Polaris One-Shot

"Once upon a time, as far north as north can go, there lived the greatest people that this world will ever know. We cannot look upon them as they were, but we can understand them as they die, melting like a snowflake in the sun. For those people are gone now, destroyed, just as the world destroys all beautiful things. All that remains are memories, moments frozen from the flow of time."

One of the classic indie games, Polaris aims to weave a story of doomed knights trying desperately to save their once-proud cities from demonic hordes without losing their own souls in the process. I can run this with as few as two players.

A more detailed overview can be found here: http://projects.inklesspen.com/fatal-and-friends/mileionaha/polaris/
For this one-shot, I plan to use a stripped-down version of the rules as played at Story Games Seattle: http://www.meetup.com/Story-Games-Seattle/messages/boards/thread/50088507