One-shot: Wake

We're doing 1-2 page TTRPGs over April and this is another one! This one will be on the spookier side of things, taking place in a dream-like world where everyone there is in a coma. It's played with a standard deck of cards and a d12. If everyone owns Tabletop Simulator (on Steam) then we'll use that as our VTT, otherwise, we'll use Roll20.

GM: Sarah

Brief:

Welcome to the Ward: a stitched-together warren of hospital corridors, of flickering fluorescent bulbs, and dusty waiting rooms, of windows to a vast and suffocating greyness. When you fall into a coma, you come here. You stay here until you find a way to wake up or you die.

It grows more each year; whenever someone falls into a coma, they bring the area around their unconscious body with them into the space. That's why it's mostly hospitals, and why we call it the Ward; there are bedrooms, too, and temples, and if you go deep enough caves. Hungry spectres haunt the forgotten places and crave the warmth of living flesh.

It's run by a cadre of ancients - the Sleepers. Their souls are slick with sin and power, and they trail ghosts behind them as they walk. They don't want to wake up while they can rule here, and they  try to hide the secret of waking as best they can.

You can't stay here; you have business back in the waking world. You're going to wake up or die trying.