Oceans and Spirals

Once a best-selling crime novelist, inspiration has eluded you for years. Desperate, you escape to the remote town of Shining Shore. Free of the burdens of fame and pressure, you soon have a draft of your next novel: Initiation. A draft you can’t remember writing...

After a tumble, you find yourself in the Dark Ocean. Your own personal hell. And the only way out is to write your escape.

But that’s exactly what the Dark Ocean wants, too. Unable to create, only alter, it needs a story to set it free. It needs you to write it, so it can fix it. Twist it. Use it. Use you.

You’ll need to find inspiration, evade the editor and their relentless army of shades (accidental creations of your flawed writing).

Can you transform your manuscript into a story that frees you and traps the editor? Or will you doom the world to save yourself?

Oceans and Spirals is a solo TTRPG where you explore the Dark Ocean for inspiration. Along the way, you’ll fill a blank page with notes and doodles. Meanwhile, you’ll scratch out and highlight your expositional manuscript page, turning it into your escape story.

When you finish, your transformed manuscript alone will determine who wins. Good luck...

Content Warnings: Consequence-free death, despair, loneliness, and feeling trapped (in a gigantic city-sized construct).