Home Again

Last night ended the maiden voyage of the HMT Cataphract, the first great overland engine of war. Six hours into the New Year's detente, the chief engineer of that earth-shaking steel dreadnaught cooked himself alive in the engine room, burnt to specks of carbon in an instant.

With no one to maintain the Cataphract, and the war ending, you have no choice but to turn back for fairer shores. The journey was long, and the engine that brought you here has turned strange, its esoteric instruments of war rotting in its guts. But as long as it can still move, just a little while longer, you can go home. You can still go home.

Home Again is an Incursion for Jesse Ross's Trophy RPG, a psychological horror game about driven, desperate treasure-hunters, the claims they make on the Temptations that drive them, and the Terrors that claim them in turn. Home Again follows the crew of the HMT Cataphract at the end of a long, brutal winter war,  finally returning to their homeland in the slowly disintegrating war-machine that has quartered and sheltered them for years of combat, maintaining esoteric munitions and strange engines that they barely understand. But it may prove difficult to cross the same river twice. Their homeland isn't waiting for them. Maybe something else is. Loosely inspired by Calum Grace's A Nocturne, Metal Gear Solid and WWII-era "wonder weapons."

In this incursion, you'll find:

• Four new Occupations and Backgrounds - why crew this rotting hulk?
• Six Armaments - esoteric, ritually-controlled instruments of war
• Six new Conditions - because you're not the same person who left
• Five Rings to carry you from frozen, suspicious front lines to the bosom of your homeland in the Cataphract's loving embrace

Home Again was written for the Trophy Trifolds jam.

This work is based on Trophy, product of Jesse Ross and Hedgemaze Press, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Trophy is adapted from Cthulhu Dark with permission of Graham Walmsley. Trophy is also based onBlades in the Dark, product of One Seven Design, developed and authored by John Harper, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Trophy™ is a trademark of Hedgemaze Press. The Rooted in Trophy Logo is © Hedgemaze Press, and is used with permission.

Dicey by Speak the Sky is licensed under CC-BY 4.0.