Story

Construction: the part of the game that exists. Mechanics live in the system docs and are not repeated here.

The acts past Construction are not written down until they are built.

Construction

The protagonist trains in the garden. They are in their twenties, in the middle stretch of a life searching for a purpose, and the purpose has settled on a single number: the world volley record. They have hope and vigour but nothing to show for it. No racquet, no rally partner, no equipment. All they have is a ball from the bushes and the wall of their house to bounce it at. Little by little they start building their soul for Volley.

Zach comes over hearing of the protagonist's new dream and gives them a racquet. They are one of the protagonist's best friends. After a while, they start getting the hang of it. Zach comes back with a stall determined to help the protagonist's journey. Zach filled the stall with items connected to the protagonist from Zach's home.

Later on, Zach gets more professional and gets a catalogue so the protagonist can get larger items: court furnishings, decorations and dogs to help with the ball fetching. Zach's younger sister, Stephanie, the tinkerer, takes a corner of the stall as her workshop and upgrades whatever the protagonist brings her.

Martha gets wind of this and agrees to be the protagonist's rally partner. This is the true start of the rally.

At the top of the ladder sits the volley champion, Fern. The lineage of past champions Fern caps is the ladder the protagonist climbs through. At the back of the garden, behind the stall and the tree, a gate sits in the wall, locked.