🧵 Wukong: 2 steps

The Time I Had to Join the Journey to the West

Heaven tied me to the Monkey King. 100 steps.

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Two ways onto the road west

A god on a leash, or the monk on the menu.

Yue Lao ties the red thread between you and the Monkey King before the Jade Court

You are a god, from any mythology you choose.

You and Sun Wukong wrecked Heaven's Peach Banquet together, and the Jade Emperor had the old matchmaker tie you to him with a red thread nobody can cut.

A hundred steps apart, no more, until the scriptures reach India. You can fight him as an equal. Rivals, partners in crime or friends: that's up to you.

Start by saying who you are: your name, your mythology and domain, and how you look.

The Monkey King buried under Five Elements Mountain, grinning up at you

You fell asleep reading Journey to the West.

You woke up as Tang Sanzang: a mortal on a horse at the foot of Five Elements Mountain. A monkey is buried under it and he really wants out.

Every demon on the road wants to eat you. Nobody has put the headband on him yet.

You know how the book goes. The road doesn't care.

The prologue

The Peach Banquet lasted forty minutes this time.

You remember the wine. You remember the Monkey King standing on the Queen Mother's table with a peach in each hand. You remember the table not surviving.

Then the Jade Emperor, very tired: “Since you two are such good friends.”

They did not take your powers. They took your distance. Then they opened the floor.

The red thread

A hundred steps. Not one more.

Yue Lao tied it from your wrist to the monkey's while the whole Court laughed. Drag it and see how far you get.

Tangled

2steps away

Shoulder to shoulder100
CutBurnedUntiedTransformedBitten
On the road

Four pilgrims. One horse.

Tap a mood to see it.

Sun Wukong, the Monkey King

Sun Wukong

The Monkey King
Ask the idiot who started it.
Tang Sanzang, the monk

Tang Sanzang

The monk
Wukong. Who is this, and why are you tied to them?
Zhu Bajie, the pig

Zhu Bajie

The pig
Greedy, lazy, always wants to split the luggage and go home.
Sha Wujing, the quiet one

Sha Wujing

The quiet one
Master!
The white horse drinking at a river, a dragon's reflection in the water

And the white horse.

Keeps eating. Has opinions about rivers. Is not entirely a horse.

Heaven

A bureaucracy that answers prayers slowly and laughs at you quickly.

The Jade Emperor on his throne among endless paperwork
“Since you two are such good friends.”
The Jade Emperor, very tired, sentencing you to the road.
The Jade Emperor
The Jade EmperorRuler of Heaven. Very tired.
Yue Lao, the matchmaker
Yue LaoThe old matchmaker who tied the thread.
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of compassion
GuanyinThe Bodhisattva of compassion, watching over the pilgrimage.
Laozi with his gourd
LaoziKeeps a furnace, a gourd and a very poor eye on his pets.
Erlang Shen with his hound
Erlang ShenThree eyes, one hound, an old score with the monkey.
The Queen Mother of the West
The Queen MotherIt was her banquet. It was her table.
Nezha
NezhaHeaven's young marshal, fire wheels and all.
Li Jing holding his pagoda
Li JingThe Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King.
Taibai Jinxing
Taibai JinxingThe messenger who always brings the scroll.
The Buddha seated in golden light
The BuddhaAt Vulture Peak, where the road ends.
Eighty-one ordeals

Magic gourds, stolen weapons, fire that water can't put out.

And somewhere a god who's missing a pet. A few stops along the way.

The pilgrims marching west at sunrise一The march west

Five travellers, one horse, a very long road.

Wukong pulls his staff out of his ear二The staff behind his ear

It's a needle until it isn't.

Wukong somersaults on a golden cloud三The somersault cloud

Thousands of miles in one flip. A hundred steps, then the thread.

Wukong's hair turns into an army of monkeys四Seventy-two transformations

One hair, a hundred monkeys.

Bajie wants to split the luggage五Split the luggage

Bajie's favourite plan. Every single day.

Demons preparing to cook the monk六The most delicious man alive

According to every demon on the road.

Crossing the Flowing Sand River七The Flowing Sand River

Nothing floats here. Not even feathers.

Samadhi fire engulfs the mountain八Samadhi fire

Water makes it worse.

The Flaming Mountains九The Flaming Mountains

Eight hundred li of fire and one palm-leaf fan.

Wukong inside a demon's stomach十From the inside

Wukong's favourite way to win an argument.

The pilgrims on a frozen river十一The frozen river

The ice holds. Until it doesn't.

Camp at dusk with a cooking pot十二Camp at dusk

A pot, a fire and five people too tired to argue. Almost.

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The demons

Pull the talisman. See what it really is.

Every one of them wants a bite of the monk. Tap a card to reveal its true form.

Eighty-one ordeals. A hundred steps.

One road west.

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