Wonderground · Life Ledger
You had a life before the Deal. Give it something worth risking.
Take it one section at a time. Write freely or edit a suggestion. You can move between sections, continue to Level One, and return to unanswered details.
0 answers recordedBefore the power
Describe the person first. Your Profession is what remains when the supernatural force is silent.
These are broad playtest frames, not a closed ancestry list. You choose your appearance, including the visibility and extent of any Grant-shaped change.
Choose a Profession from the suggestions, or describe your work and confirm its Profession in Level One.
The reason you could not stop
A proper Want has a visible ending. “Become powerful” is a direction; “bring my brother home alive” is a story.
The moment ordinary effort failed
The force is stronger than you, but it needs your hands, access, choices, or humanity. Its Grant begins your magic; later Power Development remains separate.
The identity the city learns
In the Wonderground, names are information, leverage, and sometimes property. Masks, codenames, uniforms, and cultivated identities are common precautions among the Granted.
Enter your exact codename, or use the suggestion to choose your ordinary name openly.
The self you intend to keep
Your Principle is not a purity test. It is the boundary the story is allowed to challenge.
The pressure inside the bargain
The Deal should help enough to be tempting and complicate enough to produce choices. Its terms create story pressure rather than automatic mechanical penalties.
The life outside the bargain
Your Anchor gives the GM a person or place worth protecting, as well as someone capable of noticing what the Deal is doing to you.
No one survives the Wonderground alone
Choose two different player characters during the crew-building round. The other player may revise anything written about their character.
Complete these connections together. If the other characters are not ready yet, leave these answers for the crew-building round and continue to Level One.
When is the arc complete?
Your story reaches its ending when your Want reaches its stated condition and you demonstrably uphold your end of the Deal. Whether your Principle survives determines what that ending means.