Players take on the roles of a Chinese family running a restaurant in 1920s San Francisco. They must go through the challenges of running a restaurant, keeping the family morale up, while dealing with customers giving them a hard time. Nighttime holds another set of challenges — jiangshi (hopping vampires) come out and roam the streets in search of victims.
The lives I ended with pistol or pen, now haunt me instead. They gape and gossip at my regrets laid bare; drunkards squabbling over the last pint (of sorrow).
Abyssal is a Forged in the Dark role-playing game about humans, monsters, and the people in between. In this game, you will play a group of no-longerfully-human, not-yet-fully-monsters, called Liminals—people who have been touched by supernatural forces, but not entirely overcome by them—who are working together to accomplish something truly extraordinary.
There is a radius of accidents that have happened that are in a circle around the town, always between 9pm-6am, on the roads that pass through the edges of the circle. Tanner’s End is in the center of the circle.
Three cars crashed last night around 9pm off Hwy 54 outside of Robinson, all drivers claimed fatigue. Two in nearby hospital, one wasn’t injured too bad, lives a town over. Were all passing through, crashed just before reaching bridge.
You’re dragged into a treacherous fantasy world made from your own fears, doubts and desires. There’s only one way to escape - but with limitless adventure within your grasp, would you even want to?
We are coming back together after a long time apart. We were a part of a group that was once close, but went separate ways. We’ll tell the story of who we were then, and who we are now.