To Serve A Monstrous Empress: A Sacrifice • 2017 rpg

Four players: One Empress, four artificer-supplicants.

Bring: Tokens in three colors, four bowls, one bag.

The Empress is: (Circle four) 

Slick / Armored / Insectoid / Dead / Humanoid / Divine / Writhing / Bloody-tongued / Alien / Naked / Daemonic / Mechanical / Blind

Describe Her.

Each artificer-supplicant is: (Circle four)

Genderless / Desperate / Skilled / Secretly, Tremblingly In Love With The Empress

What you have left to give: Tokens: your VITALITY, SANITY, and DIGNITY.

One-by-one, in no order, snatch one token each--concealing them under your bowls--until each player has… seven? (Did you get one more? Glow with secret pride and shame.)

To embody the Empress first: sweep visible tokens into the bag.

AUDIENCE:

[No character speaks--make noises.

You’ll make ridiculously overwrought grimdark-ass gifts for the Empress, enhancing Her GRANDEUR, HORROR, and ALLURE.

Artificer-supplicants, simultaneously: prostrate yourselves. Gather tokens; raise this offering in your trembling hand. 

Players: each describe your offering: weapon, art-object, piece of yourself? (Yes.)

Empress: Take. Everything. Describe your treatment of the one artifact that best pleases you. Stroke its maker’s head.

Hurl tokens into the bag.]

Next: Embodiment of the Empress passes left. Another AUDIENCE. 

When you’ve nothing left to give: At last! FEED YOURSELF TO THE EMPRESS. How does this change Her? 

Play until only the Empress remains.