The Incomplete Rite
This is a narrative-first game of Index Card RPG set in the world of Deviara. Storium is used only for the writing. All mechanical resolution (rolls, Hearts, Effort, Targets, loot, and encounters) is handled in a separate browser companion app. The Narrator will post structured scene blocks. You copy them into the app, resolve your action, and paste the result at the end of your move.
Only one Storium card matters.
Your Nature card is your race. Everything else (Strengths, Weaknesses, Subplots, Assets, Wild cards) is ignored. You do not play cards. You write what your character does.
How Index Card RPG works
- Room Target: One number for the whole scene (usually 10–12). All your rolls try to meet or beat it. Easy is Target − 3. Hard is Target + 3.
- Stats: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma. Add the relevant one to a d20.
- Check: d20 + stat vs Room Target. Success or failure only.
- Attempt: Same roll. On a success you also roll Effort (progress or damage).
- Effort dice: Basic (d4), Weapon (d6), Magic (d8), Ultimate (d12 on a natural 20 or special case).
- Hearts: 1 Heart = 10 HP. You start with 1 Heart (10 HP). Monsters and obstacles have Hearts.
- Armor: Only player characters have Armor (starts at 10). Monsters roll against your Armor to hit you. You always roll against the Room Target to hit them.
- Turns: You move and take one action. The Narrator handles monsters, the world, and any timers.
- You grow stronger through loot and what you find, not traditional levels.
Player guide (using the app)
https://sky-lunar-nova-earth.grok.me
- Load your character in the app (Player mode). Your Nature card determines your race.
- When the Narrator posts a scene block (Target, enemies, timer, etc.), copy the whole block.
- Paste it into the app and press Read paste.
- Choose your action, the enemy if any, your stat, and whether it is a Check or Attempt. Mark Easy or Hard if told.
- Roll. On a successful Attempt the app applies Effort.
- Copy the result block.
- Write your move in Storium as normal. Paste the result at the end.
- Update your sheet if HP, loot, or other details changed.
You never write the scene block. You only copy it from the Narrator and return the result.
How this story is run
There is one human player and one Narrator-controlled character: Paige Turner, a young Monsterblood grimoire mimic (about twelve). She can eat grimoires and tomes to store and cast their spells. She was born in a dungeon and wants to fill her pages.
You begin as the intended sacrifice in a cult rite inside that same dungeon. Paige wanders in and eats the grimoire mid-ritual. The unfinished rite binds the two of you. You cannot move more than roughly 100 meters apart without severe pain, and you cannot break the binding yourselves. The cult wants you alive to finish the sacrifice and wants the pages now inside Paige (they do not need her alive for that). The Red Academy holds a counter-rite. You start far to the east on Phiya. The journey across the island, the ocean, and into the Crownlands is the story. You will not reach the Academy until the final scene.
The Narrator writes the world, the cult, the monsters, and the outcomes. Paige is played by the Narrator but is a character with her own limits. She does not solve problems for you. Write your character’s actions and dialogue. The app handles the numbers.
If you are ready, load a character whose Nature card is the race you want to play, and we will begin in the Hollow Vault.
Hosted and narrated by:
Tyurru
Started 10/24/26.
Scenes played: 0
License: Community License
