Low Lying Mist: A Duet of Companionship and Survival

Two strangers find themselves unexpectedly spending the winter together. A sudden storm forces them to seek cover, a storm that traps them in a pillbox with a small bunker for the entirety of the winter. They each bring traumas and triumphs from the summer of the Century Brood and the missing Empress. To get to the next summer, they will need to learn how to work together to survive the harsh weather and explore their surroundings.

Low Lying Mist is a game for two players, without a GM or Warden designed for the 2024 Winter Game Jam for Cloud Empress by world by watt, which itself is made for use with Mothership Sci-fi Horror RPG. Low Lying Mist is s an independent production by ordsten & entholviel and is not affiliated with worlds by watt.

Content Warnings: Isolation, war, bugs

Art Credits:
All art is believed to be in the public domain of the United States of America.

• Cover: A devastated landscape, pocked with rain-filled shell-holes 1918 by Paul Nash
• Page 1; Hiver (Le Loup dans la neige) 1864 by Félix Bracquemond
• Page 2: Barbed wire entanglements surrounding Blockhouse No. 3. Photographed in 1918 by Sgt. Grier M. Shotwell
• Page 4: Illustration from War of the Worlds (1906) by Henrique Alvim Corrêa
• Page 6: Green River 1861 by Adolph Metzner
• Page 8: Combe Bottom 1860 by Francis Seymour Haden
• Itch Page: Winter Afternoon 1880-91 by Frank Anderson