🫀Heart: The City Beneath🫀 Rats in the Cellar

The Heart is a red, wet heaven that slumbers beneath the earth. A place of infinite possibilities and an unknowable intelligence. A maze of teeth and sinew, of ancient stone, of long-forgotten machinery that grinds and scrapes. People have made their homes in the caverns underneath the mile-tall city of Spire for centuries, until the Vermissian Incident in which the architects of the train network that runs through Spire and the undercity attempted to power their engines with raw unreality by piercing the Heart Itself.

Since then, things have spiralled out of control. Paths shiver and fade, or reconnect themselves to new endings. Time and space have come unstuck at the seams, and in their place, the Heart fills the gaps with desire - yours, and its own. It knows what you want. It is a god, more or less, in these lightless caverns beneath the earth, so it can give it to you. The only tools it has are meat, and stone, and time - but it is patient and strange, and it can wait.

In the meantime, you’ve resorted to this - hunting rats in a basement. After the landlord of Last Orders posted a message in your tavern requesting some pest extermination, you and your fellow delvers decided to go and check it out. If it’s nothing to write home about, at least you can get a beer somewhere new.

The most direct route there is through the cursed Vermissian train network. You want to get there before anyone else does to take the job from you, so you set off on a dangerous walk down to the pub.

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Heart: The City Beneath is a game of surreal fantasy horror about delving into a nightmare undercity that will give you everything you’ve ever dreamed of – or kill you in the process.

It is a dungeon-crawling, story-forward tabletop RPG from the designers of Spire that focuses on what characters have to lose in pursuit of their dreams in the chaotic darkness beneath the world.

Rats in the Cellar is a beginner-friendly one-shot adventure for Heart. You do not need to be familiar with the game to join, I will teach the rules as we play.

Pregenerated characters will be provided, just bring a pencil and dice (d10s primarily, with a d4, d6, and d8 thrown in).

As this adventure contains mature content, player discretion is advised. All players must be 18+. We will use the X-Card safety tool.

Content Warning:

• Graphic violence and death
• Cults, fringe religions, and the occult
• Substance usage and abuse
• Mental illness and insanity
• Animal death
• Cannibalism
• Phobias