Hi Folk,

We’ve been mentioning Summer of Strange on and off in the updates.  A horror anthology series that uses the Wyrd Abacus as the core system.  

It’s a shorter product that was designed as a way for folks get into the Wyrd Abacus and start telling stories while work on Solemn Vale continues.  The ashcan version is priced $1 and has the core Wyrd rules, story hooks and a sample story module over 66 pages.  We’ll be making adjustments to the SoS ashcan as we ramp up to final version release which will be in the 112 page range.  The final version will introduce Northbrook, the town where events unfold, but it will be the basis for a multitude of stories told within the extended Solemn Vale universe.  It’ll also include 4 story modules, 30+ story hooks, town locations, antagonists and some Wyrd Ones.

We will be looking to do more of these ashcan editions on some games such as The Operating System used in The Sigma Syndrome getting a similar treatment. 

Itch Link > https://dirty-vortex.itch.io/summer-of-strange

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Summer of Strange

It’s 1985, and summer is almost here. Everything should be normal: time at the pool, hanging out with friends at the mall, babysitting jobs, the bummer of summer school. 

But everything is not normal. 

Everything is not all right. 

There is something strange in the air, you can’t quite put your finger on it, but it’s there, like an unseen gaze boring into the back of your neck. There are disturbing rumors whispered in the hallways and even weirder stuff on the evening news. Stuff about disappearances, cults, ritual killings, vanished towns and the world on the verge of a cataclysmic nuclear war

There are rumors around town, scary stuff. Escaped prisoners and mental patients, weird religions popping up in people’s basements, secret government projects going on in the woods outside of town. Mass hysteria. You should be getting ready for the fourth of July, fireworks and cook outs, but the weirdness is all around you. You don’t know it yet, but normal’s over and this is the last carefree summer you’ll ever know.

Welcome to the Summer of Strange.

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The DV Team

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