In The Porion, you will guide an armed resistance activist on a dangerous mission deep within the dictatorship's secret chambers, and it is your choices throughout the narrative that will determine your success.
A rescue inside the most dangerous building in Latin America. This is Samantha's objective in The Basement , a gamebook set during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. Citing real characters and situations experienced during the armed struggle during the resistance to the military regime, the narrative weaves fact and fiction fluidly and thrillingly.
The story takes place shortly after the signing of AI-5, the era's most brutal period, when torture and violence against government opponents were institutionalized. Cecília was captured in an ambush by DOPS agents and taken to a police station where detainees are held in degrading conditions. Samantha immediately decides to storm the DOPS building. It's up to the player-reader to determine how impossible this rescue mission is, and to do so, they'll need to make choices and roll dice, relying on both their wits and luck—to perhaps rewrite the course of history.
