DEAD FISH WALKING

Dear Player(s),

Welcome to the world of DEAD FISH WALKING!  A one-shot, solo journaling RPG set in an age where humans are done being civil and survival is a matter of dice rolls.

Pronounced dead at sea. Rod through the fresh salty brain. Pronounced dead after experiments. Needles and serums injected. Pronounced dead at every point in existence. Discarded like trash in a toxic landfill. Death is not the end, or so they say. Eyes open, gills filter the raw static air, you groan, you sigh, you scratch at a fin, you sit up and stretch your legs. There you are. Just like that. Nice and easy. The world’s a mess and you breathe, the air burns something in your chest. You find hands and fingers, legs and toes that wiggle on command. Nice and easy, you get up. You’ve evolved, mutated somehow. A pamphlet gusted by noxious winds smacks you in your face. It reads: SANCTUARY FOR ALL with a tiny map, dotted lines and arrows pointing the way. Talk about fate and timing. Adventure awaits, you are a dead fish walking.

Objective:

Survive for 7 days and reach the sanctuary before your health depletes to zero. Journal your day-to-day experiences.

This project does not contain the output of any form of Generative AI.

Art and writing by the author, Elancharan Gunasekaran.