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The Dice of Hastinapura
Mythic Political Drama · Ancient India (Sanskrit) · Vyasa's The Mahabharata (Sabha Parva)

The Dice of Hastinapura

Inside the pillared hall of Hastinapura, four rivals hold loaded ivory dice, a royal birth-cord, and a wager that will ignite a war.

4 players · 4 episodes, one each morning · $1.99

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Yudhishthira
Playing as Yudhishthira
The Righteous Crown · “Bound by an oath of truth while the hall demands a wager he cannot afford to lose.”
📍 Where You Are

Inside the pillared assembly hall of Hastinapura. Shakuni's ivory dice settle on twin fours for the third straight roll. Sandalwood smoke curls around the scribes' black ink pots.

🔫 Your Loaded Gun

Your gold signet ring rests on your right thumb. Your vaults in Indraprastha are empty; one more stamp puts your brothers and crown on the gaming cloth.

Choose Your Action For Night 1:

The premise

Four players, four email chapters. Oath, blood, and law collide across a sacred gaming cloth before dawn.

Every morning, each player receives a private episode in their inbox: what their character saw, what they learned, and a choice only they can make. They reply with their decision whenever suits them that day, and the next episode follows from what everyone chose. No app, no account, no scheduling a time to play together.

The cast

4 roles. Each player takes one.

Yudhishthira
Yudhishthira
The Righteous Crown
“Bound by an oath of truth while the hall demands a wager he cannot afford to lose.”

As consecrated Emperor of Indraprastha, you cannot refuse a formal challenge at the gaming cloth—yet only you know your silver vaults are already empty and stamping your gold signet ring risks your brothers and queen.

Draupadi: Your Queen—whose legal defiance in the assembly hall could save Indraprastha or expose your ruin.
Karna: Commander of the hall doors—standing armed between your brothers and the eastern exit.
Shakuni: Master of the dice—baiting your pride with weighted ivory bone.
Draupadi
Draupadi
The Queen Unbound
“Holding legal proof that the wager is unlawful—and a secret that could shatter the dynasty.”

Summoned into the assembly hall as a contested stake, you hold both the constitutional question that can paralyze the elders and Queen Mother Kunti's crimson birth-cord proving Karna's royal blood.

Yudhishthira: Your husband—whose performance of righteousness has gambled away your freedom.
Karna: The rival warrior you once humiliated—who is secretly your husband's elder brother.
Shakuni: The architect of the trap—searching for proof of Indraprastha's insolvency.
Karna
Karna
The Outcast Champion
“Torn between loyalty to the prince who crowned him and a blood tie he just discovered.”

Stationed at the assembly doors to enforce Hastinapura's seizure, you carry the copper sun-token Kunti pressed into your palm at dusk—knowing the men you are ordered to shackle are your own younger brothers.

Yudhishthira: Your rival emperor—and the younger brother who does not know your bloodline.
Draupadi: The Queen—who holds the crimson birth-cord that could unmake both thrones.
Shakuni: Your faction's strategist—whose rigged dice are pushing the hall toward a bloodbath.
Shakuni
Shakuni
The Master of Dice
“Orchestrating the ruin of both royal houses with weighted bone dice and a dungeon tally.”

Rolling mercury-weighted Gandharan dice across the crimson cloth, you aren't trying to crown your nephew—you are engineering an unforgivable blood feud to avenge your starved family.

Yudhishthira: Your mark at the cloth—whose royal pride keeps him reaching for the dice.
Draupadi: Your sharpest threat—whose legal challenge could annul the entire night's ledger.
Karna: Your doorway enforcer—whose sudden hesitation threatens your timetable.

How it works

  1. 1

    Add your friends

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  2. 2

    They reply YES

    Each friend confirms by replying YES to the invitation email. Players must be 18+, and anyone can reply STOP at any time.

  3. 3

    One episode every morning

    Each player gets a private episode from their character's point of view, then replies with their choice.

  4. 4

    The ending

    After the final episode, everyone receives the ending, with the choices each player made in secret revealed.

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