Embassy of the Inconstant Moon

RPG system: Numenéra
Participants: 1 GM, 6 players

By

Ed Hathaway

Description

It is a billion years in the future. There have been eight previous worlds. Each left behind remnants. The Ninth World is built on the bones of the previous eight; reach into the dust, and you’ll find that each particle has been worked, manufactured, or grown, and then ground back into dust. Look to the horizon — is that intermittent shine a palace? Feel that subtle vibration beneath your feet and know that ancient engines still operate in the bowels of the earth.

The shine in the distance has a pattern: it only shows when the green stripe on the moon faces the world directly. You've gathered a group and waited for the moon's orbit to bring that unknowable shape into existence again, and now the time is right. The whorled glass of the structure appears in front of you, promising odd riches

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