Postcard Adventure: Revenge of the Tards (Dark Peak Solo RPG)

You wake face down in a fold above Storrs at lowmurk, mouth full of peat, no memory of the six hours before it. Forty wooltards stood over you, heads up, all facing the same wall. Then it calls. It only ever calls twice, and you've already had the first one. There's no briefing this time, no job to accept or refuse. You're a chitchaser who went up the Loxley valley to collect a debt and woke up somewhere else entirely. Getting off the hill alive is the whole of it. Field notes by Pip Rippon. This one is different. What's inside One Dark Peak location: Storrs, above the Loxley valley, S6 Three creatures from the Bestiary, including the Oldbrownhorn boss encounter A running "Closing" mechanic: the herd behind you gets faster the longer the murkneet goes on, and it never resets A 2d6 Encounter Table, 12 results, none of them slowing anything down Three outcomes depending on how much HP you've got left at the bridge Pip Rippon's field notes throughout, including why this one broke the usual format MURK RATING: II (see hellsborough.com/murk-rating for what that means) The night this really happened Pip told this one straight, afterward, at the Sportsman in Lower Bradfield, over a pint that wasn't Pip's round: "I went up to Storrs at murkfall. The next thing in my head I'd swear to in front of an exacid is lying face down in a fold at lowmurk with a mouth full of peat and my hands under me like I'd been set down rather than fallen. That's the gap. Murkfall to lowmurk, the whole of the early murkneet, gone." Read the rest of Pip's account, free, at hellsborough.com/myths/revenge-of-the-tards . The adventure puts you through the same murkneet. The field account tells you how Pip got out of it. About the world Hellsborough is the dark matter parallel world of Sheffield, S6. Accessible through the pentagonal junction at Hillsborough Corner, the most liminal place in the universe, it is a desolate, fog-drenched, post-industrial wasteland populated by twisted denizens, organic computer networks, and livestock you should not have underestimated. The Postcard Adventures are standalone solo RPG scenarios set in Hellsborough and The Dark Peak. Each one is a different location, a different set of creatures from the Bestiary, and a different very bad night. More: hellsborough.com New to solo RPGs? Start with Something in the Hole (hellsborough.com/adventures/something-in-the-hole), which walks you through a complete example turn. --- Published by Demonspawn Books and Games, Sheffield S6, South Yorkshire. Written by Pip Rippon. Managed by Bull Stuart. See every Postcard Adventure, not just the newest four — free account: hellsborough.com/signup Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).