Krayol

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KRAYOL ATTRIBUTES

Level: 6
Laws: Exotic
Playable Species: Human paper dolls rendered in crayon by an inexpert hand
Foci: Any focus appropriate for Earth, including a character's original focus
Trait: Artistic. If the character spends a few minutes sketching, using one of their own fingers as a crayon, and succeeds on a difficulty 3 Intellect-based task, they can create a perfectly functional (for Krayol) level 2 object.

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What a Recursor Knows

Upon arrival via translation, a recursor knows the recursion's attributes as well as the following.

Krayol is an Exotic recursion, seeded by various stories about people entering paintings, crayon pictures, chalk drawings, and so on.
A child is sometimes seen wandering the streets: She Who Colors. She Who Colors, also called Amanda, controls the recursion like a god. Her tempers are as changeable as a sea drawn with tempest-teal and thunderhead-blue crayons.

A struggle for absolute power shakes the streets of Krayol, which would appear something like a large modern city, except for one thing. In Krayol, everyone and everything appears as two-dimensional articulated pieces of crayon-colored paper—rendered by a not particularly proficient hand—posed on a similarly two-dimensional cityscape background. The only recursor who has managed to escape describes the recursion as being a peaceful, childlike wonderland one moment, and a war-torn land of extreme brutality the next, where natives blithely shred and burn each other with psychopathic abandon.

Apparently, a child named Amanda, often seen wandering the streets, might be the creator of the recursion, thanks to an unrecognized power she possesses. She fell into one of her drawings one day while coloring in her notebook. Confused and lost, Amanda makes do as best she can, but she essentially has the powers of a god in Krayol. Crossing her is not something to undertake lightly. When natives bleed, the red goes outside the lines in a most unpleasant fashion.

A recursor might translate to Krayol to attempt to rescue Amanda from her self-created prison recursion.

Despite the faux 2-D appearance of the Krayol recursion, all objects, structures, and creatures within it follow the regular The Strange (Cypher System) rules, unless noted otherwise. PCs may feel weird, but they still have a sense of touch, ability to see, and so on.

class="critter">Paper velociraptor (3): level 4; Armor 1; bite deals 5 damage.

Paper T. rex: level 5, Speed defense as level 3 due to huge size

Paper flying saucer: level 5; flies a long distance each round; long-distance laser does 5 damage

Amanda: level 6 (in Krayol); can create any level 6 effect, object, or creature appropriate to Krayol as her action if she has a crayon and paper

Reuniting Amanda with her parents is the work of a couple of days of research on Earth, possibly requiring the use of Worlds Numberless and Strange. It's a tearful reunion, though her parents are stunned how their daughter has not aged a day in the years since she went missing in 2015.

GM Intrusion (group): An animated paper sedan, careening out of control as it races down the street in a panic, sideswipes a few of the PCs. Struck PCs take 5 damage and are flung a short distance by the impact, and those that fail a difficulty 4 Might defense roll descend one step on the damage track.