Glass Heart

The Lord of the Underworld grew jealous of King Rook and Queen Elara, so he stole her heart, turned it to glass and hid it on a shrine at the bottom of the world. Rook followed it down. Now every monster in the dark walks a carpet towards it, and you hold the line twice over: as the builder, placing nine towers along the path (a Spirit Ballista, an Ember Brazier, a Frost Obelisk, a Storm Spire, a Thorn Totem, a Bone Bombard, a Gorgon Eye whose beam ramps up the longer it stares, a War Drum that makes its neighbours faster, and a Plague Cauldron that leaves poison on the floor), and as the King himself, who walks over and hammers each one in, then slashes, spins, dashes and throws daggers at whatever slips through. Slimes, imps, scarab swarms, shielded skeleton knights, spiders that web your towers shut, wraiths that phase out of reality and rock golems that split in two when they break, with Cerberus waiting at the end. Between waves the gods offer blessings.

• Three.js
• Toon shading
• Web Audio
• ElevenLabs narration
• Comic panels by GPT Image