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A Secret Chord: An Adventure Zine for The Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG

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A thrilling three act adventure of cosmic horror for The Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG including a crashing ship, a mystery in a colony, and a three-level underground temple. Will you survive the return of Black Emperor as he pierces the veil of reality?

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And I am on a pedestal,

You did not raise me there,

Your laws do not compel me now,

To kneel grotesque and bare.

-Leonard Cohen (1976 AD)

What is A Secret Chord?

A Secret Chord is a thrilling adventure of cosmic horror for The Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG 1e. It will be a 48 page saddle-stitched zine. It is completely playable with the materials included and contains:
  • 4 Adventure Hooks Including a Solo or Wardenless hook
  • A condition for characters: become Harmonic
  • 3 Locations
    • A Ship
    • A Colony
    • A Seven-Level Underground Temple
  • Event Tables
  • Encounter Tables
  • Random Items Table
  • 17 NPCs and Encounters
  • 5 Unique Items
  • 20 Mysterious Visions

Scenario

IRV David's Harp Concept Art

The IRV David’s Harp is a research vessel of Canary Dynamics Ltd., a science think tank funded by Wyman-Isaacs Megacorp, en route to Exeter-II, the solitary moon of a gas giant called Exeter Prime. Exeter-II is the site of the ultra-secret Exeter II Collider Lab, where a classified anomaly was reported by a Wyman-Isaacs Megacorp agent two months ago.

The captain, Boris Huang, has recently fallen in with an offshoot of the Russo-Centauri Church that venerates St. Tropos, the saint of those lost in the void of space. St. Tropos is known to them by his apocryphal name, the Black Emperor.

Can you survive the return of the Black Emperor?

Canary Dynamics Ltd. Patch Design

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Writer: A. Jordan Dewitt

Producer and Dev Editor: Violet Ballard

Copy and Line Editor: Greenspore

Graphic Designer: D.N. Wilkie

Illustrator: Amanda Lee Franck

Mapper: Ben King

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