STORY

By the year 2048, building upon its chaotic legacy as a lawless enclave, the infamous Kowloon Walled City has evolved into a sprawling monstrosity infested with cybercriminal hideouts, contraband trade havens and breeding grounds for illicit activities.

With no clear jurisdiction and a constant demand for expendable operatives to clean up the aftermath of shady corp experiments, reckless implant surgeries and cultist rites, a ragtag profession emerged, borrowing a long-forgotten name: 天師（tin1 si1）, “Divine Exorcist”.

Plug into this VHS(Vocational-Headjack-Simulation) with up to 3 other players and equip yourself with the essential skills needed to become a 天師! Start today to claw your way out of debt faster than those fools trapped by their measly wages!

MECHANICS

Game Flow

-#RogueLite

You, the player(s) are employed(forced) to enter the Kowloon Walled City and investigate(neutralize) anomalies. As you venture deeper you will move from Block to Block, each with their unique effect, affecting how you want to interact with the dungeon.

Enter dungeon → Explore doors + Progress Story → Clear a block → Repeat

Look for a specific door that advances the plot. They will reveal a new Chapter - which often comes with a choice to be made and always takes you closer to the end, where an epic boss fight awaits!

Episodes

-#StoryDriven -#Choice

Back to the "anomalies". In this volume, there will be 4 Episodes that you can experience, but there will be more in the future expansions.

Each Episode will have their own Chapters, and choices you make along the way will have consequences.

Dungeon Crawling

-#PushYourLuck -#ResourceManagement

The Walled City in 2048 has a few common features with its past self:

1. It's full of forks in the road,
2. It's dark so you don't know what lies ahead,
3. It's lurking with danger.

Before you choose to enter a door, you may use energy to power up your torch, revealing what is behind it. But energy is also critical in battle, whether to push your luck or play it safe at the cost of your combat capability is totally your call.

Character Progression

-#Continuity -#Loot

Your starter gear is the manifestation of embarrasment, but exploration will reward you with Loots: items, weapons, armours, VHS and the jackpot-implants, which you can carry over from Episode to Episode.

So if you want to get your hands on those shiny tools, run the gauntlet, do a few more runs - and survive, cause no one is insured around here.

Combat

-#Dice -#ResourceManagement

In the Walled City, combat is inevitable. There are numerous enemies with diverse behaviours, all represented by a D20 and some D6! Manage your energy level, use your weapons, items and implants wisely to defeat them with minimal resources!

COMPONENTS

EPISODES(4 CARDS EACH) x4 | ENEMY CARDS x5 | DOOR CARDS x19 | WEAPON CARDS x23 | ARMOUR CARDS x9 | RULEBOOK x1 | ITEM CARDS x16 | IMPLANT CARDS x4 | DAY JOB CARDS x8 | D6 x8 | D20 x1 | CUBES x31 | SLIDER CLIPS x4 | COINS x20 | HALMA x1 |

DISCLAIMER

Arts in the game are created by me photobashing and then post-editing images I got from Adobe Stock and generated in MidJourney, all licensed to me. AI-Generative feature is involved in the making of this game but zero content is purely AI-generated.