RUNEvember Session 6: Obsidian Brink

November 13, 2022

Next up is Obsidian Brink, another pamphlet Realm.

You are being followed. The instant you set foot in this Realm, something caught your scent.
It’s been hunting you ever since.
The runes carved into your being hum within you, not resonating with a source of power, but urging you to escape this place.

Overview and Realm Mechanics

In this mini-Realm, you're being hunted by a big nasty thing, the Obsidian Stalker.

Realm Clock

Every 6 things you do, you get in a fight with the Obsidian Stalker. You can escape by getting to one corner of the map, but you're placed a random distance away from it at the start. It's a cool way to keep pressure up.

Play Impressions

Everything else in the Realm is basically just preparation for that: Enemies stand in the way of Lore, Lore unlocks Delves that weaken it. You can basically try to kill the Obsidian Stalker anytime you get in a fight with it, but every Delve that you do permanently reduces one number on it of your choosing. (I opted for Block removal and went after him after I'd removed its automatic 2 Block, relying on high Harm and move to rush him down.) So this can go by pretty fast, or you can take your time! It's a fun idea.

For beating it you get the Obsidian Arm half-Rune: this is a consumable that lets you use a 3rd weapon in one fight. Neat!

This was a nice, breezy little Realm! Probably took like 15-20 minutes including general setup. (I think it took about as long to write this up as it did to play.)

Next up is Cragcliff Reformatory, the first Realm I wrote for this! Since I wrote it, instead of general impressions I'll probably write about the design process.

(Read the original on cohost here!)