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THE BREATHING
The Archive is an ancient spiral structure located deep within the dark depths beneath civilization that holds all knowledge from outside it in its vast collection halls made up entirely of windowless rooms, varying greatly by size as well height and danger level inside these spaces are numerous shelves containing collected information. Access to this archive comes at a price for those who wish to leave The Archive's confines through discovery of forgotten or lost treasure that is the only way out from deep within its depths in pursuit of their freedom - becoming Breathless themselves, making them forevermore part of the Archivist order and held captive as such with no chance ever again escaping. * A game for 1-2 players set on an ancient spiral structure located beneath civilization filled entirely by windoweless rooms where all knowledge is housed inside shelves containing collected information that can be accessed at a price through treasure found in deep within its depths, offering freedom to those who become Breathless themselves becoming forever held captive.* Designed and developed for the Breathless Jam on July 2022 with separate PDFs available as single pages or spreads along side print friendly character sheets/diaries made up of text from The Memory Book & other inspirations by René-Pier Deshaies Gelinas licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
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$7.00
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5.00 (from 10 reviews)
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