Here's what I recall of the game of Polaris we played April 1st at Game
Day at Endgame in Oakland.  I brought along handouts and character sheets
and helped everyone work together to make up characters and story.)
In three hours three of the Knights dropped from 4 to 1 Zeal and two
others to 3.

Springtime for Etzlitotec

Enif, 1, Exile, Four Birds Lord of Carrion
	Mistaken: Two Jackals, one of the 29 Dukes and an enemy of Four Birds
Atlas, 1, Relationship with Etzlitotec Princess of Spring, Song of Truth
	Mistaken: Hydra
	Full Moon: Curator of the Leftmost Museum
	New Moon: Etzlitotec Princess of Spring
Arrakis, 1, Dancer who greets the spring, Idea: The South
	Full Moon: Squire
	Mistaken: Siren of the South
	New Moon: ?
Aquila, 3, Greatest Duelist of the Age, Aide to Senator Altair
	Mistaken: Senator Zhou
	Full Moon: Senator Altair
	New Moon: Tania Borealis, 2nd greatest duelist of the age	
Orionis, 3, Club of Submission, Fate: Love
	Mistaken: Nemesis, the Uncatchable Beast
	Full Moon: The Master Hunter
	New Moon: ?

Our Common Fate was Hydra.

I was Aquila's player, and have played twice before and read the rules
a lot, so acted as a teacher and facilitator to the other players.
Enif's player had played once before.  The other three players
were new to Polaris.

Most of the players had fun, but there was some degree of roughness from
players who didn't know each other meshing their differing views of
the world, and at the start the Mistaken tended to be too soft in what
they pushed for.  In hindsight I think I erred in not reading at least
a few of the moments frozen in time from the first page, to give people
a better idea of the style being sought.  Still, there were some very
nice moments, which I will now hopelessly butcher in the retelling.
I was too busy playing to take any notes so this is from memory a week
later and I'm no doubt misremembering bits, and certainly I'm leaving
out lots, but I hope it'll convey a little of the flavor of what happened.

Long ago, the people were dying at the end of the world.

Of the fate of Enif, who bound Four Birds, Lord of Carrion, I shall
not speak.

But hope was not yet lost, for Atlas still heard the song of the stars.

Atlas's mistaken was also our common fate, Hydra.  His full moon was the
Curator of the Leftmost Museum, his new moon was Etzlitotec, Princess
of the Spring, who he also had a relationship to as an Aspect of his
Fate theme.

Atlas's first scene was visiting the Leftmost Museum where he served
the curator, bringing him various strange things from the wastelands
to be studied or locked away.  I was his Mistaken, and wanted to push
hard to demonstrate, so as he strode up the stairs he was attacked by
shadowy figures, whom he slew, but only if they died without speaking
and one injured him with a poison, but only if it was a slow acting
poison whose cure was known to the curator, but only if finding that
cure would involve a dangerous journey through the wasteland, and that
was how it happened.  The city guard showed suspiciously quickly
to investigate the fight, and arrested him, which was asking far too much
(exhausting his office theme using the aspect Knight of the Order of
the Stars I think), so instead they sought to kill him, but he sang his
Song of Truth and stripped away their false skins to reveal wicker men
cunningly woven from the stems of strange but beautiful flowers.

The curator recognized the wicker flower men as the tools of Etzlitotec,
Princess of the Spring, but in examining them became poisoned with
the same poison as Atlas, linking the false guard to the first set
of assassins.

Atlas journed into the wastelands to find a cure but instead found
Etzlitotec, who asked him to be her knight, which he agreed to (experience
check), and she kissed him and burnt the poison from his system.  He fell
hopelessly in love with her.  She asked him to slay the curator of the
leftmost museum, which was asking too much, so instead she asked him to
bring the curator to her in the wastes, which he did (another experience
check).  She hollowed the curator out and took his skin as her own, taking
his form and infiltrating the Museum, whose secrets were now open to her.

Deep in the Museum's vaults she found a terrible thing, The Weapon of
the Ancients (sometimes also known as the Weapon Without Answer), which
she offered to her knight, but only if he gave up his Song of Truth,
which he agreed to but only after singing it one last time, and as as
he sang it her stolen faces were ripped away one by one, showing lost
friends, a senator, and at the very last, under all the others, Atlas'
own face twisted in a scream of terrible agony.  This made him love her
more, and he accepted the weapon but only if the assistant curator saw
him trafficing with the mistaken and fled to tell the other Knights but
only if Atlas caught and slew the assistant before he could reveal what
was going on but only if he used the Weapon of the Ancients to do so
which not only destroyed the assistant, but also destroyed every memory
of the assistant in everyone who had ever cared for him.

Atlas' player erased Starlight Sword and Song of Truth from abilities
and replaced them with Weapon of the Ancients.

But hope was not yet lost, for Arrakis still heard the song of the stars.

Arrakis, who had the ability Dancer Who Greets the Spring, and Fate of
Idea: the South, journeyed far to the south in the hopes of learning some
way to correct the mistake through their dances.  He was accompanied by
his faithful squire, and in the south was offered a powerful sword made
from the bones of dead knights, and armor which no starlight sword could
pierce (made from something else icky, I believe), and he took those
and discarded his own weapon and armor but his squire gathered them up
to keep in case he needed them back later, as a good squire should.

On his return north Arrakis met Etzlitotec, who danced with great grace
as flowers sprung up where her feet touched, although the blossoms were
as poisonous as they were beautiful, as was she.  She agreed to teach her
dance to Arrakis so he could take it back to the People and teach it,
and those who danced the new dance would know joy, but only so long as
they were dancing, and when they weren't dancing they would be hollow
with despair, and in years to come they would kill themselves to end
their suffering, and that was how it was.

But hope was not yet lost, for Orionis still heard the song of the stars.

Orionis was the greatest of hunters, a solitary knight who preferred
chasing strange prey across the snows rather than defending the remnants
from armies of Mistaken.  Instead of a starlight sword he carried a Club
of Submission, and even with the advice of the elder Master Hunter (his
Full Moon) he had yet to catch the Uncatchable Beast (his Mistaken), but
had enjoyed both hunting and being hunted by the creature.  The Hunter
advised him that the only sure method was to bind his true love to one
of the icy spires in the wasteland, which the beast would be unable
to resist the allure of, but Orionis was unwilling to do that.  Still,
his neglect of defending the remnant while out hunting the beast also
kept the beast occupied and away from the city.

In the course of one of these hunts the Beast came across a circle of the
People dancing a joyous dance brought from the south, outside the safety
of the city and under the stars, and devoured them!  But only if the
crystal purity of their souls passed through the Beast into his droppings,
and from those grew up children (like dragon's teeth sown in the ground)
who Orionis adopted and taught well to grow up to be knights themselves,
but only if the corruption of the beast was still in their hearts and
in the end they would meet a terrible fate and that was how it happened.

But hope was not yet lost, for Aquila still heard the song of the stars.

And so it was that Aquila was passing the time enjoyably testing his
skills against Tania Borealis, who in any other age would have been
acclaimed as the greatest of duelists, but due to her unlucky stars had
been born into the same time as Aquila and was therefore only second
greatest.  A band of Mistaken assaulted the city and the two knights
handily dealt with the assault, except for the largest and most terrible
of them, who grievously wounded Tania before falling to Aquila's sword,
but only if Tania moved from the New Moon to Mistaken because Aquila had
ignored her injury to continue fighting (and getting an experience check.
"A swordsman lives or dies by his own skill, and does not rely on
others.), but only if Tania then went to work for Senator Zhou, the
corrupt foe of Senator Altair and Aquila's mistaken.

So it came to pass that Arrakis, armored in his gruesome vestments of
the south, and dancing the corrupt dances that Etzlitotec taught him,
was sliding ever further away from the ideals of Knighthood, His squire
(Full Moon played by Atlas' player to his right) gave an impassioned
speech to try to save him, but this displeased Etzlitotec who called upon
her lover Atlas to dispatch the pesky squire.  There was a bit of a love
triangle brewing among Atlas, Etzlitotic and Arrakis.  Atlas, with the
Weapon of the Ancients, and Arrakis, with his Sword of Bone, battled for
a year and a day and Atlas slew his own love Etzlitotec with the
Weapon, destroying her, but only if she returned the next spring as she
always did, but only if forever after she died again with each autumn.
Also somewhere along there the Corrupt Knights Orionis had raised and
trained all perished.  In the end the battle was a stalemate, albeit a
very epic one.

The last scene involved Atlas atop the highest tower in the remnant,
facing Hydra, the Mistaken of a hundred shadows who had manipulated
events all along, and was terribly confident knowing he could be harmed
by no weapon save one lost long ago in the vaults of the Museum where no
man knew to find it, but Atlas wielded that very weapon, and Hydra was
destroyed by the Weapon of the Ancients forged for that purpose,
and so was his memory in everyone who ever cared for him, so there was
nothing for him to restore himself from.

But that all happened long ago, and now there are none who remember it.