The Woodland's Curse

On your travels you find yourself on the edge of a forest. It stands between you and your destination, the city of Grovestone; you heard that its fine citizens’ appreciation for culture might get you a decent meal and a warm bed, in exchange for your poems and other assorted writings. The much-travelled cobblestone road under your boots directs you along the tree line, but you decide to instead take a small footpath leading into the woods.
Walking in the shade of the trees, you are at first unaware of the invasive power taking hold of your mind. Only when you stop to rest and put pen to paper you realize the extent of your struggle: on your journey through the forest you will write for your very soul – fighting the woodland’s curse.

The Woodland's Curse is a writing game for one player, somewhere between a roleplaying and a word-game. In it, you will write a poem of seven lines, with every line composed of a fixed set of letters. Will you try and cling to sanity and proper spelling, or will you embrace demonic ramblings?

The background of the cover image is Forest landscape with a woodsman's shed by Roelant Roghman from the digital collection of the Rijksmuseum.