PEOPLE OF THE DARK

- KINGDOM DEATH: MONSTER -

CAMPAIGN
CREDITS TABLE OF CONTENTS
Kingdom Death: Monster created by Adam Poots INTRODUCTION 1
FOUNDING STORY EVENT 3
Campaign Programming, Idea, and Text Creation: John Shinholser STORY EVENTS
INTIMACY 7
Design, Art (some) and Crest: Tommy Rayburn BLEAK 9
IMAGINARY FRIEND 11
Images: From Kingdom Death and various ...... This is free and should not be sold. FALL 13
(If you have the expansions for Slenderman and Lion God, then you already have the Kingdm Death images used.) REALIZED RUINS 15
CONFRONTATION WITH THE SILIENT GOD 17

SLENDER MAN
The Slenderman is a dark, cold hole in the mem-
ories of the few that have seen it and lived. With-
in this chilling gap of recollection, terror thrives,
growing into panic and jumbled tales of warning.
Facing the Slenderman tests the teamwork and
sanity of the survivors that face it. The monster's
movements are unpredictable, and it will often
vanish from the board, leaving the team to careful-
ly coordinate their actions to bring down their foe.
THIS FAN CAMPAIGN
In this campaign, Survivors settle on an island
in the middle of a thorn smothered mangrove
swamp. They always seem to be certain that it is
obvious how they began living in the thorns, but,
whenever any individual survivor tries to recall the
settlement's history, they quickly forget that they
were ever trying to recall that history in the first
place. Odd anachronistic ruins can be found all
about, choking in the black waters and thorns, but
the survivors never seem to think to notice them.
SOCIETY IN FUGUE
The People of the Dark fan campaign explores
themes of memory and cyclical civilization devel-
opment. Survivors will build a settlement that will
develop quickly but be subject to periodic eradi-
cation, forcing the settlement to reset certain el-
ements on their settlement record sheet as the
PEOPLE OF THE DARK CAMPAIGN: INTRODUCTION
- Introduction -
shadowy monster guiding their overall develop-
ment robs them of memory, identity, and innova-
Dragon King. Nemesis monster expansions can
work in this campaign, but you will need to house
tion. rule certain elements of the campaign to make
them work and, as such, are not recommended.
At the same time, however, certain elements of the
civilization will persist through the cycle of death
and rebirth, kept alive by the campaign's unique
buildings and savior replacements, the Bleak
INCORPORATED
EXPANSIONS
Ones. If you are prone to getting attached to indi-
vidual survivors over the course of the campaign,
or do not like dealing with the frustrations of los-
ing progress, this campaign might not be for you. The Slender Man and Lion God expansions are
On the other hand, if you enjoy taking advantage of core to this fan expansion and the expansion will
not function properly without them.
Kingdom Death's NG+ feature, or would like to ex-
plore a series of interconnected mini-campaigns,
NOTE ON SLENDER
my hope is that this fan expansion will work for
you. I am trying to design this expansion to take a
bit more time to reach its end than a normal cam-
paign, but its overall structure should lend well to
periodic play. MAN SHOWDOWN
Slenderman encounters are regular nemesis en-
NEMESIS SLENDER
counters rather special encounters for the purpos-
es of this campaign.
MAN & SILENT GOD
This fan campaign uses the Slender Man and Lion
God as a basis for its unique nemesis and end game
required nemesis monsters.
If you would like to add expansions to your cam-
paign to complement its theme, I highly recom-
mend any of the expansions related to the Plain
of Faces or Silver City. Current expansions (as of
the writing of this description) that I would recom-
mend include the Gorm, the Sunstalker, and the
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 PEOPLE OF THE DARK CAMPAIGN: FOUNDING STORY EVENT
- Founding Story Event -

SWIMMING
The survivors make their way toward a silver glow in the distance. Suddenly, they find
themselves floating on the surface of an ocean of black water with no memory of how
they got there. There is a golden glow in the distance.

Working together to drag their kill through the water, they stagger onto a beach of black
sand overwhelmed by thorny trees. Other survivors cower on the sands. Golden lights
twinkle between the thorns. Resolve the First Day settlement event then nominate a sur-
vivor to Approach the Lights.

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Approach the Lights
The nominated survivor gains +1 courage as they
walk confidently into the trees. They discover that
the lights are small, human shaped insects with
wizened faces. One of the creatures approaches
them and, with a start, the survivor realizes the
creature bears their own face, but much aged.
The survivor cocks their head and their glowing,
miniature double does likewise. They wave and
the creature does so, also. The survivor turns to
tell the others what they have discovered, only
to realize they cannot communicate. Before they
can ponder this issue, their double flies to its com-
rades, yabbering excitedly. The survivor remem-
bers that they have already communicated their
discovery. The other survivors remember this,
also. The settlement gains the Doppel-Memories
innovation and loses all curiosity. Build the innova-
tion deck now.
- Founding Story Event -
Build the Innovation Deck
The innovation deck represents the cultural and
technological growth of your settlement. It will
grow throughout the campaign as you gain new
innovation cards.
Find the 6 innovation cards listed at the bottom of
the Doppel-Memories innovation card.
Shuffle these 6 cards together to form your settle-
ment's innovation deck. Place it face down in the
designated space on the settlement board.
The innovation deck is persistent. Make sure to
preserve the unique combination of cards in your
deck between play sessions.
Finished, the settlement celebrates their First
Bacchanal.
PEOPLE OF THE DARK CAMPAIGN: FOUNDING STORY EVENT
First Bacchanal
Remembering all of their conversations as they
think to have them, and ignoring the swirling
dance of their flying golden doubles, the survi-
vors quickly agree to make the Thorny Mangrove
home, gaining its Settlement Location.
Place the Thorny Mangrove in your play area. The
Thorny Mangrove is the source of all innovations
and further locations the settlement will develop.
The settlement wades out into the black waters,
dancing and cheering in babble that makes sense
only after it has been spoken. The nominated sur-
vivor, emboldened by the celebrations, communi-
cates to the others that the settlement must hunt
to survive. Add the White Lion to your quarry list.
Something in the nominated survivor's brain is
warped by a desire to only ever think to the future.
They gain the Quixotic disorder and must depart
this year if able.
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 PEOPLE OF THE DARK CAMPAIGN: STORY EVENT
- Story Event -

INTIMACY
The nominated consenting male and female survivors decide to become parents and Roll in the Thorns.

The first time a child is born, the settlement must
decide how to raise their offspring. Principle:
New Life.
As your settlement grows, don't forget to apply
your New Life principle. It will greatly affect the
outcome of your campaign.
Roll in the Thorns
Roll 1d10
1 9 10
As the couple walk into the darkness, the settle- The settlement marvels at the miracle of the fe-
ment accepts that they never existed in the first male survivor's immaculate conception. +1 popu-
place. Both survivors are dead. lation. The newborn miracle survivor has +1 luck
and the Phantom Friend Fighting Art. The male

On a 2,3, If the settlement

has the Inner Lantern
innovation, the survi-
vors instead manage
to escape the thorns,
led forward by the light
of their golden doubles.
The ordeal leaves them
exhausted, however. They cannot depart or
endeavor again this year.
On a 7, if the settlement
has the Shrine innova-
tion, the twins' birth is
heralded as a sign and
they are raised within
the holy structure's walls.
Both twins gain +1 insanity
and a random fighting art.
2 3
The thorns hunger. The male and female survivor
are devoured by the darkness surrounding the set-
tlement. They are dead. The pleased chittering of
the thorns is disturbing. Departing survivors gain
+1 insanity this LY.
4 5
A child is born! +1 population. It will grow out of the
lack of facial features it is born with, but its parents
still gain +3 insanity on seeing it.
6 7 8 The child's intense loneliness leads to intense de-
Twins! +2 population.
survivor never existed. They are dead.
On a 10+, if the settlement's insanity pool
is 20 or higher, a special child is born. The
male survivor is still dead. The child is born
without the ability to speak, its golden dou-
ble having been stillborn. As a result, how-
ever, it bears a Special Fate.
Special Fate
rangement, eventually causing its phantom friend
to undergo a spontaneous chemical alteration. The
child and their friend go Bleak.

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 PEOPLE OF THE DARK CAMPAIGN: STORY EVENT
- Story Event -

BLEAK
The newborn survivor's phantom friend mutates under the pressure of the special child's loneliness, becoming a dark extension of the child's
tortured psyche.

The survivor gains the Bleak One special ability and their friend's mutation manifests in one of three ways:

Use Rock Attack! Use Teleportation Terror! Use.. Blood Drink?

The child's friend develops rocky spines. The
friend gains the following ability:
Rocking Spines: The imaginary monster's
body is hard and sharp as rock. If the phantom
friend ends its activation adjacent to the mon-
ster, the Bleak One that controls it may spend
one survival to draw a hit location card and
inflict a non-critical wound to the monster if
able, resolving the hit location card as if the
survivor had made the attack.
The child's friend develops a frown that is
slightly out of touch with reality. The friend
gains the following ability:
Cheshire Grumping: The phantom friend's
frowning face can often be found hovering in
a different location than the rest of the friend.
At the end of the phantom friend's activation,
it may use its disembodied mouth to grab the
Bleak One that controls it by the nape of their
neck and pull them to a legal spot adjacent to
the location it is standing in.
The child's friend develops exquisitely tuned,
hollow feelers, which it uses for the sole pur-
pose of drinking blood, gaining the following
ability:
Leach Feelers: Who would have thought hav-
ing blood sucking as a super power could be
so useful? At the end of the phantom friend's
activation, if it is adjacent to a survivor other
than the Bleak One that controls it, the Bleak
One and the other survivor may exchange any
number of bleeding tokens. The bleak one
then loses one bleeding token.

Bleak One: This survivor's mind and body are guarded by a hallucinated companion that it believes in so fervently that it can bring it to life.
They can no longer Memory Trail other survivors. The survivor gains the Phantom Friend fighting art. In addition, they may now ignore
anything that would cause them to lose a fighting art or disorder. During the showdown phase, at the beginning of the survivor's action, they
may manifest their phantom friend in a space adjacent to themselves. The phantom friend may move five spaces and then perform its special
ability, then ceases to exist. Remove it from the board.

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 PEOPLE OF THE DARK CAMPAIGN: STORY EVENT
- Story Event -

IMAGINARY FRIEND
One day, the children of the settlement made a pact.

Select the 4 survivors with the least hunt XP (or all settlers if population is less than four.)

These intrepid young explorers would find a

friend that the rest of the settlement had for-
gotten about. Roll 1d10 as the children Dive
into the Depths of the waters they had last
seen their friend wander into.
1 tion if you do not have it already.
Something in the deeps. The children die! Re-
move them from the record sheet. The set-
tlement mourns. +2 insanity for all departing
survivors.
2 3
We all float down, here. The children are at-
tacked by something in the deep. Resolve the
Legendary Lungs event for each survivor. If
they don't gain the SFA, they die.
4 5 6 On a 2-3, Growing stronger. If the
Lost City. The children discover the ruins of
a city in the water's depths. They do not find
their friend, but the city's coiling architecture
leaves them inspired. Gain the Shrine innova-
7 8 9 10
Strange knight. The survivors fail to find their
friend and become lost. A strange, fish scaled
knight takes pity on them and helps them find
their way home, leaving them with a gift. Re-
solve the Hooded Knight story event, select-
ing one of the originally chosen survivors to
interact with the knight if able.
settlement is in cycle three, the chil-
dren are no longer able to escape.
They die.
On a 10, Friend found! If your set-
tlement has 20 or more stored
insanity, the survivors find their
young friend, shivering but alive,
in an underwater cave. +1 popula-
tion. The new survivor has the Zero
Presence secret fighting art and the
Secretive disorder.

After rolling on the table, a presence takes notice of the settlement. Add It's Already Here (Slender
Man Booklet) to year six on the settlement's timeline.

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Though they do not remember the encounter, the Slender Man's visit with the settlement changes it in a profound way.
The black leaves on the thorn vines turn bril-
liant shades of orange and red, then fade to
gray and brown. The vines coil closer and
closer around the settlement, as if preparing
to smother it. Sparking gray smog rises off the
black waters off the settlement's coast and,
under their influence, the survivors begin to
forget. Roll 1d10 and add your settlemen's
saved insanity (from the insanity pool) and
Fight the Fall.
Fight the Fall
1-45: The settlement fails to hold on. Refer to
Fallen Civilization.
45+: Success! The survivors ignore the change
in their settlement's setting, acting out their
daily lives as if nothing has changed.
Fallen Civilization
The settlement falls into oblivion and those
survivors unable to fortify their minds are
PEOPLE OF THE DARK CAMPAIGN: STORY EVENT
- Rules -
FALL
drawn into the thorn swamp. They grin stu- Remove all settlement events not originally
pidly as the vines slowly strip their flesh, ren- on the settlement sheet.
dering them into pulped meat. The golden
doubles descend in a swarm to lay their eggs
in the meat before it putrefies, and then they
die.
Set all Bleak One survivors to one side-they
are immune to the effects, though unable to
communicate to save their companions.
Erase all other survivor sheets and uncheck all
Lantern Years. Restart the Settlement phase
and resolve LY 1, using the number of survi-
vors erased from sheets/storage to determine
starting number of survivors for the First
Day settlement event. Re-use your settle-
ment sheet, changing the settlement's name
(it's a "new" settlement, after all!). Lose half
of the settlement's resources, including stor-
age (rounded up), and all innovations except
for Dark Water Research and any masteries
known by surviving Bleak One survivors.
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REALIZED RUINS
If the settlement has the Final Fighting Art or the Ultimate Weapon innovation, roll below on Explore the Ruins.
Otherwise, they Discover the Ruins.

Discover the Ruins: As the ancient Slender Man falls, the survivors realize suddenly that they have been living their lives in the shadow of a
massive, black spire bestrewn city in the middle of the thorn-covered swamp. They had never once thought to look up from their day to day
lives, but with their minds suddenly clearer they decide to Explore the Ruins.

Explore the Ruins

If the settlement has the Barbaric
Conviction principal, they decide to
hack away at the thorns with fist and The settlement realizes each others' words,
tooth. Gain the Final Fighting Art attempting to discern the best method of ap-
innovation. For the rest of the cam- proaching the ruins. After debate, one realized
paign, all departing survivors will gain
argument rises above all others, guided by the
one bleeding token as their bodies are
worn down by their efforts. settlement's shared Conviction.

If the settlement has the Romantic
Conviction principal, they decide to
send highly equipped scouts into the
swamp to discern the safest method of
approaching the city. Gain the Ulti-
mate Weapon innovation. For the rest
of the campaign, you must sacrifice
one weapon from settlement storage
at the beginning of each settlement
phase or, if unable, lose 1d5 popula-
tion as the scouts never return.
Regardless of their choice, roll 1d10 at the be-
ginning of each settlement phase after this one,
adding the number of settlement phases that
have occurred since this event has been re-
solved.
6 7 8 9 10
The survivors discover a route into the city and
are compelled into a Confrontation with the
Silent God.

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CONFRONTATION WITH THE SILENT GOD

Stricken Dumb
The city quakes as the last survivor passes
through its gates and a gray, mountain sized
creature rises up from the city's center. Build-
ings shatter and fall like pebbles from the
creature's flanks, but make no sound. The
golden doubles that have flitted about the set-
tlement's survivors scatter, terrified, and the
survivors find themselves remembering that
they cannot call out in dread as the rubble
falls towards them.
Select four survivors to immediately Con-
front the Silent God. All other survivors are
lost in the chaos and unable to help stave
off the geologically proportioned monster.
The four survivors clamber up the wreckage
at the monster's side, making their way onto
its back. At the crest of its massive shoulder-
blades they find a temple. That temple is well
guarded.
Nemesis Encounter: The Silent God. As a lvl
3 Lion God, but with the following changes:
Cannot wound the Lion God until you
have reached God's Chamber in the
Necropolis story event at least once.
Add the Hounds special rule from the
Slender Man expansion.
Survivors may not use the Trail surviv-
al action.
Success: Clambering down into the god's
chamber with the black blood of the guardian
still dripping above them, the survivors re-
move the lid of the sarcophagus at the heart
of the monster. Whatever they had expect-
ed, all that emerges from the coffin is black
spores. The survivors cough and wave the
fog of spores away from their faces, catching
a glimpse, perhaps, of a sodden man's face.
Quickly forgotten, they return their attention
to what they have just accomplished: defeat-
ing the bizarre, lantern jellyfish monster at
the heart of their settlement's lantern hoard
in the plane of carved stone faces. With pride,
they clap each others' backs, only to realize
that the lanterns have suddenly gone dark.

The End

Loss: The carcasses of the settlement's survivors feed the beasts of the thorny
swamp for months, and then the settlement, like the city it was built at the foot of,
like the monster at its center, never existed... Game Over.

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