G A M E Skill Checks iii.

State if Difficulty applies

Call for a skill check from a player iv. Put together dice pool & rolls
Effectiveness
How impactful an action will be.
The Follower
Follower Facets
iv.
v.
War
Death
ix.
x.
Excess
Sin
The Follower Clock
+1 when characters Indulge a Sin, -1d6 when

MASTER when the outcome seems uncertain.

i. Agree on a skill
v. Read highest numbered
determine the outcome.
die and Levels: zero, reduced, standard (most
common) and increased
i.
ii.
Collapse
Famine
vi.
vii.
Deception
Greed
xi.
xii.
Fire
Development
characters move between worldscapes.

ii. State Effectiveness iii. Scarcity viii. Rapaciousness

Skills Rolling » -1d on the roll if difficulty applies Stress • Take stress when you are harmed in any way.
PLAYER Analyse, Tinker, Convince, Move Choose a skill and roll that number of D6, reading the » +1d if assisted or using an item. Start with 0. At 6 stress you are Impaired (-1d) at 12 • Reduce stress by indulging sins (remove 1d6 Stress,
highest number on the dice. you are Helpless
Helpless. tick Follower Clock)
• 2 or more 6s = critical, 6 = full success, 4 or 5 = • Push Yourself for 1 stress or take a Devil’s Bargain
mixed success, 1, 2, 3 = fail. to add +1d to your roll or assist another player.
 LEFT PANEL The Gates Of Heaven
peace – bargains – wisdom at a cost – superficial beauty
E1: ENTRY. The characters are greeted by a beautiful, tranquil garden scene. They stand on
the shore of a smooth lake with a strange sculpture on it. Soft harp music can be heard
throughout the garden.
Questions: What does the sculpture represent? What is the lake filled with?
D1: Two unicorns drink from the lake. They offer to carry the characters to somebody who can
help them. Safe passage to F2.
Questions: There is a price to accepting this offer. What is it? Are these beasts really unicorns, or
are they something else?
B1: A spire made from a griffin’s skull. The birds dance through it, singing a hymn which can be
heard for miles around. As the characters come closer, the sounds grow more cacophonous
and dissonant, until they are almost unbearable.
F2: A wise man who claims to be able to command any creature in his domain, he will warn the
characters of one of the Garden Dangers listed above. He has a son and a daughter, both of
whom are looking for a good match. If the characters agree to marry one of his children,
he offers them a great boon: he has many servants in the Garden, and they may be called
thrice to the aid of the group.
Questions: What is evil about this prospective bride and groom? Why do they make their new
spouse’s skin crawl? What wicked plan are they hatching?
D2: The Spire. The small creatures who live in the sculpture demand a toll for any creature
wishing to cross the rest of the lake to the island.
Question: What is the toll?
D3: A hungry giraffe and hyena wander across the landscape. They are emaciated, having refused
to eat any of the delicious treats offered in the garden. They warn the characters not to
give into temptation, but there is a desperate look in their eyes as they eye up mortal flesh.
Questions: What do the pair represent? What are their names?
H3-4: A murky pit opens up in the ground, leaking sulphur as horrifying beasts and imps covered
in tar jump in and out, flies buzzing on the surface. This is the character’s first glimpse of
the true hell exhibited in The Underbelly. If the characters jump into the pit, they can
follow a tunnel which leads all the way through to D14. But the way is gruesome, dark, and
dangerous, with multiple hellish creatures lurking in the pitch blackness.
D4: The island. Rats, lizards and odd shellfish crawl into a cave. Characters who approach the
cave are drawn in by a beautiful song coming from within. In the pitch darkness of the cave,
CENTRAL PANEL RIGHT PANEL The Pleasure Gardens
flowers – games – death – lies – hunger – hedonism
H5: Formless humanoids in a group dance to the tune of a foreign wind instrument. The group is
challenged to a game: whoever can balance an apple on their head throughout an entire song
gets to keep it.
Questions: What makes the apple so desirable? What is the forfeit for losing the game?
F5/G5/F6: A couple embrace on a pleasure-boat in the garden. The boat is paddled by another man,
chained inside its hull. He’s starving, and squeaks loudly as he works to lure in water-rats for his
next meal. If the characters do something to impress the couple, they are willing to take them
to any body of water in the Pleasure Gardens.
E5: A flurry of larger-than-life songbirds have enslaved a group of humans to do their bidding. When
the group approaches, the birds will surround them, intent on eating the characters. If the
characters try to persuade them otherwise, the songbirds challenge them by asking how many of
them have eaten flesh or fowl in their life. If the characters try to get the humans to help them,
it will be Difficult as the bird’s slaves are terrified of being eaten themselves. If the characters
don’t find a smarter way out of this quickly, they may have to try to fend them off or flee as the
birds descend.
Questions: Are the birds truly hungry, or do they just want revenge? Is there anything the birds want
more than to feast on human flesh?
G6: The Bauble: A group of humans crawl in and out of a hollow pink bauble. Whilst they seem to
be enjoying each other’s company, they also explain that they are looking for something very
important, and they won’t allow anyone to leave the area until it is found.
Question: What are they looking for?
C6: A column of men and women on horses ride out from between the limbs of a great statue. Behind
them, fully armoured merfolk also congregate. Both sides claim they’re going to fight a ‘flower
war’ to entertain themselves. But if this is allowed to come to fruition, both sides rip each other
apart in a brutally violent manner.
Question: Why does everyone else in the garden find this so entertaining?
G7: A man tries to sneak through the festivities, carrying a heavy clam containing a dead body on
his back.
Question: Who was murdered? Why is the man trying to hide his crime?
B7: A swimming group surrounds a blackberry, desperately trying to take bites out of it. They seem
unaware that the fruit has been replaced by a wooden replica, while a couple behind them laugh
and make bets on how long it will take them to notice.
Questions: Why do the swimmers seem so oblivious? What will they do when they realise the
deception?
E7/D8/E9: A group of beasts of all forms join a joyful parade. When asked, they say they are going
to hunt. They look at humans who approach them with humorous pity, as though they know
The Underbelly
sulphur – violence – monstrosity – hellfire – destruction – torture
G14: A gaming table is overturned by a demon upset at losing his hand of cards. He leaps upon
one of his unfortunate opponents, stabbing them multiple times as spectators shriek in
horror.
Questions: Who is the rat-demon in the background? What are the consequences of interrupting
a game before it is complete?
E14: The characters realise that the beautiful music playing through the garden is actually
being created by two men, chained to a giant harp and forced to play it for all eternity.
Question: What happens if the music stops playing?
C14: Larger-than-life animated knives slice through giant ears and other body parts. The
blood which streams out is incredibly hot, and badly burns anyone unlucky enough to
be splattered by it.
Question: Are the knives hostile, or are the characters simply too small to be of any interest to
dismember?
F15: A group of emaciated men try desperately to lift a bugle as another plays. They are
attempting to help the tiny imp trapped inside to escape.
Question: What reward has the imp promised?
D15: Many people are making a pilgrimage to the Tree Man seeking guidance. He is a wise
and kind creature, who will answer three questions about the world without asking for
anything in return. If any of the characters ask for his name (Henry), he offers them one
of his own possessions (whatever they ask, within reason) as gratitude for their politeness.
Question: How was this creature created? What does he represent?
C15: On top of the Tree Man’s head, demons parade in pairs with their human victims, to the
tune of an enormous bagpipe.
Question: Why are they performing this ritual?
F16: An enormous bird on a throne receives his tribute in the form of humans to devour. This
creature, called Fisher, is the king of the life-sized birds seen throughout the rest of the
worldscape.
Question: King Fisher has a job for the group if they wish to pass unharmed. What is it?
E15/16: A lake covered with treacherously thin ice, people drag sleds across it hoping not to fall
into the freezing water. The lake smells faintly of sulphur and the water is very acidic.

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the exit immediately becomes invisible. Characters who try to feel their way out find that something you don’t.
he Garden of Earthly Delights is a Key Follower Facets
the walls feel like soft velvet rather than stone. Question: What happens when the hunt begins?
painting which confronts the idea of i. Greed
Question: The cave is populated with small biting insects. What disease do they carry? F9: People crowd into a red tree-trunk ruled over by giant birds. Everyone seems desperate to crawl the corrupting influence of sin. ii. Sin
under the tree, but they come out with missing limbs. The trunk is soaked in blood.
The characters find themselves in a beautiful iii. Excess
Question: Why do the people keep coming?
garden, which delights the eye and the rest Challenges and Dangers
C9: The Dance-hall on the Lake: A naked group of thespians and acrobats act out passion plays on of the senses. As they explore, they discover • When you agree to play a game in the
a floating blue fountain. Initially, their plays seem biblical, but the longer you watch, the more
that the people in the garden behave without Garden, you must see it through, no
they seem to resemble scenes from the lives of the characters.
inhibition, enjoying stranger and more matter how strange it becomes… unless
Question: Why is it so difficult to tear your eyes away? What is the price for continuing to watch?
dangerous pleasures the further they travel. you can convince someone to take your
F10: A desperate, thin man bargains over the purchase of a large fish to eat. He offers gold and silver, Eventually, the characters realise that what place.
but the shopkeepers want something else.
they are seeing is not the delights of the Earth, • Behind every reward is a hidden catch –
Question: What is the price of the fish? but the tortures of Hell. and demons lurk in the fairest of disguises.
C10: A stork holds a delicious looking fruit high over the heads of a group of people caught in a This worldscape is a worldscape of untruths • Everyone in the Garden is constantly
Venus flytrap. and illusions. Magicians will show visions to hungry. The more you eat, the more you
Question: Is there any way to help the people escape the trap? What do they offer as a reward? the characters in order to try to make them feel the urge to sate your hunger, and
D11: Father Rabbit: A fish eating another fish is carried overhead by a group of revellers. On top of linger, or stray off their path through the starving people will do desperate things
the structure, commenting sardonically about the ridiculousness of it all, is an old hare. One of worldscape. for a bite of flesh.
the revellers believes the hare is Satan in disguise. GM NOTE: This hexcrawl is far longer than Silver Lining
Question: Is she right? the others, so be wary of the character’s Stress The Tree Man in D15 is a wise and kindly
G12: An underground pub and hostel known as The Hollow Under The Hill, this place offers room levels. However, not every part of the garden creature, who will answer three questions
for weary travellers to stay the night, eat and rest. The innkeeper, Procrustes, has a sinister is intended to be as dangerous as some of the about the world without asking for anything
demeanour to him…
other worldscapes. Some challenges may not in return. If any of the characters ask for his
F12: A many-limbed creature with an owl’s torso and head demands that passersby answer riddles if need a roll, or the characters can choose to name (Henry), he offers them one of his own
they wish to proceed in safety. The creature is actually a disguised marilith (page 40), which
sacrifice something other than Stress to get possessions (whatever they ask, within reason)
attacks the group if they get three wrong answers.
out of a tough situation. as gratitude for their politeness.