Ping
A distress call routed through Relay. 412 answered, zero missed — the standing record.
Terms // fiction
The working vocabulary of the Flood Wards.
A distress call routed through Relay. 412 answered, zero missed — the standing record.
Four rules: answer every ping · no one left behind · helmet stays on · home to the Gantry.
The suit: olive-drab exosuit, hazard-orange visor stripe, faceless helmet. Built from decommissioned harbor rigs — see The Forge.
The nightly patrol circuit through the Flood Wards — same order, same pace, every night.
The maintenance bay under the old transit depot. The armor's home; Wrench's domain.
The post-patrol service ritual: washdown, actuator check, star count. Never skipped.
Pip's mark, left everywhere the armor works. 300+ on the suit. Never wiped off.
The high-water mark of a surge — and the armor's wading route through the underpasses.
The dispatch voice. Routes every ping, logs every word, ends night shifts with “armor's got it.”
The armor's resting state: rooftop, helipad, or Gantry — visor dimmed, listening.
The debrief: what the ping cost, what the Wards learned. See After-Action.
Dispatcher slang for a shift with no pings — credited, always, to the armor's patrol.