weave whimsical worlds

Start a story.
Your friends decide where it goes.

Write one line. fabyl turns it into a card — art, title, and a scrap of story. Then it's out of your hands.

A boy skipping stones across a park pond while a striped creature splashes its tail

skipping stones

Bruno found flat stones by the first pond. He skipped one, four hops. The creature slapped its tail against the water, splashing instead.

by anthony

Somebody else reads it, writes one line, and the story is no longer yours.

A stone statue of a woman rising from shallow pond water, the creature bowing its head

grandma in the lake

At the second pond, Bruno spotted a stone statue rising from shallow water. “Grandma Willow,” read the plaque. The creature bowed its head.

by will
SEE WHERE BRUNO ENDS UP Nine more cards. It ends with a zombie Harlem shake.

Then it branches

Two friends riff the same card and the story splits. Both are real. Nobody has to agree.

And it piles up

A few dozen cards in, it’s a world: names that keep coming back, places you recognize, a plot nobody planned.

Worlds people built this way

Grundurf’s Survival 5 cards · 2 people Devi’s Penguin Adventures 4 cards · 2 people Biscuit the Eldritch God 8 cards · 2 people Cormac’s Lisbon Adventures 6 cards · 4 people The Silent Lab Assistant 4 cards Churdswile’s Heroic Adventures 4 cards
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