Tuesday, May 10, 2022

The Green Ghost and the Night Star


 


The Green Ghost and the Night Star


During a time of stress and strife the green ghost a appeared in the nigh sky. It was a point of unseeable darkness surrounded by a green glowing cloud. Some pointed telescopes at the sky and called it a comet. For most it just felt like a nightmare. 


In its wake the dark became the nightmare, as creatures of myth and legend, or at least the darkest of them, crawled out of abandoned places, holes in the ground, and cracks in our minds. The impossible became possible, and we lived as if damned.

One year later another apparition appeared in the sky. This comet was brilliant white, and as it bore down on the earth it cast a cold radiance. The astrologers with their crude instruments were baffled, as it acted as if were made of pure light, with no mass, but moved like a slow astronomic body. Rather than hit the earth it passed around it thrice and streaked off into the wake of the green ghost.

Then came the Exemplars. Men and woman, and sometimes beings as if from a fairy tale, who raised arms and arts against the Ghost-spawn. The impossible became possible, and and we cheered.

In the hundred years that followed many exemplars arose and died, but the nights became safe. Now there are few Goblins in the night and few Exemplars in the day, and the world has found its new normal.

Still sometimes the world needs a hero. Be our hero Exemplar.




Ok, cheesy I know, but game writing doesn't have to be brilliant. I doesn't have to be perfect. It has to be engaging and above all it should be brief. Exposition isn't as interesting as game writers seem to think it is. Above is a perfectly good lead up for a fantasy or steam punk game to explain hero's and monsters. I may even use it.


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