Worlds By Watt CLOUD EMPRESS: Land Of Cicadas + Solo Protocol
In the summer of the Century Brood, in the second year of the 108th Empress, a fleet of Cloudling thopters and barges descends through the clouds. The Lordlings from chandelier cities come grinning to the Lowland Wastes, set on glory, greed, and recapturing their missing Empress.
Land Of Cicadas is and adventure setting for the Cloud Empress Science Fantasy RPG. Players will explore a land governed by the patterns of giant psychic cicadas. When deadly soldiers from royal lands high above the clouds threaten the balance, the Breadbasket's wheat fields will burn without the players' help.
In Land Of Cicadas contains descriptions of the wilderness, people, and conflicts of the polluted landscape known as the Lowland Wastes during the Summer of the Century Brood.
Inspirations:
Films: Brazil, Angel's Egg, Stalker, Star Wars: A New Hope, Full Metal Alchemist
Books: Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind, The Books of Earthsea, Dune, Earth-X, The Wizard and Glass, Akira, Dhalgren
Games: Null Hack, Electric Bastionland, Wanderhome, Psychologic 2
Artwork: Kilian Eng, Moebius, Lando, Thomas Wyeth
Self-published by the author
USA Import
Saddle-stitched zine
58 full-color pages
A5 format
Winner of the Silver Ennie 2024 for Best Writing!
In the summer of the Century Brood, in the second year of the 108th Empress, a fleet of Cloudling thopters and barges descends through the clouds. The Lordlings from chandelier cities come grinning to the Lowland Wastes, set on glory, greed, and recapturing their missing Empress.
Land Of Cicadas is and adventure setting for the Cloud Empress Science Fantasy RPG. Players will explore a land governed by the patterns of giant psychic cicadas. When deadly soldiers from royal lands high above the clouds threaten the balance, the Breadbasket's wheat fields will burn without the players' help.
In Land Of Cicadas contains descriptions of the wilderness, people, and conflicts of the polluted landscape known as the Lowland Wastes during the Summer of the Century Brood.
Inspirations:
Films: Brazil, Angel's Egg, Stalker, Star Wars: A New Hope, Full Metal Alchemist
Books: Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind, The Books of Earthsea, Dune, Earth-X, The Wizard and Glass, Akira, Dhalgren
Games: Null Hack, Electric Bastionland, Wanderhome, Psychologic 2
Artwork: Kilian Eng, Moebius, Lando, Thomas Wyeth
Self-published by the author
USA Import
Saddle-stitched zine
58 full-color pages
A5 format
Winner of the Silver Ennie 2024 for Best Writing!
In the summer of the Century Brood, in the second year of the 108th Empress, a fleet of Cloudling thopters and barges descends through the clouds. The Lordlings from chandelier cities come grinning to the Lowland Wastes, set on glory, greed, and recapturing their missing Empress.
Land Of Cicadas is and adventure setting for the Cloud Empress Science Fantasy RPG. Players will explore a land governed by the patterns of giant psychic cicadas. When deadly soldiers from royal lands high above the clouds threaten the balance, the Breadbasket's wheat fields will burn without the players' help.
In Land Of Cicadas contains descriptions of the wilderness, people, and conflicts of the polluted landscape known as the Lowland Wastes during the Summer of the Century Brood.
Inspirations:
Films: Brazil, Angel's Egg, Stalker, Star Wars: A New Hope, Full Metal Alchemist
Books: Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind, The Books of Earthsea, Dune, Earth-X, The Wizard and Glass, Akira, Dhalgren
Games: Null Hack, Electric Bastionland, Wanderhome, Psychologic 2
Artwork: Kilian Eng, Moebius, Lando, Thomas Wyeth
Self-published by the author
USA Import
Saddle-stitched zine
58 full-color pages
A5 format
Winner of the Silver Ennie 2024 for Best Writing!