Powell's After Dark

The veil between worlds isn't maintained by shadowy government agents. It's held together by tired retail workers who still show up, file reports, and clock out on time.

Welcome to Powell's Books after dark, where ancient evils are just another workplace hazard and the real terror is schedule conflicts that might make you miss your friend's show at The Coffin Club.

You're not Delta Green operatives in trench coats—you're burned-out bibliophiles with college debt, unflappable weirdos who've seen poetry eat a customer, and union members who know that solidarity preserves sanity. When the Philosophy section achieves sentience or the Fifth Floor appears out of nowhere, you handle it the same way you handle everything else: with customer service training and collective bargaining.

This bundle includes:

• Complete core rules for 2-5 players
• Ready-to-play three-scene one-shot adventure
• Official ILWU Local 5 union membership card
• Everything you need for 45 minutes of retail cosmic horror

Ancient cosmic entities exist, but they have to follow store policy like everyone else. The apocalypse can wait until after closing time—you've got people to see and music to hear.

A tabletop RPG for everyone who's ever worked retail and suspected their job was protecting reality itself.

Game Features:

• Simple 2d6 system with difficulty ratings from Risky to Climactic
• Five distinct employee roles with special abilities
• Reality Stability Meter that tracks how weird things get
• Union protection clauses for metaphysical hazards
• Failure states that aren't death or madness—just really inconvenient job transfers

Perfect for: Fans of workplace comedy, cosmic horror, and anyone who believes the customer is not always right (especially when they're from the 18th century).

Created by The Grey Ledger Society and the CGCG Helix of Digital Daemons