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2023 - The Skyward Sprawl

Written for The Silt Verses RPG

The Silt Verses is a game folk horror and monstrous divinity.

In The Silt Verses RPG, you play Custodians, employees of the Bureau for the Investigation and Assimilation of Stray Deities. In a world with tens of thousands of gods, your job is to track down the forgotten and stray deities causing trouble in the community and... deal with them. Sometimes that means figuring out how a community can co-exist with the god, and sometimes that means eliminating the god's threat in a more extreme way. Regardless, you are a pawn within an uncaring system, and will eventually be the target of a conspiracy that will try to use your work for its own nefarious purposes.

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The Skyward Sprawl
The Custodians have been directed by their handlers to quietly resolve a situation in the sprawling fringes of the Greater Glottage conurbation. Suburbanites within a growing sphere of influence are sickening, contracting a hideous rot from clouds of gray spores spread on the wind. Their skin erupts in weeping rust and cracked concrete. They become obsessed by ascent, drawn to a towering building erupting like a twisted fingernail from the dead urban soil.

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Marshland Original art for the Silt Verses RPG Creator: Ezra Rose Date: 2023
The alcove of a strange god Source: Original art for the Silt Verses RPG Creator: Ezra Rose Date: 2023
The wire shrine Source: Original art for the Silt Verses RPG Creator: Ezra Rose Date: 2023
Cover art Source: Original art for the Silt Verses RPG Creator: Ezra Rose (art) and Ben Mansky (layout) Date: 2023

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James L. Smith, “2023 - The Skyward Sprawl,” James Louis Smith, accessed April 27, 2024, https://jameslouissmith.com/items/show/24.