Reaper: Before Dawn

You are Death. You drift through an endless graveyard carrying a small circle of lantern light. Everything outside that circle is black. Villagers, elders, rabbits, deer and wolves wander past you in the dark, and some of them have a skull floating above their head. Those are the dead. The ones you came for. Tap one inside your light and the scythe swings. THE CHOICE Every night gives you a soul quota and a countdown, and the marked are deliberately scarce. But you can reap anything. A living creature fills your quota exactly like a marked one — it just costs you a heart. You have five. The clock is running, the quota isn't met, and there's a rabbit two steps from your blade. That is the whole game. THE MERCY RULE Take fewer than three living creatures in a night and your hearts renew at dawn. Take three and the damage follows you into the next night. Lose all five and you begin again…