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Cult of Mörkius

Concept: “It's Mörkin' time. #MörkiusSweep”
Content: The story of Otel Deraj and a plague of Mörkius apologists.
Writing: Interesting mechanics for a hypnotic monster. Its fangs are drip with satire.
Art/design: Arguably classier than its original subject matter.
Usability: Whatever you do, do not praise Mörkius. That’s how it begins. 

Cult of the Blood God

Concept: “‘... AND AS I SIPPED OF THE CONCOCTION PRESENTLY I WAS SHOWN VIVID SIGHTS OF A BLACK FIELD GROWN FULL OF THOSE SAME FLOWERS I HAD INGESTED… AND FINALLY I KNEW I HAD ENTERED THE FORGOTTEN DIMENSION OF BLOOD ...’”
Content: A drug-fueled, rage-filled, blood-slick temple crawl—and berserker death race.
Writing: A lovingly crafted starter adventure, that guides new scvm through a bloodthirsty rage dungeon.
Art/design: Cunningly designed mini-maps, clever symbols, and layout blend utility and aesthetics seamlessly.
Usability: Not quite printer-friendly, but as legible as it is gorgeous.

Cult of the Bubbling Waters

Concept: “The cult dedicates the last of their wretched lives to procuring and using the luxurious bubble baths in this abyssal hellscape.”
Content:
Tenets and random tables for those seeking to enjoy the Warm Embrace
Writing:
As with any cult, alternatingly cheery and welcoming or seethingly malicious
Art/design:
Primarily text with graphic elements to aid use
Usability:
Faster than a real bath and almost as pleasant 

Cultists of Dying Gods

Concept: “Many of those in the dying world still cling to dying gods—ironically, inquisitors most of all. Most of these dying gods need you to torture or be tortured.”
Content:
Includes stats for various cultists and rules for torture and trauma; some interesting rules interactions
Writing: Clear and concise with entertaining cultural and metagame references
Art/design:
Nice public domain art (some color-enhanced) sets the tone for individual cults
Usability:
Pstress rules are a bit complex but robust rather than complicated

Cults of Galgenbeck

Concept: “It’s the end times, but that doesn’t mean you have to lie down and die! Get your head in the game.” 
Content: A 2-4 player hybrid dice/card game of fanatical cult leadership and desperate political machinations.
Writing: A stylistic delivery of mechanics that encourages the kind of foul play that cult leadership entails. 
Art/design: A fully distressed tri-fold pamphlet design with simple, and dramatic white text on a black background.
Usability: It will kill your printer, but it might just be worth it. 

Cultus Incendium

Concept: “We must destroy the world before it can be taken from us.”
Content:
An apocalyptic fire cult
Writing:
Includes the heretical creed, stats for NPCs, and mechanics for gaining new adherents
Art/design:
Color delineates descriptive from mechanical text and adds emphasis in the lore
Usability:
A versatile, scalable supplement that can provide small encounters, recurring antagonists, and larger strife

D'ugax

Concept: "In the city of North Gate, the Church of Abundance, worshipers of the goddess Zovra, hires the party to retrieve a stolen holy relic – the jawbone of their saint. 

Meanwhile, a strange symbol is seen around town – a  skull, with a moth in its mouth, and a single eye on its forehead." 
Content: An investigation into the cults of plenty, and their demons.
Writing: Scripted structure establishes witness and suspect statements. Contingent events sketch a timeline of events.
Art/design: Consistent and sturdy single-column layout, thematic cover art, with art of major locations and NPCs.
Usability: Flow of events requires pre-reading. Table of contents and strong section headings for ease of reference. 

Damnation

Concept: “HELL IS EMPTY, AND ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE.” 
Content: Twenty fiends, mortal and infernal. The conflicts of Demon and Basilisks. And two new classes for suffering scvm.
Writing: Excruciating and gratuitous torment, exquisitely detailed excess. Diametrically opposed forces in conflict. You know, demons.
Art/design: A tastefully restrained selection of torture illustrations, all painted red, adorn this infernal textscape. 
Usability: Available in a, less bloody, print-friendly version.  

Dead Festival 3

Concept: “A hallowed night has come” 
Content: “A Forbidden Psalm and Last War Annual mini-expansion for the spookiest of months”
Writing: Understated official briefings on four harrowing subterranean misadventures and a desperate last stand against the dark.
Art/design: Found documents and strangely doctored battlefield illustrations and photographs.
Usability: Requires Forbidden Psalm core rules or The Last War variant. 

Death Ziggurat in the Forest

Concept: “King Sigfúm the Kind has heard news of a suicide cult... (bring) him the cult leader dead or alive.”
Content: A cult leader knapping forest crawl.
Writing: A table of general locations, encounters, and treasure classes to outline your own adventure.
Art/design: Gray as a tomb, with a backdrop of the Sarkash forest, and headstone-reminiscent serif fonts. 
Usability: Available in printer-friendly-ish gothic gray. Separate png with a numbered map. 

Ecdysis

Concept: “Ecdysis / (ˈɛkdɪsɪs) /the periodic shedding of the cuticle in insects and other arthropods” 
Content: A sonorous ascension from the depths of Sarkash.
Writing: An emergent horror vignette of insular cults and deep dark secrets.
Art/design: A consistent scratched and blotted illustration style the projects clear menace and dread. You can almost hear it.
Usability: Strong visual styling that does not hamper its utility. 

Elk Deathyard

Concept: “Among the dead and those that refuse to stay still, even the accursed fear the true silence.  
When you can’t hear anything but your breathing, you might be
close to the-”
Content: A Tveland Cabin Crawl.
Writing: Supernatural horror. Full of foreboding. With shocks and twists as well as horror tropes.
Art/design: Design elements emphasize a descent into darkness.
Usability: Mini-map, representative spot illustrations, and clean layout aid in table reference. 

Eskire, Crimson Mask, Winter Husk, & Swampkin

Concept: “Scribbles to die by”
Content: A four-part creature feature.
Writing: Combat mechanics help define narrative function.
Art/design: Jagged lines carve out miserable creatures.
Usability: Stylized yet legible. 

Fiendish food & hunger-related madness

Concept: “‘A food and cooking related supplement ideal for the alimentation of the wretched... Recommanded by 9 out of 10 dead prophets” 
Content: Misery and eateries. Roadside meals for scvm, The Meat Cult, cooking on the trail, heartburn (and worse), mushrooms, supplements, a menu, and a fucking demon.
Writing: Highly stylized, specific, darkly funny. Designed to generate those memorably Miserable moments scvm know and love, and to let players embrace their awful characters. 
Art/design: Crammed with all the provisions they could muster. A smorgasbord of fonts, illustrations, and layout structures.
Usability: Stylized, yes. Legible, mostly. Organized... better than it first appears. 

Flagellants

Concept: “An ever growing bleeding serpent.”
Content: A masochistic mob.
Writing: Clinical depictions of mortifying marches and penitential parades to Galgenbeck. Mechanics that guarantee misery to friends and enemies alike.
Art/design: Mechanical text is splattered in sanguineous hues while claustrophobic descriptive text like the crush of expiating bodies.
Usability: Mechanics isolated for easy reference. 

For the Moon

Concept: “Worshipers of the celestial sphere... crafted this helmet as a gift for their prophet ‘Moönface’”
Content: A glowing spheric helmet with an attractive quality.
Writing: Amusingly understated and delightfully literal.
Art/design: An elegant moon prophet belies a ridiculous helmet. 
Usability: Don’t get caught in the wrong orbit. 

From Beyond the Endless Sea

Concept: “Cultists, Bloodhawks, secret island temples, wands channeling the Black Wind, loopy hippies, gnarly artifacts, zombified townsfolk, and the ability to loot your bosses' house - and much more - await you.”
Content: A frenzied mob is overtaking Grift, do something about it.
Writing: Deified mob violence unifies multiple sessions in Grift and provides a potential antagonist for long-term play.
Art/design: Design elements convey the compulsions of a waking god. Consistent use of public domain image backdrops.
Usability: Thoughtful design elements on a large-scale aid in utility and navigation. 

Göran's Reavers

Concept: “Göran is the son of a mighty chief whose lack of devotion to the gods of blood ended when Göran ate his face. Now he rules his reavers with an iron fist and a savage spiked axe. His title as Usurper is coveted.”
Content: A faction of reavers worshiping gods of blood.
Writing: Backgrounds and mechanics complicate and enrich a faction that might otherwise be monolithic.
Art/design: A clean legible layout full of bloody worship.
Usability: Drop wherever you need a little more blood.

Hatred

Concept:
“Burn them all vvitches and wizards
set fire to all that bring the miseries”
Content: An inquisition-powered torture-crawl.
Writing: Effective description makes a surprisingly painless experience to run.
Art/design: Sharp illustrations gird single-column descriptions of a bloody-minded cult.
Usability: Legible and easy to reference. 


Holy Artifacts of the Sacred Tragedies

Concept: “The powers and locations of artifacts made from the remains of the Sacred Tragedies... that gives insight into the Order of Her Devoted Midwives sect”
Content: Three single-sheet pamphlet adventures, and one on a new sect of the One Trve Faith.
Writing: A plausibly disturbing take on Basilisk worship which ties the adventures together into a larger optional campaign.
Art/design: A consistent palette makes for a cohesive collection, while exploration of contrast differentiates each pamphlet.
Usability: Well designed for use as a physical prop at the table. Get them in print if you can. 

Johan’s Forest

Concept: “A mini adventure and a callback to Ancient Skin” 
Content: A desperately venomous little pointcrawl.
Writing: Head-turning depictions like, “At night they merge into one giant bird-snake."
Art/design: Miserable little trees, a filthy little creek, and a few other happy little accidents. 
Usability: A quick sketch for an in-media-res forest crawl. 

Kavlov’s Sanctuary

Concept: “Explore the dread-filled halls of Kavlov's Sanctuary and uncover the ancient secrets and betrayals that could determine the fate of the world. But be warned, your actions have consequences” 
Content: A demon-bound mega-dungeon crawl. A campaign setting with 13 unique dungeon locations, 5 new classes, monsters, bosses, magic items, and gear.
Writing: An interwoven series of thematic dungeons centered on demonic corruption.
Art/design: A dense but visually organized two-column layout, with classic grid maps and charming comic illustrations.
Usability: Color-coded dungeon locations aid navigation. Separate maps provided. 

Kult of the Ouroboros

Concept: “In the sacred sanctuary, Job patiently awaits, extending an offer of transcendence and deliverance from the ever-watchful gaze of oblivion.” 
Content: A karmic snake kult crawl.
Writing: Full of moral quandaries your scvm will probably ignore, which might arguably be for the best. Transcendence is subjective.
Art/design: Delightfully detailed overhead map, and characterful NPC illustrations stylistically placed highlight a structured two-column adventure layout.
Usability: Minimalist minimap makes for easy room orientation reference during play. 

Kult Proroka Pnączy (The Cult of the Vine Prophet)

Concept: “Odkryj tajemnicę złowrogiego Kultu Proroka Pnączy i staw czoła jego groźnym wyznawcom w ekscytującym jednostronicowym module do Mörk Borga!” 
Content: A overgrown, larva-infested, basement cult-crawl.
Writing: A convincing cult hideout. With agency, ecology, and ingenuity. Captured in a moment.
Art/design: Grimy and vine-choked isometric map captures a moment in time.
Usability: Stylish and organized. Polish & English language. 

Long Nights

Concept: “A skeletal creature, a prophet and philosopher, dwells upon a mountain of flesh. His touch grants power, escape, and ecstasy; but he is stingy.”
Content: A nocturnal collection of one desert, four monsters, and ten artifacts.
Writing: Deliciously ambiguous. Full of tantalizing details to expand upon at your table.
Art/design: A saturated full-color layout as textured as the dunes and spacious as a desert night.
Usability: Gorgeous and dark. Guaranteed to kill inkjet printers. 

Malleus Mörkicarum

Concept: “Foul witchcraft abounds in these dying lands.” 
Content: Witches and devils the inquisition warned you about, and the fanatics they didn’t. Curses abound for an unfortunate scvm.
Writing: Some clever wordplay and mechanics liven familiar inquisitorial tropes.
Art/design: Illustrated trappings of diabolism and inquisition sprinkle the text. 
Usability: Interaction of text and background symbols may hinder the reader. 

Malum Mortis

Concept: “Anuk Schlenger will be resurrected to speak again, unlocking the truth and destroying the Calender of Nechrubel.”
Content: The outline of a grand heretical conspiracy, lead by the infamous Tergol, to upend the false prophecies with the help of—a lone drunkard.
Writing: A collection of instructions, references, and handouts. As well as (medicinally) humorous drunkard mechanics.
Art/design: A collection of traditional illustrations, prints, and artifacts highlight amidst
Usability: Available in print ready and web pdf formats. Includes a vtt asset pack.

Monolith 1: Harvest

8 contributors
Concept: “A quarterly publication that focuses its cyclopean gaze on a single system with every issue”
Content: “A journey through dilapidated townsteads, rejuvenated fields and terrifying dungeons, with all the horrors you meet along the way”
Writing: The pedagogy of planting and population planning, and a forgotten temple to begotten basilisks, all aggressively annotated. 
Art/design: Darkly grotesque cultists, disturbed floral prints, cultured public domain illustrations, and colorful marginalia highlight the body text.
Usability: Organized, aside from a few intentionally frustrating almanac charts. But I’m sure you can manage those with a little old-fashioned spit and polish.

Morkkabeans 1.1

9 contributors
Concept: “A new religion has arisen in the desert. Worshiping the Unnamable God of Names, blaspheming against SHE and HE, promising the revolt. Galgenbeck has sent its inquisitors.  The half-giant Nephilim walk the earth. If you join them, almost certain death awaits.”
Content: An escalating tower crawl of nameless gods and religious conflict. Complete with three new classes, gear, artifacts, angels, Nephilim, and mythical creatures. 
Writing: An absolutely metal reinterpretation of Jewish history and folklore.
Art/design: A spectacle of artistic styles as varied as the tower of tongues.
Usability: Visual styles delineate sections. VTT resources available. 

Mörk Kvlt

Concept: “An minimalist OSR RPG toolkit to gamify player actions for cults or macabre associations.”
Content: A prototype Mörk Borg focused cult simulator.
Writing: An outline for scvm to start their own kvlt for fun and profit.
Art/design: An engaging and clean kvlt sheet. Defaced lambs. Plaintext draft of rules.
Usability: “Mörk Kvlt is a project in development, rules and descriptions may change. Open to suggestions, proofreading and criticism.” 
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