PaulBaldowski
Mister Garland's Runner
This Is Cörk Børd
Bleak Discoveries and Heinous Crimes
You're part of an investigative team trying to stop a predator before they take another victim. But this isn't just about the case. It's about you.
You're already frayed. Every interview, every crime scene, every lead you follow scrapes away another layer from your paper-thin soul. The closer you get to the truth, the closer you get to breaking.
And you're not the only one. You look at the team around you, and you see the fatigue and pain stretched across the taut skin of their pale faces.
Nordic Noir meets Existential Rot
Inspired by the Nordic Noir of Henning Mankell, Sjöwall & Wahlöö, Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø, and the doom-laden atmosphere of Mörk Borg.
Powered by Mörk Borg, but focused on clue-hunting, emotional collapse, and slow moral ruin.
Written by Paul Baldowski—designer of The Cthulhu Hack and The Dee Sanction, and contributor to PARANOIA in the Noughties, Symbaroum more recently, plus Rivers of London, Liminal, Trophy, Nights Black Agents and more.
Why You Should Back the Project
Cörk Børd is an independent production by Just Crunch Games and All Rolled Up and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games or Stockholm Kartell. It is published under the MÖRK BORG Third Party License.
- "Jönköping was quiet the night she vanished. I'd been staring at the same photo for hours—just a woman in a red coat, blurred in the corner of someone else's family snapshot. Insignificant in the moment, but now a desperate loss to her family and a gnawing puzzle fragmented across my desk in statements, witness reports and uncorroborated sightings."
- "We'd found the coat along Lillsjöraden east of Munksjön. Torn. Soaked. Inside the lining: a matchbook with a spiral drawn in black ink. I lit a cigarette, feeling the weight of a migraine pressing hard against the inside of my skull. The case was already deep inside my head, and my head was already cracking."
You're part of an investigative team trying to stop a predator before they take another victim. But this isn't just about the case. It's about you.
You're already frayed. Every interview, every crime scene, every lead you follow scrapes away another layer from your paper-thin soul. The closer you get to the truth, the closer you get to breaking.
And you're not the only one. You look at the team around you, and you see the fatigue and pain stretched across the taut skin of their pale faces.
Nordic Noir meets Existential Rot
Inspired by the Nordic Noir of Henning Mankell, Sjöwall & Wahlöö, Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø, and the doom-laden atmosphere of Mörk Borg.
Powered by Mörk Borg, but focused on clue-hunting, emotional collapse, and slow moral ruin.
Written by Paul Baldowski—designer of The Cthulhu Hack and The Dee Sanction, and contributor to PARANOIA in the Noughties, Symbaroum more recently, plus Rivers of London, Liminal, Trophy, Nights Black Agents and more.
- A Complete Standalone Game: No other books required. Built up from Mörk Borg, it's compatible, but you do not need to own it. Foolish as that might be.
- Six Playable Classes: Each one a broken archetype—The Broken Inspector, The Media Hound, The Crusading Lawyer, The Addict Snitch, The Grief Counsellor, The Youth Cultist. Or go Classless.
- Fully illustrated, 100% Human Artwork: No AI slop. Just the pain and anguish of human layout decisions and endless hours worrying about colour combinations and typeface.
- Flexible Tools: Steal its tables, Baggage rules, and Clue Chains for any investigative role-playing game.
