The Hive Wood: old oaks in fog, roots, fallen leaves and a honeycomb in the grass.Debren: a hunched creature bristling with dry branches, its wooden mask split.

Ashword

Words against the plague

120damage

A folk-horror word roguelike. A creature stands on four letters, and you answer with a word.

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  1. DebrenThorny spirit of the thickets, guardian of the Hive Wood.
  2. Resists nounsThe Word hits him at half strength; the Arrow, weapon of adjectives, hurts him more.
  3. «К», the leadThe word must start with it.
  4. «Д», greenPut it in the word and the blow heals the hero for 48.
  5. «О», redThe blow hits ×1.5, but the creature strikes back for 63.
  6. «Л», the ×2 letterAnywhere in the word, it doubles the damage.
  7. Крокодил, crocodileA noun, so it strikes as the Word.
  8. How it adds up80 for length · ×2 for «Л» · ×1.5 for «О» · ×0.5 for noun resistance = 120.
Vershen, hooded, reads an open book; a burning lantern hangs from his hooked staff.
  1. The book of litanyThe word you type goes into the open book, and the litany’s light flies from it at the creature.
  2. Bone beadsBlessings that last the whole run.

What you strike with

Vershen, a fighting pastor, lifts the curse with words. The part of speech picks the weapon.

Wordnoun
A steady blow. Against a district’s master it gives you a free hint.
Swordverb
Red hits twice as hard, and the creature strikes back softer. Green heals less.
Arrowadjective
The ×2 letter becomes ×2.5, but the creature strikes back harder.

Length decides

  1. кот6
  2. книга20
  3. корабль56
  4. крокодил80

Damage for length alone, before the creature’s letters.

Masters of the districts

A creature is a person whose likeness the plague erased, and the right word brings them back. Each district ends with its master. The masters were once headmen and elders. People listened to them, and they went silent first.

A corduroy road across the Quagmire: wet logs run into fog between dry pines.

Morova Pazhit

  1. A marsh cult summoned a plague named Pepelitsa from under the earth.
  2. A person’s likeness is held together by words. Pepelitsa erases the words, and people turn into creatures.
  3. The governorate is sealed behind a cordon, but the plague could reach the whole world.
  4. Vershen walks from the cordon to the source and lifts the curse with words.
  5. Anomalies throw him from district to district, and at the Ashfield itself they cast him back to the edge. Each round, the plague grows fiercer.
The Raven on the striped cordon barrier, an anomaly glowing behind it.
The Raven sits on the cordon barrier. Behind it an anomaly trembles: one step in, and you are in the governorate.

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Platforms
iOS · Android
Publisher
Popiron, a one-person studio
Typefaces
Forum and Rubik, SIL Open Font License
Word lists
Wiktionary, OpenCorpora, wordfreq, CC BY-SA

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