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The Current

A collection of 8 issues

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

Never Leave the Stream

David Bowie and the Current of Impermanence “I watch the ripples change their size / But never leave the stream of warm impermanence…” — Changes, David Bowie Some artists leave behind albums. Bowie left resonance. In The Current, we speak often of Weathering—how one becomes Frayed, Worn, Unmoored. Of how the

When the Weird Is a Mood, Not a Monster

On Drift, Omission, and the Shapes We Don’t See Until They Echo Introduction: More Than Monsters Somewhere beyond the swampy edge of horror, past the clean-lined architecture of science fiction, a different kind of story waits. It doesn’t leap out. It lingers. It doesn’t explain itself. It

The Return of the Current: A Storytelling Game Finds Its Shape

“You are not here to win. You are here to witness.” When we first released fragments of The Current, it wasn't a system. It was a weather pattern. A fog-primer. A memory-shaped ritual. It lived in Arkham. It asked strange questions. It whispered rather than shouted. What began