Bearer
A passport that remembers every frontier.
Bearer makes an investigator's passport for 1920s and 1930s tabletop play, Call of Cthulhu first: the 32-page booklet a consul would have filled in by hand, with the bearer's description, photograph and the countries it is valid for, then the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, session after session.
Nothing in it is made up at random. The booklet follows the international type passport the League of Nations settled in Paris in 1920, word for word, and the British booklet of the period. Every date is written the way whoever held the pen wrote it, every visa follows the rules of 1920 and then of 1926: ten gold francs to enter, one to cross, the destination's consul before all the others. Paste the link of a Passage journey and Bearer says which visas it asked for, in what order, and writes them in with the journey's stamps. A consul may refuse.
The booklet ages as one object: stains soak through the leaves. Pages download as PNG or as a print-ready PDF and are shared by a link that rebuilds them exactly. Fourteen offices issue the passport: the international type for a state you invent, Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Poland, Egypt, Iraq, Mandate Palestine (in English, French, Arabic and Hebrew), the Republic of China and the Nansen certificate for an investigator with no country left. Thirty-four other kinds of paper of the period follow, each in the countries that issued it: from the driving permit and the permit to dig to birth, death and marriage certificates, identity, press and police cards, firearm and hunting licences, committal papers, warrants, telegrams and customs declarations, and the papers of the stops of Masks of Nyarlathotep, from New York and London to Cairo, Nairobi, Western Australia and Shanghai. Nearly everything is read off a real document; where none has been found the paper is reconstructed from the country's law and the app says so, and the reference pages give the sources.
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