Dark Tidings
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It's bad news all the way down in these incursions... body hunters¸ glory hunters¸ gold hunters¸ monster hunters¸ and the hunters who turn back from the abyss.
For use with Trophy Dark¸ or just for your own inspiration.
Dark Tidings comes in 2 forms: an HTML file with custom fonts and interactive features and an EPUB file/ebook.
The HTML file is TTS-friendly¸ responsive to your screen size¸ and has a slew of display controls¸ from colour schemes to text formatting! Not only that¸ it has navigation links to help you traverse the text and built-in generators for creating characters and rolling Conditions and Moments (or¸ each incursion's equivalent). All this is encoded in the file itself¸ so you only have one file to handle¸ just like a .pdf.
Incursions
No Fear (Theme: Ladder)¸ in which a team of mountaineers ascend the world's highest-and deadliest-summit to retrieve the corpse of a very wealthy man on his family's behalf.
Black Star Bolt (Theme: Spectacle)¸ in which far-future speed demons collaborate to win the greatest¸ deadliest¸ most famous spectacle of all: the supercharged murdermachine rally called the Black Star Bolt.
Media inspirations: Redline... and this one Tailenders AMV I watched.
The Degoya Ark (Theme: Offering)¸ in which gold hunters seek a dead priest's stash of hidden wealth in a remote corner of Degoya County¸ New Mexico-if it hasn't already been taken by the Hand of God.
Media inspiration: Nope.
Albatross (Theme: Reversal)¸ an anti-incursion of bittersweet optimism in which the hunters turn back from their goals and desperately try to snatch life from the jaws of death.
Media inspiration: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The Devil of High Rock (Theme: Tale)¸ in which monster hunters slay the titular Devil and return to celebrate their victory in the village that hired them¸ only to find that not everything is as it seems...
Media inspirations: Night on Bald Mountain¸ its animated adaptations (in 1940's Fantasia and 1987's Robot Carnival)¸ and the 1988 film adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm.