Black Signals

Some events aren’t explained. They’re redacted.

Black Signals: A Narrative Analysis is a system-agnostic tool for modern roleplaying. It treats civil unrest, suppression protocols, and institutional silence as narrative events. These aren’t background details. They’re story shifts. Each activation leaves a trace. Each silence holds a consequence.

This book equips you to treat suppression as a turning point. Use it in any setting shaped by surveillance, protest, collapse, or control. The focus is on power, memory, and what happens when systems decide what gets remembered.

This Book Contains:

Narrative Framing: Tools for understanding what suppression means in your story. Explore who ordered it, what it conceals, and how the world shifts around that absence. These frameworks give silence weight and turn institutional actions into character-defining moments.

Scene Tools: Practical methods for describing control, disruption, and unrest. Use them to highlight tension, resistance, and aftermath. These scenes don’t explain. They witness.

Character Archetypes: Ten examples of people shaped by institutional force, some complicit, some erased, some still watching. Each one carries a memory that wasn't supposed to survive. Use them to create players, witnesses, or reminders.

Story Complications: A collection of narrative shifts that follow activation. Each one lingers in systems, culture, or trust. These aren’t consequences. They’re the new status quo.

Worldbuilding Prompts; Questions that expose how control is structured. Who gives orders. Who disappears. Who rewrites the record. Use them to define the architecture of silence and the weight of being seen.

Adventure Hooks: Ten scenarios that begin with something that should’ve stayed quiet. Each one opens a question, an investigation, or a refusal to comply. These aren’t accidents. They’re reminders.

The alert ended. The story didn’t.