CONT/EXT - A Mothership one-shot

CONT/EXT is a one-shot of cosmic horror for use with Mothership. A britpunk nightmare set aboard a failing research station. It's available now from Tuesday Knight Games:

In CONT/EXT, you have been recruited by Continued Existence (CONT/EXT for short). CONT/EXT’s mission is to ensure humanity can survive extinction-level threats, such as gamma radiation bursts or advanced, hostile aliens.

You've been sent to investigate the deep-space research station, The Lachesis. The station has been reporting system malfunctions and the crew have gone radio silent. It's up to you to retrieve the valuable research stored there.

RESCUE IS OPTIONAL

Includes:

• 12 pages of pure cosmic horror
• a horrifying new threat
• research station schematics
• printable player map for table-top
• colour player map for VTT

Digital/PDF copies are also available from itch.io. For those in the UK, print copies of CONT/EXT are also available directly from Grisly Eye Games.

Existential horror

As part of my work writing CONT/EXT, I put together some articles that dive into cosmic horror and British science fiction. You can read more here:

Alien as outside context entity (part 1 and part 2): Where I try to dig hard into what true alienness might mean, how alien physiologies and psychologies have been depicted in science fiction, and how we can create our own outside context entities.

The Shiftless Horror of Mothership: At the heart of British science fiction is the trope of the oppressive institution. In this post, I examine the elements that go into this trope and how it relates to CONT/EXT.

On Remembrance of the Daleks: Where I fondly reminisce about my favourite Doctor Who episode. Why it rocked, what it means for British science fiction, and what we can learn from it.