Reveal your Build
Your symbolic chart deals five elemental scores, three Natal cards, a secondary element and a weak element. It changes strategy—not real life.
HOW TO PLAY · GAMEPLAY V2
Life deals the hand.
You decide how to play it.
Read the Qi
Flow raises odds. Resonance strengthens a matching card. Defiance lowers odds but raises rewards. Element sequences trigger visible combos.
Play the hand
Your deck holds at most eight cards and your hand holds three. Play one card in a life scene or up to two against a Gate Boss.
Choose the reward
Each Gate has one life scene and one Boss encounter. Afterwards, draft a card, spend Resolve, refuse the reward for Fate, or leave a card behind.
THE THREE RESOURCES
Success and failure both create strategy.
RESOLVE
Earned through commitment and success. Spend 2 after a Gate to upgrade or recharge a card.
SCARS
Failure history, not currency. Thresholds at 2, 4 and 6 unlock Scar cards, stranger routes and recovery endings.
FATE
Rare. Spent by Defiance cards to break requirements, reach locked paths, or rewrite a rule.
EIGHT DIFFERENT GATES
IThe ThresholdDraft
IIThe ClimbMomentum
IIIThe WagerStake
IVThe PromiseBond
VThe CrownPower Cost
VIThe LedgerCompound / Protect
VIIThe TurningDeck Transformation
VIIIThe Last LightReflection · No RNG
FIVE-ELEMENT COMBOS
WATER→WOODReveal a route
WOOD→FIREReward surge
FIRE→EARTHStabilize risk
EARTH→METALWealth conversion
METAL→WATERAdapt the hand
THE LAST LIGHT
No roll. No card. One answer.
Your final value and the life you actually played determine a deterministic Life Title. The Memory Keeper then writes one cached biography; if AI fails, the ending still works.
DEAL MY HAND ↗