Guardian: Shifu's Temple.

Shifu left for seven days, off to the Annual Congress of Martial Arts Masters and Jasmine Tea. He left a note: don't burn the temple down, don't eat the cookies, don't let strangers in. Twelve seconds later they started climbing the mountain. You are the Rookie. You have a courtyard, a cat who judges you from the roof, and a deck of techniques so bad it is embarrassing. Every danger you survive leaves you the card you survived it with: you turn it over and the technique on the other side is yours. That is how the deck gets built. One beating at a time. · A day is three phases — Dawn, Noon, Dusk — and then something knocks. · Every card is two cards: the danger on one side, the reward on the other. · Meditating is the only way to remove a bad card, and you can only meditate after losing. Losing is useful. · Six paths, from the one that teaches to the one nobody has beaten. · Daily quests: win once a day and keep the week alive. · No connection, no account, no server. The Apprentice path is free. One payment opens the six paths, the errands, the Fatigue Deck, and removes the ads for good. And no, the cookies were not yours.