Rank Zero Studios makes The Arbiter's Grunt, a LitRPG series about a mechanic and a machine that rewrites worlds, and The Arbiter's Trial, a free interactive story set the night before. The Rank Zone hears about every drop first.
Seventy-two seconds. A civilization that works, then the Arbiter, then a world that has been reset to a different stance. Sound on.
[Arbiter] Observation complete.
You watched to the end. The Arbiter records it.
When the Arbiter integrates a world it does not patch it. It replaces what was built with something else. Drag each slider to see both worlds from the film before and after the wave passes.
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World one. Towers, hover craft, rail and holograms become timber, stone, ox carts and a wizard with a staff.
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World two. Warships, stations and satellites are gone. Dragons, galleons and floating keeps take their orbits.
Two releases, in this order. Rank Zone members get each one first.
An ordinary person, an ordinary night. Your radio goes dead, a light finds you, a voice begins to ask questions. You build a character from your answers and end with an Assessment, then go home unable to tell anyone what happened.
Dez Calloway owns a two-bay shop, keeps a Bronze Star in a drawer and has four people to hold onto. On a Wednesday the sky goes gold and white and a voice built from factory parts tells him the world has been scheduled for assessment. He has sixty seconds.
Seventy-two seconds, narrated by the Arbiter, above on this page.
Ranks are saved on this device for now. When the list goes live they follow your email.
Free first acts, playable in the browser. The full campaign is planned as a one-time unlock.
Book One. The Arbiter in the book speaks the way it does in the film: flat, exact, patient.
The same seven ranks as the series. You start Unranked. Joining makes you an Initiate. Every action you take on this page earns experience, and the Arbiter keeps count.
Experience and rank are stored in this browser. Referrals and the top ranks switch on when the member list goes live.
Open an entry to read it and earn experience. Some entries are sealed to a rank.
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