La Chasse-Galerie Storytelling Circle

Gather everyone in a circle and explain the legend of a magical flying canoe that carries lumberjacks home for the New Year, so long as they don't say certain forbidden words along the way.

Choose a starting narrator to begin telling the tale of the canoe's flight, describing the route over rivers and treetops.

Go around the circle, with each player adding the next sentence of the journey, inventing new hazards or sights the paddlers spot below.

If a player accidentally says one of the group's agreed forbidden words, the canoe symbolically loses control and that player must add a dramatic twist to the story to recover it.

Continue passing the story around until the canoe successfully lands back home.

Vote on the group's favorite twist added during the telling before wrapping up.