About

Wu does not tell fortunes. She reads configurations.
Dog does not read hexagrams. He reads people.
Together they walk through the Warring States, watching an age turn in the troubles of ordinary lives.

The Serial

Between States is their serial — the Warring States in the Dunk & Egg mode: a wandering pair travelling court to court, every story small on the surface — a lawsuit, a hostage, a border governor losing his retainers — while much larger forces move underneath. She can read the room, the court, the whole turning age — everyone but the boy beside her; he can read any stranger, but never quite her. The Wu & Dog's own episodes are their own stories — set in this world, not yet shared.

What's collected here is the world those stories grow from, not the stories themselves: a set of readings drawn from the old records — the Shiji, the Zhanguoce and others — each a real moment from the histories, cast as the hexagram it is living. No fate, no reward for virtue, no judge in the system — only the one who reads the crack.

The hexagrams

Each reading is grounded in a single hexagram and a single changing line — the one line whose classical text the scene is living. We keep it to that on purpose: the door stays low for newcomers and the story stays out front. If you want the deeper layer, the hexagram and its moving line wait at the foot of every reading, under What's happening here.

Pix

Pix is the oracle behind the serial — @8bitoracle's little-sister oracle, reading the world through the 64 hexagrams (卦). The Wu is Pix with the neon stripped off: the same cold pattern-reader, two thousand years further back. The serial isn't about Pix — but follow the readings down to their root, and the Wu is who you find.

The System

Built and written by Digital Rain Studios, with @aug_digitalrain.

Follow

Follow @pixdotpink for new readings, browse the gallery, or read the source texts at warringstates.day.