![]() Without spoiling anything, if a character is loyal to you they will side with you in certain story events, as will anyone loyal to them in turn. We’ll talk more about the characters themselves later, but for now all you need to know is that completing their requests, anything from setting aside some food for a holiday feast to locking the camp down early for the winter, will increase that character’s loyalty. ![]() You’ll mostly be receiving requests from the specialists of the team.These characters are more fleshed out than the rest of the crew, like the head engineer, particularly influential sailors, the kennel master, and more. As acting captain, each week you’ll take requests and assign tasks to the crew. Surviving is just as important as trust here. If morale gets too low, however, then it’s your head on the chopping block. You need to manage all your resources wisely, because sending groups out hunting or scavenging on the ice can only get you so much. The general game flow goes like this: you start the week taking requests, assign crew members to their tasks, call everyone to dinner, then advance to the next week. If the furnace’s temperature is too low people will become frozen, develop frostbite and then – you guessed it – die of it. If you don’t have enough food to go around, characters will become malnourished, eventually progressing to scurvy and then death. Rescue will arrive in about 30 weeks, and there will be many twists and turns as the pale tries to kill you all. As acting captain, you need to manage the crew’s food, heat, morale, and loyalty week to week so no one dies. The Pale Beyond is a narrative survival game. But when Hunt goes missing after the ship is trapped in the ice, all eyes are on you to lead the crew and survive this frozen wasteland until rescue arrives. For the first month or so of the voyage, before the vessel hits ice, you get to know the crew. After an interview, telling Hunt your background, experience, and thoughts on leadership, you’ve got the job. You are Robin Shaw, First Mate of Captain Hunt’s expedition to find the wreck of the Viscount at the south pole. You didn’t ask to be their captain, but so help you god, you will lead them out of the Pale Beyond. Soon, they will once again turn to you for guidance. The words won’t fill their bellies nor warm their frostbitten fingers, but one must take small comforts where one can. For we may or might never all leave here again.” The crew’s song echoes across the ice flow. Come lift up your voices, all grief to refrain. ![]() Come lift up your voices in chorus with mine. “Kind friends and companions, come join me in rhyme. ![]()
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