The City of Motion

a storygame for four players over three sessions of two hours

Years after the Fall, the Singer established the City of Motion over the metropolitan ruins that perch on the back of the Walker.

At its founding, Motion consisted of a grand constitution, the Singer themself, and their child the Prodigal, who was banished from the moving city to the Wastes below in their youth.

With time, more families have been Lifted from the Wastes onto the the back of the Walker, and convinced to join the ambitiously titled ‘city’. Motion now thrives as a community of a few hundred, scattered upon a structure that once housed hundreds of thousands.

The Singer feeds Motion: their songs operate the incom- prehensible and increasingly inefficient infrastructure of the Walker.

The Hunter protects Motion: their competence standing between the people of the city and a myriad of pre- and post-Fall dangers.

But now, as the Singer is dying and the Hunter finds evidence of an imminent Threat to Motion, the Prodigal has returned from exile. In the company of a strange, seemingly sentient Remnant of the Time before the Fall: the Stranger...