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Credits
WRITTEN & DESIGNED BY
Matthew Cutter, Shane Lacy Hensley, Cheyenne Wright, and BJ
Hensley
ART DIRECTION BY
Aaron Acevedo & Alida Saxon
LAYOUT BY
Karl Keesler & Thomas Shook
COVER ART BY
Donald Crank, Bien Flores, Unique Soparie, and Cheyenne Wright
INTERIOR ART BY
Unique Soparie (Spirit of 1786) — Cheyenne Wright, Alida Saxon (Abyssal)
— Cheyene Wright (Tesla Rangers) — Donald Crank, Maurizio Giorgio, & Jocelyn Sarvida
(The Lost City of Astla)
Dedicated to everyone who's ever created their own world and those who support them.
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Contents
Spirits of 1786
WRITTEN AND © BY:
Matthew Cutter
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The War of Independence is won...but the herculean effort to build a more perfect union has
only started. This isn't history—this is Pulp History in the post-Revolutionary Era! Nefarious
Illuminati agents hatch plots in smoky Boston taprooms. Fallen gods of the Northmen stalk
Ohio's howling wilderness. Risen ghosts abound. Against them, the Sons of Liberty wield
diplomacy as well as muskets, but they also dabble in Scientifick Philosophy and even magick!
A handful have the blood of the old gods in their veins. So load your flintlock and gather your
flats, sharps, and sundry supplies: the battle for liberty has just begun!
Abyssal
WRITTEN AND © BY:
Shane Lacy Hensley
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A family of explorers joins a United Nations expedition to explore a mysterious "Event" at
the bottom of the Marianas Trench. What they find there will change the world forever. This
Saturday morning cartoon-inspired setting features strange and enhanced sea creatures,
insidious rival corporations, and the growing urgency of the Event itself and the inexplicable
force behind it!
Tesla Rangers
WRITTEN AND © BY:
Cheyenne Wright
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It's been 11 years since America lost the Robot War and ceded everything west of the Mississippi
to the automatons. Now a fresh young scientist with a government contract and a load of new
experimental devices is outfitting a voluntary expeditionary force to cross the ol' Miss and
head deep into No Man's Land.
Tesla Rangers
is a high-octane action adventure pitting cowboys with lightning guns against
cast-iron killer robots in a battle for the Wired West.
The Lost City of Astla
WRITTEN AND © BY:
BJ Hensley
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As Astla's resources dwindled, the ancient "elves" fled to a massive city-ship in the stars,
hoping to wait out the barbaric and destructive People who overran it. But now the Astlatians
have begun to suffer from a terrible wasting disease, and the only cure may be a return to their
homelands. Some urge war, some peace. As they debate, small bands return to the surface to
scout, raid, and learn from those who remain in the barren wastes.
Spirits of 1786
Spirits of 1786
is pulp action with the trappings
of historical fiction & horror —pulp history, if
you will. But this is no history lesson. This is
two-fist’d adventure in the Revolutionary era,
set against the stormy backdrop of a troubl’d
young nation.
The American Colonies in early 1786
are a hotbed of cloak-and-dagger intrigue,
perpetrated by a bizarre array of factions.
The Ohio Company’s agents unknowingly
rub elbows with operatives of Ben Franklin’s
Committee for Secret Correspondence, while
Washington’s Culper Ring continues to
operate on an even more covert basis than
during the War.
The British East India Company, eager
to reap the economic benefits of the newly-
freed Colonies, has agents in every port
and city on the coast — ever seeking word
of opportunities to quickly fill their purses.
Freemasons and Illuminati fight a shadow
war in the dark alleys and parlor rooms of
Boston and Providence, while in Philadelphia
the League of Scientifick Philosophy seeks to
create a new science to supplant superstition.
A World Turn’d Upside Down
The War for Independence is won —huzzah!
But the fledgling States have their freedom
only at the price of famine, economic
depression, and lawlessness. Some people
promote commerce and the reaping of the
frontier’s resources as a tonic to drag America
from the very precipice of ruin.
But the explorers, surveyors, and soldiers
who open this savage frontier have to face
more than just Indian tribes, still-occupied
British forts, and miles of howling wilderness.
The countryside teems with Illuminati agents,
The Illuminati
rebels, loyalists, and cutthroats. And all The Illuminati were founded in Bavaria in
across the Colonies, the spirits of the dead May 1776, at the University of Ingolstadt, by
begin to rise…
Law Department Chair Adam Weishaupt. He
and his colleagues foresaw enlightenment
A Nation of Intrigue
for all mankind if only they could throw off
Though the Revolution against England has the chains of tyranny. During the next eight
succeeded, and the Articles of Confederation
years they infiltrated the masonic lodges of
serve as a stopgap against unbridled anarchy, the region, proselytizing new initiates from
a truly united America remains but a dream among the freemasons by promising them
of the Continental Congress. Economic
access to ever-greater mysteries.
depression, famine, thievery, and unrest
Most Illuminati fled Bavaria in 1784,
everywhere threaten to undo the work
after their order was officially censured by
of patriots.
Frederick II. Many infiltrated the existing
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SpiritS Of 1786
Lodge structure of the freemasons in America,
just as they had in Germany. Unbeknownst
to the Illuminati, however, others have
insinuated themselves into their inner circle—
becoming, in effect, a secret society hidden at
the nucleus of two others. These are the Regin.
come again to the wild places where the
Regin and their allies dwell. The ancients
are not pleased. They call forth ghostly
legions to serve them, and plot a fledgling
nation’s downfall.
Twilight of the Gods
Magic is real. It has always been real, even
when it was well-hidden.
When Leif Erikson’s longships crossed the
Atlantic nearly 800 years ago, the Vikings
did not make the journey alone, and their
discovery of the New World was no accident.
Hiding among them were the Regin (RAY-
jheen)
powerful beings the Norse previously
worshiped as gods. Following their fall from
power, the Regin sought an unspoiled land
of their own.
By the time Christopher Columbus sailed
the ocean blue, the “gods” of the Old World
were firmly ensconced in the wilds of the
New. Civilizations had risen to worship
them — constructing great mounds, temples,
and earthworks—and long since fallen, while
the Regin slept away the ages in primordial
forests and beneath the earth.
But in early 1786, Land Ordinances
authorizing the parceling and purchase of
western land have been ratified. Man has
Sons of Liberty,
Daughters of Revolution
All is not lost, as long as steadfast patriots
stand against the darkness. The Sons of
Liberty began in 1765 as The Loyal Nine, a
group of artisans and shopkeepers opposed to
the Stamp Act. But they and the Daughters of
Revolution persisted as a secret organization
at war’s end. In 1768 they learned of strange
mounds and earthworks discovered on the
frontier. Further research and investigation
revealed the presence of beings far older than
American Indians.
Soon the leaders of the Sons & Daughters
pledged to oppose the machinations of the
Regin, no matter the cost. What they lack is
a full understanding of the threat they face—
but they hope that brave patriots will take up
the cause of defending America once again.
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