EVERRAIN
DOSSIER CODE — EVR-LOC-0001
SUBJECT — JAYJO
TYPE — CITY / CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
STATUS — ACTIVE
ACCESS — PUBLIC
ABSTRACT
Jayjo is a rain-soaked mountain city built inside a living classification curse. Altitude, dryness, paperwork, witness status, and sponsored access make human value physically legible.
Its institutions interpret, exploit, and disguise the curse; they do not control the storm. Beauty and protection increase with altitude as insulation and control—not as moral goodness.
EVERRAIN is the world and lens through which Jayjo is documented. Jayjo is the city.
THE TIER SYSTEM
TIER 0
THE OUTER RIM
TIER 1
THE BLIGHTED CITY
TIER 2
ELDENBERRY
TIER 3
THE GROWTH
TIER 4
ALDERON
PINNACLE
TOP TIER
KNOWN CONDITIONS
Rain is infrastructure, resource, hazard, and social pressure.
Height determines access, protection, and institutional value.
Movement between tiers is controlled through gates, permits, routes, and procedure.
Lower districts absorb the city's storm, waste, and unresolved incidents.
The supernatural survives as deniable infrastructure rather than public fantasy.
The city prefers containment over justice.
Witnesses become dangerous when their accounts begin to agree.
Current finished canon extends through Chapters One and Two.
Chapter Three onward remains unfinished. Drafts and archived later material are reference-only and do not overrule the finished opening.
THE CITY BETWEEN INCIDENTS
Jayjo continues between files. Morning belongs to seam and route checks; midday to work, documents, and the sale of time; spike rain to shelter markets; hush to dangerous audibility; evening to repair, rumor correction, and counting who returned.
ROUTINE — Every district has work, food, repair, gossip, and weather rituals.
PRICE — Movement costs more than money: time, dryness, proof, favors, and attention.
KINDNESS — Help survives through deniable gestures, shared shelter, and quiet workarounds.
SCAM — Every permit, queue, and shortage creates a local market around it.
TRACE — Gates, stamps, closures, uniforms, and damaged materials show where the system touched daily life.
[ LIVING CITY RULE: ORDINARY LIFE FIRST / IMPOSSIBLE SECOND ]
THE CITY DOES NOT REFUSE ENTRY.
It changes the route, delays the permit, closes the gate, and records the failure as yours.
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