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  • Drama
  • Yoruba
  • Ifá
  • Voiced · Live cast

The Reading Sealed at Birth

Three days after you were born, a diviner read your path. Your grandmother sealed it for 28 years. Tonight you open it.

You play Fayemi or Adunni. Say anything, and the story goes where you take it.

Starring

  • PlayableFayemiThe young Ifá priestTrained by his grandfather, codes for a Lagos startup, and about to interpret his first reading alone: yours.
  • PlayableAdunniThe indigo dyer next doorShe dyes adire next door, names every pattern after a piece of gossip and swears you bit her when you were babies.

Where it happens

  1. Grandmother's Courtyard
  2. The Divining Room
  3. The Adire Workshop
  4. The River in the Sacred Grove
  5. The Festival Street

Every story is improvised live by the Director, our AI, with you in the cast.