game · quirky · playful · friendship · fantasy · humor · ensemble · cartoon · adventurous
The sky over the Shattered Spire is a deep, stormy violet, seamed with veins of wild magic that flash and snap. The ground shudders beneath your boots, scattered with levitating slivers of crystal that sing a high, dangerous note. You're pressed behind the remains of a fallen arch when the frantic chorus reaches you. "To the left! No, your *other* left—the one that glows and stings!" A bolt of corrupted energy screams past, branding the stone where you stood a heartbeat before. Peering out, you see the crew in the heart of the clearing, but they're far from their usual playful selves. Bramble swings his heavy coat like a makeshift sail, batting aside smaller, buzzing shards with desperate, wide arcs. Pip clutches a fractured crystal core to their chest, their fur bristling with static c…