Twelve pages: nine of the story, and three that ask something else of you.
The First Page
Where the world was first written.
Eight waves on solid ground: learn the Anchor, the Rift, and how the page frays. Let nothing through and the third star is yours.
| Board | 9 x 9, 81 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 8 |
| Starting Thread | 500 |
| Ground | Meadow |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| HOLD THE PAGE | Complete the level. |
| KEEP IT TOGETHER | Finish with at least 50% Anchor health. |
| NOT A SCRATCH | Allow no enemies to reach the Anchor. |
The Fracture
Something has already torn through this place.
A crack of Void runs through the middle of the page with two crossings left. Bridge it, or let them queue at the gaps and push them in. The wound is a weapon.
| Board | 10 x 10, 84 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 10 |
| Starting Thread | 500 |
| Ground | Forest |
| Opens after | COMPLETE THE FIRST PAGE |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| SURVIVE THE FRACTURE | Complete the level. |
| PROTECT THE ANCHOR | Finish with at least 50% Anchor health. |
| USE THE WOUND | Destroy at least 10 enemies using the Void. Any Void counts: the tear that was already here, ground that crumbles, or ground you cut. |
The Margins
The edge of the page is where it tears first.
The Anchor stands in the margin, and the edges are where the page frays fastest. There is Thread to spare here only if you spend it well.
| Board | 10 x 8, 80 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 10 |
| Starting Thread | 500 |
| Ground | Marsh |
| Opens after | COMPLETE THE FIRST PAGE |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| HOLD THE MARGINS | Complete the level. |
| GUARD THE CENTRE | Finish with at least 60% Anchor health. |
| SPARE THREAD | Finish with at least 250 Thread remaining. Build what the page needs, not what it allows. |
The Crystal Seam BOSS
Something in the page has gone hard.
A seam of Void-crystal has grown across the page and split it in two. Three waves come through the gaps, and then the seam gets up and walks: a slab of the stuff that stomps the ground it crosses, hits structures twice as hard as anything else, and barely notices a Pusher. Three pulses land together or it does not move at all.
| Board | 12 x 9, 89 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 4 |
| Starting Thread | 575 |
| Ground | Stone |
| Opens after | COMPLETE THE MARGINS |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| BREAK THE SEAM | Defeat the Crystal Golem. |
| HOLD THE ANCHOR | Finish with at least 50% Anchor health. |
| MEND NOTHING | Hold the page without ever building a Patcher. The Golem cracks whatever it walks on - beat it by choosing where it walks, not by repairing behind it. |
Torn Crossing
Two lands, two threads between them.
Two lands joined by two narrow necks. Cut one and the whole invasion goes the other way; cut the ground beside a Pusher and the invasion goes nowhere at all.
| Board | 12 x 10, 96 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 12 |
| Starting Thread | 550 |
| Ground | Greystone |
| Opens after | COMPLETE THE FRACTURE, COMPLETE THE MARGINS |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| CROSS THE TEAR | Complete the level. |
| HOLD THE ANCHOR | Finish with at least 50% Anchor health. |
| CHOSEN LOSSES | Make 8 Sacrifice Kills: knock enemies into Void you created with Cut The Thread. Falls into natural Void do not count. |
The Fork
The Void found two ways in.
The Void opens twice, above and below a wedge of nothing. Two approaches, one Anchor, and not enough Stitchers to cover both: Pushers, Patchers and the Void itself must do the work.
| Board | 11 x 11, 107 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 12 |
| Starting Thread | 550 |
| Ground | Mossy |
| Opens after | COMPLETE TORN CROSSING, EARN 7 STARS |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| SURVIVE THE FORK | Complete the level. |
| PROTECT WHAT REMAINS | Finish with at least 50% Anchor health. |
| LESS IS MORE | Complete the level having built no more than 4 Stitchers over the whole run. Selling one does not give it back. |
The Other Hand BOSS
Someone else is writing on this page.
The ground here is being edited while you stand on it. Five waves soften the page, and then the one doing it arrives: a caster who frays everything around himself as he walks and strikes the Anchor from well back. Nothing he ruins is permanent - but he is faster at ruining than you are at mending.
| Board | 12 x 9, 92 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 6 |
| Starting Thread | 625 |
| Ground | Marsh |
| Opens after | COMPLETE THE FORK, EARN 8 STARS |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| UNWRITE THE WRITER | Defeat the Void Mage. |
| HOLD THE ANCHOR | Finish with at least 50% Anchor health. |
| FEW WORDS | Hold the page having built no more than 12 structures in total. Selling one does not give the count back. |
Last Fragment
All that is left. All that there is.
All that is left of the page. Not thirty-six percent of a world: this is the whole world now, and every tile is worth holding. Fifteen waves. Win by choosing what you can afford to lose.
| Board | 12 x 12, 52 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 15 |
| Starting Thread | 600 |
| Ground | Greystone |
| Opens after | COMPLETE THE FORK, EARN 10 STARS |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| HOLD THE LAST FRAGMENT | Complete the level. |
| STILL STANDING | Finish with at least 40% Anchor health. |
| CHOOSE WHAT SURVIVES | Deliberately sacrifice at least 5 tiles with Cut The Thread, and win. Every tile is precious here; choose which ones are not. |
The White Space BOSS
The world ends where the Eraser begins.
Part of this page is already gone, and the thing that took it is coming for the rest. Two waves to dig in, then The Eraser: it rubs tiles out for good, scars the ground you can still mend, and draws itself a path across any Void you cut. Keep enough of the level existing.
| Board | 12 x 9, 91 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 3 |
| Starting Thread | 600 |
| Ground | Greystone |
| Opens after | COMPLETE LAST FRAGMENT, EARN 12 STARS |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| ERASE THE ERASER | Defeat The Eraser. |
| HOLD THE CENTRE | Finish with at least 40% Anchor health. |
| LEAVE SOMETHING BEHIND | Allow The Eraser to directly erase no more than 8 tiles. Sweeps, Whiteouts and decay do not count. |
The Long Hold
Two doors, and no last wave in sight.
Twenty waves through two rifts on opposite edges, from a page that only writes five of them: every time round, the same waves come back heavier, in greater numbers, with less time to breathe between them. The Void Mage arrives on the fifth.
| Board | 11 x 9, 91 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 5 |
| Starting Thread | 600 |
| Ground | Forest |
| Mode | Endurance - the waves keep coming, harder each time round. Target: 20 waves. |
| Opens after | EARN 9 STARS |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| HOLD FOR TWENTY | Survive all twenty waves. |
| STILL STANDING | Finish with at least 40% Anchor health. |
| A PAGE WORTH KEEPING | Lose no more than 18 tiles to decay. Tiles you cut yourself do not count. |
Until The Ink Dries
Ten minutes. The page decides the rest.
A clock instead of a wave count: hold for ten minutes and the ink sets. Waves come with barely any preparation and keep coming, and the page throws events more often than any story page. A Crystal Golem walks in on the fifth wave of every round.
| Board | 10 x 10, 88 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 5 |
| Starting Thread | 550 |
| Ground | Marsh |
| Mode | Timed - hold for 10:00. |
| Opens after | COMPLETE THE LONG HOLD |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| UNTIL THE INK DRIES | Hold the world for the full ten minutes. |
| DRY AND WHOLE | Finish with at least 50% Anchor health. |
| FEED THE VOID | Let the Void take at least 15 enemies. |
What's Left
However long you hold it, it ends the same way.
The largest page there is, two rifts, and no victory written anywhere on it. The waves repeat and grow until the Anchor falls, and the only question the page asks is how far you got. Stars are distances, not wins; your best is remembered.
| Board | 12 x 12, 128 tiles of ground |
| Waves | 5 |
| Starting Thread | 650 |
| Ground | Greystone |
| Mode | Endless - it cannot be won. Hold as long as you can. |
| Opens after | EARN 15 STARS |
| Star | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| TEN PAGES DEEP | Reach wave 10. |
| EIGHTEEN AND HOLDING | Reach wave 18. |
| TWELVE MINUTES OF IT | Hold for twelve minutes. |