Originally released in September 2018 to accompany the PC, Mac and Linux game Sunless Skies, Skyfarer is set in the Fallen London universe. But how will those integrities change, now you’re out on the frontier of Victoria’s Empire? Luckily, things are made easier by spending Tenacity – a resource earned by acting in accordance with your character’s drives and beliefs. As characters risk life and limb, they’ll accrue Peril – the more Peril they have, the greater the chance of them meeting a grisly and permanent end. Using a simple dice-based system, Skyfarer allows players and gamemasters to easily tell stories set in the Fallen London universe with plenty of climactic moments, tense stand-offs, and grim decisions. Gunners, quartermasters, engineers, signallers – even mascots – are brought to the fore as the Captain is struck down by misfortune and the crew must band together to get out of (or into) many surprising kinds of trouble. Players form the crew of a spacefaring steam locomotive. You will change out here, where the Empire’s light falters and casts deep shadows, where rebels stake their claim on fragments of sky-rock riddled with fungus, where pillagers dig into ruins built by the now-dead sun. Your captain has taken you to the Reach, a frontier on the edge of civilisation, in search of fame, fortune and adventure. Here you make your living as a Skyfarer, working on board a locomotive jury-rigged to fly through these cold skies and raging winds. ![]() ![]() Queen Victoria has brought London into the heavens. The High Wilderness stretches out ahead of you cruel, unwelcoming, and filled with opportunity. The coloured glass offers some small defence.” Looking too long can stir consuming obsessions, or wildįascinations. In the High Wilderness, the light of the stars isĮnchanting. “The windows of your locomotive are stained glass, spilling panes of
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