Did you get that?

Type: Rule/Insight

Archetype: Film Buff

Aspect: Filmmaker

Stat Used: Hustle

Dodging kaiju, running from zombies, documenting ghosts, these are only a few of the tasks a camera operator must do during a found footage horror movie, all while getting the perfect shot.

With this ticket equipped, the user will always pick up useful footage while On-Screen if they are recording the scene with a camera or recorder. The shot will be clear enough to make out, and any background details, even those they might not have noticed at the time, will be captured when the film is reviewed. The recording might even catch things that weren’t there but could have been as the narrative goes on.

If it didn’t happen on film, it didn’t happen.

Dead Nerves

Type: Perk

Archetype: —

Aspect: —

Stat Used: —

Sometimes a character can be dead, but not gone.

While the Dead status is lit, the user will not feel physical pain and will be able to dull other emotions considerably. They will not require the basic needs of living, such as food, water, or even air.

Everybody talks about the bad parts of being dead. No one ever mentions the benefits.

Undying Words

Type: Action

Archetype: Psychic

Aspect: Seer

Stat Used: Moxie

As a psychic sheds their mortal coil, they often become more powerful than they ever were in life, their connection to the hereafter being that much stronger.

The user’s dying words gain incredible prophetic power, allowing them to shape the story in their final moments. However, such a power is not without risks. Their prophecy must stem from the story as it has been told.

Be warned, death is no time to get greedy.

Get up!

Type: Healing/Insight/Buff/Perk

Archetype: Psychic

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Aspect: Exorcist

Stat Used: Moxie

Near-death experiences often awaken psychic phenomena, but it isn’t always a superpower. Sometimes, a brush with death is just enough to let someone connect to the other side enough for a final burst of inspiration.

When any player in the story, or a similar ally, has a near-death experience where they are close to death, even moments away, they can receive a message from previously killed players or encouragement, love, or information. The effects will match the message and narrative. If poignant enough, it can actually bring the character back from what would have been a death blow.

If you get close enough to death, it might just say hello.

Friends to the End

Type: Buff

Archetype: Final Girl

Aspect: Girl Next Door

Stat Used: —

Being the last one alive means watching everyone else die. But death doesn’t have to be in vain.

Whenever the user is the Last One Alive, they gain stat buffs based on the dominant stats of all of their fallen allies. The more personal the On-Screen connection, the stronger the buff.

They got you to the end. Now, you have to finish it.

Final Callout

Type: Debuff/Buff

Archetype: Final Girl

Aspect: —

Stat Used: Moxie

After a full movie of back and forth, fights, verbal spats, and general conflict, it comes down to the end where the hero must stare down the villain and call upon the most powerful words of all: names.

In the finale, reciting names will have more narrative weight. It might be calling on the names of the fallen, or calling out the name of the enemy in a showdown. These words can empower, and they can tear away.

Better not get tongue-tied.

Brain Trust

Type: Rule

Archetype: Scholar

Aspect: Researcher

Stat Used: Savvy

Planners in movies often have the whole strategy mapped out in their minds before their allies even know what is going on, but true leaders ask other characters for input.

The user may borrow an ally’s savvy-based Insight tropes temporarily, regardless of Archetype or equip limits. Replicating this exchange in the form of a conversation On-Screen give narrative weight to the information.

Now you’re really a know-it-all.

High Stakes Snooping

Type: Rule

Archetype: Scholar

Aspect: Sleuth

Stat Used: Savvy

Information gathering is easy when holed up in a library, but gathering information while avoiding detection is another world of difficulty.

When the user searches for clues while under the nose of a nearby threat, suspect, or antagonist, they will have more luck finding that information.

Do you know what could have happened if you got caught?

Chain Reaction

Type: Buff

Archetype: Scholar

Aspect: Strategist

Stat Used: Savvy

A direct attack against a magical or fierce enemy will almost certainly fail for a normal person. The audience will have a firm idea of the power scales, and the average character cannot compare to the average enemy. But there are ways to throw off those scales.

The user’s effective Mettle is increased when an attack includes intermediate steps between the user’s action and the damage dealt to the enemy. Each step in the cause-and-effect chain adds more damage.

The bullet didn’t kill the monster. The chandelier that fell when you shot its chain did, though.

Ol’ Nonnie’s Familiar

Feline Stitchling

Ah, the Familiar, Ol’ Nonnie’s darling errand runner, her ever-faithful fetch-and-carry, stitched together from the leftovers of guests who overstayed their welcome. A hand from a traveler who wandered too far. A jaw from a skeptic who asked too many questions. A generous length of spine from someone whose name was forgotten before the thread was even dry.

The Familiar did not hunt for sport or malice. It hunted because it was told to, and it consumed because that was all it knew how to do, swallowing its meals whole, keeping them warm and alive inside that patchwork belly until the Crone was ready to make use of them. One does wonder, though, whether all those borrowed pieces ever stirred in the night. Whether a stolen hand ever twitched with a purpose its new owner never gave it. Whether, somewhere deep in that quilted darkness, the threads remembered who they used to be.

The Adventurer

Advanced Archetype

You are the Adventurer, the one who goes first and who has been there before. When the road ends and the map goes blank, you keep walking. Where others see the edge of the known world as a warning, you see it as a starting line.

In the face of the unknown, your mind is your compass, and your will is your engine. You don’t know of ancient cities or faraway places because you read about them in a book; no, you know about them because you’ve been there. You recognize the architecture of a collapsed outpost because you’ve crawled through three others. You can name the culture that carved those symbols because you’ve seen their work before, in worse condition, in a worse place. Your knowledge is not merely academic. It is earned in mud, blood, and altitude.

Will your drive to explore lead to your salvation, or will you and your allies be lost in the wilderness?

Story Alteration: The Expedition Plot

When the Adventurer’s Archetype Ticket is equipped, the storyline undergoes a fundamental shift in structure. The story becomes an Expedition.

The threat is no longer concentrated in a single location or a single enemy. It is distributed across the journey. The setting expands. Distances between key locations grow, and the terrain between them becomes hostile, meaningful, and dangerous in its own right. Weather, wildlife, exposure, hired guns, navigation, legendary curses, and environmental collapse become genuine threats that must be overcome alongside the primary antagonist.

The tradeoff is real. The environment absorbs a share of the story’s danger. The big bad at the end of the road is more manageable by default, but the road to get there will cost you. Players will arrive at the climax tested and depleted, but also prepared and changed by what the journey demanded of them.

Museum Detour

Type: Insight

Archetype: Adventurer

Aspect: —

Stat Used: Hustle

As the explorer pulls back the vines grown upon the ancient temple, she recognizes the markings as something she has seen before. It’s remarkable how far she had to go to find it.

The user will obtain knowledge that their character might know when they make discoveries of remote places or objects. The amount of knowledge will be proportionate to how far they had to travel or how difficult the traversal was.

The real treasure is the things you learn along the way.

Sentimental Outfitting

Type: Rule/Buff

Archetype: Adventurer

Aspect: —

Stat Used: Grit

The Adventurer often has that sentimental item they carry with them wherever they go. Maybe it is the hat that creates their signature look, a special pack that has never let them down, or a knife that has gotten them out of some tough scrapes. Whatever it is, it is special, both to the explorer and to the movie.

The user can bring any item an adventurer might carry into the storyline. The more well-worn and sentimental the item, the more narrative weight it carries throughout the adventure, imparting great utility to even otherwise mundane objects. The user gets a buff to Hustle and Savvy for looking the part.

Dress for comfort, practicality, and that epic pose.