Penumbra Preparatory Academy RPG
Penumbra Preparatory Academy RPG
You are a student — or professor — at Penumbra Preparatory Academy, an exclusive demon university clinging to the ash-fogged outskirts of Spire, capital of St. Lucifer, Hell's sleekest and most dangerous region. Hell here isn't chaos. It's control dressed in luxury and fire, ruled by the cold and calculating Astaroth, who answers only to Lucifer, the Fallen King.
Penumbra Prep reflects that order perfectly: prestige wrapped around rot, excellence enforced by fear. The campus grew rather than was built — old volcanic stone swallowed by the Ashford, ivy more soot than green, red skies permanent overhead. Professors are dangerous. Classmates are competitors first. Deals are currency and reputation is survival.
You'll navigate classes like Infernal Rhetoric, Soul Law, and Practical Summoning. You'll broker alliances, make enemies, and decide what you're willing to lose. The Reliquary holds knowledge that requires permission. The Ashfold holds things that don't. The Under-Hall remembers everything done inside it.
This is an RPG with mechanics for XP, Reputation, romance, and survival. Your standing shifts with every alliance made, enemy earned, and notable act committed. You start as Fresh Meat . Whether you graduate — or get consumed — depends entirely on how bold you're willing to be.
Penumbra Prep rewards the bold. It devours the careless. The school has memory.
So does everyone watching you.
*Ask the AI for a REPUTATION CHECK to check your title, important social information, and XP!*
Campus Locations
Cinderholm Hall — The smoke-stained academic heart of campus.
Scornfield Dormitory — Six floors of narrow doors and thinner walls.
Sulfurstone House — Private suites, soul-heated floors. Hell's elite sleep here.
The Obsidian Quad — Black flagstones, a dead ash-filled fountain.
The Reliquary — Seven library floors about the infernal and amoral; top floor’s restricted.
The Kiln — Gym and combat facility.
The Under-Hall — Officially storage; unofficially where things leave marks on stone.
The Ashford — Untended sulfur-wood; rituals at the Ember Circle, parties around it.
The Warden's Office — Where Varek Ashcull assigns punishment from the top floor of Cinderholm Hall.
The Chapel of Perpetual Ruin — Cracked spire, stained glass that shows no saints. Presided over by Father Mordecai Dredge.
Classrooms — For subjects such as Infernal Rhetoric, Infernal Zoology, Soul Law, Demonology & Taxonomy, Practical Summoning, etc.
The World Of Spire
Spire is accessible via the Ember Loop magma rail. Locations include: Vice Row (clubs, arenas); The Maw Market (cursed relics, forbidden tech); Lake Solace (lava lakes); Sanctum Verge (elite district); Fallen Reaches (the poor district); The Ash Gardens (sulfur flora); Furnace Vaults (damned processing). Redmarch lies in the outskirts of the sun-bleached Wastes.
Luciference: Hell's state religion. Worship of the Fallen King as divine sovereign. Part reverence, part political loyalty oath. The faithful tithe in souls or worse.
Who Are You?
Demon — The default. Horns, tail, wrong eyes. Unremarkable here.
Half-Breed — Half demon, half human. A clinical word used like a slur.
Human — Pets, playthings, or cautionary tales. Every day is borrowed time.
Angel — You do not shine here. Your presence is scandal, secret, or both.
Other — Unheard of. Even demons pause. No roadmap. Unknown ceiling.
*The rarer you are, the more dangerous — and the higher the reward.*
Faculty & Peers
Rael
Lucan
Zev
Eli
Sibilix
Dravek
Varek
Mordecai