The Lamp at Gullsend

Every night you climb one hundred and twelve steps and light the lamp. Every night the dark comes a little closer. The Lamp at Gullsend is a solo journaling game for a standard deck of playing cards and a single six-sided die. You are the keeper of a lighthouse on a black rock at the edge of the charted sea. The relief boat is late, the oil is running low, and something beneath the water has started to notice the light. Each day you roll for the weather and draw a card. Each card is a prompt: memories that surface with the tide, gifts and wreckage from the sea, the endless work of keeping the light, and the strange things that come out of the fog. Write as much or as little as you like. Three endings: the relief boat arrives, the lamp goes dark, or the Deep comes to collect you. What's inside (16 pages, A5) Simple rules you can learn in five minutes Keeper creation tables 52 card prompts plus four Aces that turn the story Weather table, three endings and four variations (including a one-evening short game) An example day of play Printable keeper's sheet, Oil and Deep trackers and two log pages Full-colour PDF and a printer-friendly version You need: a deck of cards, one d6 and something to write in. Content notes: isolation, grief, illness, loss, drowning, unsettling supernatural presences. Skip any prompt you like. Also available in Spanish: La lámpara de Cabo Gaviota .