Place/s available in The Long Dark, a tale of survival and weird cosmic horror in 1880s Siberia!
What TLD is:
- a taped-together but functional hybrid of Call of Cthulhu and Shadow Theory
- an examination of the adaptation of ordinary human beings to the kind of localised apocalypse suffered by many isolated communities in the historic period.
- interested in historical accuracy in non-Western settings
- a weaving of Native Siberian and Slavic myth with the underlying themes of the Lovecraft mythos
- a game about use of wits, observation and skill against things brute force is unlikely to help with.
- a tale of survival, hell-forged bonds and small heroisims
What TLD is not:
- a game ever likely to have a super-fast post rate
- epic-heroic or action horror
- your Hollywood apocalypse where everyone immediately starts eating each other raw but blue-eyed white men with stubble somehow become natural leaders
- your Hollywood past where native diversity and female body hair are mysteriously absent, but everyone is open-minded (except all men are sexual predators for some reason)
- a longform lecture on the setting
- a bear dating sim
The jumping-on point:
We're about to start Act II, what you might call the main Walking Dead arc of the campaign. New players can take one of the handful of civilian or convict survivors from the settlement of Krestyakh, recently destroyed by a wave of vampires erupting suddenly and mysteriously from the taiga, or be picked up along the way.
The question of what on earth was pushing vampires to migrate over weeks of uninhabited snow and forest has not been resolved.
You might like The Long Dark if you like: frontiers, nonstandard monsters, Northern weirdness, homesteading crafts, Guillermo Del Toro, Nan Shepard, China MiƩville, Ursula LeGuin, more monsters, snow, arguing with Communists, brutal optimisim, Russian novels, trees, soft fluffy winter-coated reindeer, the prospect of death from every angle, being nice to ponies, magic that will
mess you up, horibly losing your sanity, vodka, bears, and even more and weirder monsters.
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