1 - Reunion sheet
Player sheet - safe before the campaign begins.
Chicago has had ten quiet years. A friend is coming home by an unusual route. Your crew has a portal to build and a city you remember saving.
Choose or invent together:
- Your hero's name and what they do now.
- One place in Chicago worth saving.
- One person your hero would ask for help.
- One strange image from the old adventures. This is a proposal until the group confirms it.
- What your hero is willing to risk to bring a friend home.
Keep private boundaries in a separate conversation with the GM. You do not owe this sheet a personal confession. New groups can invent a shared past; returning groups can leave uncertain memories uncertain.
2 - Emergency procurement notice
Reveal in Session 2.
CITY EMERGENCY REPAIR DESK
Job: physical-law stabilization, corridor containment, and post-event weatherization.
Authorized contractor: Calder Restoration.
Replacement panels delivered: BEFORE INCIDENT.
Emergency surcharge approved: AFTER INCIDENT.
Routing mark: THOMPSON / ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL.
Clerk's note: Why do they always know which panels to bring?
3 - Auction compensation clause
Reveal in Session 4. Full spoilers after this point.
ESTATE OF UP - COLLECTION DISPOSAL
Lot: inhabited Chicago holding.
Eligible bidder: Vivarium Keeper.
Human beneficiary: Calder.
Consideration to bidder: use of holding as a living snow globe, including periodic enrichment by shaking.
Resident consent: not requested.
Maintenance: sufficient viable population to continue the arrangement.
Control interface: Thompson / weatherization floor / seam terminal.
Annotation: An entry in this ledger does not make a person a thing.
4 - Three-pulse route card
Reveal in Session 6.
FIRST PULSE - a neighboring reality is approaching.
SECOND PULSE - prepare the vessel and finish the local choice.
THIRD PULSE - the slide opens. Establish an anchor at both ends.
WINDOW CLOSED - find the next crossing. Missing one passage is not the end of the voyage.
HOME SIGNAL - three long flashes, one short flash, and the name of a place the crew chose to save.
Never promise the Keeper a new wall around the city in exchange for an easier trip.
5 - End-of-session record
Player-safe shared record.
Session and date: ____________________
People we helped: ____________________
What we learned: ____________________
What our choices changed: ____________________
Where we want to go next: ____________________
This page records fictional play. Keep private personal disclosures elsewhere.
Credits and fan notice
Campaign and handout direction: Austen Tucker-Crowder. Human-directed AI tools assisted writing and assembly. This is a free, unofficial, unplaytested fan edition requiring the SWADE core rules.
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