Postcard Adventure: Sod's Law (Dark Peak Solo RPG)

A dark parallel world you can walk into alone — now, for free. Every other job in this series, the price is something that happens to you on the way. This time the price is the job. The milting are owed ground. Not by you, exactly — by somebody you owed, who's gone now, and the debt came down to you with the rest of what they left. The milting don't want a field and they don't want ¢hits. They want the ground from under where you sleep. A tin of it. Bedsod, they call it. So you've had the board up and the spoon out, and the tin is in your inside pocket. Cross Rod Moor before murkrise to a ruined farmstead where an elder grows out of the old kitchen hearth, tip the bedsod into its roots, and say the words. The moor is peewhit ground and the peewhits come down at you. A vixen is screaming on her den in the roots and will not move. And seven milting stand in a ring at ten paces, and when you arrive, they start to talk. Let them talk. Just don't agree to anything. Field notes by Pip Rippon. You brought a tin. You're giving them a tin. --- WHAT'S INSIDE - One Dark Peak location: Hollow Meadows at the top of the Rivelin, out across Rod Moor to a ruined farmstead - Three creatures from the Bestiary — the Peewhit, the Sly, and the Milting - One page of reusable rules (OSR-adjacent, 2d6, no prep required) - The first Offering scenario: you can turn back at any point, and the scenario keeps offering you the chance - Birds that stoop out of the murk and hold a grudge for the next two rolls - A fox on your side, for as long as you leave her alone - The Talk, and Concessions: every extra thing you agree to makes the offering easier, and they will come back to collect - A 2d6 Encounter Table — 12 results - Outcomes for success, a price higher than you brought, rejection, turning back, and saying yes to all of it - A page at the back on Foked, the full solo game the Postcard Adventures grow into Format: A5 PDF. Murk Rating: II (see hellsborough.com/murk-rating for what that means) --- WHAT THE MILTING ARE Small, old, older than the idea of old. Skin so thin over the nose and ears that the light comes through it, teeth like grains of rice, and fingernails that remember being talons. They guard the Hinge, keep a calendar nobody else is allowed to read, and have never once been known to cancel a debt. You don't fight them. Lift a hand to one and all seven stop talking and leave, and the debt is still owed, and now they know what you're like. "I's milting, murker. We've 'ad this ground afore. We'll 'ave it again." --- NEW TO SOLO RPGs? Start with Something in the Hole (hellsborough.com/adventures/something-in-the-hole) — free, and it walks you through a complete example turn before you spend a single die roll here. This one assumes you already know how a Test works. No GM. No group. No problem. --- 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 the occasional barghest with hunger management issues. 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 --- 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).