The World Gone Beautiful

In a distant star system, someone watches and waits for our return to the Planet of Hands. Where we will languish handless that they may live in luxury, in love with us fully, truly for our unwilling sacrifice.

In the American Northeast, a mahogany door hides broken chains and one last strained bond. An ancient god of burning red awaits to rule by blood, by concrete, and by the howling. One last child remains.

A plague of clockwork and of the undead waits to be discovered and unleashed upon man. A plague doctor is the last thing one would need, or want.

And somewhere, in an abandoned lair festering with slime and blood and feces, someone blinks and then feels cold concrete on their neck. The last thing they will ever know.

All of this, with no one there to secure it, to contain it, and to protect mankind from the knowledge. No initiative from anywhere willing to crush it. No market-competent deviants ready to capitalize on the opportunities. No one. No one yet.

A plucky militia could rise out of the shadows to deal with these paranormal threats, or better yet, incorporate them to fight for their cause. A scientific organization could dedicate themselves to researching these anomalies, making decades of scientific progress from one peculiar artifact alone. Maybe they could even make the surreal real or force humanity to come to terms with a new reality where they are comically insignificant and present themselves as the sole solution. Or maybe you could do the boring thing and sell them on the black market.

After all, no one's stopping you. No one but you, and your fellow pioneers.

The World Gone Beautiful (WGB for short) is an NRP set in a modern world where the anomalous has begun to emerge from the woodwork. As humanity continues to crawl out from under the shadows of ignorance and into the light, they find that a much bigger darkness awaits them, completely aberrant from the laws of the world they have built from themselves. The player is dropped into the role of a founder of a fledgling organization hoping to harness the newly-emerging world of the anomalous for their own ends.

Anomalies and the general worldbuilding will largely be lifted from the universe of the SCP Foundation, with modifications made so that I don't go insane. In this world, the SCP Foundation and other GOIs will not exist, probably along with their associated anomalies. The world at the start of the NRP will only have a minimal amount of non-intrusive anomalies, with the anomalous becoming more and more aggressive and numerous as time goes on, or as organizations begin to undertake less safe "experiments".

Players will be assigned starting conditions by rolls, modifiable depending on their own plans. The NRP will largely revolve around anomaly discovery and containment at the start, with more complex interactions evolving as the world gets more and more built up.

We also have a Discord server.

So what are you waiting for? The water's warm and probably not contaminated, and 173's looking for someone to hug!

Organizational Sheet Template:


Rolls are modifiable, ping me in the Discord to get your rolls. You don't need to follow the sheet completely, it's simply to give you an idea of what you can (and maybe should) put on for better clarification. Essentially just answer these questions:

1. Who, what, and where are you?
2. What are your general aims? (If you want to keep secrets, feel free to!)
3. What can you do in the anomalous world and why?