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Get Out & Play with the Field Agent Handbooks

Pick one up today and become a pendulum-dowsing Field Agent

Luke Earl

Luke Earl

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Get Out & Play with the Field Agent Handbooks
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Have you ever…

…suspected your pet is plotting against you?
…glimpsed unusual creatures in the clouds?
…wanted to talk to plants?
…felt time moving curiously?
…seen faces in rocks?
…enjoyed taking notes in outdoor situations?

If so you are very likely to be ideally suited to JOIN the Ă†therial Corporation’s Observancy Department as a pendulum-dowsing Field Agent TODAY! 

This five part series of 1920s employee handbooks/solo journaling games (plus some extra bobbins) are intended to be played when out & about and are now available in the US from select local stores and Indie Press Revolution or direct from Ă†therCorp Games.

The same zines as in the first picture with the addition of a red one and a large white one lying on the first floor

FULL TRAINING PROVIDED

Carry out covert surveillance as you go about your normal daily life, jotting down interesting sightings and activities while employing a pendulum (a key on a string) and printed dowsing board to help divine the exact nature of your discoveries.

From 1924 to 1928 the Observancy Department focused their attention on five different subjects, providing their Agents with pocket-sized, 76-page Handbooks to log their observations of:

Each Handbook includes instructions on how to go about pendulum dowsing and includes helpful background information on the subjects of your study such as signs to watch out for or classification of subjects. The remaining 60-odd structured pages are there for you to record your observations.

It’s a slower, more mindful gaming experience focusing you on the present moment and your immediate surroundings.

The seven booklets open showing the pages of tales where you record your findings, lying on top of a mossy rock

RISE THROUGH THE RANKS

Every time you complete a Handbook you can get an official stamp and signature to move up in the organisation by returning completed Handbooks to Head Office to our Department Director or downloading print-and-glue stickers direct from the Ætherial Corporation's Agent Central (aec.ac):

  1. Operative (one Handbook completed)
  2. Field Agent, Second Class (two…)
  3. Field Agent, First Class (three…)
  4. Special Agent (four…)
  5. Special Agent, Merit (five or more Handbooks completed)
Five stickers lying on a rock with a brown square envelope with the words Official Use Only stamped on it. Each sticker has a signature and a colourful stamp with one of the five ranks on it and a box labelled 'Date'

ENTICING SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

Accompanying the Handbooks are a selection of other notebooks and ephemera:

  • A notebook complete with index, square & isometric grid guidemarks, and blank dowsing board to key for your own studies
  • A Calibration Record to record your daily mood and activities
  • A 2026 moon cycle Calendar (available soon!)
  • Hand-stamped Official Use Only stickers
  • A uniquely numbered identification card & button badge
  • Pendulum string and slightly rusty keys
A Rusty key tied to a piece of red string next to a business card sized Field Agent ID card with space for a name, tick boxes to show rank and a unique identification number (OBSQ25035) and a signature under the heading' Authorisation'

AVAILABLE NOW!

Pick up one (or all) of the Handbooks from Indie Press Revolution or direct from Ă†therCorp Games, the creator behind games of Victorian orchid hunting in Orchidelirium, solo sci-fi energy-harvesting in Coiled.Spæce, excitingly simple fantasy in Double D6 and the delightfully compact A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG.
The five Handbooks, notebook and calibration record standing on a first floor with trees receding into the distance

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