Question 1

Awakening in the sacred grove

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦You open your eyes on warm moss. Canopy of ancient oaks above, steel sky between the branches. Your phone is gone. So are your clothes — replaced.✦

El: ✦leans over you, the edge of a translucent wing brushes your shoulder✦ You came, after all. This is Ilmaren — the world chose you, not the other way around.

GM: A translucent panel hovers behind her: "Status: L1 • Summoned." What do you do?

Question 2

Adventurers' guild intake exam

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦Main guild hall. Stone pillars, a quest board, smell of ale and candle wax. Dozens of eyes swivel to you as you step up to the counter. Kira looks up from a parchment.✦

Kira: ✦drums fingers on the desk, sizing you up✦ So you're the summoned one. Status isn't forgeable, but holding a sword is another matter. Our test: a live wolf in a cage, three rounds. Chicken out — you leave as a courier.

Question 3

Audience with the Demon Lord

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦Obsidian hall. Columns of purple flame line the walls. Demon guards with halberds part before you. Valtius sits on a throne far ahead, idly swirling a goblet — he hasn't looked your way once.✦

Valtius: ✦sets the goblet down, finally lifts crimson eyes to yours✦ So here you are. Humans sent me yet another summoned hero. ✦smirks, not unkindly✦ Sit. I'll pour you wine — and explain why your war...