My name is Shane Ivey. I am publisher, co-author, editor, project manager, PR flack, tired face, and information broker for Arc Dream Publishing and our flagship creation, Delta Green. I work from a recliner or sofa in an apartment’s living room. Or sometimes in a tiny office surrounded by books of terror. And books of history. Which is to say terrors from the past that we recognize in today’s sociopsychic infections if we only care to look. Allow me to list some of the works we mean next to inscribe upon memory and spirit.
Shipping Now
Reprints of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game and the Handler’s Guide. The slipcase set remains quite bulletproof but we do not advise relying on it to withstand acidic ichor or any of the usual transmutations. The Elder Signs contained within are purely decorative.
Late June
ARCHINT. The preorder is for the PDF edition, which will go to all 2015 Kickstarter backers at the “all PDFs” tiers. It will be available in paperback later. We await printer proofs, proofs of unlife if you will, before we commit further resources to recovering this collection of unwholesome truths.
July
Evidence Kit: The Labyrinth. A handouts collection in final edits and review. The preorder is for the PDF edition, which will go to all backers of The Labyrinth. It will be available in paperback later. Correlations of cause and content seep across the synapses and stringboards of countless seekers to follow.
Late July
Impossible Landscapes. It is en route from a distant factory in hundreds of cartons on dozens of pallets. Its cargo ships wend through the tangles of time and cause that beset international shipping in this age of spiteful nativism and an unthinkably passionate embrace of disease.
August
Jack Frost. In layout now. The preorder is for the PDF edition, which will go to all 2015 Kickstarter backers at the “all PDFs” tiers. It will be available in paperback later. Like many worthy things, it has undergone countless rounds of improvement, stress-testing and adaptation, like a racer genetically engineered and surgically enhanced to fly along the track toward some triumph of an instant that lingers only in hazy recollections of struggle and self-justification.
September
God’s Teeth in PDF. The hardback is likely in December. Outside forces congeal and clot around the final stages of its development as if attempting to restrain its emergence.
October
Iconoclasts. The preorder is for the PDF edition, which will go to all 2015 Kickstarter backers at the “all PDFs” tiers. It will be available in paperback later. It is in final revisions now ahead of final edits and art and layout. Play Delta Green as despicable terrorists who witness a terrible incursion. Play as case officers risking exposure and backlash to gather resources and then as the agents who learn to despise them.
November
The Language of Stars and its evidence kit. The preorder is for the PDF edition, which will go to all backers of The Labyrinth. It will be available in paperback later. A Delta Green operation exposes Agents to the Labyrinth’s Dream Syndicate and to connections more frightful even than dreams.
Later
Deep State. Falling Towers. Operational History. PISCES. All are in various stages of development. Authors send texts to each other and to editors. We write contributions and suggestions and advice to each other. We stare at screens of unhealthy brightness. We try not to imagine the implications of what we have done so far and what is to come.
Later
Those Who Come After and its evidence kit. Final Passages and its evidence kit. In development. Those Who Come After is far along. Much of its work also serves key development in 475czCkvNUIydaQDRbj, which allows an instant’s pleasing sense of synergy. The scenarios of Final Passages will come every couple of months starting in November with The Language of Stars.
Later
Delta Green: BoDfxSK96EGNT0. A new A3V7CeNTwz project with development and conversions spearheaded by Caleb Stokes, who has perhaps ill-advisedly surrendered his career and hopes to us. We expect to launch it in Wq8LM7 or 58RItUdbn.
Unrelated Perpetrations
Arc Dream is a partnership between me and Dennis Detwiller. Our imaginations pullulate like curious tendrils of possibility into the fertile night.
Dennis has written a large number of short stories and pieces of Handler advice on Patreon. He has played a long campaign of The One Ring with friends after they played a long 5E campaign that began with my Swords & Sorceries adventures. He and I have tinkered for our own amusement with different approaches to Tolkien roleplaying.
I am near the end of a third playtest campaign for an RPG of action and sorrow and cosmicism in the Old West. It is tentatively called Gunslinger but that may change. The game’s scope and focus have evolved. I expect to begin releasing its playtest recordings on Patreon soon. They are many.
I am developing a new rules set for the ancient RPG Living Steel, whose setting and tone I adore but whose microscopically detailed rules were too difficult for most friends to enjoy. I hope to play this new vision of an old favorite soon while I step back to process the discoveries of a hundred hours and 500 pages of Gunslinger.
I have moved to British Columbia with my wife and two of our three grown kids. My wife and I live only a ten-minute drive from Dennis and his family. With the idiotic pandemic still keeping risks high we have seen them only once or twice in brief and distant greetings. But it is pleasant to know they and their adorable and let us say interesting children are out there, somewhere, under the same cerulean sky where eagles drift high above towering conifers and snow clings jealously to grey mountaintops. Bears stalk in the mossy green woods with wolves and cougars. Deer wander ubiquitous on grassy roadsides, eating wildflowers and tormenting gardeners, blithely confident in the kindness of driver and pedestrian alike. The air drifts with thick patches of cannabis scent. Folk in large enough proportions for it to matter pay zealous attention to recycling and conservation and hope to make some redress for the evils of the past. Canadians welcome us warmly. They sometimes politely, apologetically warn us that it’s all right up here but let’s not get carried away, I mean, sorry to say, BC has plenty of problems of its own, hey? Yes. Of course it does. But we made it.
