Fantomah: Mystery Woman of the Jungle

You are something ancient.
Something terrifying and unknowable.
You are rage itself.
You are Fantomah, Mystery Woman of the Jungle.

Fantomah is a Wretched & Alone game about anger and managing destructive reactions. It is a game about struggling to see the positive in others in moments of difficulty. It’s about the survival instincts you once considered your source of strength now becoming your greatest weakness. 

 You play as a goddess of impossible power who has forever served as the protector of a jungle kingdom. With each passing day, you feel a rage building into something you no longer feel even you can contain. Everyone under your protection you now look at with suspicion, and your punishments have become cruel and disproportionate. You are rapidly becoming something terrifying, dangerous, and toxic. You’re not capable of fulfilling the oath you made to be a shield. You’re not safe to be around your people. You’re not safe to be around anyone. You’ve become the very thing they must be protected from.

 Can a god be so mighty and unstoppable that they cannot stop even themselves? Is it possible to overcome instinct? Are we more than our ugliest moments? It seems inevitable that you will only grow colder. Change feels like an impossible task. Maybe it is already too late for you. 

 But you must try, all the same.

This game is inspired by the bizarre works of Fletcher Hanks. Preceding the likes of Wonder Woman, Fantomah is one of the very earliest comic book super-heroines ever made, and has long fascinated comic scholars by the bottomless depths of her brutality. With vaguely limitless abilities, each issue featured her psychically obliterating super-powered mummies and mundane jewel thieves alike with equal savagery.

• This is a single player journaling game using the Wretched & Alone system.
• It is played with a 6 sided die, 10 small objects you can use as tokens, a way of journaling your adventure, a minor arcana tarot deck, and a bag of stones.
  • If you do not have access to tarot cards or would rather not use them to play a game, you can use a standard deck of 52 playing cards.
• The recommended settings for printing physical copies can be found here.
• For added ambience, be sure to listen to the game's official playlist!
• Characters & page banner, and all artwork used inside are the public domain works of "Barclay Flagg" aka Fletcher Hanks & George Appel. Cover designed by Scott Foss using original art as well as collaged public domain illustrations originally sourced from Fiction House's Jungle Comics. 
• THE WRETCHED™️ is a trademark of Chris Bissette. The Wretched and Alone logo is © Chris Bissette, and is used with permission.
  This work is based on The Wretched, product of Chris Bissette and Loot The Room, and licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.