Damocles Mission (1983)

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Hopeless Games enter an alien artifact suspended high above Earth like the sword of Damocles. Will we be able to unlock the mysteries within and make first contact before it drops? Damocles Mission is a hard scifi game designed by Gerry Klug and published in Ares Magazine no. 13 in 1983. It conveys an almost tangible sense of mystery that few other games are able to achieve. 🕰️ Timestamps: 0:00 Welcome Aboard 1:32 The Story So Far 3:59 The Discovery Team 7:57 The Mysterious Artifact 11:40 Basic Game Concepts 16:18 Prologue: Arrival 19:34 Room 1: Spheres Within Spheres 26:13 Room 2: Telepathic Treatises 37:10 Room 3: The Dying of the Light 43:56 Room 4: Four Point Six Megahertz 52:26 Room 5: Electric Eyes 59:51 Room 6: Soul-Stretching Screams 1:09:31 Room 7: Liquid Clarity 1:19:19 Room 8: First Contact 1:28:52 Room 10: Weighed and Wanting 1:34:50 Room 11: Breaking the Bond 1:41:48 Room 12: No Way Back 1:46:54 Room 13: Binary Countdown 1:54:11 Room 14: A Final Message 2:05:05 Room 15: Cosmic Silence 2:07:49 Epilogue: Departure 2:09:18 Final Discussion Join this channel: https://youtube.com/@hopelessstream Twitch: https://twitch.tv/hopelessstream Instagram: https://instagram.com/hopelessgames Facebook: https://facebook.com/hopelessgames Hopeless Games dive into the weird and wonderful world of niche gaming. We dig up forgotten games, wrestle with impossible rules, and spin it all into epic tales of triumph and tragedy. We also design our own special brand of games in the nebulous borderlands between ritual and play. Check them out here: https://www.hopelessgames.com/ #TabletopGaming #BoardGames #TabletopRPG #StoryDrivenGames #SoloBoardGame #ScifiGaming #ParagraphGames #HardScifi #FirstContact #AresMagazine