Needs: 2+ players, handful of coins

Credit due to: Monsterhearts 2 and Dream Askew by Avery Alder, SYNC by Kira Magrann, Dead Friend by Lucian Kahn and Hearts of Wulin by Lowell Francis

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Form triangular entanglement among your character, a side character and another player character:

• I made a promise to give [a treasured object] to aid [a rival/troublemaker/fool].
• Me and [friend/coworker] were both hired by [boss] who turned on us.
• I was promised a position but they want [friend/sibling/rival/enemy] instead.
• I love [object of affection], but my [family/friends/community] has forbidden it.
• I suspect [a person] of malintent, but [someone I respect/love] believes in them.
• [friendly person] doesn’t understand me or my culture. I will show them [place] to help them understand.
• [Two people] think they are related to you.
• [a person] knows where you come from, they’ve told [friend] who doesn’t believe them.
• You’ve been taking social cues from [friend]. They are too into [person] to notice.

Rituals:

A. Pull a tarot spread to define your character. Name them and write 3 – 4 words to describe their persona, choose a Earth/Void and Space/Void ritual to match each.

 

Ritual of Earth (take a coin)

• trigger a memory of past trauma
• headlessly pursue an obsession
• start an argument with a friend
• show that someone isn’t actually in your community
• tell a friend why you don’t belong in their world
• tell someone close a damaging untrue secret about yourself
• make eye contact with someone for more than a moment
• get caught lying or cheating
• reveal a secret vulnerability to someone
• embody rumors about you
• narrate what you’ve lost forever

Ritual of Void (free action)

• reassure a friend about an insecurity
• hide something small but meaningful on your body
• deal with routine, uneventful events
• run away
• cave to a person’s desires
• fix something badly
• care of someone
• make an example of someone
• screw up

Ritual of Space (spend a token)

• you’re so sensitive you learn where someone else is sensitive
• shut someone down
• bring supplies no one knew you had
• call in a timely favor
• discover a hidden/covered up injustice
• outsiders see this situation as normal
• convince others that what happened to someone else actually happened to you
• make someone feel beautiful
• narrate “What do I have that you need?”

B. Define a setting with three things in conflict.

C. When your character’s persona changes, change those rituals. When someone finds your character’s true nature loose a ritual.