Wall of Symbols

A roguelite siege defense. The horde marches at your wall in lanes, and anything that reaches it takes health you cannot fully get back. Spin, place, transmute Every turn the reel deals you alchemical symbols. You place them on the table, then transmute: the board resolves and becomes damage. Where you put them is the whole decision. The board grows Symbols react to their neighbours. Fire beside Fire hits harder. A Seed grows every turn it survives. Leave a symbol alone long enough and it promotes into a stronger form that was never in your deck. Symbols come in elemental families and enemies have weaknesses, so the kind of damage matters as much as the amount. Relics, Tools and Rituals Relics change a rule for the rest of the run. Tools have limited charges and few slots, so you spend them carefully. Rituals pay out when their condition is met, which means building toward them turns in advance. Between sieges A shop with a short stock. A scavenger running a shell game you can walk away from. A mason who grants a single favour: open a locked cell, move a symbol, or destroy one. Between runs Losing ends the run but not the progress. Essence carries into a tree of permanent unlocks, so the next attempt starts with something the last one did not have.