I've been wanting to get stuck into a Starforged game for a long time, my wife is traveling, and I'm lonely and bored. So let's start a solo text-based actual play on cohost!
Like the title says, I plan to do this thing one Move a night. Starforged is a very Move-dense PBTA(ish) game, so I think it will be a good fit. I was gonna call it One Roll a Night, but then I realized that would likely mean many instances of making a Move then having to wait 24 hours to interpret the results with an Oracle roll, and I am simply not that patient.
Now let's start at the start, Choosing Your Truths. Starforged presents 14 of these categories, which means we'll have ourselves a Galaxy of Adventure all crisped up and ready to go in two weeks. Neat!
Cataclysm Roll: 64
"Interdimensional entities invaded our reality"
It's time to find out how we got to this distant galaxy called The Forge! It's a very serious sounding name, compared to The Milky Way!! Let's roll on a table already!!!
Exodus Roll: 82
"Mysterious alien gates provided instantaneous one-way passage to the Forge."
We know why we came to The Forge and how we got here. Now how have we clung together since then, and what have we built?
Communities Roll: 80
"We have made our mark in this galaxy, but the energy storms we call balefires threaten to undo that progress, leaving our communities isolated and vulnerable."
My ISP is having an outage in this area so I'm hotspotting from my phone to my desktop write this! Because I want to use my nice keyboard instead of the phone screen!! Oh gosh we'd better find out what the deal is with all this Iron people swear oaths on PDQ
Iron Roll: 37
"Iron vows are sworn upon totems crafted from the enigmatic metal we call black iron."
I know it's just good game design but it's starting to feel spooky how well some of these themes and recurring elements are lining up.
The description adds that black iron was "first forged by a long-dead civilization" and it's "attuned to the hidden depths of the universe." This has gotta be the same stuff that mysterious pillar on the moon was made out of, right? Our earthly metallurgists had never seen anything like it, but they started to experiment on it and figure out some of its properties. Maybe that's what drew in the Knuckles' Chaotix...
Yeah, the black iron is definitely tied to the Chaotix and the balefires somehow. I bet if you could make an anchor out of some... OK I should really stop draining my data now. Let's find out what the Laws are like around here tomorrow.