NINJA WORLD

The long way round

You wake with no name worth keeping and fifty ryō. Everything after that is earned — by walking, by hunting, by learning a trade well enough that somebody pays you for it.

道A WORLD YOU CROSS ON FOOT

Two thousand hexes of fog, ten villages, thirteen dungeons. Marches take real minutes: set off, put the phone down, come back to find out what happened. Walk far enough from a village and the ground turns crimson, and crimson means it.

戦FIGHTS YOU CAN READ

Every fight opens hands-only, so farming costs you nothing but breath. Flip to the Art when the boar turns out to be something worse. Up to three at once, each drawn on the field — lunges, cuts, a bolt crossing the ground, bodies that fall where they die.

炉SIX TRADES THAT ARE TRADES

Skinning, tanning, leatherworking, cooking, alchemy, smithing. A pelt comes off an animal, at the animal, with the knife you happen to be carrying — and it is a green hide until you have put it through the racks.

術ARTS WITH A LEDGER

Sixty-one jutsu across five natures, an arts tree that gates what your hands can do, and a mastery ledger that sharpens a technique for throwing it. Every jutsu has a card that tells you what it is worth in your hands.

村A VILLAGE YOU WALK

The hub is the village itself. You stand at the gate; tap the tavern, the forges, the market, and your ninja walks there down the street. Where you left them is where they are when you come back.

影OTHER PEOPLE, LIGHTLY

Open the map and you may see another walker's pin. Report anyone, block anyone — a block hides them everywhere, not only on ground you have already walked.