Go Gentle

Something poisoned the town of Lockwood. No one is sure whether it was radium or strychnine or chemical waste that did it: an unknown toxin turned the groundwater toxic, dyed the soil that fetid, feverish color like a bruised apple, killed hundreds of acres of grass, and sickened Lockwood's people beyond any hope of recovery.

When the prognosis was confirmed terminal, Lockwood as one remanded themselves to the care of the sanatorium just past the graveyard, hiding their faces behind veils, rejecting all visitors. They said they would die together and be buried together: they would have euthanatos, the good death, the death with dignity. 

If you're here, setting foot on that churning, fevered earth, someone you love — or someone you hate — went to die with Lockwood.

If you're here, you've come to disturb their peace.

Go Gentle is an incursion for Jesse Ross's Trophy Dark, a rules-light psychological horror game about treasure-hunters in the woods, and being claimed as a treasure yourself. It was written for the Trophy Trifolds Jam. Go Gentle features four new Occupations, four Drives, and four Rituals, as well as five Rings marking your route to the sanatorium and below — each with its own Terrors and Temptations long buried in the poisoned earth of Lockwood — and five Conditions, to mark the ways that earth has made its claim on you, and ushered you towards your final reward.