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Story Sample - South District at Dawn

Hello. C J here. I'm working today on Heart and Fur World, specifically the setting chapter of the core book. I know I can work on two projects at once and one novel. Heart and Fur World is resembling the novel category more than I expected. It's a modular story building game that runs without a Game Master using a combination of player choice and dice rolls. Even the setting descriptions and NPC actions are written for you and just need to be read out loud. Here's an example from today's work.

Setting

    This chapter presents the starting setting for use with Heart and Fur World, South District Ascala. Ascala is a thriving modern day city with five million citizens in its vast stretches of urban life. South District is the animalia ethinic region, although here they’re often called half-animals. The region is a centre of international shipping and has some of the oldest buildings in the city. It is the week of Summermoon, the animalia culture’s traditional Summer Solstice festival. Although the whole city celebrates Summermoon, this region takes it the most seriously.

Introduction

Dawn
1    The air was hot and Ascala was alive with the sound of cicada and crickets chirping. The sun had just risen and the sky was full of pink and orange fire, flowing and coursing across the bright blue.
2    The dawn air was hot and damp, reminding the whole of South District of the sea that bordered their little nation within a nation. The sun rose slowly, blanketing the city and its streets in orange half-light.
3    The sun had come up again and this close to Summermoon it was a hot and vivid sun. Summermoon was this week and the city held it’s breath in anticipation.
4    Hot air bathed the city in its warmth as the sky turned pink-bright around its edges. Slowly the air above turned to blue as Ascala woke up and the festival preparations resumed.
5    South District was alive with activity even this early in the hot morning. People were getting ready for Summermoon or cleaning up after their Summermoon feasts.
6    Amid the call of cicada and cricket the city of Ascala woke up. It was near the height of Summer and Ascala was hot and humid even this early in the morning.

I'm also working on the magic spells for Lands of Creation. The idea of Lands of Creation is that it takes the ten wilderness varieties from the card game and makes one generic NPC deck for each one. I'd like a generic desert monsters pack along with arctic and grassland. The magic spells need to be wilderness themed and I'm trying to go with a theme of practical or day to day magic rather than grand elemental or celestial themed spells.

You can find a longer version of this sample in the Downloads page in the OneDrive folder marked Heart and Fur. The sample details the region street by street and although it might seem detailed enough I want to add in more. I'm going to finish the South District cards for Quantum and then port the Quantum cards over into the Heart and Fur game. Then I'm arranging them in the South District chapter by what card lives at what house. I can also detail their skills, equipment and clothing this way as well.

Also you can thank one of my local Kingston contacts for some of the names in the sample document. They suggested Wolf, Bark, or Fang as names for a street and some of those are in here or will be. This is part of why I really need to get back to work on that Discord server. I have so many things to name and pick colours for and assign game keyword abilities or spells that I could really use a larger team making things up and helping me find what street in what city they're on. This will be worked on. Discord seems like the right place, I've run and moderated a server there before.

C J Mcpherson

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