The Luminious Scroll

I'll be running a Mothership 1e game called Within the Charnel of Dreams at Kublacon Prime 2026. Rules light Mothership mechanically leans into roll-your-own sci-fi horror themes with deadly combat that encourages flight over fight, and a well-wrought panic mechanism that pushes the PCs further down the death-spiral through a cascade of poor life choices – if you like that sort of thing. My game draws on influences from the cassette-futurism of Outland, remixed with a little of Michael Mann's Tangerine Dream scored and smoke-machine drenched horror-war-flick The Keep. Without giving away too much, there's some in-your-face H.R. Giger inspired aesthetics if (or rather when) things go suitably wrong.

I debuted this game to friends at the Dead of Winter Horror Invitational last December, and also ran it at Dundracon earlier this year for a great group that really leaned into the genre. I intend to publsh this scenario (and several other convention one-shots I've run over the years) under a Creative Commons license on this site in the future.

Stop by and say hello if you're at Kubla.