Bilge

In the turn of the 30th century humanity began to extend their greed among the stars, harvesting what minerals and life they could. In their travels they discovered a previously unnoticed Moon, in perfect orbit around Neptune, perfectly hidden by the planet's orbit.

The moon, almost entirely made of water, contained large underwater volcanoes, creating a perfect soup to create and sustain life However initial rover missions yielded nothing but empty waters and large bone deposits littering the ocean floor. The mystery puzzled scientists for years and many penal volunteer ships that were sent lost contact with earth. That is until the discovery of the leviathan.

What was thought to be a large underwater land mass began to surface. An extremely territorial sea creature the size of America. Every 3 years it was recorded to surface, apparently looking for a mate that never came. Initial scans of the creature revealed what seemed to be the last remaining life of the moon, flourishing in its guts. Parasitic extraterrestrial, crawling through its organs. And even deeper still, the largest deposit of Ambergris known to man, several fleshy caverns of the stuff.

From then, the race was on, each trillionaire of Earth sending barely trained penal volunteers in a ship to retrieve as much as they could, their freedom their reward. The ships would latch onto the creature, in the small time period in which it surfaced, and the volunteers would mine into the guts of the beast in a race against time, lighting their way with cheap lamps and hacking at the flesh with metal pipes, kitted out with cheap survival suits made of wet rotting fabric and scratched metal helmets.

Failure to return to the ship before the Leviathan’s mating period was up caused it to descend into the impossible depths, the pressure causing the latched ship to crumple leaving the men trapped in the belly of the beast to fend off the larger than life parasites. That time has come again, the leviathan has surfaced and you have travelled there in search of the gris and your freedom. Maybe this time will be different.

in bilge you play one of these volunteers, digging and mapping into the body of the beast. fighting off gigantic alien parasites and imbuing yourself with their powers as you cut and slash into sinew and bone.

body horror content warning.

50+ pages!

a gm-less mapping game for 1-4 players.