Knocks
One knock for yes, two for no. The simplest channel, and the easiest to fake — which is exactly why the first trials hide there. Count carefully; a third knock means something else is in the room.
Est. 1891 · Reopened for the living
Six trials are buried in this house. The living hid them badly. Rest your hands on the planchette, ask a careful question, and something on the other side will spell the answer out — one letter at a time.
Transmission
Or drag across the board yourself — click any glyph to call it.
The house on Blackmoor Row
Every flag in this game reached the other side by a different road. Learn the roads and the board becomes a map.
One knock for yes, two for no. The simplest channel, and the easiest to fake — which is exactly why the first trials hide there. Count carefully; a third knock means something else is in the room.
The planchette drags across the board and the flag arrives letter by letter, out of order, missing its vowels. Reassembly is your problem. The dead are not proofreaders.
Objects that arrive from nowhere: a photograph, a wax cylinder, a file with the wrong extension. Everything the house hands you is evidence, and some of it is bait.
Six trials
Twenty-four flags across six disciplines. Points rise as the room gets colder.
Web exploitation. The house has a servant's entrance and nobody remembered to lock it.
Cryptography. Thirteen nuns took a vow. Their letters still arrive, and still refuse to be read.
Forensics. Every plate in the album has something behind the emulsion. Look with the right eyes.
Reverse engineering. Someone carved instructions into the wood. Follow them backwards.
Binary exploitation. Something is leaking out of the medium, and it is writing past the end of her.
Miscellaneous & OSINT. The last trial has no category, no hints, and no record of who set it.
Rules of the table
Break them and the board goes quiet. Quiet boards score nothing.
Agree and be seatedNever sit alone. Circles of two to five mediums; one account each.
Keep your fingers on the planchette. No automated scrapers, no flooding the scoreboard.
Do not pass a flag to another circle. The dead notice, and so do we.
Attack only what the house offers you. Infrastructure is out of bounds.
Flags take the form ouija{...}. Anything else is a hoax.
Ask the house for hints if you must. Each one costs you points.
When you leave, always say good bye. Boards left open stay open.
Standings
No circle has scored yet. The board is cold.
It spelled a name, and the name was yours. Come and see what else it knows.