#quest ttrpg

...and what will be the price i pay?

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A man stands in the woods, looking down in horror. He has messy, long black hair and wears a scarf.

A square panel is split in two: the man’s horrified face, and the stump he is looking at. An axe is embedded in it and it is bleeding red blood

A profile of the same man, horrified and set against a black background. Text reads: “my father was a woodcutter.”

Hands snapping an axe in two. Text reads: “but he abandoned the axe the day he saw magic.”

The man stands in the doorway of a log cabin. He says: “I have seen the veins of the world, and now I cannot bear to strike true. The Redwoods will be farmers from this day on. We will feed the Earth with the blood we have shed.”

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A child sits on grass, focusing on a mound of dirt. Text reads: “what he couldn’t unsee, he bestowed upon me. What he failed to notice, I observed.”

A sprout from the dirt mound pops up. In contrast to the monochrome world, it is bright green. Text reads: “I learned if I gave a little something, the world would give back in return.”

A panel of the child, now a teen with long hair, tending to a raised garden of green cabbages in xyr wheelchair. Bits of grass is embedded in xyr hair. Text reads, “I gave bits of myself away to feed my community,”

Text reads, “later, bits of myself to tend to the queen’s gardens.” A panel of the teen with xyr hair in a bun, leaves embedded throughout it now. Xe prunes a green bush.

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The teen is now an adult, xe bows and looks up at a figure off screen as a branch touches xyr shoulder. Red petals and a green leaf is embedded in xyr hair. Text reads: “I am named the Tender of the Last House’s living Throne, the same branch of the stump touches me as it touched my father, and I wonder…”

My name is Rue Cosmos, and I am an indie game dev working on text adventures, roleplaying games, and supplemental content for other games.

My current main project is Nest Realm, a buggy ttrpg which has its own blog @nest-realm-ttrpg (the page is still a wip and rebranding still needs to be settled). I am also working on small projects that are supplemental rules, roles, and items for games like Quest and Wanderhome.

This blog will host Q&As, game and progress updates, and polls for public content. You can find my itch.io page here.

Another party member in my game of Quest, commissioned by our dear Finnegan the Moray Eel druid. He’s here to steal your heart and your gold.