Threads
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Threads is an interactive-fiction game from Quinci Games, the studio behind Loomweaver. You play one character. An AI narrator plays the world: it keeps track of everyone you meet, holds the story together across hundreds of turns, and draws each person from the same written look every time.
Play it on its own, or take your Loomweaver world solo and bring what happened back to your table.
Coming soon. Threads isn't open to players yet, so there's nothing to sign up for.
A story is only as good as what it remembers. Threads keeps a record of what happened, who was there and when, and holds the narrator to it.
Memory keeps the people, plot threads and facts of your story, with a chapter record every hundred turns, so a game still hangs together past turn 800.
After every turn, a continuity check reads it against that record and quietly repairs slips in time, place and bookkeeping. If your action claims something the record contradicts, the characters push back instead of playing along.
Characters use the six ability scores you already know, plus skills made for each world, so a character from your Loomweaver campaign arrives with their numbers intact.
When you try something uncertain, Threads makes the check for you: it sets a DC, weighs your stats and the situation, and writes the result into the story. Turn on Show checks to see the skill, the DC and the outcome under each turn. Skills improve as you use them.
Every world in Threads is made with the same tools you get. Write its setting, people, places and factions, its skills and rules, its campaigns, its art style and its content rating. A step-by-step wizard helps you set one up, with suggestions along the way, and a world check looks it over before you play. Or bring in a world you already built in Loomweaver.
Sharing worlds with other players is on the way. Until then, here are two examples of what a world can be.
An elven empire of walled cities and wild frontiers, kept safe from the monsters beyond by the shimmering Arcane Veil.
Arcadia began as a Loomweaver world and came across with its people, places and campaigns. It's also the world of the Quinci Tyler novels.
A cyberpunk-fantasy academy in the lawless Undercity of Caldris, on the world of Vireth. Go to class, get to know your dorm mates, take on dungeon delves, and stay clear of the corrupting Abyss.
Class timetables and appointments run on the story clock, so Monday's lecture is still there when Monday comes.
Every character has one written look that each new picture starts from, so Mazakin and Lyra look like themselves turn after turn.
You don't need Loomweaver to play Threads, and you don't need Threads to run Loomweaver. Together, they give your world a life between sessions.
Take a Loomweaver world into Threads, play it, and everything that happened comes home as proposals. You decide what your world keeps.
Loomweaver
Where your world lives: its people, places, factions and campaigns.
Export a world
What happened comes back as proposals you review
Threads
Where you play it, one character at a time, with your party beside you.
Loomweaver
Where your world lives: its people, places, factions and campaigns.
Export a world
Proposals come back for review
Threads
Where you play it, one character at a time, with your party beside you.
Export for Threads, in Loomweaver's settings, packs up one world: its people, places, factions, lore, calendar and campaigns.
Play it as an open world or as one of its campaigns, from the beginning or from where your table left off. The rest of the party comes along, judged on their own numbers.
Threads writes up what happened: new people, places, factions, quests and lore, a session write-up, timeline events, and your character's XP, treasury and inventory.
Loomweaver shows each proposal beside what your world says now, and flags anything you changed since the export. Keep yours or take the new value field by field, edit the text, mark things DM-only, and catch likely duplicates. Nothing is written until you tick it.
It works the other way too. A world built in Threads can become a new Loomweaver world, with its calendar, ruleset and currency, a campaign, the character you played, and the sessions, quests and timeline from your game. Loomweaver's results file links the new records back to Threads, so the next trip updates them instead of making copies.
Threads is in development and isn't open to players yet. The Quinci Games Discord is the place to ask about it.