Step 5 — Your First Battle (Cinderfall)
You have a team of three — time to fight. The Journey is Resonance's solo PvE adventure: you lead your team through a chain of nodes for loot, Avatar Essence, and RSNC. Your first stop is the opening world, Cinderfall.
The Journey (and the Kitchen, and the Arena) only loads once your Discord account is linked — your game inventory is keyed on your Discord identity. If you signed in with email, open the gear icon → Settings and link Discord. See Link Your Accounts. (You likely linked it already to receive your Welcome Package.)
1. Enter the Journey
Open the Journey tab at play.rsnc.network. The World Picker opens on Cinderfall — the only world open today; the rest unlock as you progress. Pick Cinderfall and choose Normal difficulty (the only difficulty a new player picks — Hard and Nightmare come later).
2. Pick your team of three and start
Choose your starter trio — Anchor, Mender, Striker — as your team. Heads up: your team is locked for the whole run, so set the fighters you want before you start. A chapter is 16 nodes, played in short sprints with checkpoints that heal you along the way.
3. Clear node 1
Tap node 1 and start the fight. Combat runs largely on its own — your fighters act on their turn order, using their skills. Watch it play out; win, and you collect the node's loot and move on to node 2.
That's a battle. Keep going node by node — each one drops ingredients, Essence, and (on bosses and milestones) RSNC. If your team goes down, the run ends but you keep everything you looted.
Your rolled starter trio is plenty for Cinderfall's early nodes. The point of your first run is to see the loop: fight → loot → grow your fighters → come back stronger. Learn the details in How Combat Works and Type Advantage when you're ready.
Full details: Journey Overview · Journey Getting Started · How Combat Works · Loot & Rewards
Next → Step 6: Your way forward