Cosmic Horror Meets Bureaucratic Satire For years, artist Trevor Roberts has meticulously archived a fictional alternate timeline at MysteryFleshPitNationalPark dot com, when a oilmen accidentally drills into a cosmic horror beneath the dusty plains of west Texas. Over the decades, the Permian Basin Superorgamisim goes from roadside attraction to National Park and natural resource, all documented through tourism signage, "wildlife" brochures, safety manuals, and government memos. When we saw this magnificent online grotesquerie, we knew this would be an awesome tabletop RPG! You can be a Charming Person in Black who Operates Undercover or a Pit-Touched Park Guide Who Runs Away. Odds are you will be fighting off Conformity or find yourself filling out incident reports while the screaming is coming closer. Just keep in mind the Prototypes from R&D are a mixed blessing at best. Embrace being a Park Employee, Subcontractor, or keep your head down if you find yourself classified as a Special Contingency. Compatible with the Cypher System, this standalone game easily supports GM improvisation and PC mayhem! Get your copy today!
Authors
Kij Johnson is an American writer of fantasy. She has worked extensively in publishing: managing editor for Tor Books and Wizards of the Coast/TSR, collections editor for Dark Horse Comics, project manager working on the Microsoft Reader, and managing editor of Real Networks. She is Associate Director for the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, and serves as a final judge for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Johnson is the author of three novels and more than 38 short works of fiction. She is best known for her adaptations of Heian-era Japanese myths. She won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short story of 1994 for her novelette in Asimov's, "Fox Magic." In 2001, she won the International Association for the Fantastic in the Art's Crawford Award for best new fantasy novelist of the year. In 2009, she won the World Fantasy Award for "26 Monkeys, Also The Abyss," which was also a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards. She won the 2010 Nebula Award for "Spar" and the 2011 Nebula Award for "Ponies," which is also a finalist for the Hugo and World Fantasy awards. Her short story "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" was a finalist for the 2007 Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards. Johnson was also a finalist for the 2004 World Fantasy Award for her novel Fudoki, which was declared one of the best SF/F novels of 2003 by Publishers Weekly.
