Tyler built a hearty, cosmopolitan boxer, Yuri Nekal, for our pulpy investigations in the Horror on the Orient Express. As the Keeper of the game, I've heartily encouraged players to correspond with a backstory character--a Pillar of Sanity, in the parlance of Trail of Cthulhu--who can step in if the lead character is killed or driven beyond the brink of sanity over the course of the investigation. Yuri has been writing and collecting letters for his missing sister for a long

The year is 208X. Augmented reality, or AR, and the dawn of Para-sentient artificial intelligence have transformed the world. Rogue AI manifest by hacking hard light projection technology to spawn in the real world. These are Sprites. Simultaneously, humanity has changed. Modified humans and nanotechnology mean those blessed, or cursed, with augmentation are capable of superhuman feats. Synthetic humanoids, or Synths, bridge the two; Snyths include augmented human cyborgs, re

Our investigation on and off the Simplon-Orient Express continue! Since our last update we've seen: Our investigators meet up with a surviving, if gravely injured Professor Smith and Mr. Beddows. From this pair, they gained clues, tickets, and funding for their journey along the Simplon-Orient Express. Have come to understand that the Sedefkar Simulacrum is a dangerous artifact, statuary that describes an alternate model for humanity. Its eldritch powers must be eliminated an