The Midnight Accession

The relic arrived without provenance. Your shift ends at dawn. The Archive expects a full report. THE MIDNIGHT ACCESSION is a 20–30 minute solo journaling game of archival horror. You are the Night Scribe on duty when an undocumented artifact crosses the intake desk. By dawn, you will decide what it is, what it wants, and what the Archive is allowed to remember. Work the four stages of the shift: INTAKE — receive the relic. Record its condition. Note what the paperwork doesn't say. INVESTIGATION — consult the 12-entry Artifact Oracle and follow the evidence where it leads. PRESERVATION — choose what gets sealed in lead, and what gets written down. RESOLUTION — face one of three endings: Sealed in Lead, Submitted to Curator, or Subsumed by the Relic. Three Anchor Memory points hold your scribe's identity together against the relic's influence. Your Unredacted Ledger is the official record — and the Record creates the Recognition. No prep. No GM. One sitting, one report. Standalone — fully compatible with THE NOCTURNAL SCRIPTORIUM: THE SEVEN SHIFTS. Continue as an Archival Assayer in THE NOCTURNAL SCRIPTORIUM: THE SEVEN SHIFTS. — New to the Archive? Begin with The Missing Scribe's Handover — a free dossier from the night desk, and the door into the Archive's correspondence: https://the-oakhaven-archive.kit.com/handover