The Blackacre Configuration

What is it?

The Blackacre Configuration is a combination of ritual and fringe science device that benefits one angry, conservative old man, Edmund Blackacre.

It isn't complete. But even the potential of its completion is echoing backward in time, turning people into Blackacre Drones. The Drones exist to do as much damage as possible to anyone that Blackacre doesn't like -- in essence, anyone who doesn't look or think like him -- and then to gather together with Blackacre to finish the Configuration in the "McMansion Ghost Town."

The Drones transform into clones of Blackacre. And when the Configuration completes, everyone on Earth will become a clone of Edumund Blackacre.

McMansion Ghost Town?

Indian Ridge Resort Community in Missouri was supposed to be a wealthy development with an indoor water park, a golf course, marina and dozens of near-identical "McMansions."

But the project near Table Rock Lake in the Ozarks was beset by scandal and developers quit in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008.

Some abandoned townhouses on the 900-acre site are visible from the Route 76 highway in Missouri, and make for an eerie sight for passing motorists.

And it's where Edmund Blackacre and his clones are squatting, building the Blackacre Configuration.

By The Numbers

• Six beliefs that live in an old man's head...
• Four beliefs that are terrible, and two that aren't!
• Four pages of horror for Liminal Horror!
• Two creatures, the Blackacre Drones and Blackacre Clones!
• Two pieces of public domain art!
• One angry, racist old man and his terrible beliefs...
• One Doom Clock to rule them all...

Content Warning

The two "creatures" in this supplement are built around a racist, misogynistic old man who hates children. His beliefs are not endorsed, but are presented here as part of the horror. Be cautious and sensitive when introducing this material into your game.

Self-mutilation is mentioned as a way some people may be trying to resist being transformed by the Blackacre Configuration.

Inspiration

The Blackacre Configuration was inspired by the Throckmorton Device in the original edition of the Over The Edge RPG, the rise of American fascism, and the Dead Milkman song "Now Everybody's Me."

Legalese

The Blackacre Configuration is an independent production by Kirt A. Dankmyer / Ivanhoe Unbound and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives LLC. It is published under the Liminal Horror Third Party License.

Liminal Horror is copyright by Goblin Archives LLC.

All the art is from the public domain. I have no idea who that poor dude is that I've made into Edmund Blackacre.

Some of the info about the "McMansion Ghost Town" comes from this article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9415043/McMansion-Ghost-Town-Homes-former-billion-dollar-Missouri-resort-town-left-abandoned.html