⚔ AVIAN ASCENT ⚔

STAGE 1

Lv.1

Avian Ascent

Roguelike of feathers & fortune — plan your run from the war room.

Supplies by the bags. Inventory and Cuckoo's Emporium on the wall. Hatch at The Hatchery. Prepare your ascent through the door.

Supplies

Reference codex — birds, abilities, mechanics, and more. Secret unlock codes live with the baggage.

Unlock code

Recent runs and your best attempts — kept with the tally scrolls.

— RECENT RUNS —

— HIGHSCORES —

Inventory

Your global vault across Flights — Golden Goose Eggs, Rescued Nests, and treasures from Cuckoo's Feathers & Fortune Emporium.

🪿 Golden Goose Eggs: 0

Feather Sack

Duplicates from Mother Goose eggs. Collect feathers to mutate bird cards to higher tiers.

No Species Feathers yet. Hatch duplicates at The Hatchery.

Artifacts

Equip one relic for your next Flight. You keep every artifact you buy — switch loadout here before ascending.

No artifacts yet. Visit Cuckoo's Emporium to buy relics.

Other treasures

Future global items will appear here.

Nothing here yet — future global items will appear in this vault.

Cuckoo's Feathers & Fortune Emporium

Welcome to Cuckoo's Feathers & Fortune Emporium

Cuckoo (Owner of the Fortune and Feather shop — married to the Mother Goose)

Global treasures earned across Flights. Rescued Nests drop after stage victories — open them in Inventory for Golden Goose Eggs and bird hatches.

🪿 Golden Goose Eggs: 0

Spend Golden Goose Eggs on expanded heal-item carry limits.

Rare Artifacts cost Golden Goose Eggs. Effects apply on every future Flight once owned.

The Hatchery

Spend Golden Goose Eggs to hatch bird cards. Duplicates become Species Feathers for mutations.

🪿 Golden Goose Eggs: 0

Flight Settings

Test map

Choose your map, difficulty, and run mode before selecting a character.

Choose your difficulty to begin.

Character Select

Pick a bird, review stats and card tier, then Take Flight.

Filter roster:

Select a bird from the roster

Select a bird from the roster.

Build Nest - Map Forge

Main Map

Map name Draft Run starts on

Place

Edit

View Snap grid

Advanced

Bulk

Navigate

Upload background Import JSON

Node type (job)

Sets what this label does. Shape, size, and colours stay editable.

Node name Terrain Portrait bird Final boss On path Must complete (blocks Return Gate)

Path order (same order = split)

Label appearance

Button action

Text Shape Width Height Show text Show border Show fill Fill translucency 72% Border colour Text colour

World name

Validation

Encounter - enemies in chain

Combat stats × Health / damage ×

Bonus stage options

Power progression (+10% per clear) Max repeats

Stage rewards

Select a stage, boss, or bonus node to edit clear rewards.

Shop stock

Select a Shop node to choose what is sold and how many.

Use custom stock (otherwise random)

Hidden paths until cleared Preview path reveal

Path order

S=Select, M=Multi-select, L=Label. Place a Label then set Node type in the Node panel. Arrows=nudge, Shift+arrows=10px, Ctrl+D=duplicate, Ctrl+Z/Y=undo, Del=delete, Esc=deselect. Shift+click also multi-selects. Space or middle-click pans.

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EN—

ARM—

MARM—

ULT0 / 100

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EN—

ARM—

MARM—

🤔 Thinking...

⚔ Action Tray

Equipment

Passive

Skills

✦ Level Up! ✦

Your bird grows stronger. Choose your path:

📈 Choose a Stat Upgrade

Ascent Complete

✦ Victory! ✦

Shake the nest for rewards!

Your spoils are saved automatically.

Tap the nest to shake

These can be found in your nest.

Defeated

Game reference

🪺 Your Nest

Everything you carry into battle.

🪃 Stork's Emporium

The ancient stork trades in shiny things.

🌟 0 Shiny Objects

Grey 24🌟 · Green 36🌟 · Blue 58🌟 · Purple 78🌟 · Gold 105🌟 · Refresh starts 10🌟

🌳 Whispering Grove

Ancient trees hide secrets — eggs, fruit, nests, or ambush.
Pick one tree. Risk the grove?

🌳Rustle…

🪹 Nest reward

Unsaved map changes

Your map has unsaved changes. Discard them and continue?

⛔ Abandon Run?

This will end your current run. Any unlocks you've earned will be saved, but your progress will be lost.

🗑 Erase Saved Progress?

This permanently deletes your run save, bird unlocks, run history, highscores, and personal bests. Accessibility and music settings are kept. Cached game assets are not affected — use Clear cached data for that.

Clear Cached Data?

This removes offline cached JavaScript, CSS, and other game assets (service worker and browser cache). Your saves, unlocks, and settings are kept. The page will reload to fetch fresh files.

⚙ Settings

Auto-detect screen size Battle UI layout

Auto-detect picks mobile layout on phones and compact tablets.

Combat layout

Combat screen arrangement

Tactical Deck: a focused arena above a two-column command deck.

Reorder panels and hide sections you do not need. Use Settings under the page title for menu and abandon.

Avatar size 100% Combatant panels 100% Action tray 100% Battle log 100% Keep birds visible while scrolling

Pins both combatants (birds, HP, and EN bars) while you scroll the action tray.

Auto-shrink UI for many abilities

Slightly reduces avatar and action tray size when 5+ abilities are unlocked.

Font size Color blind mode Reduce motion High contrast UI

Master volume Music volume SFX volume Mute music

Ability tooltips Mutation tooltips Item tooltips Passive tooltips

Customize combat panels

Move sections up or down. Uncheck Show to hide a panel. Use Settings under the page title for menu and abandon.

Hatching

Upgrade Bird

✨ Skill modification

Choose one ailment to add at Lv.4.

Music

Choose music for each part of the game, or preview tracks from the war room.

Mute music Music volume50%

Menu music

Battle music

Overworld music

Duke Blakiston stage 20 always uses Duke Blakiston Battle, regardless of battle music selection.

Preview

Blakiston Theme
Sharp Beak Quick Wing
The Brittle Waltz
The Pigeon’s Desperate Jig
The Last Thermal
Duke Blakiston Battle