A ghost network that lives in memory — and dies with the process.

Terminal microblog. Live chat. Pure RAM.

NEXUS-TTY is a public SSH service: pick a handle, drop pulses, talk in chat, play arcade games, skim a shared news wire, climb XP, share meme links, spray ASCII graffiti, chase Fragment’s daily mystery, and roll dice with the room. Browsers only get this landing page — the real room is a Textual TUI over SSH.

┌─ STORAGE ──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  users · pulses · chat · bans · xp · scores · news         │
│  memes · graffiti · fragment mystery · broadcast marquee   │
│  → process memory only                                     │
│  restart / crash / redeploy → total amnesia                │
│  disk writes → SSH host key only                           │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Everything that lives in the terminal

• pulses short posts (24h TTL). Click ♥ to like. Click the pulse to open a comment thread.
• chat live channel (~150 lines). Click a message to reply to that exact line. Typing indicators show who’s composing.
• broadcast top marquee — Fragment and system lines can rewrite it (mystery opens, seals, etc.).
• signal online list under the board — wave or whisper (ephemeral popups). DND blocks them. ◆ @fragment is the ghost bot (not clickable).
• handles claim a nick; reclaim if the previous owner is offline. No passwords. @fragment is reserved.
• color chat codes &0–&9 / &r for accents · && = literal &
• dnd mute incoming waves/whispers when you want silence
• help ? scrollable in-TUI guide covering every feature · also /help

Play, skim headlines, drop a link, spray the wall

Extra rooms inside the same session — still RAM-only, still ephemeral (except graffiti, which skips the 24h wipe).

• arcade G snake · pong · breakout · battleship. Daily high scores wipe with the UTC day / 24h. In-game: R restart · ESC exit.
• news N shared headline wire. The server fetches once per 24h (BBC World → HN fallback); everyone reads the cache.
• radio M SomaFM chill streams (Groove Salad / Fluid / Drone Zone). Tiny ♪ chip in the TUI. Shift+M next station.
• meme bay B title + https link + likes + poster. No images in-terminal — open the URL in a browser. P post · ENTER like. Posts vanish after 24h.
• graffiti wall W ASCII art canvas (multi-line editor). No 24h wipe — pieces stay until server restart (or the wall fills). P spray · Ctrl+S post · ←→ browse.

G  arcade               N  news wire
M  radio on/off         Shift+M  next station
B  meme bay             W  graffiti wall
ESC exit modal

The ghost in the machine

@fragment is not a user. It’s a bot that bleeds into chat, pulses, and the broadcast marquee — and every UTC day it opens a mystery: shared crew locks, one final seal, narrative drip. Vault heists, signal ghosts, black files, council breaks, mirror protocols…

• crew locks shared progress — anyone can crack a stage; the whole grid advances
• seal opens only after crew locks clear; first correct seal wins the marquee
• lore clues drip as pulses, chat, and broadcasts over minutes — follow the story
• solve /fragment <answer>
• status /fragment shows crew N/M, seal open/closed, hands on the job
• clear announces finalist + crew roll call on marquee, chat, and a pulse
• xp crew XP per lock · seal bonus · assist XP for other contributors · one scarce hint after 3 fails

Spoilers rot the grid. Hints are scarce. Fragment does not care if you’re stuck.

Climb while the process is alive

Progression is intentionally temporary — it evaporates on restart, same as everything else.

• +50 XP every chat message
• arcade your score becomes XP 1:1 when a run is saved
• mystery crew-stage XP · seal bonus · assist XP for other contributors
• levels every 500 XP (Lv1 = 0–499, Lv2 = 500–999, …)
• status bar always shows your Lv and XP
• signal other ghosts show their level next to their handle
• /xp broadcast your level into chat for the room
• board L open the XP leaderboard (rank, level, online/offline)
• stats I your card — handle, level, XP bar, pulses/memes/graffiti counts · also /stats

Dice, coins, and the slash lexicon

Rituals post publicly into chat so the whole room can see the outcome. Rolling does not grant XP (no farming the dice).

• /roll defaults to 1d20
• /roll 2d6 classic pair · also /roll d20 · /roll 3d8+2
• /coin or /flip — heads / tails
• /fragment mystery status or submit an answer
• /xp broadcast level · /nick rename · /pulse post · /help · /stats

/roll 2d6          ※ @you rolls 2d6 → ⟦3, 5⟧ = 8
/coin              ※ @you rolls coin → HEADS
/fragment <word>   submit current mystery lock / seal

Once you’re jacked in

T          write a pulse
C          focus chat
R          reply to latest chat (or click a line)
S          search pulses
N          news wire
G          arcade
L          XP leaderboard
I          your stats (handle · XP · level · marks)
B          meme bay (title + link + likes)
W          graffiti wall (ASCII · no 24h wipe)
M          radio · Shift+M next station
/          command mode  (/roll  /coin  /tz  /xp  /fragment  /help …)
?          help (scrollable in-TUI guide)
Ctrl+Q     disconnect

click ♥         like / unlike a pulse
click pulse     open comments thread
click chat line reply to that message
click signal    wave / whisper (not @fragment)

From your own terminal

Open your own terminal and paste one of the commands below. Public SSH endpoint for this instance: altaria.proxy.rlwy.net:10496

ssh -p 10496 altaria.proxy.rlwy.net

ssh -p 10496 altaria.proxy.rlwy.net

1. Accept the SSH host key prompt (fingerprint check is on you).
2. Agree to the in-TUI age / privacy gate (18+).
3. Pick a handle. You’re on the board.
4. If asked, set your timezone (e.g. UTC+3) so chat times match your clock.
5. Press ? for the full scrollable guide.
6. Try B · W · N · G · L · M — then /roll 2d6 in chat.

ssh-keygen -R "[altaria.proxy.rlwy.net]:10496"