Furano Dossier

Hello again! 

I have a bit of a different kind of post this time, still related to Periphery.

When I run a game I like to provide some "in-world" documents to my players. They serve a few purposes:

  • They give me a strong reference to refer back to when I'm prepping session
  • They help me establish the mood/vibe of my setting
  • They give the players context for the locations and events taking place
  • I try to sprinkle in some bits of information that the PCs can act on if the players are interested observant enough to put the document together with the things they learn during gameplay
Here's a link to one of these documents: Furano Dossier

This document is really a collection of documents. It's snippets of various reports and communications that have been compiled by Beltek, the PCs' (current) employer. They're all related to the Furano mining project. I had a lot of fun writing this - I've work in a very analytical, corporate setting for years, so I was able to draw on my career for tonal inspiration.

If any of you give it a read, let me know what you think. As I expand this setting I'd love to get some outside opinions.

That's all for today. As always, thank you for reading! I think my next post will be a session recap, but we'll see. I have a couple more Periphery documents I may share in the meantime, if I can clean 'em up enough. I'd also like to dip my toe into microfiction, so maybe I'll get bold and have enough free time to try that out.

-Hank

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