Tonight at 7PM Eastern Time, we will be on RPGs Uncovered to talk about Substratum Protocol!
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The latest poll results are in, and today we're going to take at the Barrier Event Horizon depth sector! This sector is a strange one, and depending on the events you roll up, what your table ultimately concludes will be very different. You'll notice that as we travel deeper, the certainty of exactly of what a sector is becomes more fluid.
As players uncover clues, answer portal questions, and gain strange portal influence powers, the world shapes itself around their answers and actions. For that reason, we want to make sure we leave room for their answers to fill the world.
When deciding what each sector would be, I had the idea of a sector that protects the inner core from the rest of the planet, and the barrier itself has strange properties. Perhaps it is why as you descend, the gravity suddenly shifts and changes, and you are climbing upwards towards the core now?
But what would the barrier actually be? This is where the events that are rolled and the clues and theories players have to date really take over. Some of the options we include is a dense field of time that slows all things that enter it, and the scientists feel like they're walking through molasses.
Perhaps it's a massive, sentient organism feeding off the portal's energies and radiating the alpha particle radiation that creates the grove our scientists just came from. Can it communicate with the expedition as they must enter its gel-like that encircles the Inner Core?
Or it's wholly artificial, and we discover another species of scientists quarantining the area through advanced technology. Is it to study the portal? Harvest the energy and power that comes from it?
Scientists may find their voices distorted and garbled, hallucinations as their brains try to process time faster than it is occurring. Pockets of instability see small, unstable interdimensional portals appear and disappear. What comes through?
What we do know, is that the barrier separates the rest of the planet from the raw, unfiltered thing at the center that we call the portal. Once the expedition makes it past the Barrier Event Horizon, all bets are off as to what reality may show us.
