Lifeline GURPs Survival Horror RPG

One moment, the familiar world – the scent of rain on pavement, the drone of machinery, the cry of a market vendor, the quiet hum of electricity. The next, only Fog – cold, unnatural, absolute, silencing everything. When it thinned, you weren't home anymore. You were somewhere else. Somewhere wrong.

Lifeline is a GURPS survival horror roleplaying experience conducted through text on Discord. You are Survivors – ordinary individuals torn from your own times and lives by an inexplicable, encroaching Mist. Now, you find yourselves trapped in a decaying, twilight town known as the Crossroads, the only pocket of relative safety in a hostile realm woven from nightmare.

This bleak sanctuary is surrounded by the very Fog that brought you here. It churns like a living thing, an impenetrable wall marking the boundary of your fragile existence. To deliberately step into it – an act known among survivors as Traversing the Fog – is to gamble everything. The world vanishes into disorienting grey, only to eventually spit you out into a Trial: a terrifying, self-contained pocket dimension crafted by the ancient, unseen Entity that rules this realm and feeds on despair.

Within these deadly Trials – haunted hospitals, lightless forests, derelict factories, places pulled from fragmented realities – you must confront horrific creatures, navigate treacherous environments, solve desperate puzzles, and scavenge dwindling resources. Completing the Trial's objective is your only hope of finding an exit, plunging back into the Fog, and eventually stumbling back into the relative quiet of the Crossroads, battered but alive. For now.

Death here is permanent. Survival is a constant struggle against fear, dwindling hope, environmental hazards, monstrous threats, and sometimes, fellow survivors. Yet, whispers persist of a Way Out, a true escape from the Entity's grasp. By enduring the Trials, gathering scarce clues, pooling fragmented knowledge, and confronting the darkness head-on, perhaps you can unravel the secrets of this prison and reclaim your life.

Lifeline is a game of atmosphere, tension, vulnerability, and the desperate search for meaning in the bleakest of circumstances. Prepare yourself. Your lifeline is fraying.