Numenera: Into the Amber Monolith

Run by F1zz3r

Content warnings

This game may include the following:

• body horror
• drowning
• gore

About this game

"Into the Amber Monolith" is a race against time as the PCs have to track down and rescue Aeon Priest explorers lost inside a prior world ruin. This takes place at the Amber Monolith in Navarene, the hub of the Order of Truth, founded for the first person to discover an entrance to the monolith, and the last person to enter it and not emerge: Calaval, the first Amber Pope. Sealed for 400 years, a new entrance yawns into the floating monolith for an uncertain time, as the party leads the charge to recover the trapped researchers, and escape Calaval's fate. Numenera is a Cypher System game set in the far far far future, on the bones and detritus of many prior worlds that attained great technological power before dying out, leaving the world behind, or simply vanishing. The Aeon Priests of the "Ninth World" seek to understand the artifacts of these prior ages, but "any sufficiently advanced technology appears indistinguishable from magic" and the common view of these artifacts is that of a religiously respectful distance. The core system is d20 based, focused on resource management (stamina and single-use tools/abilities) to navigate challenging and weird terrain in pursuit of discovery.

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