Ember Keepers

How it works

• You start in the Keepers' Lair (gold). The Rampant can't enter it.
• Cross the Quiet Zone (faint green). Nothing spawns there. Then search the maze for Embers.
• The Rampant sleep until you pick up an Ember. Then they wake and hunt you.
• Get back to the Keepers to bank what you carry. They take it down to the vaults, and the Rampant go quiet again.
• Bank every Ember on the level to clear it. Each level gives you a set number of moves; run out and the run ends.
• Each catch costs 1 health. You start with 3; stronger characters have more.
• Repair kits (green cross, even levels) heal 1. Heart shards (every 5th level) add +1 max health.
• Fires glow the turn before they burn. Searchlights turn to point a new way every turn.

Zones

1. 1. The Alley (levels 1–3): drones that wander, and chase once you are close. 1 Ember per level.
2. 2. Rooftops (levels 4–6): + Rampant Hunters, which chase anywhere but rest every few turns. + Searchlights: step into a beam and everything wakes. 2 Embers.
3. 3. The Avenue (levels 7–9): + The Awakened, which chase without rest. + Fires that burn one turn in three. 3 Embers.
4. After the Avenue, the Zones repeat as the next cycle with every hazard on. Each level is bigger, with more Rampant and fewer spare moves. Clearing a Zone unlocks it as a starting point.