Giallo 0002: The Memorial (PDF)

NOTHING IN THIS HOSPITAL IS QUITE WHAT IT SEEMS

The Ernest Spencer Memorial is an ageing, run-down hospital with a troubled history.

Its psychiatric ward is populated by patients, medical staff and doctors whose behaviour is often stranger than that of the people they are supposed to be treating. Unusual events occur with disturbing frequency, and nobody can be entirely certain where incompetence, criminality and human cruelty end—and where something genuinely supernatural begins.

Giallo 0002: The Memorial is a contemporary horror adventure context inspired by Italian thrillers, exploitation cinema and surreal hospital horror.

Players may take the roles of:

• Doctors.

• Nurses.

• Other hospital staff.

• Patients.

• Investigators or outsiders drawn into events at the Memorial.

A NARRATIVE SANDBOX

The Memorial is not built around a rigid sequence of scenes or a single predetermined conclusion.

Instead, it presents a hospital, its inhabitants, its history and numerous potential conflicts. The Games Master decides which elements to emphasise, while the actions of the players determine how events develop.

The scenario can be approached as:

• A giallo-style thriller.

• A story of medical corruption and human wrongdoing.

• Supernatural horror.

• A mixture of mundane and otherworldly explanations.

INSIDE YOU’LL FIND

• The Ernest Spencer Memorial hospital.

• Particular attention to its psychiatric ward.

• Doctors, nurses, patients and other inhabitants.

• A troubled institutional history.

• Strange events and possible mysteries.

• Characters, locations and plot hooks from which to construct a scenario.

• Material suitable for giallo, exploitation and contemporary horror games.

• System-neutral presentation.

• Statistics for Actual Fucking Monsters.

The open structure allows different groups to enter the Memorial from different directions and uncover different parts of its history. Characters may already work or live there, arrive to investigate a particular incident or become trapped within events they do not yet understand.

PDF EDITION

• Digital PDF download.

• Contemporary giallo and hospital-horror scenario.

• System-neutral adventure material.

• Includes statistics for Actual Fucking Monsters.

• Written by Miguel Ribeiro.

• Edited and published by James “Grim” Desborough and Postmortem Studios.

• Second volume in the original Postmortem Giallo trilogy.

This is an adventure context rather than a standalone roleplaying game. It can be adapted to most contemporary horror systems.

ADULT CONTENT

Contains medical and psychiatric horror, institutional abuse, exploitation-film themes and other material intended for mature players.