Scenario Briefing

    A Viking longship rows into Manhattan harbor in the middle of Fleet Week

    A Viking longship rows into Manhattan harbor in the middle of Fleet Week — and the crew thinks they have found an impossibly rich trading town.

    comedythrillermodernhumorous
    Time WindowOpen-EndedIn-game duration
    Danger LevelElevated
    PacingSteadyTactical & Deliberate
    Key Characters4Major Figures
    ComplexityLayeredLayered Systems
    Replay VarianceHighMultiple Outcomes

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    Before You Begin

    Halla Refsdottir — navigator, interpreter, and the most clever person on the Gullmark

    You are the only one on the ship who knows the world is bigger than your captain thinks. You speak four languages that are useless here. In the next thirty minutes a warship is going to pull alongside yours and its crew is going to speak a language you cannot understand to a captain who wants to draw his axe.

    The Situation

    You are Halla Refsdottir, navigator and second-in-command of the Gullmark, a Norse merchant-raider out of the Kattegat in the year 1012. A storm off the Faroes lasted three days. When it broke, you were here — a harbor ringed with green glass towers, warships the size of islands, and a green copper woman holding fire on a rock in the middle of the channel. Your captain thinks it is Asgard. Your crew is ready to either raid it or kneel to it. The US Coast Guard has just spotted you on radar.

    Your Objectives

    1

    Prevent a first-strike boarding action

    2

    Open some kind of communication with the Coast Guard

    3

    Decide the fate of the crew

    The Deck Of The Gullmark$30

    The Cast

    5 characters

    Playstyle Profile

    Strategic Depth85%
    Replay Divergence67%
    Relationship Depth60%
    Hidden Information45%
    Survival Pressure24%

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    Quick Facts

    Era
    present day, Memorial Day weekend, during Fleet Week
    Location
    Upper New York Bay
    Factions
    The Gullmark Crew
    Starting Position
    The Deck Of The Gullmark
    Playable Leader
    Halla Refsdottir — navigator, interpreter, and the most clever person on the Gullmark
    Game Systems
    Comedy, Thriller, Historical
    Recommended For
    Story

    A Viking longship rows into Manhattan harbor in the middle of Fleet Week

    Scenario Briefing