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A downloadable HARDCASE expansion

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TRUTHSEEKER is a Server dedicated to all things mysterious, from alleged alien encounters to cover-ups of corporate misdeeds. Many of the TRUTHSEEKER regulars are just conspiracy-prone loners passing the time, but the Server endures because of their ability to occasionally dig up genuinely shocking revelations.

It’s also an expansion to the Online rules in HARDCASE, featuring 

  • New mechanics: Doomscroll the News, get paid for Remote Work, chase the fleeting pleasures of E-Dating, rediscover Lost Media for Cash or nerd cred, dote on useless Virtual Pets, and buy 24 new items exclusive to Online Shopping!
  • Experience the game's first Deluxe Origin: the HeliOS Cryptid, a new way to play HARDCASE from the perspective of an unprecedented digital intelligence
  • Plus more goodies: a new Vending Machine, more Online Servers and Islands for CONQUEROR, and closer looks at every part of Basement Station!

TRUTHSEEKER adds an optional Mystery subsystem using rules borrowed from Carved from Brindlewood games, with 5 Mysteries to solve using the aid of the titular Server:

  • THE RED SCREEN VIRUS, about a young man lost to a famous urban legend!
  • THE MURDER, about the killing of a poor HC (and the artifact that motivated it)!
  • HER MESSAGE, discerning if the return of the supposedly-undead are real -or just a bizarre ad campaign!
  • THE BOMB, a race against time to find a bioweapon that threatens every living soul on Basement Station!
  • THE C-COLLAPSE, about a digital disaster that threatens to unmake every single Island community in CONQUEROR - and other Online spaces!

TRUTHSEEKER has successfully Itchfunded! Current purchasers will get the final version (with art and layout) once it is complete.

Updated 3 days ago
Published 23 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
AuthorThursday Garreau
Tagscarved-from-brindlewood, Cyberpunk, hardcase, Itch Funding, No AI, PbtA, Solo RPG

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In order to download this HARDCASE expansion you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3.90 USD. You will get access to the following files:

HARDCASE_ TRUTHSEEKER v0.35.pdf 528 kB

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(+1)

thursday, hardcase is a blessing for the solo tpg scene and i can't wait to get my hands on truthseeker asap!!! 

also, im with my fingers crossed that you also end up doing the medieval "hack" that you teased on patreon :)))

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i'm so glad you like HARDCASE! and i definitely have some ideas rattling around for Heroic Chivalry still - it'll show up in the final TRUTHSEEKER doc as a new Island, at the very least!

(+5)

This is a spectacular love letter to the internet and to the lives we live in it. 

framing this one for pride of place on my wall <3