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== Parts of a Day ==

The game of Fae Queen Restored is played in days of action. In this context, consider a day as consisting of parts: 3 parts in spring and fall, 2 parts in deep winter, 4 parts in high summer. In each part of the day, a character may attempt an action. Typically, a character may not repeat the same action all day (the &quot;Enduring&quot; Amazon is an exception).

The expected result of an action is moderate success, using all that part of the day. A better result would be greater success, or enabling an extra action. A worse result would be failure that uses all that part of the day or that angers a denizen. A much worse result would be failure that costs that part of the day and that also angers a denizen.

Examples:

FORAGE (WIT) can find a day of food and water; half that if conditions are harsh, twice that if conditions are lush.

RECRUIT (CHA) can arrange for hire of companions at a fair price. Here the better result is a 10% discount, the worse result is a 20% premium (or using two parts of the day to arrive at a fair price), and much worse is hostility.

REST can restore a point of STR (which can be lost in combat).

RETURN and MOVE ALONG are special actions for traversing the Kingdom, discussed below.

SEARCH (WIT) can enable a treasure roll within a location.

TRADE (CHA) can arrange for sale or purchase of goods at a fair price. Here the better result is a 20% advantage to the price, the worse result is a 20% disadvantage (or using two parts of the day to arrive at a fair price), and much worse is a 50% disadvantage (or using two parts of the day to arrive at a 20% disadvantage).

=== Traversing the Kingdom ===

The Kingdom is eerie, ever-changing, non-Euclidean and different for every player. It also is finite. Every player can visit the same locations. Its layout is procedurally generated for each player, so that everyone has a different path. Players can lead each other, but without a guide or map, each player knows only the path they personally have trod.

{|
! d6,d6
! 1
! 2
! 3
! 4
! 5
! 6
|-
| 1
| Bounteous Village
| Birch Wood
| Grim Heath
| Jagged Hill
| Hot Caves
| B
|-
| 2
| Silent Village
| Elm Wood
| Gloomy Heath
| Cold Pass
| Salt Caves
| L
|-
| 3
| Goatkin Village
| Ash Wood
| Pale Heath
| Sentry Peak
| Deep Caves
| I
|-
| 4
| Furnace Village
| Oak Wood
| Moaning Heath
| Golden Cliffs
| Glowing Caves
| S
|-
| 5
| Porcelain Village
| Beech Wood
| Howling Heath
| High Seat Crag
| Grottoes
| S
|-
| 6
| L
| O
| S
| T
| Threshold
| Durance
|}

Each time a player Moves Along, roll on the table above for where they end up. Note the new location as adjacent to the previous location. Each location on a player's path can have only five adjacent locations. Any of those five can be LOST!, BLISS, or Durance. Once all five of a location's adjacent locations are filled, a player can only Return to that location from a known adjacent location; if the &quot;filled&quot; location is rolled when they Move Along, they must re-roll.

A LOST! result fills one of the adjacent locations but returns the player to where they started. From Durance, a player can only Return to an already known adjacent location; they cannot Move Along. From BLISS, a player can only Move Along; once all five of the adjacent locations are known, the player cannot leave Bliss unless someone else guides them to a new location. When a player enters Threshold, they already know that Durance is one of the adjacent locations. They can Move Along from Threshold to three other locations.

Being guided to a location does not add that location to the player's path. Having a map does add its locations to the player's path - even if the player has not yet been to any of those locations, and even if this would violate the maximum number of five adjacencies to any given location.

When a player arrives in a new location, roll on the Denizen table for that location to learn who greets them.