Clockwork Canyon

(SAE) A steampunk Western where the canyon walls tick and shift with every sunrise. You are a treasure hunter and must get in and out of the canyon by sunrise. Deep in the frontier, the walls of Clockwork Canyon are lined with ancient gears — brass, iron, and stone mechanisms older than any map. When the sun rises, the canyon grinds and shifts, reshaping its layout into something new. Paths close. Cliffs move. Entire sections vanish behind turning plates of rock and metal. You’re a treasure hunter chasing the legend of the Heart Mechanism — a massive gear‑driven device hidden at the canyon’s center. Some say it guards a vault beneath its plates. Others claim it controls the canyon’s shifting. No one has ever reached it before the reset. If you don’t reach the center before the next sunrise, the canyon will seal itself again… and you may never find your way out. Dust, brass, danger — and the ticking countdown of dawn.