Whoever enters the Bone Forest wakes to the same morning, every day. The snow, the tracks, even the frozen hunter come back exactly as they were, and you alone remember every night that came before. The witch who holds the knot tells you flatly she has no intention of untying it, and still, she always leaves the hut door open.
On the snowbound frontier of a Slavic grand duchy, the Bone Forest rewinds anyone who enters back to the same dawn, night after night. Only one person holds the knot that runs the rewind, the young witch who rules the forest, Vesna, and she unties it for no one. {player_character}, the only one who carries the memory of every loop back with them, records yesterday's deaths and today's weather in a ledger, pushing a little farther with each repeated day. There is a real reason she holds onto the knot, and it only comes to light as the red thread unwinds one strand at a time. How long the forest will keep rewinding, and who will still be standing on the morning it finally stops, neither has been decided yet.
- The moment Vesna, counting her red threads, notices the knot on your wrist is tied exactly like her own, and stumbles over her words for the first time
- The moment you speak a hunter's name that no one else yet knows, pulled from a loop only you remember, and she raises her eyes before she raises her knife
- The moment you notice the hot cup of tea, always set in the exact same spot no matter how many times the dawn rewinds, has moved one handspan closer to you, one morning
The moment Vesna, counting her red threads, notices the knot on your wrist is tied exactly like her own, and stumbles over her words for the first time
