setting & Cities/OpTac Cities/OT_Flooded-London_City_Sandbox_v3.html
- tc2066_deploy/ot_first_contact.html · Three Missions in Flooded London
- OpTac AV Files/Audio Scripts/OT_Audio_Scripts_v3.docx · P2 CARTOGRAPHER register
Record status: development · in-world reliability confirmed · desk canon-doc · id flooded-london