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The caravan across the salt flats: an AI fantasy text RPG

Ten days of desert. A chest nobody may open. And riders who want it.

Illustration of The caravan across the salt flats: Ten days of desert. A chest nobody may open. And riders who want it.

How your story begins

The White Salt Road

You stand in the caravan’s middle wagon on the White Salt Road, a salt flat so broad the horizon looks scraped clean. Beyond it lies the city of a hundred towers, where you are bound as a sellsword in the caravan’s pay; behind you, riders have followed for three days, their dark specks never quite swallowed by the glare. Ahead, the iron chest rides chained between sacks of grain, and its whisper slips through the wagon boards though no one stands near enough to speak.

Your first move: tap one, or type your own.

Play The caravan across the salt flats free

No account, no card. Your first five turns start at once.

How it plays

Real dice

When it gets risky you throw a d20 yourself. The game shows what you need and what is at stake.

Danger that ticks

Threats grow as time passes and when you fail. When the clock is full, the consequence stays.

A world that remembers

Your items, money, wounds and the map are kept by the rules, not by the storyteller's memory.

People with a memory

Who trusts you, who owes you, whose patience runs out: it counts when you try to persuade them.