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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF IMPOSSIBLE THINGS
CREDITS
Writer/Designer
Developer
Creative Director
Editor/Proofreader
Cover Artist
Graphic Designer
Bruce R. Cordell
Monte Cook
Shanna Germain
Ray Vallese
Matt Stawicki
Bear Weiter
Artists
Jacob Atienza, Marco Caradonna, Sam Cullum, Dreamstime.com, David Hueso, Brandon Leach, Eric Lofgren,
Patrick McEvoy, Grzegorz Pedrycz, John Petersen, Michael Phillippi, Roberto Pitturru, Scott Purdy, Eric Quigley,
Nick Russell, Joe Slucher, Lee Smith, Matt Stawicki, Cyril Terpent, Cory Trego-Erdner, Chris Waller, Cathy Wilkins
Monte Cook Games Editorial Board
Scott C. Bourgeois, David Wilson Brown, Eric Coates,
Gareth Hodges, Mila Irek, Jeremy Land, Laura Wilkinson, Marina Wold, George Ziets
© 2016 Monte Cook Games, LLC.
THE STRANGE
and its logo are
trademarks of Monte Cook Games, LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries.
All Monte Cook Games characters and character names, and the
distinctive likenesses thereof, are trademarks of Monte Cook Games, LLC.
Printed in Canada
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Your Assignment: Encyclopedia of Impossible Things
Chapter 1: Artifacts
Weapons
Guns and Beam Weapons
Magic Implements
Swords and Other Melee Weapons
Armor
General Artifacts
4
6
10
10
19
21
29
32
Chapter 2: Cyphers
Chapter 3: Artifacts Remixed
Chapter 4: Personal Recursions
Index
75
147
152
158
YOUR A SSIGNM ENT:
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IMPOSSIBLE THINGS
I’m the Fixer. I’ve got a title, not a name, because fixing things requires anonymity. I
hope you’re not one of those dumbass operatives with an attitude about my position at
the Estate. Believe you me, it’s no picnic doing what I do. It’s why someone held the title
before me, and someone will hold it after me when I get too burned out to continue. So
listen up, the Fixer’s talking to you. This is important.
This dossier is your 411 on a tome titled the
Encyclopedia of Impossible Things,
penned
by a rival recursion-traveling organization the Estate only just discovered. They call
themselves the “Implausible Geographical Society.” From what we’ve been able to
piece together, they’re older than the Estate by at least a couple of hundred years, and
though they originated on Earth, now they operate out of a constructed recursion that
reflects London of the 1800s. (If this is the first time you’ve heard the name Implausible
Geographical Society, check out the supplemental I’ve provided at the end of this dossier.)
The
Encyclopedia of Impossible Things
contents are an abridged survey of artifacts and
cyphers found in the recursions making up the Shoals of Earth, plus a few found on Earth
and in the Strange itself. Some of these are artifacts and cyphers that operatives of the
Estate have encountered before, but most we’ve never run across.
Which is why this encyclopedia is a treasure trove—forewarned is forearmed. For
instance, if you find yourself in a recursion where an albino prince is waving a demonic
rune blade at you, you’d better hope that when the blade eats your soul, your quickened
nature doesn’t wake the spark in it. Because that would be bad. Not for you; you’re
already dead. But for everyone else.
So. Read the encyclopedia. Become familiar with the items described herein. The cyphers
and some subset of the artifacts, too, make great acquisition targets for any bright-eyed
operative eager to make a name. But the other items, like the aforementioned demonic
rune blade, should be left well-enough alone.
The Fixer
PR E PA RE D BY T HE FIX ER
E S O N LY
EY
TAT E
MYTHOLOGICAL
ES
FICTIONAL ARTIFACTS
You’re not a dumbass, so I’m sure it’s already
occurred to you that if fictions can spawn
a limited world, then the crazy weapons,
vehicles, mutation rays, and all other lunatic
devices some caffeine-addicted writer
spattered over her computer screen are also
out there. If a screenwriter for a superhero
TV show invents a speed belt that gives
anyone who wears it super-speed powers,
and if that TV show becomes popular enough,
then by God that belt is likely to be echoed
into a recursion of the Strange at least once.
The Implausible Geographical Society, which
I’ve decided to abbreviate as IGS starting
now, classifies these as fictional artifacts.
People have been telling stories to each other
since language was invented. I haven’t the
foggiest if that’s true, but it sounds good.
But stories
have
been around for thousands
of years, and when a story gets old enough,
it goes from being fictional to mythological.
At least, that’s how the classification breaks
in the
Encyclopedia of Impossible Things
.
From a certain perspective, fictional and
mythological items are of a kind, but
obviously the IGS likes the distinction.
Anyway, artifacts from myth tend to be
overpowered implements of the gods
themselves, like Thor’s hammer or Odin’s
ARTIFACTS

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