between the psychics and the calvary and the monks

Scenario introduction:

Your gang of songbirds journeyed to the Third of the Seventeen True Mountains of the realm to participate in a ritual of Emerald purification under the conditions of the full moon. Upon completion, you stay for a while in the mountain temple-village, resting and planning your next move.

As your planned day of departure draws near, the town watch delivers dire news: from the north, a regiment of the Sun King Enhanced Mobile Calvary
marches up the mountain. From the south, a squad of the Queen’s Psychonauts. The only way you see out of the mountains is through. The villagers and monks grow anxious, moving around in seemingly irrational ways. Within the mountain, something seems to stir. How will you get out of this one?

Game system intro:

Once upon a time, two gods lived together in our sky: the god of love and the god of death. Two great and powerful foxes who danced as one. Until one day, in a fit of jealous rage, the god of love was killed and fell from the sky. Now there is but one god. Our sorrowful and tired god who sleeps inside the moon. The dead rise and wander under her crescent glow. Ghosts remain where flesh once was. Bones refuse to settle. Spirits twist and churn into beasts, destroying all in their path, seeking an end to their suffering. No one prays, for they fear what shall happen when she wakes. Sometimes those that die return intact. Chosen by Love, some clamor. Cursed by Death, bemoan others. They are changed strange by their liminality. Mutated. Made supernatural. Gifted with otherworldly power. They are the canary in the coal mine of the moon’s nightmare. The only hope for a spirit to join the moon in her slumber. Songbirds.

You have died and risen again as a Songbird. Soon you find yourself among kindred company, but your band of Songbirds is no ordinary one, and you are fated to have your destinies deeply entwined with those of Queens and Kings and The Moon.

About the session

The game returns so i guess it is actually an open table game of Songbirds! This time is more of a sandpit scenario, so come ready for creative problem solving and roleplaying! Returners and new players welcome. As an open table game there is a persistent story and world across sessions but each session is self-enclosed as a oneshot.