Your Highest Calling...

To Kill as Kingmakers

After the Great War, peace is tenuous, and nation states struggle to reclaim their power. The Lord's Alliance was meant to restore order, but who can be trusted to fulfill their oaths? That's where you come in. As a Graybreaker, you've left your ordinary life behind to fulfill the organization's highest calling: to kill as kingmakers, and force the Lords to honor their oaths on pain of death.

You Do the Dirty Work...

One Slit Throat
at a Time

Your assassin guild, the Hand of the Lonely Bastard, is nestled in the world's northernmost wastes, where you take on the Graybreakers' most sensitive jobs. There, you accept magical contracts that bind you to secrecy while fulfilling their terms. On the overworld, every successful mission moves the world's geopolitics toward a safer status quo. Build up your base's resources and use fate points to create flashbacks in your heists and assassinations.

Don't Ask Questions...

That You Don't Want to Know the Answer to

If you keep dancing with the devil, one day he's gonna follow you home. At the start of this adventure, you've received a contract that requires you to take a hit on your party members. You don't usually ask questions. But this one cuts too close to home. Who can you trust when everyone's against you? Will you betray your friends, or the organization that made you who you are?

Who Will You Be?

The Widow

Everybody wants something, but the real trick is manufacturing desire. When you weaponize attention, your victims' want, guilt, and curiosity become keys to locked doors.

The Fixer

When chaos reigns, you're in your element. People are a logistics problem, like chess pieces on a game board. You grease borders, bury evidence, and leave behind plausible deniability.

The Muscle

You end arguments with broken bones and silence foes with a fearsome glare. You know the only thing that hits harder than the last word is a closed fist.

The Ghost

You live in negative space: locked doors, missing footage, questions without answers. If they see you, it's too late. And when you're gone, you're gone.

The Face

Your superpower is getting people to do what you want them to do with pretty words. You’ve worn so many versions of your face that the truth feels like just another mask.

The Brains

Every corpse is a variable in the larger equation. You carry calculated risk like you carry the 1, and the sum of all things keeps the world from burning.

Overworld Diplomacy

The overworld becomes a diplomatic stage to direct the world’s acceptance of the Lords’ Alliance. Each mission you undertake can shift nation states in your favor, while simultaneously creating enemies. All the while, a secret faction opposes you, hellbent on plunging the world back into chaos.

Base Building

The Contract’s unique mechanics surrounding base building allow you to customize your headquarters with special rooms and add-ons that generate both in-fiction and meta narrative benefits you can use in your missions.

About the Contract Itself

The Contract’s central premise is that each player has a secret hit on each other player in the party.

While you have to trust your team to survive missions, at the end of the day, they’re out to kill you (quietly and conveniently). But it’s up to the table whether they want to be the top dog at the Hand of the Lonely Bastard, or work together to uncover the real conspiracy that has set you all against each other.

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