Info About the Shiny Ones
Imagine you and your friends as curious small-town residents stumbling onto weird glowing artifacts—those are the Shiny Ones. Right away you can feel that core tension: life in the woods has been quiet, almost too quiet, and now something is stirring beneath the soil. You’ll hop into character pretty fast, trading mundane chores for midnight stakeouts and whispered theories about where those beacons came from. It’s the kind of game where a discarded radio signal or a half-sunken barn can send every player’s imagination racing.
Your toolkit is surprisingly simple—think handfuls of six-sided dice and a few straightforward move prompts that guide both you and the game leader through suspenseful discoveries. Character creation is a breeze, too: pick a role, define a couple of personal quirks, and give yourself a reason to care deeply about the fate of your friends and neighbors. As you take risks, those dice rolls will determine whether you unearth vital clues or attract an otherworldly threat you’re not ready to face. And when things inevitably go sideways, you and your table get to decide how to handle the fallout.
There’s a real give-and-take built into every scene—sometimes you’re cozying up by a campfire, sharing hometown gossip, and other times you’re scrambling to barricade doors against strange lights outside. That balance between cozy and cosmic dread is the heart of the experience. The game guide offers plenty of tips for pacing tension, dropping in unsettling details, and letting the weirdness creep up on you rather than hit you full force. You’ll find yourself leaning into both the heartfelt bonds between characters and the mounting sense that something utterly alien is watching.
At its best, this is a one-night game that can turn into a longer campaign if your group can’t get enough. You’ll end up swapping theories, sketching out maps of where the Shiny Ones might have come from, and maybe even debating whether it’s worth trying to communicate instead of just running away. By the end of the session you’ll share that perfect blend of warm nostalgia for small-town life and goosebumps from barely contained cosmic horror. It feels like telling ghost stories around a campfire—except the spirits are sparkling in the sky, and they might have plans of their own.