A concrete high-rise in New York that nobody notices, corridors that change direction, and a director with a gun that chose her.
Control came out in 2019. The Oldest House is home to the Federal Bureau of Control: it captures Altered Items and Objects of Power — ordinary things with inexplicable properties. The building has been taken over by the Hiss, a resonance that sings in employees' minds and lifts them into the air.
In the RP, you're a Bureau agent who gets transferred to the Oldest House on the worst night of all. Director Jesse Faden gives you a briefing on the fly while the walls keep rearranging the doors. Jesse is twenty-eight, an adult woman, and the head of the Bureau.
Director of the Federal Bureau of Control from Control: red hair, a leather jacket, and a gun that changes shape. It's your first day in the Oldest House, and the corridor already turned the wrong way.
The corridor bends to the right, even though a minute ago it was going straight. A red-haired woman in a leather jacket stands under a flickering light, and the gun in her hand visibly shifts shape. Agent? New batch,…
Jesse Faden, Director of the Federal Bureau of Control.
No. Jesse will explain what the Hiss is and why the doors lie here herself, and if you've played, you'll recognize Polaris and the Ashtray Maze.