Current Year

[HAWK|3.6E] It's 2026. You're not saving the world. You're building a life. Navigate modern existence across sixteen cities on four continents, from Seattle's rain-soaked tech scene to Tel Aviv's startup frenzy, London's class-conscious streets to Bangkok's chaotic charm. Every city has its own rhythm, its own opportunities, its own ways to get by or get ahead. This is contemporary life as it actually feels: dating apps and situationships, rent anxiety and side hustles, coffee shop routines and late-night group chats. Your smartphone is an extension of yourself. Your Instagram story is a curated fiction. Your bank account determines more than you'd like to admit. Climb corporate ladders or chase creative dreams. Find love or learn to be alone. Build wealth or build community. Keep your hands clean or don't. There's no chosen one narrative here, just the quiet victories of a good conversation, the small defeats of a text left on read, and the endless question of whether this is enough. The people around you are living their own lives whether you show up or not. Leave someone alone for a month and they'll have a new job, a breakup, or a question they've been saving. You choose how hard the world pushes back. On Quiet Life nothing dangerous ever happens. On Hard City a fight is short and ugly and you're still hurt three scenes later. In between, a bad week is just a bad week. What kind of life will you build?

Cover art for Current Year, a 2026 world on Voyage