Fireflies

Guide your fellow firefly tamer through a grand adventure to save the Vastwood.

At the heart of the Vastwood stands a gigantic tree, whose immense branches stretch far up into the heavens. It is called the Heart Tree, and it holds within it the Crystal, source of all life. Nori and Tan are Sylvans, a people who live inside the Heart Tree. As secret guardians, they watch over the Tree and the Crystal. To light the countless tunnels that wind through the trunk, the Sylvans have tamed fireflies, whose natural glow lights their way. The inhabitants of the Vatswood call them “the firefly tamers.”

Fireflies is a cooperative game for two players that invites you to embark on a fantastic adventure: the epic journey of Nori and Tan to save the Vastwood from the Darkness. Guiding your partner across otherworldly and perilous landscapes, you’ll explore hostile lands, meet a full cast of characters, and complete grand quests. The Fireflies story consists of 8 Chapters, each representing a game, with its own objective and additional rules.

How to play

• Role and Goal: Players act as captains of Firefly-class spaceships, hiring crew, buying gear, and completing legal or illegal jobs to fulfill the objectives of a chosen story card.
• Turn Actions: On each turn, a player takes two distinct actions from four choices: Fly, Buy, Deal, or Work.
• Movement and Risks: Flying can be done slowly ("mosing") to avoid navigation cards, or with a "full burn" using fuel tokens to travel across the map while drawing cards that can trigger encounters with Reavers or Alliance patrols.
• Skill Checks: Completing jobs and surviving "Aim to Misbehave" cards require dice rolls modified by crew stats (Fighting, Technology, Negotiate) and gear.

Two heroes with two intertwined storylines… but only together, by sharing discoveries and ideas, will you unravel the mysteries of this epic odyssey…