Alien Dark - Falling World

System: Alien Dark (2nd Edition)
GM: Alun Rees
Players: 4
Tags: Mature themes | Sci-fi | Horror | Survival Horror | Body Horror

This is a one-shot of the 2nd Edition of my own mechanically light game for play in the 'Alien' or similar survival horror settings. In this session players will take the role of members of a Marine Squad or their attached 'consultant'. They are trying to get back to their base to join and an emergency colony-wide evacuation. The system deliberately builds stress and the mechanisms for managing that rely on emulating the tensions between characters that are central to the Alien franchise; the fate of the characters is bleak and their relationships can suffer. We, the players, know a lot, while the characters know nothing about the 'things' that emerge form the darkness ... as they certainly will ...