Take Me To Your Ledger Field Guide

A cheerful little abduction

You fly the saucer across a seven-land tour — from a moonlit valley and fiat town to Mars and the Moon — all occupied by the Cult of the 600 Billion. Beam up the local animals (they flee), beam up cult leaders (they absolutely do not, they think you are the mothership), dodge the fiat drones, and carry the faithful to the sacred stone. It is not a cult. It is a leaderboard.

One beam, three ways to hold it

1. Hold the beam under a local animal until it pops aboard. Every land has a headline herd, a stray species and its own positional call.
2. Your altitude is whatever you are carrying. An empty beam lets the saucer settle right down, where you can slip under a live conductor span — but the locals reach further and reload faster when you come down to their level. Catch anything and you haul back up to cruise, where the drones own the sky. A cult leader is the heaviest thing in the game and rides with you all the way to the stone, so the Council run is flown high and exposed from start to finish.
3. Beam a cult leader and ferry them to the sacred stone. 600 points and the congregation grows.
4. Need to stop mid-run? Pause and choose BANK & END FLIGHT. A second score-labelled confirmation records a voluntary extraction without pretending the saucer crashed.
5. Follow the pulsing marker and answer the land's local signal. Lock it once for 15% energy, then follow the same tracker to its supply drop.
6. Deliver twelve leaders and the Council of 600 assembles: the ritual pillar rises, the stone opens the way, and the saucer departs for the next land — bonus paid, energy restored, tour continues.
7. Beaming slows you down, and the drones know it. Wave three's first pair wait until the upgrade closes, then enter with MOVE TO DODGE · BEAM ENEMIES and a full reaction window. Watch the danger mark on visible attackers and the red LOCK compass beyond the camera; after they fire, an amber SHOT cue stays only while the incoming round can still hit you. Hazards drain different amounts of energy; every animal safely aboard restores some. Recovery trickles at half rate while the core is healthy, returns to normal below half, and EMERGENCY SIPHON ×2 activates only at 25% or below. The shared tracker points to the nearest beamable animal whenever the core is below half.
8. Clear the quota, pick a perk, and the next wave rolls in bigger. After wave 13, a FIAT SURGE callout names each new reinforcement tier once the draft closes.

Seven lands. Seven local calls.

Every council opens the route to the next land. The herd changes with the ground beneath it, and every animal has its own silhouette, movement and positional call. Each land also keeps a minority species in with its headline animal, so a field reads as livestock rather than as one prop cloned sixteen times.

Special cargo remains proudly bovine: the Golden Calf, cattle convoys and COW RAIN always deliver cows.

Power-ups from the mothership

Every so often a glowing crate streaks down with a locator beam you can see across the map, and its power-up glyph riding above it, so you know what is coming before you get there. Beam it up before it fades. Fast buffs ignite at once; HODL SHIELD, BLACK HOLE, EMP and COW RAIN enter your reserve to deploy when you choose:

The perk draft

Every wave clear offers three upgrades. Pick one, keep it for the run:

Fly in damaged and a fourth option appears: DECLINE, which skips the upgrade and restores one energy cell instead. It is only ever offered when you are hurt, and it does not count as an install.

Things worth chasing

The Cult of the 600 Billion

Thirty-one leaders of the leaderless, lovingly caricatured, all roaming the seven lands to be carried to the stone. Deliver twelve different leaders in one run to assemble the Council of 600, raise the golden pillar and continue the tour. The ledger also keeps The Congregation: every soul you ever deliver is remembered across runs — gather all thirty-one and the roofless First Temple by the north fields is finally full.

Thirty badges

Badges persist across runs and publish as award tags on your Nostr score events.

Scores live on Nostr

Every score is a signed Nostr event. Sign in with your own key (NIP-07 or Signet) and climb the board as yourself, or play as a guest with a local key and a callsign. The board has ALL TIME, TODAY and monthly SEASON tabs. A deterministic Daily Signal deals a new one-flight contract at midnight UTC from a pool of fourteen, reshuffled every cycle so it never becomes a timetable, and paying 3,000 to 10,000 depending on what it asks. Completed days build a streak: from two days running the perk draft deals you a fourth card, while finished daily boards award crowns for the current epoch. Compatible with gamestr-arcade leaderboards.