[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-seo-516034-105":3,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":80,"doc-detail-516034-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"ok",{"site_id":7,"language":8,"slug":9,"title":10,"keywords":11,"description":12,"schema_data":13,"social_meta":73,"head_meta":75,"extra_data":77,"updated_unix":79},105,"en","gone-fishing-keeper-background-starting-the-scenario-whats-really-going-on","Gone Fishing - Keeper Background - Starting the Scenario - What’s Really Going On","","Gone Fishing is a narrative scenario set during a tech company retreat in Lee Vining, California, where a CEO leads a fishing and hiking trip to Trumbull Lake. A fog lift reveals a pyramid-like structure covered in unfamiliar glyphs, while missing watches and reversed compasses signal a reality shift. The investigators discover their minds are in Yithian bodies and face Flying Polyps linked to mind swapping. They must reach the transmitter, decode its markings, and escape back to their time while handling escalating, distorted landscapes and threats.",{"@graph":14,"@context":72},[15,34,55],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/","Story & Novel",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/gone-fishing-keeper-background-starting-the-scenario-whats-really-going-on/516034/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/gone-fishing-keeper-background-starting-the-scenario-whats-really-going-on/516034.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":42,"@type":43},"Mimi","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-18","2026-10-06",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":26},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",{"@type":56,"mainEntity":57},"FAQPage",[58,64,68],{"name":59,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":61},"What triggers the strange events at Trumbull Lake?","Question",{"text":62,"@type":63},"A fog lift reveals a dark pyramid-like structure erupting from the lake center, covered in strange glyphs carved from unknown stone. Spot Hidden and Natural World notes also show watches failing and compasses reversing, indicating a major shift in reality.","Answer",{"name":65,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":66},"What is the Flying Polyp and what role does it play?",{"text":67,"@type":63},"A Flying Polyp is one of several attackers on their way to destroy the pyramid. It is described as a transmitter used for mind swapping by the Yith.",{"name":69,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":70},"How do the investigators experience the mind-swapping situation?",{"text":71,"@type":63},"Their minds have been transported to the final days of the Yithian war, and each investigator deludes themselves that they still have human bodies. When they make a SAN roll, they may realize they inhabit conical Yithian bodies, prompting additional checks and possible attempts to guide others to the truth.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":74,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":76,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":78,"site_id":7},516034,1792295630,{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":82},"success",[83,86,90,94,99,104,109,114,119,122,126],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":84,"slug":85},90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":87,"show_sort_weight":88,"slug":89},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":91,"show_sort_weight":92,"slug":93},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":95,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":96,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":100,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":101,"show_sort_weight":102,"slug":103},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":105,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":106,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":110,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":111,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":115,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":121},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":125},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":95,"slug":129},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":131},{"doc_id":78,"user_id":132,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":22,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":26,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":26,"language":139,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":143,"read_time":30},2336477974920,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","Lee Vining, California, fall 2017. A group of co-workers travels up highway 395 from L.A. to camp and fish in the Lee Vining area as part of an annual retreat for their tech company startup. Their CEO, James Bradford, is an avid outdoorsman who seeks out lakes across California. The other four members of the group are Bradford’s employees. Their travels will take them through the forest to a campground at Trumbull Lake, a shallow lake set against the backdrop of mountainous terrain, near the Virginia Lakes Basin.  \nGone Fishing  \nby Noah Lloyd and Matt Ryan  \nKeeper Background  \nBradford heard of the Virginia Lakes Basin on one of his many visits to Bodie, a ghost town 25 miles away. Something about the ghost town draws him to the area, and he obsesses about what it would be like to live there during its heyday in the late 1800s. He has tempted the curse of Bodie by removing small objects such as nails, bolts, and wood, on several of his visits over the past twenty years. Lately, he has found himself increasingly contemplative about the past, and has begun having difficulty recalling the present time period.  \nThe trip will be three nights with the main goal of fishing and hiking. The plan is for Bradford and the investigators to camp at Trumbull Lake and travel daily to nearby Little Virginia Lake to fish. Bradford carries a concealed handgun (.38 Automatic), hunting knife, and bear spray, and has gifted each of the investigators fillet knives and wilderness whistles.  \nStarting the Scenario  \nThe group meets near the tech office in Playa Del Rey just before sunrise. Bradford, who is normally organized and precise, hasn’t shown up by the time the investigators arrive. Twenty minutes late, Bradford shows up in a large, rented passenger van. He opens the door as various camping items fall out before him. Cursing and muttering to himself, he yells at the investigators to stow their gear. The drive from Playa Del Rey to Lee Vining is a good opportunity for players to introduce their characters, and describe a short scene about how they pass the time on the drive northwards.  \nFrom Lee Vining, it’s another half-hour drive to the Trumbull Lake Campground, empty save for one or two other campers and the camp host, a squirrely, older woman, with obviously dyed flame-red hair.  \nSmall at 100 acres, placid, and set against a background of granite peaks, the lake is beautiful, though shallow, only ever about four-feet deep. The group is free to do as it likes this first evening—going on a short hike around the lake, talking with the camp host (who’s happy to tell horror stories about the site), or otherwise getting into trouble. Bradford is uncharacteristically sour, troubled by recent dreams he’s had of dark, amorphous figures. Anyone who converses with Bradford hears about his trips to Bodie, his obsessions with the past, and, as the talk progresses, that he may not be entirely sure of when he is.  \nWith evening comes a thick fog which settles across the lake and campground, highly unusual for the High Sierras. As they bed down for the evening, each pair of investigators gets their own tent, while Bradford takes his own tiny bivouac bag. When they wake in the morning, describe the investigators’ exits from their tents, to witness something new: the fog has lifted just enough to reveal the lower half of a dark, narrow, but towering pyramid-like structure erupting from the shallow center of Trumbull Lake, covered in strange glyphs and carved from a stone none recognize. Spot Hidden notes that none of their watches are working, and Natural World that compasses now point in the direction opposite to how they pointed yesterday, as though the Earth has undergone a magnetic pole reversal in  \nthe middle of the night. It doesn’t take long to notice that Bradford’s tent has been shredded, and is empty, but with no sign of blood. Bradford’s gear (his gun, knife, and bear spray) lay unused, jumbled up in the sleeping bag.  \nAs the investigators ","cbCaikCNBdIsnbrI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikCNBdIsnbrI","pdf",12548698,"English","# Gone Fishing\n## Keeper Background\n## Starting the Scenario\n## What’s Really Going On","[{\"question\":\"What triggers the strange events at Trumbull Lake?\",\"answer\":\"A fog lift reveals a dark pyramid-like structure erupting from the lake center, covered in strange glyphs carved from unknown stone. Spot Hidden and Natural World notes also show watches failing and compasses reversing, indicating a major shift in reality.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the Flying Polyp and what role does it play?\",\"answer\":\"A Flying Polyp is one of several attackers on their way to destroy the pyramid. It is described as a transmitter used for mind swapping by the Yith.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the investigators experience the mind-swapping situation?\",\"answer\":\"Their minds have been transported to the final days of the Yithian war, and each investigator deludes themselves that they still have human bodies. When they make a SAN roll, they may realize they inhabit conical Yithian bodies, prompting additional checks and possible attempts to guide others to the truth.\"}]","Gone Fishing - Keeper Background - Starting the Scenario - What’s Really Going On | PDF",1791324725]