For some time now, rumours have been circulating in that hive of scum and villany that is the East End of London. Rumours of dark, demonic figures that rise up in the night and prowl the streets for their own devilish purposes. While most right-thinking people would dismiss this as yet another urban legend, events soon prove them wrong.
A pleasant night out turns to tragedy and horror. An exhausted and terrified child, clinging desperately to the back of a four-wheeler, recounts a tale of terror which begins a dangerous quest for our heroes. What is the real story behind the Devils of Whitechapel? What is the purpose behind their seemingly random acts of barbarism? And can their vile plot be thwarted before it reaches its final, bloody conclusion?
Stiff Upper Lip is my own variant of the popular Fate Core system. Stiff Upper Lip takes Fate and gets it to stand up straight, stop slouching and generally become a game system of which Nanny would be proud. It adapts Fate for the genre of British Empire fiction, made famous by writers such as W.E. Johns, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. A golden age in which bold heroes and plucky heroines confront dastardly foreigners, discover lost worlds and ancient treasures, and thwart devilish schemes for world domination.