Frozen Over

Yule 2024 Edition

You, a student of Stateri Mundi University, have been getting strange visions and letters… There are people, hoarse and desperate, calling out to you from within a storm of ice and wind. They’re in need of help… but who are they? And why was everything so cold? The Spirits offered no answers. Only a direction. And before you could speak, the world around you dissolved.

Where are you?
Why is everything frozen?
Who needs your aid?
Whatever is happening, you’d better act fast, before the cold takes everything.

You arrived with new and old faces all around, only to stumble into the courtyard of a rough cottage sealed in frost. Snow fell soundlessly, thick and relentless. Everything, the trees, the stone, even the statues, was frozen solid. And then something moved. Creatures, once alive, now locked in ice, stirred and cracked open with eerie grace. They attacked without mercy.

Inside the house, warmth flickered but barely held. The inhabitants, frightened and trembling, spoke of two shrines, each dedicated to Spirits in conflict. One called for fire. One demanded acceptance. Both desired sacrifice. The Spirits are not clear. Their altars glow with strange energy. Something must be given, but what? And will they truly help if fed? Or are they using you?

The students must decide who to trust, what to give… and whether the manor’s people can be saved from becoming frozen relics themselves.

By dawn, the winds had stilled. The manor breathed again. Heat had returned. But at what cost? And which Spirit now holds more power?