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Game system: Forged in the Dark

Rescue

The Hulk at Low Water

A friend on a prison hulk, a tide that waits for no one, and one night to bring him home.

An original Elrune score for Forged in the Dark. Rules from the Forged in the Dark SRD by One Seven Design, CC BY 3.0; full notice in the licence text. · version 1.0.0

Players
3 to 4
Length
3 to 7 hours
Scenes
10
Maps
4
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The story

In the fog-bound harbour city of Saltreach, debtors who cannot pay are kept on the Patience, an old warship moored in the Narrows, until they are rowed out to an indenture ship on the morning ebb. Three days ago the Debt Court took Marro Quist, the sail-loft master of Stair Quay, who once made every member of the crew the papers they live by. His daughter asks the crew to bring him home before the tide turns. A Forged in the Dark rescue for three or four scoundrels.

A Forged in the Dark score for three or four smugglers, one or two sessions: a plea in a net loft, three ways onto a prison hulk on a foggy night (across the mudflats at low water, on the visitors’ boat, or inside a water cask), a debtors’ deck, a brig below the waterline, a race against the guard boat and the flood tide, and someone waiting at home.

What is inside

  • 3 chapters
  • 10 scenes
  • 4 maps for your library
  • 8 characters to meet
  • 4 handouts for the players
  • Fights on the 3D table, played by the rules
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An original Elrune score for Forged in the Dark. Rules from the Forged in the Dark SRD by One Seven Design, CC BY 3.0; full notice in the licence text. The Hulk at Low Water is an original Elrune score for Forged in the Dark. Its story, characters, places, boards and handouts are Elrune Reserved Material. Rules terms (actions, position and effect, clocks, the engagement roll, flashbacks, heat, downtime) come from the Forged in the Dark SRD. This work is based on Blades in the Dark (found at http://www.bladesinthedark.com/), 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).