Welcome to the third season of Survival Mode, a narrative solo RPG Actual Play.
Author: Michael Coorlim
Michael Coorlim is a teller of strange stories for stranger people. He collects them, the oddballs. The mystics and fire-spinners, the sages and tricksters. He curates their tales, combines their elements and lets them rattle around inside his rock-tumbler skull until they gleam, then spills them loose onto the page for like-minded readers to enjoy.
Survival Mode: Flight into Terror 2.15
Survival Mode’s second season, Flight Into Terror, comes to a firey conclusion.
Survival Mode: Flight into Terror 2.14
Marco led the way down the steps to the locker room, and as the adrenaline left her body, as the red mist faded from her eyes, Vera considered the enormity of what she’d done. Her hatred towards the Aggies fled with it, and she couldn’t even remember why she’d felt the way she had. She’d…
Survival Mode: Flight into Terror 2.13
Vera, Marco, and Josh stood dressed in the tattered remains of what had once been Texas Longhorn football uniforms, stained with grass and blood, each with a number pinned to their chest – Marco was 168, Josh 169, and Vera – chest bound with tape bandage and wearing a fake mustache – was 170. She…
Survival Mode: Flight into Terror 2.12
“Okay,” Marco said. “Everybody agreed we’re going to do what we can for Jim and those holed up in the mall. Head south, hit the capitol building. Right? Josh?” “Right,” Josh agreed. “And if we don’t find help there… well, we tried our best. We get the hell out of town.” “You with us Toni?”…
Zeitgeist 1980 – What Comes Next
There has been sufficient interest to develop Zeitgeist 1980 further, so here’s the plan going forward. First off, I’ll be developing the game into an ongoing serial. New episodes will be added regularly, available in the next “update” of the game. Saving at the end of one lets you continue on in the next, with…
Hero Historia: Jericho Rising 9
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 For the first time in months, Trip was smiling while plowing the soil outside the south gate. It did not go unnoticed. “You are in fine spirits,” Bignose said, stopping to watch his fellow farmer work. “The sun shines bright on my back,”…
Zeitgeist 1980 Public Release 1.0
Today marks the public release of Zeitgeist 1980’s version 1.0. This marks the end of development, aside from any bugs discovered after the fact – hopefully after weeks of beta-testing we’ve caught them all, but you never know. Postmortem The biggest lesson this project taught me was about scope creep. I had initially planned the…
Zeitgeist 1980 Patreon Release
Following up on the feedback I’ve gotten from the beta test, I’ve released Zeitgeist 1980 v 1.0 to my supporters on Patreon. I’ll update the publicly available version to 1.0 in February. What’s left to be done? Honestly, it depends on response. The core of the game is complete, but there’s always room for more…
Hero Historia: Jericho Rising 8
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 As Clay and Mad Words neared Jericho’s East gate, they saw a figure waiting for them, standing among a flock of sheep. Dawn Spring. She was standing. Watching. Waiting between them and the city, only a few hundred yards from the walls. Clay’s…