LONG FAREWELL

PLEADERS | Q, K
WEATHER NOTE: before deciding on pleader’s story check what potions you can make.
1 gentle sunbeams light drizzle 4
In a hut among trees and marshes, away from settlements, you live one with ♠ Q 1 musician 2 covered in scars 3 fraud 4 writer 5 undead 6 merchant
2 overcast wind blowing 5
nature around you. You weren’t always alone; not so long ago there also ♣ Q 1 thief 2 golem 3 farmer 4 ex prisoner 5 hermit 6 vagrant performer
have lived your mentor but now they are gone. Death is not something 3 swirling mist fresh and chilly 6
unheard of, but this one was too sudden, too soon. ♥ Q 1 talking animal 2 lord 3 smith 4 holy fool 5 pilgrim 6 grave digger
Witches need special parting rite that you are unprepared to do: you need to ♦ Q 1 parent 2 withered 3 villager 4 soldier 5 forgotten god 6 sculptor
improve in brewing potions and collect Mementos from people who come CARDS MEANINGS ♠ K 1 dancer 2 astronomer 3 community pillar 4 outcast 5 thug 6 ghost
to you for help. DAY IN, DAY OUT DECK | 5, 6, A, J, Q, K
♣ K 1 hunter 2 royalty 3 hauntingly beautiful 4 librarian 5 baker 6 beggar
INGREDIENT GATHERING | 5, 6
WHAT YOU NEED TO PLAY Draw dominoes from the bag, their amount is equal to the value of the card.
♥ K 1 tailor 2 wealthy 3 changed by magic 4 priest 5 youth 6 runaway
You need paper, pen, deck of playing cards without jokers, six-sided die and ♦ K 1 nature spirit 2 fake oracle 3 elderly 4 cutthroat 5 bride 6 teacher
If there’s not enough dominoes put discarded ones back in the bag.
double-six domino set. Check Ingredients table for further details. TENDING TO THE MENTOR’S GRAVE | A
Check the following table for an encounter. What was the first potion your mentor taught you?
HOW TO PLAY ♠5 ♣5
♠A
What magical skills do you have? How do you plan to hone them?
PREPARATION You see bear cubs lost and scared and There are dark blurred figures near a Why have you lived with your mentor and not parents?
♣A
alone. You go with them asking lake. You come closer, slowly, and Do you want to move to another place? Why?
Split the deck in three parts: Day In, Day Out (5, 6, A, J, Q, K), Troubles (2,
squirrels and birds about their mother, they disappear as if never existed. It’s What do you miss about them the most?
3, 4) and Mementos (7, 8, 9, 10). Put dominoes in a bag. Draw four tiles. ♥A
fearing that some hunter could’ve a good thing to pay them a tribute, so What worries do you have about your future?
 Day In, Day Out deck has different types of cards: Ingredient gathering (5,
hurt her. Turns out she is fine and well. you lay a slice of bread down on grass. What do you wish you told them but didn’t? Why?
6), Omens (J), Tending (A) and Pleaders (Q, K). ♦A
 Day in, day out deck is used for daily events. ♥5 ♦5 What people or creatures do you want to meet?
 Troubles deck is used to get prompts for pleader’s stories or meanings You almost step into a trap, but As you go deeper into the woods
behind omens. Pleaders are people in need of your aid. piercing birds’ chirp warns about the sounds around you become quieter, MEMENTOS DECK | 7, 8
 Mementos deck is used to generate Mementos, things that are left by danger. It’s not the first trap for you till all you hear is silence. You feel
pleaders in a payment for your help. They hold important memories of their Thing that holds important memory of its owner.
to disarm as hunters sometimes step someone’s presence; it’s not hostile
owners. in this part of the woods, but usually though. Unknown creature follows 7 watch, ribbon or ring 9 dried flower, pebble or seashell
 Dominoes represent rare magical ingredients used for brewing potions. you are much more cautious. you some more and then goes away. 8 chainlet, book or drawing 10 strand of hair, letter or feather
♠6 ♣6 …with memory full of: ♠ fear ♥ joy ♣ guilt ♦ hope.
RULES What memory does it hold for the pleader?
First you hear mesmerizing warble, Traveller in worn-down clothes sits
Roll on the Weather table only if you want weather prompt. Draw a card and only then notice the bird. It looks on a sheared tree. They are lost and
from Day In, Day Out deck. Consult corresponding tables. as if made of flames and ashes, and, don’t know how to find a way out TROUBLES DECK | 2, 3, 4
Roll on the Weather table, again, if you want to. Draw next card. during especially intricate part of its from the woods, so you point towards
 If you’ve got Pleader card roll d6 to choose exact pleader. song, the tree nearby starts to burn. the nearest town and escort them to Prompts: reason why pleader came to you or meaning behind an omen.
To get a prompt for their story draw a card from Troubles deck. Decide on You put out the fire with your magic. the well-trodden path. ♥ Heart ♦ Fortune
what led them to you and what they need. ♥6 ♦6 Love, cherished people, life, health, Luck, success, power, reputation,
Then brew them potion(s) if you can. If you don’t have enough ingredients emotions, joy, celebration influence, money, connections.
you cannot help them. Myriads of white moths paste all over You see a majestic deer with big
Think how pleader’s life would change. an ancient oak. Their wings faintly branching horns. It calmly looks at ♠ War ♣ Tome
Mark your progress in the brewing skill. glow in the forest duskiness, and with you, then turns its head as if pointing War, any conflict, either internal or Knowledge, memories, connection to
If you were able to help draw a card from Mementos deck - that’s their each second the tree becomes dryer somewhere. You go the way the deer external, tribulations, calamities. the past, secrets, learning, skills.
payment. Consult the Mementos table for further details. and darker. You chase the moths showed you and find some of the
2 Death 3 Map 4 Sunset
away. ingredients you are looking for.
Death, end, results, Search, chase, hunt, Disappearance, loss,
END OMENS | J
harvest, purge, freedom, investigation, discovery, vanishing, declining,
When you acquire the Flower rank, needed ingredients for the rite potion and ♠J You see light pillars …and decide to look up the meaning renewal. plan, goal, ambition. scarcity, change.
four Mementos, perform the Parting Rite. ♣J You see mock suns behind it (draw from Trouble deck).
If you run out of Ingredient gathering cards and out of ingredients just draw Consider omens when you meditate
as many dominoes as you need. ♥J You encounter ball lightning on your future or create pleader’s
The end. ♦J You see solar eclipse stories.
 RECIPES SEEDLING RANK
side with any number, blank side
blank side of a domino tile
included
To brew a potion you need to arrange domino tiles as it’s shown in the
brings rain restores memories
following tables.
Touching ends of the tiles must have same numbers, except for the tiles with sum 6-11 sum 9-14
a blank side, the blank side could touch any number. clears skies makes everyone forget you
Sum of tiles’ numbers must be within indicated range.
sum 12-18 sum 15-21
Potion made with three ingredients can have two effects if they fit
requirements.
For example this potion has two effects: it changes
appearance and lifts curses. puts under control finds the lost
Seedling rank allows you to brew potions with two ingredients and also opens sum 12-17 sum 15-20
access to new recipes.
animates object uncovers the truth
Used tiles must be discarded.
sum 18-24 sum 21-27
SPROUT SEEDLING SPROUT SEEDLING

teaches new skill shows future

BREWING POTIONS sets silence calms spirits sum 18-23 sum 21-26
SKILL PROGRESSION sum 3-10 sum 3-6 sum 5-12 sum 5-8 instills fake memory blesses with luck
Each time you make a potion you mark one square. makes plants grow faster allows to perceive ghosts sum 24-30 sum 27-33
You start at the Sprout rank. You need 4 marks to reach the Seedling rank and sum 11-17 sum 7-9 sum 13-19 sum 9-11
8 marks to reach the Flower rank. lures animals expels demons
You may brew several potions for each pleader.
sum 18-25 sum 10-13 sum 20-27 sum 12-15
PARTING RITE
rank sprout seedling flower  Rite potion recipe. It’s needed for calming witch’s soul
and allowing it to leave to the afterlife.
brewing potions
Put four Mementos on the grave.
improves physical abilities heals injuries Recall memories that are connected with your mentor corresponding to the
INGREDIENTS Mementos. So if the Memento has joyful memory recall joyful memory.
sum 7-14 sum 7-10 sum 9-16 sum 9-12 Pour the rite potion on the grave.
Ingredients are rare magical things that are represented here by domino tiles.
You choose what part of a plant you take. changes appearance lifts curses And lastly, say your farewell.
0 means blank side. sum 15-21 sum 11-13 sum 17-23 sum 13-15
0|0 starlight blueberry 1|4 cloudy cottongrass 3|5 bloodsucking wasp heightens senses cures diseases
0|1 blood cranberry 1|5 golden buttercup 3|6 dryad grasshopper sum 22-29 sum 14-17 sum 24-31 sum 16-19
0|2 amber knotberry 1|6 angel’s bridewort 4|4 blooming bracken
0|3 unicorn’s cowberry 2|2 copper roll-rim 4|5 flesheating lichen
0|4 moon crowberry 2|3 ghost puffball 4|6 weeping moss uncovers others’ thoughts soothes soul
0|5 crown barberry 2|4 twinkling inky cap 5|5 swirling hazel sum 11-18 sum 11-14 sum 13-19 sum 13-16
0|6 ruby stone bramble 2|5 solar honey fungus 5|6 deathless chestnut grants mesmerizing voice elicits untamable emotion(s)
1|1 freezing cornflower 2|6 roving morel 6|6 malachite fir sum 19-25 sum 15-17 sum 20-26 sum 17-19
1|2 drowsy setwall 3|3 flamy moth weaves illusions removes addictions
1|3 fogbow iris 3|4 serpent dragonfly sum 26-33 sum 18-21 sum 27-33 sum 20-23