Mercy Falls, Oregon Territory. 1887. A mining town built on grit, secrets, and the promise of prosperity. That promise took a strange turn when a meteor storm lit up the sky—and left behind shimmering fragments of a mysterious material the locals now call Heaven’s Gold.

The fallen metal glows. It hums. It changes things.
Some say it’s a blessing. Others say it’s a curse.

The Chinook people have long spoken of gold that falls from the heavens—a harbinger of endings. Now their stories feel frighteningly real. After a rash of disappearances, the town founder, Edgar Willem Mercifont, has made a desperate announcement: his two teenage daughters were last seen riding into the hills in search of Heaven’s Gold. They never came back.

Edgar has joined forces with Tanik Alu, a Chinookan shaman whose nephew also vanished, to assemble a ragtag team of gunslingers, drifters, scouts, rangers, and scholars. Their mission: to find the missing children and uncover the truth behind the skyborn metal before more lives are lost—and before something far worse awakens.

What they find in the hills may not be of this world.
And it might not want to be found.

Modern day. Focus on writing story, especially witty banter, character development and backstory.

Modern day dark humour.

Every day is the same.

You get home, your jealous siblings have a pop at you. Asking where you have been. Accusing you of being involved in the latest scandal.

But you’re on top of it now. Each evening you come up with a ridiculous story to explain circumstances, wind them up, lay a false trail…take them down.

I would want any player to tell me if I need to adjust to increase their access or inclusion.

All my games are fully inclusive

This story is constructed for just one scene. We can have all the usual enthusiasm of building our characters and starting the game, and tell our tale in one scene.
Of course, if things go well we can add in a second or even a third scene.

Overall, the story explores the themes of creativity, humour, sibling relationships, and controlling behaviour.

It is the year 1774 and it has only been a few months since the first Continental Congress. With the British trying to both punish the colonists for their insubordination and also tighten their hold on colonial life and trade, Plans are in the works for a raid on the poorly-defended Fort William and Mary in nearby Newcastle.

However, things are not so simple. Weak does not mean powerless and while the raiding party is much larger than the garison at the fort, there’s no guarantee that the fort can be taken.

That is where you come in. A society of ne’er do wells who have engaged in crime up and down the New England coast need to make it into the fort and prepare it for the attack to come very soon. Your organization, the Laughing Gulls, knows the coast better than anyone and you might be exactly what the colonists need to secure weapons from the British.

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This is meant to be a swashbuckling, semi-historical and semi-espionage game set in the early days of The American Revolution. Characters are members of a secret society of minor criminals known as the “Laughing Gulls” who have a rather casual relationship with legality. The story centers around infiltrating Fort William and Mary and readying it for a raid that is planned soon.

When a group of teens set out on an ordinary school field trip, they never expected to end up stranded deep in the wilderness. With no adults, no cell service, and no way back, they’re forced to rely on each other—and their instincts—to survive. Friendships are tested, secrets uncovered, and survival becomes a thrilling adventure of courage, wit, and unexpected strength. Lost in the forest, they must build a life from the ground up… or risk falling apart.

The year is 2483.

Fifty kilometers off the coast of a country which has outlawed both, magic users and rogue cyborgs alike survive in the lawless prison that is the city-state of New Kowloon, a contorted maze of twisted skyscrapers that stretch to the sky. The last place their kind can be accepted in East Asia. They are not alone on this floating blight in the South China Sea, though. International crime has found a bastion in New Kowloon, as few laws seem to apply here. They have applied a new motto:

Sex. Drugs. Money. That is what powers this island.

But while the criminals thrive, what of the original inhabitants of this island? What is their place? Well, most of them have placed their allegiance with the main factions now ruling New Kowloon, and crime is now their way of life. From the opulent upper levels to the slums at the bottom, many have made this choice.

Some, who opposed the criminal ways the city turned to, once protested, but none of them lived to tell the tale.

However, a few, though willing to accept crime as their new purpose, aren’t exactly willing to answer to any international overlords. As such, they have been branded with the term ‘Outcasts’.

[THIS IS AN EXPERIEMENT: AKA ME AND MY FRIEND WRITING A NOVEL WITHIN STORIUM. THIS IS NOT A REAL GAME, BUT PLS DO READ IT IF INTERESTED <3]