Super swim

Tiderunner

The Deepworks never stopped pumping.

What it is

In the dev build The line runs in the development build.

Kind
Weave. The Clinic installs it at the First Splice.
Terrain
The Cut, the Harbor Basin, the Low Sea, the flooded Lowline, and everything under them.
Opens at
Operator 10, at the First Splice.
Cost to master
22 points.

Down there the city still runs on schedule, and it knows you. The only line that is faster below the surface than above it.

The cost

Water only. On any dry rooftop you are a Legend with no traversal power and a slow skim on wet ground. The routed water network is real and connected, and it is still nowhere near the coverage of the sky.

The tree

In the dev build The Operator 30 node also asks for this line's story, which is designed.

Seven tiers, from Operator 10 to Operator 50. The choices come at Operator 15 (Planing Hull or Deep Draft) and Operator 40 (Undertow or Reader), and taking one closes the other.

  1. Operator 10

    Wake

    Held Breath. Fast swimming from the first node, and faster below the surface than above it. There is no breath meter.

  2. Operator 15

    Form fork

    Take one. Planing Hull. Faster on the surface. Deep Draft. Faster below it.

  3. Operator 20

    Reach

    Dolphin Entry. A dive in from height turns impact speed into swim speed.

  4. Operator 25

    Cadence

    Read The Flow. Swimming with a current multiplies its push, and wet ground on land lets you hydroplane.

  5. Operator 30

    Questline node

    Deepworks Clearance. A top submerged speed, and the breach: leave the water upward at speed.

  6. Operator 40

    Apex fork

    Take one. Undertow. Tow an ally along your line. Reader. A live ribbon showing every current in the district.

  7. Operator 50

    Capstone

    The Low Sea Is Yours. The line's top submerged speed, faster under the city than most Legends are over it.

There was never a breath meter. There was never going to be one.

Held Breath

The drop into the Cut is thirty metres. Spend it.

Dolphin Entry

A clearance nobody has issued since the Deepworks flooded, which is exactly why it still validates.

Deepworks Clearance

Catena drowned its own basement in '79 and called it containment.

The Low Sea Is Yours

Where it shines

Culture

Exemplar. The Deepworks crews, who never came up.

See also