An eight-foot visitor of smoked glass has come down in a Saskatchewan canola field, and it speaks only in pieces of old radio broadcasts. Or arrive after 211 years in space to find a city already built on your island. The storyteller plays the stranger by its own logic, and LoreWeaver remembers what you taught it and what it asked of you.
Te Vaka · Final approach
A voice from the island
“Te Vaka, this is the island. Welcome. We’ve kept a landing pad clear for you for eighty years, and there’s the small matter of a lease.”
The short answer
LoreWeaver is built for first contact stories that last longer than one chat. Describe how your alien’s body works and how it talks on a lore card, and the storyteller reads that card whenever the creature is named, so it stays strange in the same way from one scene to the next. Memories keep the words you have traded and the promises made on both sides. It is free to start, with 20 replies in any community world before you need an account and 25 premium replies a day on the free plan.
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Alien on LoreWeaver
Lore cards
Describe how your species senses the world and what it will never do on a lore card. The card joins the reply whenever the creature or one of its tags comes up, so a visitor that cannot lie, or cannot see red, is played that way scene after scene.
Memory
Every 4 replies the story saves what happened as memories, and recall finds them by meaning, wording, and who is in the scene. When your visitor uses a phrase you taught it weeks ago, the storyteller knows where it came from.
The Loom
Hiding a visitor in the barn? The Suspicion Meter rises each time you lie or sneak and falls when you have a good alibi. If it tops out, your cover is blown and the story brings the consequences in at once.
Pictures
On Pro, turn on scene pictures in the world’s settings, then switch the composer to See and LoreWeaver paints the moment you are in. Put a picture on your alien’s lore card in the Character category, and each painting starts from it so the creature looks like itself.
Branches
First contact can turn on one line. Branch the story from any message to see where a different answer leads, and the branch tree shows how each version split from the first.
World builder
Describe it in a sentence, such as a mining crew that hears knocking inside an asteroid, and the world builder writes the premise, the people and places as lore cards, who you play, and the opening scene.
Openings
“The alien ambassador asked for one human to live aboard its ship for a year. The lottery picked me, a night-shift baker from Leeds.”
Build this world: The alien ambassador asked for one human to live aboard its ship for a year. The lottery picked me, a night-shift baker from Leeds.“Something under the ice near our moon base has started tapping back, in the same rhythm we use for roll call.”
Build this world: Something under the ice near our moon base has started tapping back, in the same rhythm we use for roll call.“I am the first of my kind to visit Earth, and everything I know about humans comes from forty years of cooking shows.”
Build this world: I am the first of my kind to visit Earth, and everything I know about humans comes from forty years of cooking shows.“My new flatmate says she’s from Lisbon, but she sleeps standing up in the bath, and the cat won’t go near her.”
Build this world: My new flatmate says she’s from Lisbon, but she sleeps standing up in the bath, and the cat won’t go near her.“We crash-landed on a planet the survey called empty. By morning someone had stacked our scattered cargo in neat piles and left a pot of warm soup.”
Build this world: We crash-landed on a planet the survey called empty. By morning someone had stacked our scattered cargo in neat piles and left a pot of warm soup.“My job is to sit with the visitor eight hours a day and teach it what a joke is. On day ninety it told one, and only I understood it.”
Build this world: My job is to sit with the visitor eight hours a day and teach it what a joke is. On day ninety it told one, and only I understood it.Kindred stories
FAQ
Yes. Make your persona the visitor, or start a world where the player is the one who landed, and the storyteller plays the humans trying to work you out. Your biology and your customs can each have a lore card.
Put its rules and a handful of sample phrases on a lore card, and tag the card with the species’ name so it joins every scene the alien is in. Pin the card to keep it in view all the time, and regenerate any reply that slips.
Yes. In The Visitor at Coteau, a visitor from somewhere else has walked past Ottawa’s list of suitable families and chosen your yard, and in Landfall a generation ship arrives to find people already living on its new world. Any Hub world plays free for 20 replies without an account.
Yes. Companion Bond gives the visitor a loyalty meter that rises when you defend it or share something with it, and Relationship Stages follows a slower path from strangers to friends. Accounts are for adults, and romance between adult characters is allowed.
Yes. Pitch it in a sentence and the world builder writes the premise and the opening scene, with the species and its homeworld saved as lore cards. Publish it to the Hub when it is ready, and every player gets their own copy.
Keep exploring
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