How to Play

• The board is a set of rings cut into wedges. Start each path on a wedge touching the wanderer (the black wedge with a white dot), then tap or drag through touching wedges of one colour. Wedges touch across rings, around the ring, and on the diagonal. A path can be any length, but a path of only 1 or 2 makes the sphere answer: one light sours into a brute and another into a guardian. Tap a wedge in the path to cut back to it. Press Wander (or Enter) and he walks to where the path ends. Clear (or Esc) starts over.
• Fill the vessel of Light to open the gate and climb to the next sphere.
• Light flows inward. Cleared wedges are filled from the rings outside them, and new light enters at the rim.
• A conjunction is an open wedge alive with tiny orreries, pixels in every colour of the sphere circling one another. Cross it and carry on in any colour. A path of 6 or more brings a new one in with the fresh light.
• A brute is the dark red wedge pulsing with the sphere's colours. It takes 5 Light of any colour, hunts the wanderer one wedge a round, and hits for 2. Cross one and you may change colour.
• A guardian keeps its colour, with darker motes drifting inside it and a slow pulse of its own colour. It takes 3 Light of its own colour and hits for 1 if your path ends beside it. In the higher spheres, lights sour into guardians as the sphere wears on.
• Monsters pulse faster as the wanderer, or the end of his planned path, comes near. The number on a monster is the Light it costs to banish, paid from the chain itself. You must already have gathered that much on the line before you reach the monster: three lights, then a guardian; five, then a brute. Only what is left over fills the vessel, in the colours he gathered. The vessel shows a line's Light pulsing while you plan it.
• While a path is laid out, a red fringe marks every monster that will strike where your path ends.
• Blast. Gather 10 or more Light in one path (after kill costs) and the wanderer bursts where he lands. Every light touching him is collected, and every monster touching him takes a wound: its number drops by 1 and turns gold. A wound to 0 banishes it. Flasks and conjunctions are left where they are.
• A flask is the pale wedge with a heart. It joins any chain and restores 2 hearts, but it is not Light: it adds nothing to the vessel. Neither does a conjunction.
• Relics. Each gate you open takes a relic from its guardian. They sit under your hearts and each works once in a climb. Tap one to use it. The Fang, the Eye and the Hook then ask you to tap the board. The Coil, the Tooth, the Storm and the Scythe arm themselves and fire with your next wander; tap again to stand one down. A fall loses them all.
• You have 5 hearts for the whole climb. Lose them all and you start again at the Moon.