DIVINATION SLUDGEDEATH MANIFEST

The dark tower has risen.

The leaders of our society have turned their anger upon us.

We believed we had created the perfect existence. That our destiny lie only forwards, ahead, and up.

Time is a multi-faceted platform of movement. There is no success without cost. Our hubris has finally decided it will kill us.

The Designers were established by the Great World Lords as a committee for the culling of our collective chaff. For removing the weak. Determining value. As the jaws of the world close in on us, the sun beating down on our exposed sinew and skin, burning what we have built and leaving us adrift in an ever-rising sea, we turn to them for guidance. For answers. For purpose in an ever-purposeless existence. We ask for direction, and they respond with an angry fist.

Look, dear Damocles, above your head. The Text has appeared.

Do you know which Drake song this is?

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DIVINATION SLUDGEDEATH MANIFEST (DSM) is a pulp cyberpunk roleplaying game about hellish Tiktok dystopias. The Great World Lords are forcing the population to play horrific life or death Games to see who deserves to live into tomorrow, and the people have no choice but to play. And with the grim encouragement of the sludgedeath - an act of killing utilizng the Game rules - bringing grand monetary benefit, too many are all too willing to scrap for every inch of the win.

Take on one of eight different Ripper Types and fight for every last breath in a future that only cares for the despot. Experience a high/low rolling system where your three stats - OBEDIENCE, TUNING, AND HARDWARE - grant you as much pain as they do power, and turn up the tension with ever-increasing degrees of difference. Use Splice Points to re-thread yourself and become something new and dangerous. Welcome to a world where there's only one limit: how far you're willing to go to live.

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DSM is an incredibly silly, schlocky monster of a game I rapidly produced in response to a particular kind of internet work I kept seeing, and the implications therewithin which I sought to explore to their fullest extent. This game is the world in which that content exists, were it to have a world to attach itself to; this game is about delving far too deep in a shallow pool, and having an uproariously ridiculous time.