We believe time is a tangible resource, collecting in Time Pools around objects that affect spacetime, and can be harnessed using our memories.

Our mission in the Ætherial Corporation’s Observancy Department is to discover Time Pools by estimating the time and measuring the difference against actual time, identify the primary characteristic of the Pool, and capture a memory to enable future time travel.

Your A6-sized handbook includes:

12 pages of instruction, advice and information with…
- Title page with space for your name and date issued
- Letter from the Director
- Equipment required (pencil & key on a string)
- Instruction on how to fill out your handbook
- Instruction on how to use your pendulum
- Signs to look out for
- Brief treatise on relativity & perception
- How to find Time Pools
- How to ground yourself & make a memory
- How to estimate time & measure the level
- Types of characteristics
- Record of level three Time Pools
- Instruction on where to send your handbook
60 blank structured pages for observations, notes and sketches
A dowsing board on the back cover

Once complete, you can send it to Head Office to be signed by the Director & stamped to chart your rise through the four ranks from Operative to Field Agent (Second & First Class) to Special Agent.

We invite YOU to join the Ætherial Corporation’s most covert operation as a highly trained Field Agent.

This is an always-on solo RPG/LARP to play with when out and about. It’s written as an in-world artefact from the 1920s, made for you to note your observations about the world around you through a lens of suspicion.

This is the fourth Handbook from the Ætherial Corporation’s long-defunct Observancy Department covering the years 1924 to 1928:

1924 Revolution (March) — Seek out revolutionary animals
1925 Leviathan (June) — Spot flying creatures in the clouds
1926 Communication (August) — Decode the language of plants
1927 Tempus (October) — Uncover pools of liquid time
1928 Colossus (November) — Find traces of giants in the landscape

Accompanying the series are these three supplements:

Notebook (July) — Create your own studies
Calibration Record (August) — Track your emotions and activities
2025 Wall Calendar (October) — Follow the moon moon cycle

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Physical Handbooks (and accompanying paraphernalia) are currently at the printers and will be available on my Etsy store, aethercorpgames.etsy.com, in the first week of December!