HOLLOW KEEL

The ship does not need to lie. Your report needs its history to have happened once. You are a Wreck Surveyor returning alone to a derelict vessel. You have already inspected it. You have already signed the report. Your conclusion has already set a recovery operation in motion. Now an independent review is approaching, and you have one unsupervised return to determine whether the wreck can still support what you claimed. HOLLOW KEEL is a solo, print-and-play sci-fi horror investigation about route control, physical evidence, and the consequences of deciding what to preserve and what to take away. What you do - Survey a failing network: Discover routes, control them with three dice used as temporary survey beacons, and validate loops to establish reliable access. - Reconstruct an event sequence: Record only chronological relationships directly supported by physical evidence. - Choose what survives: Preserve evidence in place or extract portable material at the cost of its original context. - Decide when to return: No oxygen countdown forces you deeper. How far to investigate is your decision. The wreck does not provide a simple answer. Your investigation is about what can be proved, not what you want to believe. What you need - Three double-sided A4 gameplay sheets - Exactly three six-sided dice (3d6) - A pencil - An optional notebook