Instruments: 3d6, Provided Chart
Game Description
This game is part map-drawing, part story writing about creating your own constellations.
Game Content Warnings
These are content warnings that are from the game prompts and are present in all playthroughs.- Death
- Tragedy
- Monarchy
Playthrough Content Warnings
These are content warnings specific to this playthrough only.- Religion
- Mentions of Execution by Beheading
Word Count: Played:
The New Stars of the sky, Rearranged to save a lover
Constellation 1: The King’s Head
Tone: 6
Form: 2
Soul: 4
Story: 8
An Ancient King whose name is lost
Symbol: 6
A notable moment
Omen: 10
Imminent death, or stormy waters
Visibility 4
Faint and shimmering
A warning to all, a king’s head removed from his shoulders as he sits upon his lost throne. Beheaded by his people for exploiting them to feed his own greed. Should you see this symbol at night, know your peers are displeased with you.
Constellation 2: The Queen’s Scroll
Tone: 2
Form: 6
Soul: 6
Story: 8
An Ancient Queen
Symbol: 12
A magic artifact
Omen: 8
A sudden important revelation
Visibility: 6
Clear and distinct, easily distinguished
A noble queen received information on the movement of enemy troops at the last hour before the fall of her castle. She was able to conquer them with this formation and went on to win her war. Seeing this means you will soon learn something new.
Constellation 3: The Lover’s Monster
Tone: 5
Form: 1
Soul: 6
Story: 6
A forlorn lover who awaits their partner
Symbol: 7
The Monster
Omen: 11
Calm seas and peaceful times ahead
Visibility: 6
Clear and distinct
A human once turned into a monstrous creature ran into the sea never to be seen again, but their partner waited at the shore for the rest of their life for their return. They never saw their lover but every night they were on the shore it was peaceful and never stormed. Seeing this constellation means calm seas and peaceful times ahead.
Constellation 4: The Friends
Tone: 1
Form: 2
Soul: 6
Story: 3
A contest between two powerful entities
Symbol: 8
The Hero
Omen: 7
A chance encounter with a friend
Visibility: 6
Clear and distinct
Two friends claimed they both could kill the monster that plagued their city. They struck a deal that whoever could kill it first would take the other’s lands. In the end they both had to work together to defeat it and ended up living together on joint lands.
Constellation 5: The Weight
Tone: 4
Form: 4
Soul: 3
Story: 8
An ancient king who’s name is lost
Symbol: 7
The Monster
Omen: 7
A chance encounter with a friend
Visibility: 3
Seemingly blends into the nearby constellations
The king of the sand, a once powerful man, now completely forgotten by time, brought back to life to serve the gods. Should you find this constellation you will soon see someone you had forgotten.
Constellation 6: Dragon Slayer’s Shovel
(A/N Since I kept rolling 7s I switched to a d12 for the story,symbol, omen)
Tone: 4
Form: 3
Soul: 6
Story: 5
A hero who once triumphed over evil
Symbol: 3
A farming instrument
Omen: 8
A sudden important revelation
A/N: I forgot to do the visilbility for this one
A small child, the kin of a farmer, was digging out in a field by their parents house when they dug up some eggs. They were foul and clear with dark liquid seeping inside. The child, instinctively knowing evil, smashed them, and saved the village from an infestation of dragon worms.
Constellation 7: The Rival’s Knife
Tone: 2
Form: 6
Soul: 2
Story: 3
A young artist who suffered a tragic death
Symbol: 2
A weapon
Omen: 3
A safe return from battle or sailing
Visibility: 2
Incredibly difficult
A painter who caught the eye of the god of wealth, bragged to their peers until they were murdered in their sleep by a rival seeking glory.
(There is already a constellation at 2,6 so it was moved to 1,6)
Constellation 8: The Fool’s Feather
Tone: 3
Form: 5
Soul: 4
Story: 12
A fool who got what they wished for
Symbol: 9
A hybrid animal
Omen: 5
A good fortune in possessions
Visibility: 4
Faint and shimmering
A haberdasher sought the rarest feathers for her hat and ventured deep into the Fae woods discounting her own safety. She had only her wits about her and tricked the great beast of the forest into molting for her. To find this constellation is to come into possession of a great fortune.
Constellation 9: The Queen’s Casket
Tone: 1
Form: 4
Soul: 4
Story: 1
A jealous queen with an unlawful rule
Symbol: 11
The Ruler
Omen: 6
A return of something lost
Visibility: 4
Faint and shimmering
A queen in the frozen north, having lost her entire family, demanded that all the bodies from the cemetery except her kin be removed and burned. In the dead of night 3 gravediggers stole the coffins slated for destruction and hid them deep out in the frozen wastes to save them. Six weeks later a scream came from her bedroom and all that was found was a single coffin unable to be opened as she pounded away from the inside.
(There is already a constellation provided at 1,4 so moved to 2,4)
Constellation 10: The Union
Tone: 5
Form: 4
Soul: 3
Story: 10
The season’s change or weather event
Symbol: 10
The Lover
Omen: 4
A curse upon one’s enemies
Visibility: 3
Seemingly blended into nearby constellations
A couple married young, just after coming of age. No one thought their union would last; friends, enemies, and family all sneered behind their back waiting for them to fall apart. But the seasons changed and years turned into decades and they scored every prediction and loved each other until the end of their long lives.
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