Blacktide Hunters & Ossuary Society
To the honored, tolerated, dangerous, and possibly sober members of the Blacktide Hunters and the Ossuary Society,
This notice is being sent by me, New Initiate Thumper, because evidently being the lowest ranked member means handling everyone’s BS work as well. You are hereby requested, expected, encouraged, and in some cases gently threatened to attend the upcoming joint gathering of the Blacktide Hunters and Ossuary Society at the tiki bar near the Murder Gardens front. Yes, that tiki bar. The one with the old driftwood, bad lighting, trophy bits on the walls, and the kind of smell that makes you wonder if the furniture is infected.
The Ossuary Society has identified a strange Mortis irregularity in the area. That means reports, examinations, experiments, spooky shit, and at least one person staring into the middle distance while saying, “That should not be doing that.” Again. Current reports indicate that the dead are surfacing in matched pairs. Not just waves. Pairs. Twos. Matched bodies. Echoed returns. However you want to dress it up, the dead are coming up like something is counting them.
Worse, several corpses have been getting back up after they were already put down. Properly put down. Put down in ways that should have stuck. The Blacktide Hunters have been asked to assist in clearing the undead pressure before it becomes someone else’s problem, which is usually how it becomes everyone’s problem.
Hunters are encouraged to bring trophies, field stories, scars with good explanations, scars with bad explanations, and anything else that proves you have done the work and lived long enough to make it someone else’s story. There will be opportunities to share accomplishments, speak with senior members, show off trophies, make useful contacts, and possibly earn recognition or advancement. Prospective members may also present themselves, provided they understand that joining the Blacktide Hunters means more than liking big weapons, loud stories, and the idea of being called brave by people who are usually too drunk to pronounce your name correctly.
Members of the Ossuary Society are encouraged to bring reports, observations, recovered materials, Mortis theories, evidence of improper necrological behavior, and anything else that will make senior members sigh deeply into a drink before asking for clarification. Materials will be reviewed, notated, and discussed by senior members of the Society. Please remember that “I found this and it screamed when I touched it” is not a complete report, even if it is an excellent opening sentence and totally funny.
This gathering is both social and functional. Attendance is strongly recommended. Failure to attend may result in missing useful information, valuable recognition, and the rare pleasure of watching heavily armed adults argue over whether a skull counts as a trophy if it tried to bite someone after removal.
Signed under protest,
New Initiate Thumper
Acting Correspondence Lackey
Temporary Handler of Everyone Else’s Paperwork
Out of Character Event Information
The Blacktide Hunters and the Ossuary Society will be gathering at the tiki bar as part of the Aysea virtual event. These scenes are designed as a shared society space for roleplay, storytelling, faction engagement, advancement opportunities, and event specific investigation tied to the strange Mortis activity near Murder Gardens.
For Blacktide Hunter players, this is a chance to lean into the larger than life social culture of the society. Bring your stories. Bring your trophies. Bring props or physical representations that show what your character has hunted, survived, or dragged back from a bad night. This is a space to brag, build relationships, recruit new members, deepen your society identity, and potentially be recognized by senior Blacktide members.
Players interested in Blacktide advancement will have the opportunity to sign up for time in the STAGE channel using our “all eyes on me” meta-design. During those scenes, senior members, including both player characters and NPCs, will challenge advancement candidates. Expect questions, pressure, field logic, empty beer cans thrown, and judgment based on how well your character understands the work of the Hunters. Show up ready to prove you are more than a good story with a sharp weapon.
The Ossuary Society portion of the evening will have a different tone. Still social, still strange, but more subdued. Think deep sigh and drink energy. Ossuary members will have the chance to share reports, review strange materials, compare Mortis observations, and speak with senior Society members about the unusual activity taking place in the area. The current situation includes undead appearing in twinned pairs, along with reports of zombies rising again after they should have remained destroyed. That is the kind of problem the Ossuary Society exists to study before someone turns a local disaster into a regional one.
Ossuary players should bring notes, props, written theories, records, or other story materials they would like to discuss in character. Senior PC and NPC members will be available to review these materials, notate them, and help clarify what exists as broader Dystopia Rising Live canon and what exists within the scope of specific branch narratives. This is a strong opportunity for players to share their own stories while also grounding those stories within the larger setting.
This gathering is not only about advancement or formal review. It is also about giving society members a reason to talk, compare experiences, and build relationships across branches. Dystopia Rising Live societies are designed as shared narrative structures giving characters a place to belong, a reason to engage, and a larger story to step into.
