Product Description:
Even when it is 38 ° below zero outside, someone has to save the world from space jellies. A Night Office training opportunity.
Details:
1. Over 400 pages of lesser evils, bad choices, and decisions you can’t undo.
2. More than 38 ways to die, which doesn’t seem like that many, but man, some of them are really horrible.
3. Complete with an annoying sidekick, who might be your only friend in the whole world.
4. Recursions, temporal disturbances, and other ways to dip into the slipstream.
5. An opportunity for a Bad Ass Bonus score.
6. New entries for your monster tracker log book!
7. A ’80s spy novel subplot that isn’t as irrelevant as it appears.
8. The first appearance of the Hesslaugh MCA800X espresso machine.
Ordering Info:
Print & Ebook | Interactive PDF
Notes from the Head Office:
This is the fourth book in the Night Office series of interactive training manuals. They’re formatted as solo narrative adventures with multiple endings and branching paths. You know the format. It hasn’t changed since we were kids. The difference here is that the endings are rather, well, final. But that’s what happens when you stand against tentacled monstrosities from strange dimensions.
To date, The Cold Empty is the most complex of these training manuals. It reveals some of the mysterious inner workings of the Night Office as well as some of the other departments that are part of the tangled bureaucracy. I wrote it with both H. P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness” and John Carpenter’s The Thing in mind. Both were quite influential during my formative years.