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Lincoln Biotroph

an incursion for Trophy Dark — CN: harm to animals, bodyhorror

“Lincoln Biotroph” is an independent production of Chitin Press © 2021. A copy of that game is necessary to play. Trophy™ is a trademark of Hedgemaze Press. The trademark and “Designed for Trophy” Logo are © Hedgemaze Press, and are used with permission.

The seers discovered a strange dimension bleeding through near the centre of the great forest. Surely, powerful arcane reagents can be harvested from there.

Moments

• Red meat hangs from antlers
• A sapling grows from a cairn
• Predatory lake algae
• Vultures kill an eagle
• Fungal bloom splits a tree
• Roots look like capillaries
• Piglets “suckling” on their dead mother
• Songbirds impaled on a tree
• Acid-etched mouth widens
• A deer chews its own tongue
• A cloud splits and a larger, darker cloud emerges
• Bugs swarm from a dead tree to a new one
• Frogspawn incubates in congealed blood

Conditions

• The desire to eat your own scabs
• Something moving in your veins
• Your front tooth rots away
• Maggots in a necrotising wound
• You know which of your allies you’d eat
• Your stomach constantly gurgles
• Mushrooms grow beneath your ears
• Cheese in your pack starts bleeding
• You visibly age; your jaw aches
• You develop a habit of biting your cheek

Rings

1. Boundaries

Threats: carrion beasts become aggressive; a ways off there’s a large blind wolf, worms shifting behind cataracts

Temptations: a rotted-through tree opens up a clear path; you meet a gravedigger who knows the way

2. Steps beyond

Threats: enormous dead trees; gigantic sundew plants

Temptations: unfamiliar ivies; strange lights in the sky

3. An inner threshold

Threats: your allies’ appearance seems to have changed; it looks as though one of them is signalling something?

Temptations: a rare wasp that reminds you of your childhood; you see something you’d happily bequeath in your will

4. Closing in

Threats: thin venal treekin burst from beneath bark; you feel increasingly sick

Temptations: filigree lightforms and wonderful dust; unfamiliar ground-fallen fruit

5. Epicentre

Threats: has one of your allies infected you?; the laughter of a rictus grin

Temptations: a keepsake from a kill; the tasty-looking flesh of an ally