Lady Deadly
A downloadable game
Lady Deadly is fanfiction of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education as game design utilizing the form and mechanics of Lady Blackbird by John Harper to bring the world of Scholomance to life.
This work is also available on Archive of Our Own.
Growing up, only one in eight wizards make it to their eighteenth birthday alive. A wizard going through puberty is just about the tastiest thing for every nasty mal looking for a little snack. Which is why the enclaves set up Scholomance, a school suspended in the void where wizard teens can cram their heads full of the knowledge needed to survive.
That’s right, when you turn sixteen the enrollment spell scoops you up, drops you right into the most insane self directed curriculum on the planet. And you better learn because at the end of your three years the only way out is through the graduation hall where all of the strongest mals have been waiting all year for a tasty young adult snack. Eight hundred pimply teens go in, and four years later, two hundred hardened wizards come out.
How will El and the gang survive through graduation?
Who will make out in the shop class after hours?
Will the events of the book repeat themselves? If they do, will the dice cooperate? By the time you go to find out will you even want them too?
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I feel like I'm necroposting right now haha but there's a missing paragraph in one of the pictured pages, under the "Raising Power" section. The paragraph about Mana is doubled, and the paragraph on Malia is missing. This only occurs on Itch; the text is available on Archive of Our Own.
Included, as written, for the convenience of other players:
"If mana is internal energy, you created then malia the external energy of living things. So most people power spells by taking little bits of life from their immediate surroundings. Maybe that's holes in the wood of a headboard, small plants, or a few insects. You know acceptable sources, the kind of stuff that no one would miss, but if you rely on it too much, it starts to stain you. It changes your soul, making it harder to use mana and easier to tap into bigger and stronger sources of life, like humans, who are the largest walking batteries out there. Wizards who go too far down the malia path are called malificars, and considered very dangerous."
Let no post ever be in vain! Thank you for your careful reading. I've uploaded a corrected version of the pdf and fixed the screenshot. Let me know how if goes if you get the game to the table,