This is fantastic. Good system (phases, face card question pattern, epilogue), excellent prompts (as someone who’s written a 52-card prompt game before, though suit+number combinatorial prompt games are valid, I will always have mad respect for folks who will also write a prompt for every card), deeply compelling premise (who hasn’t wanted to be part of a semi-symbiotic micro-ecosystem??)… genuinely loved reading this, well done.

yeah this is fire

This is extremely cool! Flavorful and thoughtful. I'm gonna look into wrangling some friends to try it out with me. And I appreciate the foreword, thank you for not being neutral <3