Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition > One Shot 7 individuals are offered a rather large sum of money to test out The Cage of Morpheus, a new geocaching puzzle game for iPhone and Android. The company has promised to have fixed the annoying music from the first version and simply need to make a few polishing adjustments before full release. Seems simple enough, right?
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy After the extensive Section 31 debriefs and other discussions that in no way ever happened, The U.S.S. Aster is sent to the Carina System to investigate some strange anomalies. Children born on the colony are aging rapidly, plants grown for winemaking are rapidly withering and structures meant to last decades are only lasting a year or two. A solution to this problem must be found soon or the entire system might become uninhabitable.
World of Darkness > Echoes After setting their sights on the Lancea Sanctum stronghold beneath the National Shrine of the Little Flower, the players decide to…actually follow through this time! Going into the depths of the high tech vampire haven will perhaps give the Coterie the first glimpse of what has happened to all the Kindred of Detroit. But while everyone is down in the vault, who is watching the front door?
Nights Black Agents > The Dracula Dossier 2: Knowledge and Memory After infiltrating Ring and expecting the fight of his life, Mr. Durin comes face to face with the Lord of Ring: codenamed Osprey. Though he expects a fight and punishment for his bad moves, Osprey seems amenable to giving information and being extremely helpful in these matters. However, as Mr. Durin will soon discover; in the spy game, NOTHING comes without its price.
Delta Green > One Shot Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is a tragedy when it occurs naturally. But one mother’s premonitions about her son’s death lead her to pick up the phone. She fumbles in her address book, passing doctors, lawyers, and respectable colleagues to find the last page, a page merged only with a small green triangle…. “Hello? Agent Charlie?”
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy The U.S.S. Aster has been though a lot within the Bassen Rift. They have discovered 2 new species, investigated strange phenomena, and succeeded in a battle of wits against a merciless weapon system. With all obstacles behind them, the team finally has a chance to dig deep into the heart of the Podell conflict and find an answer to a question that has been on the minds of Star Trek fans for 29 years.
Delta Green > One Shot Delta Green is sometimes sent to do someone else’s dirty work. It is an unfortunate side-effect of being a legitimate government organization. When a trip is triggered at an abandoned, top secret facility, Delta Green gets the mission. However, it seems that Agent Charlie has other ideas….
Invisible Sun > The Melody of Things Lost and Found Our heroes NEED to do something about this case. All indications point to this thing containing something horrible, but what exactly IS it? Tonight we see our players venture beyond the walls of Satyrine and out into the wonderful worlds of the other Suns. Unfortunately for them, their ability to not take things seriously might just cause them more trouble than they anticipated.
Other > One Shot Once again, the PFA team met at Gencon 2019 in Indianapolis IN. In this wrap-up for the 2018-2019 season, we discuss our favorite RPG moment from the past year and things to look forward to for the 2019-2020 season. As always, if you have any suggestions or comments, please email us at jjanicki@penguinfringedabyss.com or use the Contact Us form at the top of this page.
World of Darkness > Echoes After setting their sights on the Lancea Sanctum stronghold beneath the National Shrine of the Little Flower, the players decide to…go the opposite direction? (GM twitch….) Perhaps investigating the area where court is traditionally held might yield more clues. Upon arriving at the Detroit Opera House, a picture starts to take shape. Unfortunately, all indications point to more than a simple communications breakdown for Baron Kerensky’s domain.
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy With the ship trapped in the Podell graveyard and the Echo Papa 607 threatening to tear the ship apart, the crew of the U.S.S. Aster is in a jam. Fortunately, the quick thinking crew has some ideas on how to get to safety that would put any Star Trek writer to shame…Assuming it works.
Delta Green > One Shot Trigger Warning: Explicit content involving violent sexual assault Sometimes crime makes no sense. Sometimes the passions of the criminally insane seem unexplainable. But are they? Delta Green is asked to put together a team to investigate a seemingly random set of murders where the only connection seems to be their lunch order. However, as we will all soon learn, something MUCH more deplorable may be behind it.
Nights Black Agents > The Dracula Dossier 2: Knowledge and Memory With his anti-vampire training with the Vatican in full swing, Robert Durin is becoming more and more troubled by the events happening in the outside world. As the newly dubbed “St. Colette’s Virus” sweeps through England, it is looking more and more likely that Edom may be behind it. The only way to find out seems to be to infiltrate an Edom stronghold and find the connection. But what Mr. Durin actually finds at Ring might be...
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy After their encounter with the Romulans within The Neutral Zone, The U.S.S. Aster is finally heading back into the Bassen Rift in search of the Podell Homeworld. Upon arriving at the designated coordinates, they find the entire system surrounded in a much-more-intense version of the Rift’s usual shroud. What will they find as they boldly (and blindly) go into the system? Let’s find out as the next adventure of the U.S.S. Aster gets underway!...
Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition > One Shot The windswept moors of England have been the inspiration for many a spooky mystery story. Tonight, a brother and sister hire a private eye to investigate the disappearance of a relative last known to be hiking near Old Ravenscar. Aside from a mark on a map, their doesn’t seem to be much there. No residences and no stores. Only an ancient church and collapsed manor house greet them. Seems like a long and boring search…until the rain begins to fall....
World of Darkness > Echoes The Domain of Detroit MI has gone dark for long enough. When Prince Maxwell Clark’s second ghoul retainer disappears, he decides to send in an investigative team from the kindred population of Chicago to perform recon-in-force. However, it seems like ever vampire covenant has business in Detroit and the Coterie’s hands will be full. Welcome to Echoes, www.penguinfringedabyss.com’s first World of Darkness campaign featuring several new players.
Delta Green > One Shot When a medical worker is fired for posting a video of something Unnatural online, Delta Green immediately jumps into action. The Tormiss Z-17 is quickly gaining popularity for its seeming perfect record. Not one single patient implanted with it has had a cardiac event and, aside from a small recovery period, has no complications. Medical science is calling it a miracle, but Delta Green knows all too well the high cost of “miracles”.
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy Fresh off of their latest patrol of the Neutral Zone, the U.S.S. Aster is on course to return to exploring the Bassen Rift. While en-route, they receive a signal from Starfleet that their sister ship, the U.S.S. Nightingale, has entered the Neutral Zone due to a navigational error. It appears that the Romulans have attacked the small ship and plan to tow it back to Romulus as a trophy. But something doesn’t seem quite right. How did the Nightengale ALS...
Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition > One Shot Welcome to the Lakeside Coffee House: the premier destination for all things hipster within the Pine County Artist Enclave. Tonight is the night of their monthly poetry slam, where the locals drink coffee, eat pastries, and listen to mediocre rhymes spun by their peers. Unfortunately, one of their number has succumbed to a strange infection and soon it will become a race against time to get out of this Mythos inspired escape room.
Invisible Sun > The Melody of Things Lost and Found Following right in from our previous episode, we watch as Master Alexi tries to summon an information imp to help him try to figure out what to do. What he ACTUALLY summons, using Verston Card’s amplifier, is something MUCH more powerful. Is the fact that our Vislae aren’t dead in the first 5 minutes a tribute to Alexi’s prowess? Or is something much more sinister going on? As the full revelations begin to take shape, one question remains…wh...
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy The crew of the U.S.S. Aster has discovered a mysterious ship of unknown manufacture within the Bassen Rift. This derelict seems to hold many questions and few answers. What happened to the crew? Why are their 200 year old Klingons aboard? What is this weird tree thing on the bridge? Time to apply science to it until we discover the truth…or blow up the Aster in the process.
Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition > One Shot 4 people, unrelated aside from being on board the same airplane, are plummeting to their deaths. Darkness envelops them but they do not die. They can hear and touch things around them, but cannot see. Suddenly, their eyes are opened and they appear…different. What happened? Is this Death? Purgatory? Hell? Who (or what) is doing this? And the most important question of all, Why?
Nights Black Agents > The Dracula Dossier 2: Knowledge and Memory With the notes of the old team finally translated in his hands, Robert Durin has some important decisions to make. He knows that items within these notes lead the previous team towards the road to destruction and needs to ensure the same does not befall him. They had a team and he is all alone. Perhaps he should look for allies? But who can he trust?
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy Welcome to the Final Frontier! These are the voyages of the Starship U.S.S. Aster, a unique modular test bed for new technologies and ideas. Her mission: to explore the Bassen Rift, a unique and mysterious region of space that has been very difficult for Starfleet to investigate due to the EM fouling in the area. What will these intrepid explores find? Find out in our new Star Trek Campaign: Cowboy Diplomacy!
3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars > The 5800th Band of Klavas Welcome back to the Third Expeditionary Force: 16th Brigade! After a far-to-long hiatus, we rejoin the 5800th Band of Klavas aboard the T.F.S. Glasgow. With their brand new ship in tow, Captain Syban is not resting on his laurels. The next planet is one of their most dangerous yet as the 5800th and the 3:16 will be facing their most dangerous foe yet, corrupted soldiers of the SECOND Expeditionary force!
Fiasco > One Shot On board the U.S.S. Saddleback, things are not going well. She was supposed to be on a simple operation taking some egghead civilians to an island in the middle of nowhere to do God knows what. When they came back they were being chased by what looked like half the German army! The Sub went deep as the Kriegsmarine showed up not long after. Now, at crush depth and with water trickling in, a new sound reverberates through the sub. Whatever it is, it is nothing compared to the...
Delta Green > One Shot Delta Green has lost contact with a team sent to investigate the FUNLAND amusement park. Normally, DG would cover up the losses, quarantine the area, and move along. But when Agent Charlie finds out about the DG cover-up, she responds by going off the grid and sending her own team in to investigate. After all, if DG won’t save their own, who will?
Fiasco > One Shot A massacre on a rooftop. A city wrapped in chaos. It’s Hong Kong, 1997. The British are finally pulling out and are leaving in their wake a power vacuum that promises to turn the whole place into a pressure cooker. Through it all, 3 people are playing a most dangerous game. But what are they willing to do to achieve victory? It’s sure to start in blood and end in an ignominious Fiasco!
Invisible Sun > The Melody of Things Lost and Found Our intrepid Vislae descend into Verston Card’s basement only to find…not what they expected. A massive maze and increasingly esoteric items abound as they explore the vast underground chamber. What will they find at the end? WILL they even find the end? And what is the source of that strange magical humming permeating the area? Find out on this week’s episode of The Melody of Things Lost and Found.
Fiasco > One Shot Las Vegas Nevada: It’s the place where the dregs dream of making it big and the rich play to their hearts content (regardless of who gets stepped on). Tonight we spotlight several people either down on their luck, or very soon to be so. With hookers, lawyers, crooked cops and “Big Johnsons” abound, the results are sure to be a Fiasco.
