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The Current

A collection of 13 issues

Beyond the Neon Rain: How Cyberfolk Reimagines Community in the Digital Age

What happens when cyberpunk stops looking up at corporate towers and starts tending the moss growing between server racks? For decades, cyberpunk has trained us to see the future through rain-slicked chrome and neon reflections, following data pirates through corporate arcologies while atmospheric hackers manipulate weather-as-a-service. These stories of rebellion

The Current: Codex of the Quiet Return

A Diorama of Routine and Reverence A fan-created setting for The Current by The Grey Ledger Society Inspired by Aki Kaurismäki's film Fallen Leaves What You Are Seeing (But Not Yet Saying) Two people keep showing up. They go to work. They go home. They do not speak

The Current: Codex of the Lost Voice

A Diorama of Distance and Devotion A fan-created setting for The Current by The Grey Ledger Society Inspired by Wim Wenders' film Paris, Texas What You Are Seeing (But Not Yet Saying) A man walks across the desert in silence. He doesn't remember why he left. He

The Quad of Exitlight

A Liminal Americana RPG Setting Along the endless highways of the Gulf Coast, where Interstate 10 hums with the weight of forgotten dreams, there lies a mythic quadrangle known as The Quad of Exitlight. It’s not a place you find on a map, but a state of being—a

Valthorne: A Reflective Journey Through the City of Living Law

Beneath the relentless sun of a desert plain, where ley lines hum beneath cobblestone streets and adobe spires glow with rune-lit warmth, Valthorne sprawls—a gigapolis that listens, a city that feels. Over the course of our journey into Valthorne: City of Living Law, we’ve woven a mythic civic

The Current: Mr. Voight-Kampff

The Visionary of the Entangled Enforcer Ritualist of empathy, observer of collapse, folder of truth into delicate beasts. Appearance A worn trench coat layered over a bureaucrat’s suit. Eyes like reel-to-reel tape. His fingers are always busy folding: birds, unicorns, broken wings. He never runs, never raises his voice.

Delia, the Paw That Pulls

Pan-dimensional ragamuffin, Guardian of Lost Corners, Zoomie Catalyst When you turn your furchild into a pandimensional NPC. She’s all elbows and angles under a shaggy coat of charcoal and white. Fur that looks like it’s never been brushed—but somehow catches the light just right. Her ears are

Riding the Drift

Toward a Mood-Centered Narrative Mechanic for The Current and Beyond Some games race toward climax. The Current knows how to linger. Narrative flavoring mechanics exist not to resolve conflict, track resources, or activate powers—but to shift tone, deepen mood, or reframe perspective. These are mechanics of symbolic or emotional

The Current: The Polaroid That Drifts

A self-portrait becomes a ripple. A relic of refusal. A daemon in your own image. Filed under: Touched NPCs, Artifacts, and Political Folktales for The Current You didn’t mean to leave it behind. But the Current had other plans. Somewhere in a locker that no longer locks, tucked inside

A Lexicon of Resonance

A Glossary for Playable Folktales and Drift-Oriented Storytelling These terms shape the tone, not the rules. They are not definitions. They are invocations—words you may carry from folktale to folktale, from game to game. Use them as orientation, reflection, or ritual prompt. They are designed for the Playable Folktale