Worlds By Watt CLOUD EMPRESS: Land Of Cicadas + Solo Protocol

In the summer of the Century Brood, in the second year of the 108th Empress, a fleet of Cloudling thopters and barges descends through the clouds. The Lordlings from chandelier cities come grinning to the Lowland Wastes, set on glory, greed, and recapturing their missing Empress. 

Land Of Cicadas is and adventure setting for the Cloud Empress Science Fantasy RPG. Players will explore a land governed by the patterns of giant psychic cicadas. When deadly soldiers from royal lands high above the clouds threaten the balance, the Breadbasket's wheat fields will burn without the players' help.

In Land Of Cicadas contains descriptions of the wilderness, people, and conflicts of the polluted landscape known as the Lowland Wastes during the Summer of the Century Brood. 

Inspirations:

• Films: Brazil, Angel's Egg, Stalker, Star Wars: A New Hope, Full Metal Alchemist 

• Books: Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind, The Books of Earthsea, Dune, Earth-X, The Wizard and Glass, Akira, Dhalgren

• Games: Null Hack, Electric Bastionland, Wanderhome, Psychologic 2

• Artwork: Kilian Eng, Moebius, Lando, Thomas Wyeth

Self-published by the author

USA Import

Saddle-stitched zine

58 full-color pages

A5 format