Welcome to the Ætherial Corporation's Observancy Department! We're very happy you could join us.
The Field Agent Handbooks are a series of solo role-playing games — a single player larp — for curious note-taking people to go & play outside.
These employee handbooks are written as in-world artefacts from the 1920s for Field Agents for the Ætherial Corporation working in the covert Observancy Department.
The Department spent their time observing the world around them while tapping into their subconscious mind through the means of pendulum dowsing.
Each A6-sized, 76-page booklet is an in-world artefact, an employee instruction manual & organised notebook from the Ætherial Corporation’s long-defunct Observancy Department.
Stop and observe your surroundings, use a pendulum to divine meaning behind your observation, and record your findings in your Handbook
"If you’re looking for something to do instead of be on your phone (as I am right now, while sitting a forest surrounded by birdsong), it brings a way to connect with what’s actually around you in a creative but deeply observant way. It’s a healthy, imaginative, solo exercise, with precisely the level of engagement with the imaginary world and your role as a secret agent in it as you wish."
— Critique Navidad: The Field Agent Handbook, Idle Cartulary
The Field Pack includes all five Handbooks & two supplements:
- 1924 Revolution — Seek out revolutionary animals
- 1925 Leviathan — Espy flying creatures in the clouds
- 1926 Communication — Talk to communicative plants
- 1927 Tempus — Uncover pools of liquid time
- 1928 Colossus — Unearth signs of sleeping giants
Also available are Official Use Only unglued stickers for you to date and affix in the back of your Handbooks when you finish each one to rose up through the following ranks:
- Operative
- Field Agent Second Class
- Field Agent First Class
- Special Agent
- Special Agent Merit
An identity card is enclosed for use in your official capacity as a Field Agent and a blank worksheet to help structure your own paranormal studies.
The A6 notebook includes a whimsical grid for decoding your observations, while the back cover features an ingenious system for introducing an element of chance without needing to carry a die [...] these notebooks can inspire you to create new stories—either for yourself or for a child.
— En extérieur aussi, des jeux pour les grands et les petits, Le Temps, Lætitia Béraud
Now Available
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Drops of Æther
30 May 2021
Writing without fingers — Space age interfaces — Magic, with a little 'm' — A character sheet for the table
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Occurrences in the Æther
9 May 2021
Tone of Voice — ZineQuest 4