We suspect plants are trying to communicate with us.

Our mission in the Ætherial Corporation’s Observancy Department is to seek out communicative vegetation, identify with whom they are trying to talk, and attempt to intuit the message they are trying to convey.

Your A6-sized handbook includes:

• 14 pages of instruction, advice and information with…
  • Title page with space for your name and date issued
  • Letter from the Director
  • Equipment required (pencil & key on a string)
  • Instruction on how to fill out your handbook
  • Instruction on how to use your pendulum
  • Method to estimate size of plant
  • Plant categories
  • Seasonal considerations
  • How to spot the recipient
  • How to spot communicative plants
  • Blank reference table to fill out
  • List of weather types and symbols for notation
  • Instruction on where to send your handbook
• 58 blank structured pages for observations, notes and sketches
• A dowsing board on the back cover

Once complete, you can send it to Head Office to be signed by the Director & stamped to chart your rise through the four ranks from Operative to Field Agent (Second & First Class) to Special Agent. 

We invite YOU to join the Ætherial Corporation’s most covert operation as a highly trained Field Agent.  

This is an always-on solo RPG/LARP to play with when out and about. It’s written as an in-world artefact from the 1920s, made for you to note your observations about the world around you through a lens of suspicion. 

This is the first Handbook from the Ætherial Corporation’s long-defunct Observancy Department covering the years 1924 to 1928:

• 1924 Revolution (March) — Seek out revolutionary animals
• 1925 Leviathan (June) — Spot flying creatures in the clouds 
• 1926 Communication (August) — Decode the language of plants
• 1927 Tempus (October) — Uncover pools of liquid time
• 1928 Colossus (November) — Find traces of giants in the landscape

Accompanying the series are these three supplements:

• Notebook (July) — Create your own studies
• Calibration Record (August) — Track your emotions and activities
• 2025 Wall Calendar (October) — Follow the moon moon cycle

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Physical Handbooks (and accompanying paraphernalia) are currently at the printers and will be available on my Etsy store, aethercorpgames.etsy.com, in the first week of December!