Pass of Embers

Every route across the Pass of Embers is different. Every stop can be the one that breaks your wagon for good. You're running a trading caravan through mountains watched over by carved stone dragons, and the road ahead splits into five kinds of trouble: - Forge: push the heat into the sweet spot, land three hammer strikes on a moving target, then time the quench before the blade ruins itself. - Arch of Aim: pull the catapult taut and let go at the right strength to put a stone through the ring. - Falling Goods: keep the basket under the coins and gems, and dodge the falling sparks. - Sorting: read the crate's color and steer it into the matching cart before it hits the ground. - Display: swap tiles on the market stall until the layout matches the sample, before the clock runs out. Clear a stop and you pocket some embers. Clear it without a single slip and a scale token drops too. Miss three stops and the wagon gives out. The run ends there, but whatever you've earned stays earned. Make it to the end of the route and you roll into town with everything you banked along the way. The run itself is only half of it. The Guild Ledger turns embers and scale tokens into wagon upgrades, new stations to run, harder tiers of the pass, and cosmetics nobody but you will notice. None of it resets when a run does. Between stops, the wagon rolls, sways, and creaks its way down torch-lit switchbacks, past dragon statues worn smooth by however many caravans made this same run before yours.