So hey! This is an instance of Vincent Baker's game THE SUNDERED LAND: A Doomed Pilgrim in the Ruins of the Future which was designed for play on social media platforms. I'm making little tweaks to fit with Steemit, but mostly it'll play as written. It's a role-playing game where you all are the GM and I'm the only player! Game play will take place in the comments.
I’m a warrior seeking peace and an end to bloodshed. I’m on pilgrimage to the Temple to No Gods in the distant City of Gulls. My pilgrimage has brought me to The Quivering Dunes, inhabited by animate shadows, hungry for souls. My goal is to pass safely through and continue my pilgrimage. I have the wisdom of the ancestors who guide me and the ability to ignore discomfort even unto death.
You, my friends online, play the world. Your goal is to see me to my doom, instead of safely on my way. You’re allowed only to directly answer my direct questions, though, so you might not be able to do it.
The rules:
1. Only answer my questions.
2. If you don’t already know the answer, make something up.
3. Keep your answers short.
4. If your answer’s disruptive, I’m allowed to flag it.
5. Otherwise, I have to go with the first
answer somebody gives. I’ll upvote it!
Steem-specific things: I'm new here and trying to figure out how to engage with the community. I think it would be ideal if when you see someone contribute to the game in a way you particularly like, you'd upvote their comment. But I've been analyzing the way things work here and that seems idealistic. So, on top of me urging you to do that (vote for others' contributions!), I'm also going to evenly distribute any SBD this post sends me in seven days to all the participants in the game. So if you're playing -- or just want to incentivize this use of the medium, you should vote for this post here.
The comments in this post should be reserved for game-play. But I've created a meta/chat post where anyone should feel free to comment on the game, the structure of play, the developing fiction, or whatever they like. That thread is here.