MRPG-M1

A
violent
incursion into
the land of the living
for the MOTHERSHIP
Sci-Fi Horror Roleplaying Game

DEAD
PLANET
FIONA MAEVE GEIST + DONN STROUD + SEAN McCOY
DEAD
PLANET
CONTENTS

HOW TO USE ANY MODULE......................... 3

THE DARKNESS THAT CAME TO PASS............... 3
THE DEAD PLANET............................................ 30

MAP OF THE DEAD PLANET........................................ 30

THE SCREAMING ON THE ALEXIS........... 4
THE LANDING SITE..................................................... 32
RANDOM ENCOUNTER TABLE ................................... 4
THE SWAMP............................................................... 32
MAP AND KEY ........................................................... 6
THE ANCIENT QUARRY................................................ 33
DERELICT SHIP GENERATOR...................... 9
THE NECROPOLIS ...................................................... 34
DERELICT SHIP MAPPING........................................... 10
THE DEAD GATEWAY .................................................. 36
DERELICT SHIP MODULE GENERATOR........................ 11
THE WRECK OF THE DEFIANCE................................... 38
JUMP DRIVE MALFUNCTION TABLE ........................... 12
THE RED TOWER ....................................................... 39
RANDOM WEAPON CACHE TABLE .............................. 13
MAP & KEY FOR FLOORS A & B.......................................40
MOON COLONY BLOODBATH..................... 14
MAP & KEY FOR FLOOR C ..............................................41
MAP AND KEY OF THE MOON ................................... 14
MAP & KEY FOR FLOOR D ..............................................42
TYRANT BEGGAR MOON COLONY.......... 16
MAP & KEY FOR FLOOR E ..............................................43
TIMELINE OF EVENTS ON TYRANT BEGGAR ............... 17
ALIENS & OTHER HORRORS ....................... 44
MAP & KEY TYRANT BEGGAR ..................................... 17
MAP & KEY BREKT’S BREAKERS ................................ 21
MAJOR NPCS ON TYRANT BEGGAR ........................... 22
D100 RANDOM COLONISTS TABLE ............................ 24
WHAT’S IN THE VAULT? TABLE ................................... 25
D100 NIGHTMARES TABLE ........................................ 28

WRITTEN BY DONN STROUD, FIONA MAEVE GEIST & SEAN MCCOY

ILLUSTRATED BY STEPHEN WILSON & SEAN MCCOY
EDITED BY JARRETT CRADER | SPECIAL THANKS TO LINDSAY & ALAN
COPYRIGHT © 2022 TUESDAY KNIGHT GAMES | FIRST EDITION, WIP VERSION
BLANK MAPS, WARDEN RESOURCES, AND MORE AT MOTHERSHIPRPG.COM
HOW TO THE
USE ANY DARKNESS
MODULE THAT CAME
TO PASS
Cannibalize it. Rip it apart.

Take the tables, take the monsters, take the There are plenty of habitable planets in the
maps, take the ships, or the planet, or the universe. Life bursts forth, proliferates, diversifies
adventures, or locations. Take anything you and ultimately succumbs to death and decay as
want and do anything you want with it. empires, civilizations and federations rise and fall.
The Dead Planet short circuits this cycle. Since
This book belongs to you and now so does the surface first cooled, life has been trapped in
everything inside. a compulsive cycle of growth and the obsessive
building of a cyclopean gate—an entryway for the
Do with it what you will. Gaunt—around which they revel in pure abandon,
offering up sacrifices to the forces of nothingness
More specifically, the Dead Planet operates in order to will the Gate open.
on a pretty simple premise: there’s a planet
somewhere out there in the universe and it has The nightmare-inducing Gaunt are parasites,
a dark and brooding energy that sucks ships out cannibalizing the will of sentient species and
of hyperspace and then strands them in orbit bending them to opening the rift between their
with no hope of ever returning home (well, that’s Dead Dimension and the material world. The
where the PCs come in). PCs can’t get away ultimate aim of the Gaunt is to escape their
from the Dead Planet using their Jump Drives, captivity on the Dead Planet and flood the
and a voyage on thrusters alone would take universe as an inexorable tide of necrosis.
hundreds of years in uncharted space. If your
PCs don’t find a way to deactivate the Dead The Dead Planet is a testament to their hunger,
Gateway on the planet’s surface, then they’re orbited by abandoned ships, drawn here by an
doomed. But why shouldn’t that be any fun? anomaly in the warp. Recently a colony ship
schismed over those who compulsively serviced
MAJOR SPOILERS the Gate to the Gaunt’s Dead Dimension and
(OR HOW DO WE GET OFF those who feared the maniacal, single-minded
THIS ROCK ANYWAY?) compulsion that drove their compatriots to expand
Here are a few ways we’ve thought of to “beat” the Gate with wild ecstatic abandon. The schism
the Dead Planet, and all of them are pretty was ultimately pointless; they’re all dead and the
awful (hopefully you can find some better ones): Gate is even greater than before, threatening to
truly split open and allow the Gaunt to surge forth
» Don’t. Just give up and die here. Tell your in a tide of necrotizing madness.
friends about Mothership.
» 10 YEARS AGO: The Perrennial Tyrant, a
» De-power the Dead Gateway (pg. 36) by colony construction vessel, crash lands on
travelling to the Necropolis (pg. 34) and the Dead Planet’s moon and establishes the
removing the engines at the center of the Tyrant Beggar moon colony.
city.
» 18 DAYS AGO: Archeological research ship
» Destroy the Dead Gateway (and tear a hole The Alexis unearthed a strange artifact and
in the universe). headed back to civilization.
» Blow up the planet by descending to the » ONE WEEK AGO: The military drop-ship
lowest level of the Red Tower (pg. 39) and The Defiance was waylaid and crashed on the
arming the Fission Core Burner Bomb. Dead Planet.
» Convince Brekt (pg. 21) to let PCs join » NOW: The Alexis floats absent of life and
him on his “coffin run” onboard the Lucifer the crew of The Defiance is scattered and
Rising. He’s got room for six. dying. The colonists on Tyrant Beggar are at a
breaking point...
Let’s get started.
Will your crew survive…
THE DEAD PLANET?
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// 1D10 I SEARCH THE BODY ON THE ALEXIS... // RANDOM ENCOUNTERS ON BOARD THE ALEXIS.
01> SMUDGED NIGHTMARE DRAWING // ROLL 1D10 WHENEVER ENTERING ANY ROOM
02> STONE IDOL 01> 2 PARALYZING THORN CRAWLERS + 1D10 CRAWLERS
03> 2D10 CREDITS 02> 1 TOXIC GAS CRAWLER + 1D10 CRAWLERS
04> COLLAPSIBLE SHOVEL 03> 3 ACID SPRAY CRAWLS + 1D10 CRAWLERS
05> PAMPHLET: THE SHEDDING OF FLESH 04> 1D10+2 CRAWLERS
06> COFFEE MUG: IF THERE IS NO ORDER, KEEP 05> SKITTERING WITHIN THE WALLS
QUIET 06> BANGING INSIDE THE VENTS
07> NOTE: “I AM THE SILENCE THAT IS 07> SOMETHING CRAWLS BENEATH THE FLOORS
INCOMPREHENSIBLE...” 08> THUMPS IN THE CEILING THAT GROW FAINTER
08> A TROWEL OR MATTOCK 09> DEATH WORM’S OUTLINE SCORCHED INTO THE FLOOR
09> AN OSSIFIED TRILOBITE 10> 2D10 CRAWLERS SHREDDING/EATING EACH OTHER
10> INSTANT COFFEE POWDER

THE SCREAMING

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// GAUNT AI TABLE. CHECK ONCE/MIN. UNLESS // BOOKS FOUND IN CAPTAIN YANCHEG’S QUARTERS:
NOTED, GAUNT ALWAYS MOVES TOWARDS NEAREST PC 01> ONE CREW ONE CAPTAIN: THE ART OF MANAGING
01> SCREAMS AND MOVES 40M THE UNMANAGEABLE
02> MOVES 80M 02> A STORM IN EVERY PORT
03> SCREAMS AND MOVES 60M 03> SHACKLETON’S GHOST
04> MOVES 100M 04> GREAT SPACE BATTLES OF THE DELTA SECTOR
05> SCREAMS AND MOVES 50M 05> ZEN AND THE ART OF CRYOPOD MAINTENANCE
06> MOVES TO ANOTHER DECK, IGNORES PC LOCATION 06> WATERSHIP DOWN, BY RICHARD ADAMS
07> SCREAMS AND MOVES 30M AWAY FROM PCS 07> MY WORK IS NOT YET DONE (LIGOTTI)
08> MOVES 40M AWAY FROM PCS 08> THE LOST FLEET: DAUNTLESS
09> ATTACKS WALLS AND/OR DESTROYS A ROOM 09> A COLLAPSE OF HORSES, BY BRIAN EVENSON
10> STOPS TO SENSE LOCATION OF PCS 10> DIAMOND DOGS, BY ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

ON THE ALEXIS...
ON ARRIVAL... WHEN THE DEAD PORTAL
OPENS
The Dead Planet sucks ships out of hyperspace
and pulls them helplessly drifting into its orbit. Every 47 minutes, strange energies pour forth.
If the PCs have a Jump Drive issue, or have Lights flicker as black tendrils spill like hair floating
recklessly jumped into a unknown sector, this is underwater out of the strange relic and slither
an easy way to quickly get them into the action. As through the ship. Corpses’ eyelids flutter, the
soon as they come out of hyperspace they’ll find orbs within frantically search for something, as
their Jump Drives are malfunctioning and in orbit their mouths senselessly gape open and snap
around a strange planet (pg. 30) with a tidelocked shut. Their extremities twitch spastically. Androids
moon (pg. 14) and a vast graveyard of orbitting keel over, unresponsive. This crash erases the
derelict craft (pg. 8). The first of these drifting craft memories of the computers and androids back to
they come upon is The Alexis. moments before the first opening of the Gate.

ANDROIDS & THE GATE

BACKGROUND
AFTER THEIR FIRST EXPOSURE TO THE OPEN
The Alexis is an archeological research vessel,
crewed by scientists and teamsters, and GATE, PC ANDROIDS CAN ROLL A BODY SAVE,
complemented with three androids. The crew REROUTING THEIR CIRCUITS AND AVOIDING
is dead, the androids and computers have had SHUTDOWN WHEN SUCCESSFUL.
days of their memory erased, and the ship
floats purposelessly. The Alexis is running on a
low‑power cycle, the engines presently offline.
The ship’s atmosphere is fine, but a scan reveals
no signs of life and inexplicable power fluctuations. THE GAUNT IN THE GATEWAY

When the Gateway sunders reality, the Alpha

SCANS SHOW Gaunt shambles forth to hunt. Her piercing
screams evoke primal terror as they echo
THE JUMP DRIVE IS CONNECTED TO THE throughout the vacant ship. The Alpha Gaunt
ARTIFACT GATE BY UNUSUAL ENERGIES. moves based on the results from the Gaunt AI
Table above unless the Warden wants to manually
ODDLY, THE CORPSES ARE ALSO FEEDING INTO
control her. She can traverse vents and doors,
THE OBSCENE RELIC. though cannot bypass airlocks.

This is caused by the strange artifact uncovered

by the crew—currently in the hold—that opens a
gateway to the Dead Dimension for 13 minutes
out of every hour, unleashing Gaunt upon the
ship. The Alexis can be accessed through the port
airlock or the larger airlock in the hold.
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COMMAND ROOM: Two androids—Pander and Kranot—occupy the room GALLEY: Laid
alongside two corpses. Pander is fruitlessly trying to recover files to figure out out for meal
what is happening. If he is assisted by a PC with a relevant skill he can roll with preparation.
LIFE
Advantage, but the files are corrupted SUPPORT There’s a
and have been erased many times. splatter of what
Kranot has been cut in half and resides looks like blood
in the corner next to the corpses; he on the floor. It’s
does his best to be helpful. actually juice. 2
corpses are
under each
table.

NAVIGATION
COMPUTER
(Erased)

SCIENCE LAB: The airlock to this

room is dented and gouged. Inside, the
computers and equipment are in
disarray, having been smashed and
strewn about the room and commingled with
three corpses. The vent is smashed outward
into the room.

LIFE
SUPPORT
(Damaged)

CREW CHIEF’S QUARTERS: Dead crew chief,

Kaul. Mirror in cabin covered with a dirty shirt.
Locker filled with a lavish chess set, a gorgeous
Tarot deck, and colorful bone dice.

CRYOCHAMBER: 30 cryopods.

CARGO HOLD: is well provisioned for archeological digs: skeleton walkers (some with
laser cutters), earth movers, cranes, etc., alongside conventional tools such as picks and
shovels. There is also a variety of gear for managing terrain (parkas, vacsuits, magboots,
etc.) and rations. There is a distinct lack of weapons, as this is a research vessel.

In the hold is a strange artifact made of a dark, twisted metal—a steel alloy containing
iron, carbon, tungsten, and cobalt. A grotesque statue of excessively jointed twisted limbs
entwined with screaming faces adorned with too many eyes. It is 3 ft wide by 5 ft high and about 2 ft
thick. Broken pieces of a cargo crate surround this horrible effigy. These pieces are scattered outward as if
a force blew the crate apart from the inside. There are 6 dead crew members kneeling around the relic with
their hands or foreheads touching it.
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CREW QUARTERS 3: 12 CAPTAIN’S QUARTERS: Captain Yancheg led a spartan ARCHEOLOGIST’S
bunks, 4 corpses, one of lifestyle alongside her crew. There’s a small bunk in an QUARTERS: The
which is stuck to the alcove. Her possessions amount to some exercise stench of decay
equipment, a personal computer terminal, a wall com, and overwhelms anyone
ceiling; prodding it
a small shelf of books. Among the books are Yancheg’s approaching this
causes it to crash to the
room. The walls are
floor. It was impaled by journals which detail mundane aspects of running a
covered with
the shredded vessel. The final entry (from two weeks ago) speaks of an
photographs and
vent—after being artifact unearthed on the moon in the Rhondi sector and drawings of the
violently pulled against experiencing a horrible nightmare—see Nightmare Table artifact, along with
it. (pg. 28). notes about the
CREW QUARTERS 2: 6 MEDBAY: The supplies are intact; there is an incompletely nightmares. Sankar,
bunks, 6 corpses. autopsied corpse on the exam table. the head
Pinned to the bottom archaeologist of The
Alexis, lies under a
of a bunk is a poster
pile of moist papers.
of a smiling woman
His body is
riding a rocket; it is decomposed and a
dotted with medical check reveals
throwing knives. blunt force trauma to
his head from
repeatedly slamming
it against a solid
surface; this is what
killed him about a
week and a half
ago.

FIRST MATE’S QUARTERS: Dead first mate,

Rayik. He was a survivalist: locker of K
rations, waterproof poncho, flare gun, SK109
“Seeker” Smart Rifle. Vibrachete on wall.

CREW QUARTERS 1: 12 bunks, 3 corpses stacked in corner. Mundane

possessions except for a music player with a corrupted drive. Plays
music with a persistent static effect and an occasional unearthly
beastial scream. Anyone hearing the scream must make a Fear Save or
gain 1d5 Stress.

AIRLOCKS: All airlocks controlled remotely by the command room. Opening them
manually requires a Strength check. The large red door in the Cargo Hold can be
opened from outside, but will trigger a violent decompression.

ENGINE/DRIVE ROOM: With a successful check, a PC can determine the engines are fine but
the jump drive has been burned out. There are two deceased crew slumped in the corner.
There are 2d10 Fuel units remaining, which will take 1d10 hours to offload.

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D100 SHIP CLASS/STATUS SALVAGE CAUSE OF RUINATION WEIRD
00 Virus Haunted
01-09 Mining Frigate Combat Inhabited by Alien Life
10-19 Raided by Pirates Terraformed by Strange Creatures
20-24 Hyperspace Malfunction (see pg. 12) Crew Dressed for Costume Party

2D100 Scrap
25-29 Abandoned Ship Crew All Identical

4D10 Ore
30-34 Rogue AI Crew was preparing Theatrical Performance
35-39 Mutiny Morbid Artwork
Engine, Thrusters, Jump Drive non-functioning

40-44 Crash: Other Ship Pet Hoarders

Freighter

45-49 Crash: Space Debris Erotic Sculptures

50-54 Crash: Jump Drive Miscalculation Communist Regalia
55-57 Engine Failure Company Uniform
58-60 Cannibalism Cult Members
Uninhabitable

1D10 Fuel Units

61-63 Nerve Gas Extensive Journals Kept

Shuttle

64-66 Escape Pod Never Returned Strange Health Obsession

No Survivors

3D10 Metal

67-69 Betrayal/Backstabbing Unnervingly Clean

70-71 Succumbed to Nightmares Android was poisoning Captain
72-73 Hatch Opened, No Air Ancient Ship
74-75 Cargo Created Mishap Temporal Distortions
Courier

76-77 Starvation Failed Utopia

2D10 Galley Stock
1D100 Trade Units of Random Cargo

78-79 Part of a Conspiracy Crew Weighed and Measured Weekly

80 Thrusters Slagged Extensive Body Modification
81 Weapons System Malfunction Isolated Physics Anomalies
Research Vessel

82 Cryosleep Never Disengaged Sexual Deviants

1D10 Cryopods

83 Complex Series of Events Religious Extremists

84 Suicide Pact Transhumanist Android Worshippers
Stable Engine, Thrusters, Jump Drive

85 Parasite Infestation Anti-Android Conspiracists

Blockade Runner

86 Environmental Systems Failure Nauseating Stench

Medbay

87 Uncontrollable Fire Everything is Jury-Rigged

Habitable (Non-Functioning)

1D10 Precious Metal

88 Failed Fraud Attempt Crew Taking Video Through the Catastrophe

89 Void Worshipping Body Horror
Weapon
Cutter

90 Bizarre Love Triangle Scooby-Doo Crew

2D10 Survivors (In Cryosleep)

91 Fight Spiraled Out of Control Interior Coated in Flesh, Doors are Membranes
92 Chainsaw Rampage* Whispering Echoes Always a Room Ahead
Computer

93 Drug Addled Debauchery Dolls in Macabre Tableaux

Troopship

94 Fatal Depressurization Dead Crew: Exploded Heads

1D10 Contraband

95 Nightmares Ending in Heart Attack Elaborately Posed Corpses (Hooks & Chains)
Habitable (Functioning)

Unstable Core

96 Mob Hit Flickering Lights and Frenzied Screams

Colony Ship

Jump Drive

97 Crew Members Vanished Ship Rearranges Itself Frequently

Survivors

98 Prank Taken Too Far Ship Has Infinite Depth

99 William Tell Trick Fruit Basket, Greeting Card Inexplicably Addressed to Crew
D100 CARGO TYPE
DERELICT
SHIP
00 Body Bags (Full)
01-09 Wine
10-19 Complex Navigational Equipment GENERATOR
20-24 Ceramics There are dozens, if not hundreds, of derelict craft
25-29 Antique Books floating in orbit around the Dead Planet. The most
recent of these (and the closest to the PCs upon
30-34 Garden Gnomes (Full of Illegal Stimulants) arrival) is The Alexis (pg. 6). If the PCs want to
35-39 Opium continue to explore space wrecks, there are a few
easy ways to generate them:
40-44 Tea
45-49 Silver Bars 1. ROLL 1D100 AND READ
RIGHT ACROSS.
50-54 Sensitive Documents
For example: [76] = An uninhabitable courier
55-57 Anthropology Mission with no survivors. The Engine, Jump Drives and
58-60 Botanists/Horticulturists Thrusters are totally non-functioning. There are
13 (7+6) days of Galley stock remaining (which
61-63 Industrial Engineers/Architects is strange because it appears the crew starved to
64-66 Terraforming Equipment death) and 76 cargo units of cremains on board
the ship. This must have something to do with the
67-69 Hydroponic Plants Failed Utopia on board - maybe someone decided
70-71 Rare Wood no one eating was better than unfair rationing.

72-73 Lab Rats 2. ROLL 9D100 AND READ THE

RESULTS.
74-75 Cultured Cells
For example: [81, 91, 87, 30, 87, 61, 41, 35, 42]
76-77 Cremains
A habitable, but non-functioning research vessel
78-79 Drug Production Starter Equipment with no survivors, a stable Engine, Thrusters, and
Jump Drive. Not only that, it has 1d10 Fuel and
80 Common Cloth
4d10 ore! Quite a find. It appears the cause of
81 Designer Clothes the ship’s status was a mutiny, and they seem to
have been pet hoarders of some kind - the ship
82 Expensive Fish (food)
is lousy with hungry animals. Maybe they were
83 Pets experimenting on the animals...
84 Plastic Junk (gewgaws)
3. CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITES
85 Legionaries (guns & ammo)
Uuse these lists as a jumping off point, or to
86 Religious Pilgrims (religious texts & symbols) answer a quick question about any ship the PCs
happen to board.
87 Compressed Algae Blocks (1 = days rations, gross)
88 Disarmed ordinance (lack detonators)
89 Cars (high end)
90 Medicine
91 Cosmetics
92 Race Horse Reproductive Material*
93 Livestock
94 Prisoners
95 Mobile Black Site (used for completely illegal interrogation)
96 Census Takers
97 Cadmium
98 Preserved Fruit
99 Refugees <- Maybe make this an alien prisoner *(if kept cold, among the most valuable things in the universe)
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 DERELICT SHIP
MAPPING
You can use the generator on the previous page SHIP CLASS
to quickly get a feel for what’s going on in the ship,
Depending on your ship’s class, you should roll
what the problems are and what the possible loot
a different number of d6s when constructing it.
is. You can easily use it as a jumping off point for
Some ships are big enough to have more than one
writing your own adventure, but if you’re strapped
level, as outlined below:
for time, you can just grab a handful of d6s and
drop them on the table. Place them however you
» BLOCKADE RUNNER: 15d6 1+ levels
want to create a map, then roll a d10 for each
room, consulting the DERELICT SHIP MODULE » COLONY SHIP: 20d6+ 3+ levels
GENERATOR on the next page. All ships must » COURIER: 4d6 1 level
start out with at least 1 Command Module and 1
Thrusters; other than that, have fun with it. » CUTTER: 10d6 2+ levels
» FREIGHTER: 17d6 2+ levels
HIDDEN DUCTS
» MINING FRIGATE: 12d6 2+ levels
A quick way to establish hidden ducts connecting
different modules in the ship is to connect a few » RESEARCH VESSEL: 8d6 1+ level
rooms whose numbers add up to 7. You can » SHUTTLE: 7d6 1 level
create a ship with a ton of hidden ducts, or limit it
to just a few. » TROOPSHIP: 15d6 2+ levels

THRUSTERS WEAPON
CARGO HOLD
Completely smelted. CARGO HOLD
1d10 Cargo Units (Tea) ENGINE Railgun LIFE SUPPORT
Completely and MEDBAY
Intact and salvageable. totally empty 3d10 Pain Pills Functional
1d10 Fuel Units. 2d10 Stimpaks
BARRACKS
1d10 Scavengers
1d10 Original Crew

COMMAND
Single cockpit.
Scarred by gunfire. COMPLETELY
DESTROYED
ROOM
LIFE SUPPORT
Non-Repairable
COMPUTER THE
Contains an intact
map of the current sector.
DUNCAN
MURMUR
Uninhabitable. No survivors.
Engine, thrusters, jump drives
CARGO HOLD non-functioning.
2d10 Scavengers 1d10 Fuel Units.
3d10 Metal.
Cause of ruination: Succumbed to
nightmares.
CARGO HOLD Weird: Religious Extremists.
1d10 Cargo Units CRYOCHAMBER
GALLEY JUMP DRIVE
(High End Cars) Filled with corpses.
1d10 Supply Completely Smelted HIDDEN DUCTS
Fear save or 1 Stress.
Remaining

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 // 3D10 SHIP NAME GENERATOR
// ROLL ONCE IN EACH COLUMN
01> IAGO VALEFOR ECHO

DERELICT
02> HECATE OPHANIM ALPHA
03> OBERON MARAX OMEGA
04> WHITEHALL MARINER KING
SHIP 05> DUNCAN
06> BANQUO
LABOLAS
ASTAROTH
BEGGAR
DELTA
MODULE 07> WINTER
08> MARLOWE
CHERUBIM
TYRANT
EPISLON
JIBRIL
GENERATOR 09> TEMPEST
10> FAUST
BALAAM BRAVO
MURMUR TANGO

Roll a handful of d6s and start placing them on the table to create a map. For each room roll a d10;
this shows the basic contents of the room, whether they’re trapped, have extra supplies, or if there’s a
conflict or survivor on board.

1 2 3 4 5 6
01 COMMAND: JUMP DRIVE: GALLEY: MEDBAY: CARGO HOLD: CARGO HOLD:
Single cockpit, Intact and 1d10 supply units Stocked to the Roll on Cargo table Roll on Cargo table
scarred by gunfire. salveageable. remaining. gills. Roll twice on (pg. 9). (pg. 9).
Weapon Cache.
02 COMMAND: JUMP DRIVE: MEDBAY:
Bridge with working Completely smelted. Completely picked
comm station. over.
03 LIFE SUPPORT: THRUSTERS: GALLEY: MEDBAY:
Functional. Intact and Completely barren, 3d10 Pain Pills,
salveageable. booby trapped. 2d10 Stimpaks.
04 LIFE SUPPORT: THRUSTERS: GALLEY: Roll on SCIENCE LAB:
Repairable. Completely smelted. Weapon Cache table Strange creature in
(pg. 13). containment.
05 LIFE SUPPORT: BARRACKS: SCIENCE LAB: ENGINES:
Non-repairable. One survivor, Quarantined. Body 1d10/2 squatters in
unconscious. Save or 2d10 dmg. Vaccsuits huddling
around the warmth
06 LIFE SUPPORT: ENGINE: BARRACKS: CRYOCHAMBER:
of the engines.
Radioactive (Body Intact and Roll on Weapon & Filled with corpses.
Save or 1d10 dmg). salveageable. Supply Cache table Fear Save or 1
(pg. 13). stress.
1d10 Fuel units.
07 COMPUTER: BARRACKS: CRYOCHAMBER:
Contains an intact Corpses. 3d10 working
map of the current cryopods.
sector.
08 COMPUTER: ENGINE: LIVING QUARTERS: CARGO HOLD: ENGINES:
Contains an intact Completely Roll on Weapon & Completely and Strange creature
map of a random destroyed and Supply Cache table totally empty. infestation.
sector. unuseable. (pg. 13).
09 WEAPON: LIVING QUARTERS: CRYOCHAMBER: CARGO HOLD: BARRACKS:
1. Laser Cutter Booby trapped. 1d10 Cryopods that Currently being Fight between 2d10
2. Autocannon seem fine. 25% picked through scavengers and
3. Railgun failure. by 2d10 armed crewmembers of
4. MG Turret scavengers. Roll on the ship’s original
10 5. Torpedoes
ENGINE: LIVING QUARTERS: COMPLETELY
Cargo table (pg. 9). crew.
Rigged to explode Stowaway squatting DESTROYED ROOM
6. Rigging Gun in 1d10 minutes. here.

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 ALPHA BRAVO CHARLIE DESPERADO ECHO FOXTROT GHOST HELIOS INDIGO JUNIPER KILO LANCE MIKE
NOVEMBER ONYX PARASOL QUEEN ROMEO SALT TANGO UNIFORM VIOLET WALRUS XYLOPHONE YARROW ZULU
Local Drive (MS:/) 165000 Free
d100 JUMP DRIVE MALFUNCTION
01- A LARGE AQUARIUM IN THE MESS IS FILLED WITH: 1) TILAPIA 2) TROUT 3) SALMON
05 4) JELLYFISH 5) CATFISH 6) OYSTERS 7) OCTOPI 8) SQUID 9) SNAILS 10) STRANGE MASS
06- THREE BEFUDDLED SPACEFARERS LOUNGE ABOUT THE DECK, PERPLEXED THIS IS NOT THE GOLDEN
10 HEART. THEY ARE: RIO URIBE, CARA DELEVINGE, AND IRINA LAZAREANU (FASHIONABLE
SOCIALITES). THEY WEAR CORSETED JACKETS, CRINOLINED BALLERINA SKIRTS AND TOWERING
STILETTOS AND MAKE EXCELLENT NEGOTIATORS AND ALWAYS HAVE A CONTACT ANYWHERE THE CREW
MAY WIND UP. THEIR SALARY IS 7,000 CREDITS AND THEY ONLY WORK AS A TEAM.
11- PASS CHARACTER SHEETS ONE SPACE CLOCKWISE; PCS ARE NOW THE CHARACTER PASSED (IF
15 APPLICABLE, AN NPC CONTROLLED BY THE DM IS PART OF THIS CIRCLE).
16- WITHIN THE SHIP: GRAVITY IS DELAYED 3 SECONDS (OBJECTS REMAIN SUSPENDED FOR 3 SECONDS
20 BEFORE FALLING) FOR 1D4 HOURS.
21- TIME MOVES DIFFERENTLY FOR EVERYONE. TIME TO PHYSICALLY TRAVEL FOR EACH CREW MEMBER IS
25 MEASURED IN (ROLLED INDIVIDUALLY): 1D4 SECONDS, MINUTES, HOURS, DAYS. LASTS 24 HOURS.
26- IN THE POCKET OF EVERY CREW MEMBER IS A SEALED LETTER SIGNED BY A CREW MEMBER
30 SELECTED AT RANDOM. THE LETTER IS AN ARDUOUS CONFESSION TO ACTS SO SINGULARLY VILE
AND UNCONSCIONABLE THAT READING THEM TRIGGERS A PANIC CHECK (D10/2). TO AID THE CREW
MEMBER WHO “WROTE” EACH LETTER REQUIRES A FEAR SAVE.
31- THERE IS AN ELABORATE LACQUERED BOX. INSIDE IS A BLACK CAT WITH WHITE EYES; ALL SCANS
35 SHOW IT TO BE DEAD. IT IS PERFECTLY ALIVE AND SOMEWHAT FRIENDLY.
36- A “BIRD”—THAT LOOKS LIKE A CUBIST PAINTING—FLUTTERS ABOUT, RECITING THE DIGITS TO PI.
40 AT AN ARBITRARY POINT THE BIRD EXPLODES IN A SOFT HISS OF INK. THE NEXT MATHEMATICS
CHECK EACH CREWMEMBER MAKES IS WITH ADVANTAGE.
41- MOVEMENT IS BLINDINGLY FAST. PC ACCELERATES AT BREAKNECK SPEED. CAN VAPORIZE THEMSELF
45 RUNNING INTO A WALL—BODY[-] SAVE TO NOT SMASH INTO A WALL FOR 4D10 DMG. THIS ENDS IN
WHAT FEELS LIKE SECONDS BUT IS ACTUALLY 4 HOURS.
46- THE CREW ARE WHOLLY CONVINCED THEY ARE SOMEONE ELSE’S DREAM; THAT THEIR ENTIRE
50 EXISTENCE IS SIMPLY FRAGMENTS OF A DREAMING STATE. THEY ARE IMMUNE TO PANIC CHECKS
UNLESS SOMEONE SUGGESTS THE DREAMER MAY AWAKEN. IT ALSO REQUIRES A SANITY SAVE TO TAKE
RAPID SELF PRESERVING ACTION.
51- PHYSICAL CONTINUITY IS OUT OF WHACK. WHEN THE CREW WALKS INTO A ROOM, INDIVIDUALLY
55 ROLL FOR WHAT ROOM THEY WIND UP IN. THE ROOM’S ORIENTATION IS: D10 1-5: NORMAL, 6-8:
INVERTED (LEFT-RIGHT), 9-10: INVERTED (UPSIDE DOWN).
56- EXITING WARP: THERE IS A TABLE SET WITH A FEAST AND A MARBLE BUST OF EACH CREW MEMBER
60 ON THE TABLE FACING THEIR SEAT.
61- EVERYONE BECOMES A MIRROR VERSION OF THEMSELVES (RIGHT HANDED PEOPLE BECOME LEFT HANDED,
65 SCARS ARE ON OPPOSITE SIDE, ETC.). GAIN 2 STRESS. SOME GEAR MAY BE DIFFICULT TO USE.
66- THE SHIP AND CREW HAVE BEEN BOUNCED BACKWARD BY A TIME RIPPLE. 1-4 THEY EACH HAVE
70 5 MORE XP 5-6 THEY CAN ROLL ADVANTAGE ON ALL SAVES THIS SESSION 7-8 THEY CAN ROLL
ADVANTAGE ON ALL CHECKS THIS SESSION. 9 THE SHIP HAS A NEW MODULE THAT WAS NEVER THERE
BEFORE 10 EVERYONE HAS D10 MORE STRESS.
71- A DUPLICATE OF EVERY CREW MEMBER APPEARS. THE WARDEN ROLLS SECRETLY TO DETERMINE
75 WHETHER EACH PLAYER IS THE ORIGINAL OR DUPLICATE.
76- THERE’S A HEAVY MIST THROUGHOUT THE SHIP AND ALL SOUNDS ECHO FOR THE NEXT D10/2 HOURS.
80
81- EVERYONE’S CLOTHING IS WORN THIN AND PATCHED UP AND IT WASN’T LIKE THAT BEFORE THEY
85 ENTERED THE CRYOPODS.
86- SHADOWS SEPARATE FROM THEIR OWNER, MOVING AHEAD OF THEM UNTIL A SANITY SAVE IS MADE.
90
91- EVERY WOUND EVER RECEIVED REOPENS AND BLEEDS. PANIC CHECK. EVERYONE IS COVERED IN
95 BLOOD UNTIL A SANITY SAVE IS MADE AND THE CREW REALIZES IT’S AN ILLUSION.
96- EVERYONE THE CREWMEMBERS HAVE EVER LOVED AND LEFT BEHIND IS LOOKING AT THEM IN EVERY
00 REFLECTION. THIS FADES GRADUALLY AFTER D10 DAYS. ROLL A DIE. EVEN RESULT: SANITY SAVE
OR 1D10 STRESS EACH TIME THEY LOOK INTO A MIRROR. ODD RESULT: GAIN ADVANTAGE ON FEAR
SAVES FOR ONE DAY.

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[WHY DOESN’T THEIR JUMP DRIVE WORK?]

Specifically, any ships drawn into the Dead Planet’s orbit have
their Jump Drive cease to work due to the pull from the Dead Gate
on the surface. The first time the PCs try to jump, roll a critical
hit for the ship and a Jump Drive Malfunction. If you’re running
a game where you don’t want the PCs trapped, or they’re getting
bored, let them leave with another two critical hits rolled and
then roll another Jump Drive Malfunction when they leave.

D100 WEAPONS & SUPPLY CACHE

01-15 ROTTING WOODEN BOX: ROSCO 556 NAIL GUN, 4 BOXES OF NAILS, MNC MODEL A
LASER CUTTER, SPARE BATTERY, PEABODY FLARE GUN, 6 FLARES (HUNTER GREEN).
16-25 PICKED CLEAN ESCAPE POD: EVA MK-II HAND WELDER, FOAM GUN, EMERGENCY
BEACON, CROWBAR, INFRARED GOGGLES, FLASHLIGHT, STRAY BULLETS.
26-28 INSIDE A ROTTED TREE: A PRESERVED PRIMITIVE HUMANOID CORPSE CLUTCHES A
HARD METAL SPEAR (1D10 DMG).
29-35 PAIR OF RUSTED FOOTLOCKERS: AUTOMED(X6), FIELD RECORDER, MEDSCANNER,
HAZARD SUIT (4X), SCALPEL, MEDKIT, D&C 7 TRANQUILIZER PISTOL (2X).
36-40 BLACK SYNTHETIC LEATHER SUITCASE: ELECTRONIC TOOLKIT, FLASHLIGHT,
LOCKPICK SET, MRE (X7), PAIN PILLS (X18), FN “SLUG GUN” REVOLVER,
SPEEDLOADER (X2), BOOK: IVY LEAGUE GUIDE TO BYPASSING SECURITY.
41-50 TARP STITCHED SHUT: SURVEY KIT, VIBECHETE, WATER FILTER, RADIO JAMMER,
REBREATHER, SK 109 SEEKER SMARTRIFLE, GHILLIE SUIT (WHEN UNMOVING:
SEARCHING IS AN INTELLECT CHECK WITH DISADVANTAGE).
51-58 ATOP AN OCTAGONAL ALTAR, BEDECKED IN ORNATE BELLS: A PAIR OF CRUEL
ENERGY WHIPS (INTELLECT INSTEAD OF COMBAT, 2D10, 10% BREAK CHANCE).
59-68 WATER RESISTANT DUFFEL BAG: BINOCULARS, CAMPING GEAR, STIMPACK (X2),
WATER FILTER, LOCATOR, REBREATHER, SK 109 SEEKER SMART RIFLE (2X), SPARE
MAGAZINES (X8, JUNGLE CLIPPED), 4X EROTIC PICTORIAL MAGAZINES.
69-70 AN OILCLOTH WRAPPING CONTAINS: HAN-290 RIGGING GUN (X2), D&C 7
TRANQUILIZER GUN (X4), A GUIDE TO BIG GAME HUNTING (MANFUL CONQUEST).
71-80 CANVAS “DOCTOR” BAG (CADUCEUS): BIOSCANNER, PAIN PILLS (X6), FIRST AID
KIT, STIMPACK (X2), CYBERNETIC DIAGNOSTIC SCANNER, TRANQUILIZER PISTOL,
ROSCO 556, BOOK: QUIETING THE SCREAMS: A PRIMER ON BEDSIDE MANNER.
81-84 HUMANOID HUSK—TALL, WITH FOUR CLUSTERED EYES—WEARS ONLY A PAIR OF ORNATE
BRACERS (1D10 DMG, BLASTER OR EXTENDABLE BLADE; 10% BREAK CHANCE).
85-88 BADLY CHARRED ASBESTOS FIRE SAFE: RAMHORN 1 FLAMETHROWER, FUEL TANK
(X4), 1 GALLON KEROSENE, ZIPPO (“WHAT THE HAND, DARE SEIZE THE FIRE?”).
89-91 GEOMETRIC STACK OF UNKNOWN PURPOSE AROUND AN INTRICATELY WROUGHT METAL
STAVE (2D10 DMG BLAST OR 1D10 STRIKE).
92-96 HARDBODY GUITAR CASE: AZUREGLO RICKENBACKER 4001C64 ELECTRIC BASS IN
CHERRY RED FINISH, ARMA 29 SUBMACHINE GUN, SPARE MAGAZINE (4X).
97-99 RUSTED 3M SHIPPING CONTAINER (STENCILLED WITH PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTOR
LOGO): KANO X9 COMBAT SHOTGUN (X4), ARMA 29 SUBMACHINE GUN (X4), F20
“ARBITER” PULSE RIFLE (X2) RAMHORN 1 FLAMETHROWER; BOXES: 200 SLUGS, 10
PULSE MAGAZINES, 20 ULTRA CAPACITY MAGAZINES, 4 FUEL TANKS.

Use with Planetcrawl (pg. 30-43) 13

the dead planet’s moon is roughly the size of Earth’s moon, and tide-locked. From a
distance (or with long range scanners), the PCs can tell that the moon is barren though obviously littered
with wrecks. There are faint signs of life in the northern hemisphere.
If the PCs inspect the moon closely they notice:
» The life signs come from a buried underground bunker (2,5).
<see tyrant beggar moon colony on pg. 18>
» 60km away from the bunker is a huge harpoon gun (5,2)
surrounded by an enormous junk pile.
<see brekt’s breakers on pg. 21>
After ten minutes, a massive harpoon is fired from the
surface of the moon and hits the PCs’ ship (3d10
DMG) and begins pulling it towards the surface. Roll
a Speed[-] Check for the ship (Piloting) to avoid:
» CRITICAL SUCCESS: The ship is
able to pull away, the harpoon and cable
uncoupling and falling to the surface.
During the evasive maneuver, the pilot
is able to make out the hidden wreck of
the perennial tyrant (6,7).
» REGULAR SUCCESS: The ship
is able to pull away, the harpoon and
cable coming with it.
» FAILURE: The ship gets pulled
to the surface. The crew has 60
seconds to prepare before the ship
is grounded.
» CRITICAL FAILURE: In the
struggle, the ship is struck twice
more with smaller harpoons,
causing another 2d10 DMG, and
then crashes (taking a critical hit).
Roll 1d10 for crash site:
1-5) LOST IN THE DUNES
Roll 2d10 for the exact location on the
map’s grid but reroll if landing on a red dot.
If within 5 squares of Tyrant Beggar,
12 breakers (C:40, pulse rifles, I:40, H:1) arrive
on foot within four hours. Otherwise, no one
comes looking.
6) WRECK OF THE PERENNIAL TYRANT
(6,8)

14 MREs. Weapons cache. Parts for repairs.

Within 3 days, dean will arrive and beg for help on his
doomed mission to the planet below <pg. 20>.
7-8) HARPOON GUN & SCRAPYARD (3,4)
The ship crash lands into a massive junk pile and is immediately boarded
by 8 breakers, led by brekt <pg. 21>.
9-10) TYRANT BEGGAR MOON BASE (2,6) The ship crash lands 3km away
from the underground bunker. Within 15 minutes they are approached by verger & kalm <pg. 17>.

MOON COLON
 THE DUNES
Barren and uninhabited, the dunes are a lifeless, airless
desert. Roll 1d10 when passing through a dune:
1-4. Nothing. Just dirt and moon rock and nothing.
5. The planet below seems to pulse with energy.
6. Scrap, unuseable. Wreckage from orbit.
7. Sinkhole. Body Save or 1d10 DMG per turn until a
friendly PC makes a Strength Check to free them.
8. A wanderer from Tyrant Beggar, looking for death.
9. 1d10 of brekt’s breakers arrive in an ATV.
10. Weapons cache <see pg. 13>.
H O W F A R C A N P C S WA L K ?
Marines and Androids or anyone with Strength over
50 can ruck about 10km/hr for three hours once
per day (30km/d) under normal gravity. Everyone
else moves at half that rate (15km/d). If moving
more than that in a day, take 1d10 DMG for
every 5km travelled past the maximum, Body
Save for half. Without enough water, PCs
start taking damage after 10km, no matter
what, and moving more than their max in a
day puts them at Disadvantage for all Body
Saves for the next day.

D AY & N I G H T
ON THE MOON
The moon experiences two weeks
of sunlight followed by two weeks of
darkness.

F O O D & WAT E R
If the crash hasn’t already caused this, the
crew will eventually run out of food, water
and oxygen. When the ship crashes, total
up the remaining oxygen left on the ship and
divide it amongst the human players <as per
the Players Survival Guide>.

GETTING LOST
If the players set out on foot to make it to the bunker,
they can do so and generally won’t get lost. Let them
know how far away they are from their destination and
what their chances of survival are so that they can make
smart decisions.

NIGHTMARES
Resting on the moon has its consequences. Proximity to the Gaunt and
their Gate causes nightmares for those who choose to rest in this barren
wasteland <pg. 27>.

NY BLOODBATH
 WHY ARE THERE WRECKER CANNIBALS
ON THE MOON?

A decade ago, strange energies <see dead gateway on pg. 36> caused the colony construction vessel Perennial
Tyrant to crash into the Dead Planet’s moon. The desolate plains of the moon were witness to the rapid
repurposing of the Perennial Tyrant into shelter, sullenly christened Tyrant Beggar by its grim-yet-stoic inhabitants.
Tyrant Beggar is sustained by a society predicated on ritual cannibalism, a collective emphasis on survival, the
denial of reality, scavenging, and nightmares.

WHAT ARE THESE MOON CANNIBALS LIKE?

The inhabitants of Tyrant Beggar are somewhat incomprehensible to outsiders. Because of the necessity of
cannibalism to sustain themselves early on, every member of the colony demonstrates their willingness to put the
colony first by amputating a part of themselves to be mixed into the common meal. As a corollary, prosthetics
are a common sight. However, parts are not simply hacked off and tossed into a stewpot! Rather, John the Ripper
is lauded for his devotion to and skill at ritual amputation—despite accidents that occasionally happen when
offerers flinch. Overall, prestige is accrued among the colonists in direct proportion to the amount of themselves
they have offered up as food. Among those who enjoy the highest status is Malta, whose legs were amputated—
she is now wheelchair bound. Holding certain positions of social authority—such as being a goat herder or
administrator—are predicated upon a significant volume of excision. John the Ripper is additionally esteemed as
his donations have reduced his hands to the absolute minimum necessary for his job. Notably, this ceremony is
almost completely unnecessary: the colony has mangy goats, scavenged from a wreck, that provide them with sour
milk and stringy meat. Still, rituals are an important part of societal cohesion.
The subterranean lifestyle in Tyrant Beggar produces a sensitivity to light amongst its citizens. To compensate,
many wear dark goggles, sunglasses or even surgically remove their eyes. There is currently a vogue for
wearing blindfolds with eyes painted on them. The squalid lives of the inhabitants are spent in a claustrophobic,
tenebrific, musky warren, where they experience unabating angst over the scarcity of water, food and air. Casual
conversation generally touches on these topics.

MINIMUM STRESS: 4
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 WHAT HAPPENS IF THE CREW APPROACHES THIS AWFUL PLACE?
When they crew approaches the colony they will be hailed by half an android strapped to the chest of a scrawny,
excitable, dullard—Verger. The android—Kalm—dispassionately explains that the crew has landed on the moon of the
Dead Planet, which is inescapable. Jump Drives don’t work here, and this moon is in the isolated hinterlands far from
civilization. This is truly the worst place.
Chipperly, she informs the party of the subterranean colony and offers conditional membership, guaranteeing the
crew’s continued survival. They can even aspire to be full citizens! Should the crew need food, water, medicine, or other
mundanities, Kalm assures the crew of their availability beneath the surface. She is quick to add that this hospitality is
conditional upon the crew contributing to their scavenging efforts—she gestures nonchalantly towards a derelict being
hauled to the surface by the giant rigging guns—and surrendering their ship and all possessions to the collective.

IF THE CREW REJECTS IF THE CREW IF THE CREW ACCEPTS

KALM’S OFFER ATTACKS KALM’S OFFER

Kalm is nonplussed and placidly The colonists deal with the crew in The colonists lead the crew to
admits the colony will simply wait a swift and brutal fashion. Tactically, the quarantine cells [1], then,
for them to die—whether the the colonists will not engage a well swiftly subject them to a harrowing
cause is starvation, cabin fever, or armed crew head on. Instead, they and intrusive battery of security
some other grisly end is immaterial. will slink back into their shelter and measures. The crew is stripped,
She takes pains to express that utilize their familiarity of the terrain hosed down with cold water,
she sees this as regrettable and to spring ambushes and quickly melt scanned for viruses, and inspected
a senseless waste of life. The back into the shadows. A small like livestock by John the Ripper.
colony will respect the boundaries party will sneak off to destroy the They then may nominate their
of the ship and even engage in life support system on the PCs’ amputation site [see sidebar] before
lopsided trade for items the colony ship and steal their food and water. being issued an ill fitting jumpsuit
desperately needs. Otherwise they The colonists will then seal off their with sighted stencilled across
view the contents of the ship as base when the crew retreats. If their the shoulders. Their next week
inevitably becoming theirs, and goats are threatened in any way, the is intermittent medical prodding,
believe plundering the ship would colonists relentlessly assault the culture shock, and feedings before
be a gratuitous squandering of finite crew until every member is dead. they are admitted as provisional
resources. There will always be 2 For combat purposes, assume there members with a cheerlessness that
scouts on the horizon watching the are 30 willing fighters in the colony, lacks hostility as they are finally
ship. dean will try and sneak aboard 50 if defending from invasion. cleared to enter the colony.
within 2 days.

VOLUNTARY AMPUTATION
Yes, to join the colony the PCs must amputate some part of themselves for a common meal, ostensibly in
honor of the desperate founders of Tyrant Beggar. They do get to partake in the meal. Sanity Save or gain 1d10
Stress. Androids are not exempt from this ritual.

TIMELINE OF EVENTS THAT WILL HAPPEN IF THE PCS DO NOTHING

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5 DAY 6 DAY 7

PCs get out of Malta asks the Dean asks the Verger secretly Civil war Leer finishes Brekt’s crew
Quarantine. PCs about party about contacts the breaks out at the Dead Gate finishes repairs
getting Dean joining his PCs and asks Tyrant Beggar. in the Sculpture on the Lucifer
- OR - to quiet down movement to them to break The Youth Garden Rising and set
or “disappear.” flee to the Leer’s hands. faction standoff unwittingly. off on their
Tyrant Beggar - OR - surface of the He thinks her against Malta’s Dozens of hundred-year
sends out a Dead Planet. sculptures are Loyalists. Gaunt stream journey. They
search party Dean tries to bad and make through every have room for
for the PCs. sneak aboard her sad. hour. 6 people.
the PCs’ ship.
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 KEY AIRLOCK
TYRANT
CARVED TUNNEL
BEGGAR
HIDDEN DUCT
MOON
COMMON
BASE
AREA Human Population: 2d10*5
Android Population: 1d10/2
Lighting: Dim Flourescents
2 Days of food left: 2d10*2
Mood: Restless

QUARANTINE DORMITORIES GOAT

CELLS FARM

1 3 4

FACILITIES MED MACHINE

CHAPEL SHOP

5 6 7

THE CONTROL SCULPTURE

VAULT GARDEN

8 9 10

AIRLOCK

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1. QUARANTINE CELLS: Several small, cramped 8. THE VAULT: Entrance is restricted to the highest
and dingy prison cells with slots in their doors for ranking colonists without exception. This heavily secured
feeding and communication. room houses a veritable smorgasbord of vice—drugs,
luxury goods, pornography, fine art, weapons, tracts
2. COMMON AREA: No matter the time, citizens
arguing for the primacy of the individual rather than
mill about idly in this dingy space cluttered with
society—it’s all here. Scavenged contraband is deposited
scavenged, mismatched furniture. There are also
by brekt and inventoried by malta, who is not above
a collective ramshackle kitchen and some dig pits
using the contents for motivation, reward, or personal
that serve as bathrooms. When the crew enters the
indulgence. The entrance is locked and Malta keeps the
common area, 2d10 colonists are taking a respite here.
key on her person at all times <pg. 25>.
Roll on the table below for the most notable goings on.

d10 COLONIST(S) AMPUTATION WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

1 Circle of surly teenagers. Eyes removed, sockets ringed with scars. Animatedly plays chess.
2 Several stern elderly women. A patchwork of remaining fingers. Practices reading Braille.
3 Troop of wretched, grubby children. One leg amputated to the calf. Smokes furtively, eyes askance.
4 Couple on a date. One arm amputated to the elbow. Discusses the goats excitedly.
5 Scavenging crew returning from work. Lips sliced off. Morosely eats a bowl of gruel.
6 Scrapper crew preparing to break down a ship. Cheek sliced off. Signals they wish to barter (have contraband).
7 Venerated amputee—nothing left below the One eye, three fingers, one hand Debates the merits of amputating a hand
ribs—mobbed by admirers. removed (this was a fad for awhile). contrasted with a foot.
8 Simple goat-tender. Ear removed. Drinking fuel distillate alcohol (180+ proof).
9 Despondent, emaciated man. Tongue cut out. Compares impressions of the latest sculptures.
10 Apprentice of John the Ripper. Two toes amputated, awkward gait. Describes favorite things scavenged from ships.

9. CONTROL: The surveillance center of the base.

3. DORMITORIES: Smells like a foetid locker room
Monitors fed from a multitude of hidden cameras
with the humidity to match. The space is crowded with
document the bleak quotidian experience of life in
far more somnambulent people—some naked—than
Tyrant Beggar. One wall, free of screens, is devoted to
there are bunks (fashioned from repurposed cryopods)
a chalkboard coated in arcane calculations tracking
crammed together. Despite the omnipresent lines
the stores of food and water. Adjacent is a cork board
festooned with hanging clothes and the occasional
with photographs of candidates for disposal—should
impromptu curtain, privacy is impossible.
the need arise—along with preemptive justifications.
Gear, including clothing, left unattended will be stolen.
The disposable colonists are largely newcomers
4. GOAT FARM: The relentless, brutal cycle of or troublemakers. malta passes most of her time
involuntary cannibalism was made obsolete when brekt’s here, voyeuristically transcribing the lives of others
crew recovered these goats while scavenging. Despite accompanied by the occasional bon mot. kalm is also
the goats’ somewhat haggard appearance, they are largely confined here—except when she patrols the
figures of awe among the colonists, and treated better base mounted on verger.
than any citizen could aspire to be. On account of their
10. NIGHTMARISH SCULPTURE GARDEN:
value, access to the goats is restricted to a privileged few.
Inhabitants of Tyrant Beggar are unlikely to be anything
5. FACILITIES: Dominated by a hazardously approximating psychologically well. The collective
jury‑rigged bricolage of scavenged life support systems trauma expression of the colonists has always
and dilapidated generators running on scavenged fuel. coalesced into crafts with a particular fixation on
6. MEDICAL CHAPEL: The dominion of john sculpture. This room is a repository for the many tiny
the ripper, a
gleaming, pristine medbay enhanced and sculptures produced daily by the colonists <pg. 27>.
expanded with the finest pieces looted from every Unbeknownst to them, their nightmare sculptures are
subsequent wreck.The facilities have a notable emphasis less therapy and more a point of entry for the Gaunt.
leer in particular has a mania for sculpting and works
on amputation.
on her pieces until she physically collapses—possessed
7. MACHINE SHOP: Smells heavily of grease and to complete her sculptures. She is five days away from
worked metal overlaid with the grunting perspiration completing the Gate, when 2d10 Gaunt will invade
of machinists. There are two 10-man ATVs, one from their awful dimension every hour, unceasingly.
currently operational. The other is awaiting scavenged
parts for necessary repairs. The shop is well stocked
with tools, although the collection is eclectic.
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 CHTHONIC CATHARSIS
Several youth on tyrant beggar have heard a broadcast from the surface and are very exhilarated by the prospect
of not living their life in a suffocating underground structure eating goat and gruel supplemented with human flesh.
Of particular suspected gratification is the potential to experience the entirely theoretical concept of personal
space. A small party—led by a precocious, overly enthusiastic youth named dean—is formulating a plan to steal
the crew’s ship and pilot it to the surface. This plan is met with derision—the inhabitants of Tyrant Beggar did not
survive by taking risks—and Malta is looking for a pretext to dispose of the lot of them, or at least Dean.
LET’S FACE IT: THE TEENAGERS ARE NO ONE TRUSTS A NEUTRAL PARTY.
DOOMED. They were raised in total isolation and Malta or another administrator may plead with the
indoctrinated with atypical beliefs that are socially party to describe the horrors outside Tyrant Beggar—
disastrous to conversing with anyone outside their or may simply ask them to ruthlessly cull the opposing
colony. More pressingly, they are almost completely side before the matter comes to a vote. Comorbid
ignorant when it comes to hazards—outside of the with these tensions is the growing influence of the
fragmentary knowledge gleaned from scavenging Gaunt through Leer’s Sculpted Gate.
derelict ships. It’s comical—they don’t stand a chance.
ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE AFTER FIVE
MALTA REALLY WANTS TO NIP THE DAYS. The party may obviously leave sooner; in
PROBLEM IN THE BUD. If the crew wants to the case that they don’t, a civil war breaks out. This
lounge around Tyrant Beggar, that’s fine. The inhabitants is an excellent opportunity for the party to pilfer
will become fiercely polarized about abandoning the any valuables, scavenge anything needed for repairs,
colony for the surface—largely along lines of age and abscond with any likely crew and vamoose to the
social status—with increasingly violent results. surface <pg. 30>.

THE FIRST BROADCAST THE SECOND BROADCAST

AFTER THE CRASH OF THE DEFIANCE SALT ECHO QUEEN
QUEEN OMNI SUPREME 9-4-9-0 1 3 0 9 3 R E A D Y, R E A D Y 6 5 P A R A S O L
YA N K E E H E L I O S F O X T R O T ACHTUNG! 03246/16
This is Lance-Corporal Victoria Bradlee, allow me to repeat: Queen This is Lance Corporal Victoria Bradlee. Fireteams Archipelago,
Omni Supreme 4-9-0. Desperado, July: Achtung! Avoir des engelures aux yeux? We
crushed les sans-culottes but an empty building apparently has
No one is going to hear this so I’d like to make a confession: three fireteams down? You expect me to believe this? This stupid
after the things we did in that forest this almost seems nice… prank merits la savate….
relaxing… no screams, no disputes, just rocks and fishing with all
the water. The Captain is convinced there’s a big payday here, some Well if this is time [sound of a round being racked], I have no choice.
bomb… maybe some artifacts to loot and get rich off of some Khong xau, as Linh says.
antiques dealer.
Maybe I’ll finally understand how there is freedom in living as if
[Sighs] It’ll all be junk tho; that seems just about our luck… at one has already died.
least this place is too empty for us to have any hostiles… Captain
can’t see the wasteland for the total emptiness so still guard up. This is Lance Corporal Victoria Bradlee; it has been a pleasure to serve.
What’s that saying the Captain loves so much? “The more hardship,
the better.” Well, at least the weather’s nice? [STATIC]

And this hardship had better pay off because I didn’t sign on for
being stranded in the middle of nowhere. As I say “Heureux comme This message is cause for consternation among the
un poisson sur la paille,” but half the unit forgot the coms code. young dissident faction. They are deeply confused
by the use of Napoleonic military slang (something
Yet another exciting task. the crew of the defiance utilized in lieu of other
cryptography).
YA N K E E H E L I O S F O X T R O T 9 - 4 - 4 - 9 Dean is convinced they’ve discovered something
amazing and are trying to keep it for themselves.
The others are more leery but still view the
Dean understands this to mean the surface is full
surface as a worthwhile pursuit. The second
of valuable things and that potable water and fish
message is broadcast the first day the crew
are plentiful.
are released from quarantine. Interpretations
The parts he doesn’t understand he handwaves. proliferate and fuel schisms.

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BREKT’S BREAKERS Human Population: 2d10
Android Population: 0

TUNNEL HIDDEN DUCT

KEY: UNDERGROUND ABOVE GROUND AIRLOCK

BREAKER SCRAPYARD BREKT’S

BARRACKS TRAILER

2 1 3

LUCIFER JANIS
RISING

5 4

BREKT’S WORK CREW (“the Breakers”) 2. BARRACKS: Spacious, private and comfortable
work grueling two-week shifts (a day and night shift). berth for a dozen or so—the finest scavenged bunks
However, their occupation grants them a degree of wind up here. The ceiling and walls are excessively
personal freedom—the only authority figure they truly bedecked with trinkets the Breakers find.
obey is Brekt, to whom they are fanatically loyal. They
3. BREKT’S TRAILER: The trailer is completely
know the colony will fail without them, which insulates
consumed with the task of researching where they are,
them from punishment. This greater freedom translates
using every available star map in order to plot an escape.
most notably into a lack of major amputation, for which
This has been Brekt’s singular focus for four years and
they are treated with a mix of envy, spite and pity. This
the maps are nearly incomprehsible without guidance.
friction is exacerbated by their free access to pet and
admire the goats whenever they would like. 4. JANIS: The gargantuan scrapping machine used by
the Breakers, affectionately named Janis, can break down,
For these privileges the Breakers spend their time in
smelt, crush, cube and strip down anything, including—if
poorly-maintained vaccsuits, tearing scrap from orbit
one believes dark rumors—Brekt’s enemies.
and breaking it down. Additionally, they are to salvage
ships likely to contain goods that are in short supply. 5. LUCIFER RISING: Brekt and a secretive few
Their personal freedom, insubordinate attitude and have devoted the last four years to the construction
utter devotion to Brekt vexes Malta—she simply of a nearly completed spaceship. It is a Frankenstein’s
lacks a way to cow them without dooming the colony. monster of mismatched parts, but completely functional
However, whenever the colony is in dire need, it’s once some parts from the PCs’ ship are added.
always the Breakers who get the brunt of the blame. The Breakers are uniformly aware there is a secret
project but the uninvolved assume it is a distillery.
1.THE SCRAPYARD: A coliseum-sized junk heap.
Contains the dross from the harvest of ships, wrecks,
derelicts, and the occasional asteroid. ONCE COMPLETED, the Lucifer Rising only has
room for six or so additional passengers. The trip
involves setting a course for where Brekt believes the
IF THE PCS NEED A PART: nearest civilization is (100 years away) and riding it in
50% chance Brekt or a Breaker knows its location. cryosleep, a so called ‘coffin run.’ Malta is unaware of
Otherwise: speed Check the ship and attempts to destroy it. She rewards the
PCs with the vacated jobs for the wetwork and gives
» Success: Found in 1d10 hours them a collection of unrelated, shiny medals
» Failure: Found in 1d10 days recognizing their valor.
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MAJOR NPCS ON TYRANT BEGGAR

MA LTA JOHN VERGER & KALM

+COLONY LEADER+ +THE RIPPER+ +EMISSARIES+

For the last six years, Malta, Esteemed unanimously within the Even combined they are barely
amputed above the kneecaps, colony for his skillful amputations one functional being. Verger is a
has run the settlement. Intensely and clinical manner. Privately, John simple soul, devoted to carrying
isolationist and paranoid considers himself a gourmand and Kalm, and lacks further aspirations.
insurrection is brewing, she is artist when it comes to his singular Kalm is an ideal emissary—damage
cunning, ruthless and devoted interest—amputation. Obsessed to her logic core prevents her
to colony survival. She finds with cleanliness. Soley focused on from cognizing catastrophe,
suggestions for alternative surgery, he has no opinions regarding dismemberment or death as
solutions seditious yet adopts a leadership. Heavily amputated. negative. She has exacerbated this
matronly tone and offers sweets impairment, teaching Verger to
WHAT DOES HE WANT? repair and improve her.
when agreed with. She finds Leer
unnerving, John delightful, and » Limbs to amputate
WHAT DOES KALM WANT?
Brekt displeasing.
» Stability, so his work continues
» A fixed logic core
WHAT DOES SHE WANT? uninterrupted
» To amputate Leer’s hands as a WHAT DOES VERGER WANT?
» Stability
capstone to his career » To carry his best friend, Kalm
» To avoid needless risks
WHAT IS HE UP TO RIGHT NOW? » To pet the goats
» Absolute, singular, unquestioned
authority 1-5: Sharpenning his cutting tools in » For Leer to stop sculpting
the Med Chapel, whistling.
WHAT IS SHE UP TO RIGHT NOW? 6-8: Performing surgery. Invites WHAT ARE THEY UP TO RIGHT NOW?
1-5: Watching the security feed, passersby to observe while he 1-5: Routine maintenance on Kalm
taciturnly noting sedition. explains the intricacies of the task in the Machine Shop.
6-8: Doing her daily rounds, beaming in his operating theater. 6-8: Kalm does a medical scan on
a matronly smile that belies subtle 9: In the machine shop, working the goats while Verger pets them.
contempt. with a machinist to design a new 9: Reporting to Malta at Control.
9: Taking complaints in an open prosethetic. 10: Hiding in the Facilities room,
forum in the Common Area. 10: Watching Leer sculpt. Trying to where Kalm patiently teaches
10: Wistfully admiring the goats. convince her to give up her hands. Verger how to repair and
surreptiously upgrade Kalm’s OS.
Possessions: Wheelchair, Hereditary Possessions: Doctors Bag (Roll
Diary of Office (Gaunt Communications of Scalpels, Bone-saw, Diagram,
Possessions: Verger’s unnerving sketch
& Personal Grudges), Bag of Dusty Amputations Ranked by Taste and Ease,
of a three-eyed, four-horned goat,
Hard Candy, Pearl Handled .380, Pet Disinfectant, Suture Kit, Chlorpromazine
Goat Treats, Kalm’s copy of Satow’s
Cat (Lindy‑Hop), Corrupted Pocket-AI Syringes, Handcuffs), Personal
Diplomatic Practice heavily annotated,
(Faustus) that she talks to when alone. Electro‑Retinogram, Locket (contains
Necklace of Corrupted Logic Cores.
self portrait, pre-amputations).

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 DEAN BREKT LEER
+TROUBLED YOUTH+ +HEAD SCAVENGER+ +BROKEN SCULPTOR+

Dean, a born fantasist, spent most Under different circumstances, Sculpting is the only thing keeping
of his unremarkable life in petty Brekt would have made a perfect Leer sane. A formerly beautiful
rebellion—playing electric guitar, marine. He’s steadfast, fiercely woman, she is currently emaciated
begging Breakers for a leather loyal, practical, and has an and wan with corybantic eyes. On
jacket, resisting amputation and unbreakable will. Despite this, he is good days she can manage limited
generally standing out. He was soft-spoken and often diplomatic. conversation. Mostly, she alternates
transformed when he heard the He worries about the psychological between manic fits of compulsive
transmissions from the surface— wellness of his former lover, Leer, sculpting till her hands are a raw,
they galvanized him into a utopian and thinks Malta’s leadership is bloody mess, eventually collapsing
aspirant to migrate the colony to needlessly draconian. His flaw: from neglect and catatonic apathy
the surface, his sole purpose. He’s serious addiction to combined as she compulsively weeps.
youthful, optimistic, trusting and painkillers and stimulants.
almost certainly doomed. WHAT DOES SHE WANT?
WHAT DOES HE WANT?
» Material to sculpt with
WHAT DOES HE WANT?
» To flee the Moon with his crew,
» To sculpt
» To be taken seriously no matter the cost
» For the sculptures to free her of
» To assume leadership of the » To get high and be alone
her nightmares
Colony
WHAT IS HE UP TO RIGHT NOW? » For Brekt not to worry about her
» To settle the planet below
1-5: Hauling loot into the machine WHAT IS SHE UP TO RIGHT NOW?
WHAT IS HE UP TO RIGHT NOW? shop for sorting and scrapping with
the Breakers. 1-5: Compulsively sculpting.
1-5: Haranguing the Common Area
6-8: Going over inventory with Malta 6-8: Passed out from exhaustion.
about stagnant nature of Moon life.
in the Vault. His men have found Screaming in terror. She’ll attack if
6-8: Sullenly picking at his guitar in
new contraband, which she knows. woken up (1d10 DMG).
an empty bunk.
9: Checking in on an injured 9: Being force fed and lectured by
9: Smoking in quarantine, alone.
crewmember, promising to protect John in the Med Chapel.
10: Engaged in petty pro-exodus
their stash. 10: Scouring the vault for sculpture
vandalism (“THE MOON IS DEAD,
10: Tearfully beggining Leer to give material. She is not allowed in here
LONG LIVE THE PLANET”).
up her obsessive sculpting. but always sneaks in.
Possessions: Oversized Leather Jacket,
Posessions: Smock, mallet, chisels,
Aviator Cap with Goggles, Switchblade, Posessions: Map of Proposed Exodus
angle grinder, rasp, hand drill, steel
Giita—a Les Paul Standard (Cherry Route, M1911, the Hagakure, Utility Knife,
detailing & modeling tools, bandages
Sunburst), Pack of Chal Cigarettes, Serenity Prayer Medallion, Meditations
for her hands, love note from Brekt,
40 oz. of Heisler Beer. (Marcus Aurelius), Nude Charcoal Sketch
nightmare sketchbook.
of Leer, Speedball (Pain Meds + Cocaine)
and Syringe.

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D100 COLONISTS & SURVIVORS

d100 QUIRKS
00-15 BENIGN TIC: Taps pen on teeth, drums fingers when waiting, flicks Zippo open and closed, minor situational catchphrase, etc.
16-30 SLIGHTLY GROSS TIC: Adjusts themself constantly, loudly shares the status of their digestion as part of regular conversation, picks nose or
scabs, talks about their fetishes in great detail unprompted, etc.
30-34 HOBBY: Sports, playing chess or a similar game or collecting something like coins or stamps; uses specialized language in casual conversation,
talks about their hobby a lot, has a logo related to it on their gear.
35-39 ADDICT: Still functional but has an affect related to their vice, perks up at the mention of their substance of choice, must seek out a hit when they
fail a Panic Check and flee proceedings to do so.
40-44 PICK UP ARTIST: Believes sexuality is modelable with game theory (uses a lot of innuendo & jargon, touches others unprompted).
45-49 NARCISSIST: Belittles others and believes they are responsible for all successes, was undermined by others in all failures.
50-54 OVER EDUCATED: Working ‘beneath’ their level of education and very smart. They slow everything down reminding others of this.
55-59 CONSPIRACY THEORIST: Believes a cabal is responsible for everything, tries to recruit. May have fringe beliefs about health and wellness.
60-64 RECOVERING ADDICT: Judgmental, tense, particular language use, wants others to also give up their vices.
65-69 RELIGIOUS: Zeal, singing, witnessing, testifying, pamphlets.
70-74 PYROMANIAC: Loves fire & starting fires; must do so on failed Panic Check.
75-79 NIHILIST: Everything is hopeless and they know it. Hopeless situations do not trigger a Panic Check. Disadvantage when rolling a Panic Check.
80-84 BEAST: Self-described Apex Predator, insatiable bloodlust, excellent at roughing it, mocks others for crying.

85-89 SURVIVOR’S GUILT: Final survivor from their planet, family, village, military company, first ship. Feels horrible about it, constantly seeks to
maintain their comrades’ memory, also kind of wants to die.

90-94 SAVANT: One skill they are perfect at, they cannot explain why their answer is right but their answer is always right. They otherwise have
Disadvantage at all skills unless there is cross pollination with their savantism.
95-99 ROLL TWICE & COMBINE

1. MALACHI REX 26. BATBAYAR REBANE 51. JOHNNY AJAR 76. BORJE NYMAN
2. LUKE HONEY 27. ANTONIA HUSEYNOVA 52. ROY LOPEZ 77. PELLE LINDBERG
3. CORTEZ CASTRO 28. JULIANA MAMMADOVA 53. AUDRINA PATRIDGE 78. MAI ZETTERLING
4. RAY HAMMETT 29. MARCIA ALIYEV 54. RACHEL BILSON 79. STOFFE LILJEDAHL
5. DASHIELL CHANDLER 30. EVANDER TYSON 55. STELLA BROUSSARD 80. SYLVIE DENIS
6. NADIA FEDEROV 31. ESTELLE KING 56. PETER BUDAJ 81. ALEXIS DIAMENT
7. DONATELLA LANGERFELD 32. DUTCH SCHULTZ 57. LOUIS WEINBERG 82. MED TEYNAC
8. KARL NADEAU 33. SADIE ROTH 58. DUTCH SCHULTZ 83. JÉRÔME FANDOR
9. SONYA BERLIN 34. LUCKY LUCIANO 59. JOEY NOE 84. BERNTH TUTUOLA
10. KLAUS SINGH 35. DARREN HATCH 60. ILSE VON KLAPPER 85. ODAFIN OBIECHINA
11. NICOLE VASSILLY 36. SINEAD GOTHBESHIRE 61. MINAL ARORA 86. SELDEN WEST
12. HANNA KOLLONTAI 37. ELLIS HARLAN 62. FALAK ALI 87. NGUGI LO LIYONG
13. WANG XIU YING 38. WILLIAM STANIFORTH- 63. JASPER SHARP 88. NRIPEN CHAKRABORTY
14. LI WEI 39. ENOCH DONAHUE 64. YASUKO TAKAHASHI 89. GAUR VENUGOPAL
15. KUKI SYNOVATE 40. URIEL LEWIS 65. RUMI KIMATA 90. ARVIND JI
16. MERCY CHIVERS 41. SCOTT BERLIN 66. MINAMI AOYAMA 91. FRANCES FARMER
17. JESSE BELL 42. AMBROSE CARVER 67. LEMON HANAZAWA 92. MAGDALENA GAGARINA
18. BILAL SAID 43. RACHEL LOCARD 68. AIKO FUKUI 93. MARCUS DALY
19. HECTOR RIOS 44. ASHER MARSTON 69. MUNROE BERGDORF 94. ALAISTAIR RABBITT
20. GAMBIO BONANNO 45. HAING BOUILLEVAUX 70. ZELAG GOODMAN 95. CHUCK DELILLO
21. SELENA GARCIA 46. SOMETH UNG 71. MURAT AUBERJONOIS 96. JONESY DIOSDADO
22. AMIR RAJA 47. HAXHI BIÇAKÇIU 72. GUNNEL THULIN 97. MARSHALL LYNCH
23. YOUSEF TENGKU 48. GRISELDA BLANCO 73. SARAH GIERCKSKY 98. CARTER HARRISON
24. KHALIL WAN 49. CHINO ÁNTRAX 74. KJELL PINK 99. JACKSON DUKES
25. OTGONBAYAR SEPP 50. CLAUDIA OCHOA 75. VILGOT SJOMAN 100. KHANH LAO

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I SEARCH THE VAULT... (PAGE 18, ROOM 8)

THE VAULT has at least 1d10 of any listed good in the players survival guide. Without help from either Malta
or Brekt: roll a Speed Check (Success 1d10 min. to find, Failure 1d10 hours). If just poking around, roll
1d100, the result is the most interesting thing found in 10 minutes searching.

1. Neon Green Survival Hatchet 35. Comically Ineffectual Knife (Festooned 66. Leather Collar, “DADDY”
2. Pepper Spray With Spikes and Curved Serrated Blades) 67. Several Sheets of High Grade LSD
3. Throwing Knives 36. Carbon-Fiber Dao 68. Riot Shield (URBAN PACIFICATION UNIT)
4. Jade Handled Sword Cane 37. Bubinga Aklys 69. Book: Dominatrixes of Rog
5. Sawback Machete 38. Brick of Cocaine 70. Book: Fundamentals of Brothel
6. Gunto Katana with paired Wakizashi 39. Rhino-hide Litupa Management
7. Pipe Bomb 40. Book: Heptameron 71. Mace: the Beatific Face of Cupid
8. Barb Wire Wrapped Baseball Bat 41. Extremely Gaudy Sissification Dresses 72. Set of Plastic Concealable Knives
9. Paired Set of Hot Pink ARMA 29 SMGs 42. Whalebone Corset 73. Ebony Baphomet Statue
Bedecked with Diamonds 43. Book: The Picatrix 74. Box of Anti-Personnel Mines
10. Papal Order of Planetary 44. Book: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum 75. The Gilded Bones of a Saint in an
Excommunication 45. Book: The Investiture of the Gods Elaborate Reliquary Coffin
11. Glass Casket Containing A Bald, Stocky 46. Plastic Case of 12 Stimpacks 76. Talking Board
Man with a Tapered Beard and Trim 47. Bundle of Injectable Combat Drugs (all 77. Magic 8-Ball
Mustache in an Unremarkable Suit, a rolls related to violence are [+] for a 78. Case of Alertness Drugs
plaque reads Владимир Ленин day, cannot retreat from combat or fail a 79. Book: Dictators and Dictatorships:
12. Hollowed-Out Holy Book containing Fear Save; afterwards Body Save[-] for Understanding Authoritarian Regimes
Sacred Assassination Knives addiction and go catatonic for 6 hours) and Their Leaders
13. Taxidermied Creature—Hybrid of a 48. Pickled Mako Shark in a Formaldehyde 80. Studded Leather Jacket, Patch: I REMAIN
Snake, Rabbit and Parrot Tank, Cut Into Arbitrary Sections for UNGOVERNABLE
14. Stack of Anti-Armor Mines Display 81. Motorcycle
15. Stun Baton (Physical Attack, Unarmored 49. Dress Made of Meat, Somehow 82. Pallet of Teargas Canisters and a
Target Body Save or Collapse Perpetually Fresh Launcher
Unconscious) 50. Gigantic Marble Bust Making A 83. Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher
16. Semtex and a Detonator Cap Disapproving Face (a grown person and 7 Shaped Core Rounds (1d10 dmg
17. Set of Titanium Golf Clubs can fit inside, the mouth acts as an to buildings and ships; 1d100 DMG to
18. A Wildly Impractical and Ornate amplifier) living targets)
Claymore 51. Taxidermied Wooly Goat, its face Painted 84. Carton of Green Apple Cigarettes
19. Full Coverage Chastity Cage Strangely 85. Bottle of 18 Year Old Scotch
20. Bondage Strap Corset (Halter/Choker) 52. Elaborate Facial Harness with Ball Gag 86. Case of Vodka
21. Book: Chastity Belts: An Illustrated 53. Vinyl Military Uniform 87. Macuahuitl
History of the Bridling of Women 54. Plastic Nunchucks 88. Religious Vestments, Robe and Meiter
22. Book: Voynich Manuscript 55. Fully Articulated Pleasure Doll 89. Gold-Plated, Bullet-Studded Gas Mask
23. Painting: A Maiden Holding A Chicken in (Masculine, Rugged) 90. Flogger
a Field of Oranges 56. Anime Body Pillow 91. Riding Crop
24. Ming Vase full of Flaking Mannequin 57. Brick of Heroin 92. Zentai
Arms 58. Unstable Hallucinogenic Research 93. Babydoll Latex Mask
25. Silver Cigarette Lighter (Priapus) Chemical (Snortable) 94. Box of Expensive Cigars with Cutter
26. Box Overflowing With Shurikens 59. Snake Shaped Staff (bites when striking, 95. Tekko-kagi (Claws)
27. Collapsible Compound Bow Body Save or paralysis for 1d10 96. Bronze Tintinnabulum
28. Brick of Marijuana minutes) 97. Book: Le Veritable Dragon Rouge
29. Oil Drum of Personal Lubricant 60. Book: No Title Just Byzantine Diagrams 98. Rx Bottle of 1d100 Anti-Anxiety Pills
30. Bronze Gladius of Rope Bondage ([+] on all Panic Checks for 8 Hours,
31. Mink Coat 61. Ship-Breaching Charge (1d10 Hull DMG) Addictive)
32. Staggering Variety of Fireworks 62. Disturbing Restraint Chair with 99. Painting: A Figure In Red Eats The Face
33. Roman-Style Marble Statue of Pan Fingernails Gouged in the Armrests of a Horse, Children Smile, The Sun is
Seducing a Goat (Covered With A Drop 63. Functional (Well-Oiled) Iron Maiden Black
Cloth) 64. Sally Rod 100. Tea Service Made of Fur
34. 60 Pain Pills in an Rx Bottle 65. Pitted and Rusted Set of Dental Tools

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 NIGHTMARES, SCULPTURES & COMPULSIONS
Nightmare Checks are Sanity Saves made when PCs C O M P U LS I O N S
rest. Fail and they have a nightmare, gaining a Stress
Failing two or more Nightmare Checks while
point. Note the result from the Nightmare Table.
significantly exposed to the Gaunt (including carrying
Nightmares prevent healing and the benefits of rest.
around artifacts) causes PCs to wake up with a
Wardens are encouraged to make Nightmare Checks
compulsion to sculpt a small, terrifying object. Roll
after any traumatic event or any day in which a
on the table below to figure out what they’ll need to
crewmember made a Panic Check.
sculpt with. They have 1d10 days to sculpt the object or
RECURRING NIGHTMARES else they have to make a Panic Check when it is least
convenient. Every day they don’t finish the sculpture
If a PC ever has the same nightmare again, this
they gain 1d10 Stress.
causes 1d10 Stress and becomes their sole, recurring
nightmare; it’s that same nightmare every night, Once the object is made they have the choice on
without fail. future Nightmare Checks to take no Stress at all (and
thus have no nightmare) but build another sculpture
Additionally, failing three Nightmare Checks in a row
OR to take Stress equal to the number of sculptures
renders them incapable of resisting nightmares; the
they have created.
permanent condition: Night Terrors. They gain 1d10[+]
Stress whenever they have a nightmare. Whenever a sculpture is created, the Warden rolls
d100. If the result is equal to or less than the total
W H E N TO C H E C K F O R
number of sculptures the crew possesses—including
NIGHTMARES?
those they did not make—the sculptures form a Gaunt
» On the Moon: Once a week. Gate and Gaunt start streaming through.
» On Tyrant Beggar: Every other night. Losing any sculptures or destroying one causes 1d10
» On the Dead Planet: Every night. permanent loss of a PC’s Sanity score.

Evokes Subject 1 Subject 2

d10 MATERIAL COMPOSITION THEME DETAIL 1 OBJECT 1 DETAIL 2 OBJECT 2
01 Melted Plastic Disjointed Parasitism Riotus Flesh Angelic Faces
02 Spoiled Food Geometric Lust Gnarled Fingers Coiling Tentacles
03 Blackened Metal Sharp Confusion Seeking Tongues Cruel Talons
04 Stitched Cloth Grotesque Religion Twisted Limbs Serrated Beaks
05 Dissassembled Firearms Abstract Violence Gnashing Teeth Elegant Probosci
06 Bone / Teeth Brutal Melting Unnerving Smiles Incandescent Wings
07 Unorthodox Taxidermy Rapturous Paranoia Sliced Hands Proud Antlers
08 Gouged Wood Ornate Transformation Palpating Gristle Scintillating Scales
09 Android Parts Decadent Hopelessness Dark Pus Slashing Hooves
10 Stone Brittle Fertility Split Lips Spiny Fins

COMPULSIVE NIGHTMARISH SCULPTURE TABLE

There are three methods to generate a Nightmarish Gaunt Sculpture:
» Easy (1d10): read straight across.
Example: [2] — Spoiled rations shaped into geometric gnarled fingers sensually entwined with coiling tentacles.
» Medium (4d10): roll for Material, Evokes, Subject 1 and Subject 2.
Example: [4, 6, 7, 3] — Fabric composition of sliced hands brutally melting into barbed talons.
» Hard (6d10): roll for Material, Composition, Theme/Motif, Detail 1, Object 1, Detail 2, Object 2.
Example: [10, 2, 1, 6, 5, 10] — Erratically worked stone depicting eerie teeth growing inside a figure of elegantly
flowing fins.
The Warden is encouraged to use this table any way they see fit.

NOTE: Don’t be daunted by the slow method for generating PC sculptures. Roll the material, and while they are securing
that, work out the rest. Part of the fun is how the player interprets the prompt.
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 D100 NIGHTMARES 26. Your teeth blacken and rot. The crowd laughs uproariously. Nails drive
through your putrid gums in a birth of pus and blood. You bite their
faces away. They taste like cinnamon.
27. A bulbous, fleshy, eyeless face hunts you in the dark. Its steps are
1. Your migraine is splitting your skull. A dog rushes towards you, its deliberate. It has already found you.
eyes full of loving devotion. The dog’s head explodes into a crimson
28. A puppet gazes up at you. A mockery of human features—
mist, coating your hands like an accusation.
exaggerated, stretched. Its hands spring into action, manipulating
2. Your jaw unhinges as you vomit a torrent of earwigs. your strings. You dance a macabre waltz.
3. You are having sex with someone with the face of an ant; they regard 29. A red sun slowly rises. The light carbonizes your toes, feet, legs.
you coldly and whisper something you can’t quite hear. You watch. The smell of cooking meat overwhelms you.
4. You draw a straight razor across your mother’s eye. This is the right 30. You fight a current of blind, swollen, pale fish to reach the masticating
thing to do. She does not resist. maw. There is a smell of jasmine.
5. There is the steady tick-tock of an egg timer in your chest. You know 31. Your wrist bends back. It keeps bending. Your hand is in your arm.
something terrible will happen when it rings. There is no clear way
32. The shambling figure is dark, save a chipped porcelain mask.
to stop it.
The air is hazy with the smell of candy and rot.
6. An amber scorpion crawls on your face. Your limbs are leaden anchors
33. Every door is labeled ‘EXIT’ despite taking you back to the start of the
a million miles away.
corridor. You have been here before.
7. You swim frantically, uncertain of which direction you are heading.
34. You pin the fish down. You bash its gasping face with a hammer.
The water is like ink, your lungs are bursting.
You can’t stop. You won’t stop.
8. You look at your hands. They fall apart like puzzle pieces. You cannot
35. The music is pleasantly generic; the waiting room sterile.
stop thinking about your 7th birthday.
How long have you been here? How long will you remain?
9. A crowd of beautiful, slim, fashionable and elegant people stare at
36. The skeletal cats need fed. They yowl, they fornicate, they piss.
you derisively. You drop your drink.
The air is thick with ammonia, wet with humidity. You lose count.
They laugh with cruel, sensual smiles.
37. You sip wine as she nails your fingers to the table.
10. Your ribs swell to make space for the blind orgy of wasp larva. You
You have long, elegant hands.
think about motherhood as your flesh stretches to its breaking point.
The larva burrow out and unfold their iridescent wings. 38. You stab the featureless body with a baby doll head, over and over.
A torrent of red ants crawls from the womb.
11. You are in a pale room. You hear the laughter of children. You cannot
pinpoint the source. 39. Your fingers are jagged snarls of glass. You caress yourself. Y
ou can’t feel how sticky your fingers are.
12. You feel the trapdoor spider making its home in your throat; you
know what you have to do. Jamming the blade in is as simple as 40. The dinner party is lovely. Then you notice the centipedes crawling
carving butter. You wiggle it around with satisfaction. You missed. from your collar, hear the snide comments.
13. A weathered hag sits on your chest, her mouth a hideous O of 41. The children dash ahead of you. Their rabbit masks are askew.
accusations. It won’t stop dripping pale fluids onto your face. You need to bring them home. You stumble.
14. You hear panicked screams in the darkness: they’re growing fainter, 42. You feel them growing, behind your eyes. Your vision dims.
you are running away. You are the host and they are nothing like you.
15. Pale hands press against darkened glass. You are surrounded. Alone. 43. The pliers are getting red hot. The air is damp and unctuous.
You don’t really need all those fingernails, not when you have so
16. No matter how much you struggle or bat them away, the crows are
many toes.
relentlessly consuming your face.
44. The ground is dry and desolate. Your drool pools by your face.
17. You smell moss and dirt. Inane stammering and chanting fills your
You sink into the lukewarm puddle.
ears. They are coming for you.
45. It is cold. Your fingers blacken. You could snap them off if your hand
18. Figures flit about in the hanging fabric. You can’t quite make them
would move. The cold scours everything away.
out, they seem familiar.
You aren’t certain if you are the hunter or the quarry. 46. You float in the void of deep space. A planet-sized foetus regards you
with lugubrious, watery eyes.
19. Your fingernails tear from their moorings as you futilely scrabble
against the rough wall. The hole atop the shaft—your only escape— 47. Poison gas fills the warrens. Blood seeps from their eyes as their
is as distant as the sky. despondent screams echo in your ears.
Mocking laughter shakes your ribs like a bass note.
20. Your eyes melt—crawling down your face like limpid tears. Your skin
starts sloughing off. Your muscles fall off with a meaty slap. 48. He splatters his cravat with viscera when he cuts your hand off. You
Maybe this face is not yours. roll on the floor. You cauterize the stump with a hot plate. You line up
your shot at the retreating figure. He spins around and shoots first.
21. You feel the slender fingers encircle your throat; there are too many
of them, they are far too long and thin. 49. Your incisors won’t stop growing. They pry your jaw apart, your
Everything smells like camphor. mouth wider and wider, lips bleeding from the strain, teeth grinding
into gums. The snap will be a relief.
22. A carousel spins madly—the music hellish, discordant. The horses’
eyes are meeting yours. 50. You feel it churning inside you. Wrapping itself in your entrails.
Kicking against your stomach wall. Waiting to break free, you can feel
23. You can smell the rot in your bones. You struggle to dig them out.
the grin fill the hollow of your belly.
24. Your face warps and shifts—stretching and pulling against its own
51. Filthy, louse-ridden children pelt you with stones.
definition. It becomes bovine. Your friends are leading you to a grey
They know what you did.
cement building. Everything smells like copper.
52. You bash the figure across the face with a rock. Your hands seek
25. Your fingers unwind like meaty corkscrews; they start anchoring you
purchase on their face and you confidently press your thumbs into the
in place. The wind is cold.
eye sockets. Your own tortured face grins back.
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53. The sinuous reptiles circle you warily, languid motions at incredible 75. You’re at the end of the dock. Everything stinks of salt and rotting
speed. Their tongues taste the air, taste your body, your sweat tying fish. Your feet squelch pointlessly in the concrete. They smoke
them to you. Any second they will close in, their snapping jaws cigarettes and leer at you. They’re coming over to push you.
slathered with miasma. 76. You follow the woman in the red damask dress through the hedge
54. You crush the nimbus blue egg in your hand. Amidst the splintered maze. She’s just out of reach. Her scent, peach blossoms, wafts behind
shell fragments is the partially formed baby bird. It stares back at you her. You corner her. She turns around. There is no face, just a sunken
with eyes like black marbles. Then you notice the teeth. pit with fleshy teeth.
55. Children with sunken eyes and rotted teeth chant “SACRIFICE, 77. Scabrous rats—wounds dripping with pus—crawl all over you.
SACRIFICE.” They push you, you fall. Their faces fade in the distance. Smother you with their wet, stinking bodies, force their way into your
You keep falling. mouth and explore you. Where are your arms?
56. You trudge through a landscape blanketed in bones. They snap and 78. You drive the nails into your leg. 1-2-3-4….99-100. Aghast, you
crunch underfoot. Drifts of them knee deep and pulling you gradually realize your pattern isn’t symmetrical. You pry them out and start
under. They rattle as you descend. again—perfect this time.
57. You walk towards the horizon. You pass a burning car and the air is 79. You see sharks circling in the wine dark sea. You are bleeding.
thick with malodorous smog. Your skeleton stops walking and is left It won’t stop.
behind. Your shadow tells you your real bones have been replaced. 80. The ship controls won’t respond, all the systems are down. You are
58. You are in a pool. The water is warm. Tropical fish peck away at you, slowly drifting towards a sun. You perspire, your hands slipping as
each bite a papercut. You feel your legs gradually vanishing one small you struggle to stop the ponderous drift.
bite at a time. You can’t see an exit. 81. You are beneath an immense pendulum. With each swing you feel
59. You are lying on the beach, tangled in nets. The tide keeps rising up years drain away. Your teeth disintegrate, your nails grow and twist,
towards your face, gradually but inexorably. Gulls squabble and circle your vision dims, your hair becomes dust.
in the baking sun. 82. Your arms are dragged in opposite directions as they are fed into
60. Your face is smothered in kisses, teeth scraping your brow. A sudden gears. You feel the crushing weight and the tears forming in your
rough bite and pull on the cheek till it tears leaving a hole. muscles. Everything reeks of grease and rust.
A tongue probes the fringes of the new orifice. 83. The airlock is slowly opening. Behind the glass they point and laugh.
61. You walk on broken glass, barefoot, the wet cracking of the shards Your face is wet with tears. They enjoy slices of cake.
your only companion save a floating red lantern illuminating the 84. You are engulfed in flame. No one seems to notice. Even when you
seemingly endless expanse of glass. touch them, spreading the flame. Vacant eyes.
62. The person talking to you is so unpleasant the world seems to curdle 85. You’re bleeding from your mouth. Ropes of it suspended from your
from the rancidness of their presence. Their hand is on your knee. lips. The viscera starts moving of its own accord.
63. A robot regards you. It mirrors your motions. 86. You crouch behind a crate, pinned down by automatic arms fire.
It mimics your emotions. It takes your name. You can’t clear the jam.
64. You feel sick, feverish, desperate. The bullet lodged in your gut is 87. There’s a pulse grenade in your hands. You can’t remember how to
necrotizing too fast, spiderwebs of dying, blackened, leaking flesh. throw, your fingers are useless. Everyone is disappointed.
65. You are digging up a skeleton. The bones are impossibly fine, elegant 88. The mouth in your torso is hungry. It wants your friends.
even. The face long and gaunt, mournful. The wings so wide they There are rewards for compliance.
consume the sky. 89. The conversation is charming, civil, courteous. The problem is they’re
66. The hammer feels momentous, pitted surface spattered with rust. You holding your hand in acid.
see the children with lambs’ faces. You silence their frenzied bleating. 90. A drill descends towards your eye. The whirr fills the air, gives it
67. You bleed the pigs. All of them. In their fine jewelry and spotless texture. They ask how you are feeling.
dinner jackets. 91. No matter how many volts you deliver to the subject, he won’t divulge
68. The bolt cutters pass through your joints roughly. The end announced the information. He can’t last much longer, you hope.
by a smooth click. Your finger is discarded into the bucket. They are getting impatient.
The bucket chews noisily. 92. Your lips are being sewed shut. The needle dances in and out.
69. You claw at the glass. Your husk withering. They dispassionately take There is something in your throat: you deserve this.
notes on clipboards. You dessicate and blow away in a fine spray of 93. You tear wrapping paper desperately from the gifts, shredded colorful
dust. They nod, approving. paper piles up to your knees. The antidote is in one of these.
70. The Leviathan blots out the sun. The air ruptures as it breathes in. It has to be.
Its multifaceted eyes gaze upon you uncomprehendingly. 94. They deliver shocks to you. They ask you to prove you aren’t a
71. Unnaturally white teeth grin at you, gleaming. The smile is forced. machine. They don’t believe you.
The laughter like a blade dragged across glass. 95. The snake is swallowing you. Everything smells of offal and carrion.
72. The sky is an ink black horizon of tentacles and blazing vermillion It moves up your legs, relentless, devourer.
eyes. It falls upon you like an avalanche. Tentacles force their way 96. Your fingers split and mutate into baby hands. The new hands repeat
into your eyes, your mouth, down your throat. the process. The hands are getting heavy.
Your need is not slaked.
97. Your arms become snakes. The snakes start biting you.
73. Your hands are bound behind your back. The burlap over your You reach out towards your friends, share.
head is tight, sucking in with your breath—the smell of kerosene
overpowering. You feel wet, tired. You hear the scratch of a match 98. The walls creep in only when you close your eyes. Remain vigilant.
being struck. 99. You keep trying to scoop your guts back in, glistening ropes of your
74. You clip your nails. You keep clipping them. It won’t stop. intestines wriggling and slipping in your hands.
You see bone. You’ve shoveled so much in. There should be an end to this.
100. It is hot. It is dark. It is cramped. It is dusty. You are trapped.
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 LANDING AREA on the DEAD PLANET [SEE PAGE 32]
The ancient, rocky plateau is scarred with scorch marks and impact sites, including the
remains of several campsites. This elevated location seems defensible, with excellent
vantage points and crumbling ruins for cover. No Piloting roll is needed to land here,
though landing anywhere else on the island is at Disadvantage.

DEAD GATEWAY [SEE PAGE 36]

The terrain is rough and steadily rises as far as can be seen. The sky to the west is filled with
ominous black clouds with the appearance of a writhing nest of tentacles. Occasional violent
purple slashings of lightning illuminate the disturbing mass of black. The sickly black mass
distends to caress the highest point on this island. Visibility is reduced to 30m in the thick
sludge of black air.
ENCOUNTERS IN THE WEST (ROLL ONCE PER SQUARE)
01 Purple lightning rips into a PC. Speed Check or 4d10 DMG and Fear Save.
02 1d10 Crawlers sighted 20m away. 1-7 normal, 8 toxic, 9 paralysing, 10 acid.
03 Glow Skull floats, facing the party. Intellect Check or it sounds the alarm,
attracting 1d10-3 Gaunts.
04 Glow Skull shards and skull lay broken on the stony ground.
05 Glow Skull floats within 30m, facing away from PCs.
06 Dead Gaunt lies twitching on the ground.
07 Valley or cliff blocks the way. Strength Check to
climb or take detour (+1d10/2 hours).
08 Yellow hail rains from black clouds. Intellect
Check to find shelter or take 1d10 DMG.
09 1d10-4 Crawlers sighted
km
20m away. 10
10 Weapons & Supply cache (pg. 13).

THE RED TOWER

[SEE PAGE 39]

Metallic objects glint when kissed by the sun.

The land is burnt and littered from impacts with
random pieces of myriad spacecraft.
ENCOUNTERS IN THE SOUTH (ROLL ONCE PER SQUARE)
01 Eviscerated human soldier lies on the ground.
02 D10+2 Slimemoths ambush the PCs.
03 Chumks of spacecraft are strewn around.
04 Chunks of metal junk with booby trapped locker. Speed Check or be struck with the rusty metal,
causing 1d10 DMG.
05 Wet flapping leather is heard in the distance. Party freezes/stops or 1d10 Slimemoths attack.
06 1d10 Slimemoths devouring a human soldier.
07 Eight dead Gaunt with bullet and close combat wounds. One jumps up and attacks.
10
08 1d10/2 Slimemoths fly to attack PCs. km
09-10 Weapons & Supply cache (pg. 13).

WRECK OF THE DEFIANCE

[SEE PAGE 38]
In the south smoke billows into the sky from the wreckage of a down ship.

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 [SEE PAGE 32] ENCOUNTERS IN THE NORTH (ROLL PER SQUARE)
SWAMP 01 Copse of d10 Grabber Trees.
The land gently
slopes downward to the north, and 02 Wide shallow lake ahead. d10/2 Trileaches rest on the shore.
sparse tree coverage can be seen 03 Quickmud. Strength or Intellect Check to escape.
sprouting from the stony ground. Critical Fail will take d10 DMG per round until pulled out.
In the distance, great gougings can 04 Mist blows in from the coast. Visibility reduced to 20m.
be seen in the earth Lasts for d10/3 hours.
as stone blocks were 05 Copse of 1d10 Grabber Trees (Infected).
moved from here to 06 3 Trileach burst from the nearby pond and attack.
the east to build the
07 Copse of 3d10 Grabber Trees.
dead city. The land is
moist and filled with 08 Dying Trileach splashes mud in death throes.
sucking mud and 09 Pouring rain forces the PCs to find some shelter.
brackish water. Lasts for d10/3 hours.
10 Weapons & Supply cache (pg. 13).

ANCIENT STONE QUARRY

[SEE PAGE 33]

As stones were cut and removed, a

giant staircase was created, descending
hundreds of meters to the beach.
From this vantage point, large carcasses
and the ancient skeletons of immense
aquatic beasts litter the beach as
testaments to the long centuries of
death holding sway over this planet.
The remains of stone and bone huts
litter the steps and beach.

I SEARCH THE BONE HUT

01-04 Nothing
05-06 1d10 Slimemoths
07 Antigravity Device
08 Laser Cutter
09 Weapons & Supply cache (pg. 13)
10 1d10 Precious Unfinished Gems

ENCOUNTERS IN THE EAST (ROLL ONCE PER SQUARE)

01 Bones shift rapidly. Body Save or take 10% DMG to Speed.
02 Baying in the distance. Fear Save or gain 1 Stress.
03 D10 stiff tails of Gaunt Hounds are sighted in the distance.
If PCs can stop and remain quiet there is no attack.
04 A tall archway of very large ribs and skulls covers a path of bones.
05 Five Gaunt Hounds sprint out of the grass and attack.
THE NECROPOLIS
06 Two dead Gaunt Haunds straddle the path.
[SEE PAGE 34] 07 Lifelike sculpture of flaming creature holding two smaller replicas.
The species could not sruvive here and calcified in the salt air.
To the east, an avenue of bones
08 D10 Gaunt Hounds sit on the path 80m ahead. They will attack.
leads to monumental, grim towers
that scrape the sky. 09 Lifelike statues of bizarre creatures covered in flame or fur kneel off to the side.
The smooth terrain is blanked in 10 Weapons & Supply cache (pg. 13).
meter-tall purple grasses, hissing
in the salty ocean breeze.
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 LANDING AREA THE SWAMP
The ancient, rocky plateau is scarred with scorch To the north, sparse tree coverage sprouts from
marks and impact sites, including the remains of stony ground as the land gently slopes downward.
several campsites. This elevated location seems Eventually, this gives way to great gouges
defensible with excellent vantage points and pockmarking the surface from which geometric
crumbling ruins for cover. Unless otherwise stated, shapes were cut. The land is moist, filled with
moving one square on the map (10x10km) results sucking mud and brackish water. Fresh water can
in an encounter check for the color coded region. be located with an Intellect Check.
When resting at the landing site, individual PCs
have the following dreams (roll on the Nightmare D10 SWAMP ENCOUNTERS
Table for any extra PCs):
01 COPSE OF D10 GRABBER TREES.

You are the DKRENOM and your people WIDE SHALLOW LAKE AHEAD. D10/2
are building their burial towers. With 02
TRILEACH REST ON THE SHORE.
massive chests and powerful tentacled
arms and legs you cut and move heavy QUICKMUD. STRENGTH OR INTELLECT
slabs of rock from the north of the CHECK TO ESCAPE. CRITICAL FAILURES
03
island. Now is the time for dying. WILL TAKE D10 DMG A ROUND UNTIL
This is how we die. PULLED OUT.

MIST BLOWS IN FROM THE COAST.

The ULURIANA are standing at the coast 04 VISIBILITY REDUCED TO 20M.
and watching giant, aquatic beasts hurl LASTS FOR D10/3 HOURS.
themselves onto the beaches to flop and
suffocate. They are doing their part and COPSE OF D10 INFECTED GRABBER
05
contributing to the plan. “All will TREES.
die here for all of time,” one of your
Lifemates clicks at you. Your gaze 3 TRILEACH BURST FROM THE NEARBY
06
travels up its long, thin legs, skinny POND AND ATTACK.
torso, and delicate pincer arms, and
your wings buzz in anticipation. 07 COPSE OF D30 GRABBER TREES.
You nod and move towards your death
DYING TRILEACH SPLASHES MUD IN
chamber even as you wish it was time 08
DEATH THROES.
for the Mating Flight instead of the
Death Song.
POURING RAIN FORCES THE PCS TO
09 FIND SOME SHELTER.
LASTS FOR D10/3 HOURS.
You marvel at your eight slender fingers
upon a graceful and long arm. It’s hard
10 WEAPONS & SUPPLY CACHE (PG. 13).
for your brain to process your vision
as you seem to have an extra set of
eyes. You look around and see your
people, the TRILILE ELYAAN XHANXHENDRI,
chopping apart your spacecraft to
remove the engines and drag them toward
a dead city of tall towers.
Then you know you will all die.

The SKISZKRYNZ toil. They build a

door which will not be functional for
another two ages. They drop to the
ground and are covered by strange,
dark, crawling things.

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 THE ANCIENT QUARRY
The intensive quarrying formed a giant staircase
that descends hundreds of meters to the
beach. Littering the shore are the mouldering
carcasses and ancient skeletons of extraordinary
leviathans—a testament to the ceaseless
crusade against life. The wind whips through
long abandoned, crumbling stone and bone huts
along the stairs and beach. There are 5d10 huts
structurally intact.

D10 I SEARCH THE HUT

01-03 NOTHING.

HUT COLLAPSES.
04
BODY SAVE OR 1D10 DMG.

05-06 1D10 SLIMEMOTHS.

07 ANTIGRAVITY DEVICE.

08 LASER CUTTER.

09 WEAPONS & SUPPLY CACHE (PG. 13).

10 1D10 PRECIOUS UNFINISHED GEMS.

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 THE NECROPOLIS

To the east, an avenue of bones leads to

monumental, grim towers that scrape the sky. The HUM emanates from a faceless, square, metallic
The smooth terrain is blanketed in meter-tall building in the center of the Necropolis. The door is
purple grasses, hissing in the salty ocean breeze. unlocked but stuck shut and requires a Strength Check
A Biology or Xenology Check identifies the bones to open. The first room is covered in 2d10 Crawlers. In
as having both piscine and avian traits. the next room is a set of stairs descending roughly 90m
into darkness. The deeper PCs go, the more penetrating
Tall and ancient, these buildings loom over debris and intense the humming becomes and the stronger
clogged streets, casting preposterous shadows. the light filtering from the base becomes. The stairs
There is no unified style; the structures exhibit a spill out onto a landing overlooking a colossal chamber
bewildering juxtaposition—a capacious ziggurat filled with jump engines and impulse engines ganged
is dwarfed by a latticework tower abutting a together. This and the countless dead are the generator
hoary cenotaph nearly melded into a ghastly, for the Dead Gateway of the Gaunt. Disabling nine or
neighboring cupola. Their sole similarity is the more engines or drives renders the gateway inoperable
ubiquitous presence of the dead; lying on stone and allows ships to flee the Dead Planet via their jump
slabs, perched in chairs, ensconced in alcoves or drives again. Each engine or drive can be rendered
coiled in the street. The vacant streets resound inoperable with 5 successful attacks or Mechanical
with the occasional baying of the Hounds and an Checks. Doing this is quite noisy—each round there
omnipresent mechanical hum. is a 35% chance d10 Gaunt or d10 Gaunt Hounds are
drawn to the noise.

TOWERING OBELISKS (30M+)

house the remains of the insectoid
Uluriana. The interiors contain geometric,
symmetrical piles of black metallic STACKED DOMES—interiors littered
jewelry with luminescent opals. In the with hollow metallic spheres imprinted
dessicated remains’ hands are intricately with goetic glyphs—house the remains of
wrought metal staves (Energy Beam tall humanoids with many slender, tapered
2d10 DMG or Strike 2d10 DMG, 10% fingers and a cluster of four eyes. Their
chance of breaking each use). preserved bodies are dressed only in ornate
bracers with a blaster and extendible
blade—1d10 DMG 10% chance of breaking
each use.
Clusters of FOUR STORY
OCTAGONAL BUILDINGS house
different evolutionary lineages of the
prime native species. Their spartan
tombs have altars bedecked in rough
uncut gems, strange shells, simple
spears and axes of a very hard metal
(1d10 DMG).

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 SEARCHING THE NECROPOLIS: ROLL LOOT, BUILDINGS, AND ENCOUNTER (1D10)
D100 LOOT D100 BUILDINGS
00-20 NOTHING, DUST AND SORROW 00-30 FOUR-STORY OCTAGONAL COMPLEX
21-30 1D10 UNCUT GEMS 31-40 ROMANESQUE OBELISK
31-40 1D100 CERULEAN AND VIOLET SHELLS 41-45 BRUTAL MONOLITH
41-45 SIMPLE SPEAR (HARD METAL) 46-55 TIERED CIRCULAR TOWERS
46-50 AXE (HARD METAL) 56-70 INCANDESCENT LAYERED DOME
TINY METALLIC FLOATING SPHERES WHICH DANCE OVERGROWN PARK FEATURING
51-58 71-72
AROUND EACH OTHER GRIM TILE MOSAICS
INTRICATELY WROUGHT METAL STAFF (BEAM 2D10 BAROQUE MAUSOLEA COVERED IN
59-65 73-75
DMG, STRIKES 1D10 DMG, 10% BREAK CHANCE) BAS-RELIEFS
66-68 SMALL PALLADIUM FIGURINES 76-78 CRUMBLED ARCH
BINDLE: REVOLVER, 1D5 K RATIONS, FLARE GUN, ORNATE TOWER WITH GROTESQUE
69-72 79-82
TRENCHING SHOVEL STATUES
73-75 GILDED SKULLS SET WITH CANDLES 83-87 ERODED STATUE
76-80 PAINTED FUNERARY MASKS OF STONE 88-89 MORTUARY SHRINE
81-85 PATTERNED STEEL ALLOY SWORDS 90-91 BLOOD-SATURATED ABATTOIR
86 A SILVER AMPHORA 92-95 OMINOUS CREMATORIUM
87-89 THIN IRIDIUM LINKS 96-99 MORBID BASILICA
90 BLACK METALLIC JEWELRY WITH LUMINESCENT OPALS
91-93 WAX GAUNT SCULPTURE D10 ENCOUNTERS (HOURLY)
94 METALLIC GAUNT SCULPTURE 01-03 NOTHING.
95 PLATINUM TEAR DROPS
96 FIRED CLAY HORROR 04-05 VOCIFEROUS BAYING OF
97 BRASS TABLET WITH OMINOUS PICTOGRAMS 1D10 GAUNT HOUNDS
98-99 SURVEYOR’S NOTES NEARBY (25% CHANCE THEY
TRACK DOWN PCS UNLESS
PRECAUTIONS ARE TAKEN).
MULTIPLE CIRCULAR TOWERS, each
60m tall, house the solid, tentacled Dkrenom 06-07 SIX GAUNT HOUNDS VAULT
mummified in alcoves adorned with sashes FROM THE ROOFTOPS GENTLY
and belts hung with bells and clappers carved GLIDING DOWN BEFORE
of semi-precious stones. Curled among the FALLING AMONG THE CREW,
decorations are cruel looking energy whips— SNAPPING AND BRAYING IN
uses Intellect instead of Combat and reaches A FRENZY (90% CHANCE OF
up to 5m, 2d10 DMG, 10% chance of breaking SURPRISE).
each use. 08 1D5 GAUNT WALKERS BLOOD-
CURDLING SCREECH AND
RECKLESS CHARGE.
09 D10 GAUNTS AND D6 GAUNT
HOUNDS AMBUSH THE PCS FROM
ALL DIRECTIONS.
10 THE EXQUISITE AND DREADFUL
FIGURE OF AN ALPHA GAUNT
AMBLES INTO VIEW.

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 THE DEAD GATEWAY

The terrain is rough and steadily rises as far as THE GATEWAY

can be seen. The sky to the west is filled with
Protruding from the murkiness is an appaling ringed
ominous black clouds with the appearance of
monstrosity of twisted metal—multitudinous bodies
a writhing nest of tentacles. Occasional violent
entwined and melded, blurring any distinction
purple slashings of lightning illuminate the
between human and other in a morass of tentacles,
disturbing mass of black. The sickly black mass
wings, trunks, limbs, and distended faces. The sickly
distends to caress the highest point on this island.
flashes of lighting illuminate, and the abomination
Visibility is reduced to 30m in the thick sludge of
seems to writhe sinuously (Sanity Save or 1d10
black air.
Stress). A profusion of taut cables sprouts from the
earth, feeding the gateway. The portal vomits forth
D10 DEAD GATE ENCOUNTERS
five Death Worms and six Gaunts from the undulating
surface of the dead portal upon approaching.
PURPLE LIGHTNING RIPS INTO A RANDOM
01 PC. BODY SAVE OR 4D10 DMG AND FEAR
SAVE.
POWERS OF THE GATE
1D10 CRAWLERS SIGHTED 20M AWAY.
02 (1-7 NORMAL, 8 TOXIC, 9 PARALYSING, Attempting to enter the Gate is a mortifying
10 ACID). experience, akin to being flensed and torn
apart simultaneously, which triggers a Body
GLOWSKULL FLOATS, FACING THE PARTY. Save or 3d10 DMG and a Sanity Save or
03 SANITY SAVE OR IT SOUNDS THE ALARM, 2d10 Stress.
ATTRACTING 1D10-3 GAUNT HOUNDS. § The Gate cannot be disabled here—not
that this is evident (see pg. 34).
§ Attacking the Gate only makes it less
GLOW SKULL SHARD LAY BROKEN ON THE
04 stable, though destroying or depowering
STONY GROUND.
it does allow ships to use their Jump
GLOW SKULL FLOATS WITHIN 30M, Drives again.
05
FACING AWAY FROM PCS. § It can only be meaningfully damaged with
explosives or a laser cutter:
DEAD GAUNT HOUND LIES TWITCHING ON » UP TO THREE HITS: Gate
06
THE GROUND. remains stable.
» FOUR HITS: The “surface” of the
VALLEY OR CLIFF BLOCKS THE WAY. Gate undulates wildly as an Alpha
07 STRENGTH CHECK TO CLIMB OR TAKE Gaunt strides out, digits grasping in
DETOUR (+1D5 HOURS). anticipation, to defend the Gate.
YELLOW HAIL RAINS FROM BLACK » FIVE HITS: The Gate is
08 CLOUDS. INTELLET CHECK TO FIND dangerously unstable, wracked
SHELTER OR TAKE 1D10 DMG. with tremors and extruding an
amalgamated, harrowing confused
09 1D10-4 CRAWLERS SIGHTED 20M AWAY. jumble of Gaunts and Crawlers—a
single quivering mass of flesh that
10 WEAPONS & SUPPLY CACHE (PG. 13). when witnessed triggers a Sanity
Save or take 2d10 Stress.
» SIX HITS: The ground and reality
itself fracture around the Gate,
tentacles of nothingness grasp and
caress everything within 10m (1d100
DMG, no Save).
» SEVEN HITS: Reality recoils,
screeches and breaks. The ring of the
gateway melts away like quicksilver—
but the portal does not disappear;
rather, it starts multiplying in size,
like a cancerous tear in reality. It is
permanent and rapidly proliferating—
36 good luck fixing that.
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 THE CRASH OF THE DEFIANCE

One week ago, the military dropship The Defiance was dragged through hyperspace by the Dead Planet
and crash landed here. From the smoldering wreckage can be seen the Red Tower in the distance. On the
whole, the ship is salveagable with major repairs (Jump Drive-1, Computer, Weapons-2, Thrusters-4). It
can hover planetside and drop the back hatch, allowing for rapid deployment). Most of the crew are dead,
though there are still some salvageable pieces of loot within the wreck itself. Players needing replacement
PCs can easily find a few confused marines here. Every turn spent searching has a cumulative 10%
chance of a random encounter (10% the first turn, then 20% the second turn, etc.).

IN PRIVATE STORAGE (LOCKED)

» 10 Gold Bars (15k credits).
» 20x 3m Burls (10k credits).
» 2,000 Board Feet of Pink Ivory (16k credits) [1 pallet].
» 55 Gallons of Maple Syrup (2.2k credits) [single drum].
» 910 Units of Compressed Algae Rations (1.8k credits).
» 2 Weeks of K Rations (3.6k credits). REAR HATCH (OPEN)
Ramp leads into Main Storage Bay.

MAIN STORAGE BAY

CARGO EJECTOR
The Main Storage bay contains 80 working
The main ship can eject the storage bay here. The door is Cryopods and is filled with mostly empty
passcode locked (TALLY HO). Gun Racks. The whole place, however, is
laced with tripwires rigged to bundles of
The keypad is obviously trapped. Incorrectly entering a
grenades. Tripping one sets off a chain
passcode sets off an alarm (roll for encounters every round)
reaction, destroying the entire ship and
and arms a 5 minute timer on the PRIVATE STORAGE.
everyone Nearby.
If it isn’t disarmed it destroys all the cargo.
Replacement PCs (confused marines) can
be placed here.
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 THE RED TOWER
<SEE PAGES 40-43 FOR KEY> The source of the Military Distress Beacon. The Red Tower, the twisted
and eroded remains of a carmine ergonomic building, appears like a shattered molar on the horizon.
A kilometer in all directions around it is completely vacant. Originally, the building was a breakaway from
the colony ship settlement—a hybrid bunker, armory and research station, built to serve as a protected
space against the compulsive Gate building madness. Clearly, this did not work.

GAUNT SOLDIERS
The corpses of the overly optimistic crew of the Defiance military dropship are scattered throughout the
complex. Their initial scan turned up the valuable warhead in the depths of the Red Tower. Unfortunately,
their discipline, weapons, and experience from previous campaigns were not enough, and they are
entombed here as mindless puppets of the Gaunt. The soldiers of the Defiance’s last and poorly paying
job were to crush a loggers’ strike on a timber planet, silencing their mewling pleas for basic quality of life
protections. The crew was already prone to nightmares from the atrocities they perpetuated for coin.

The soldiers were not bad people—they saw themselves as good people stuck with a bad job, and many
of them were already afflicted by nightmares before winding up here. If the crew needs restocked: have a
few survivors huddled in D5, C4, C5 or B9; they are Marines with standard statistics, armed with either a
shotgun or SMG and 2 ‘stick’ style pulse grenades or 3 canisters of tear gas. The standard battledress for
Defiance Company is a gas mask, environmental protection greatcoat, and fatigues. They and the other
bodies in the Red Tower act as Gaunt Walkers (see pg. 46).

TO QUICKLY GENERATE GAUNT WALKERS IN THE RED TOWER, ROLL 3D10 BELOW

D10 CLOTHING MUTATION DETAIL

01 Shredded Fatigues Head blossomed like fleshy orchids, petals lined with eyes and teeth. Riddled with lymph leaking tumors.

02 Greatcoat and Gas Hands devolved into a slimy morass of tentacles interspersed with bony Tiny mouths form all over their body and
Mask fans. whisper softly.
03 Nude except Gas Arched backwards, walking on all fours; ribs are straightened and have Skin is dry and flaking everywhere
Mask burst through skin as razored spines. (susceptible to flame).
04 Lab Coat with Clavicles have stretched in an upward arc laced with strands of flesh; Their knees bend backwards, allowing
Party Hat they flap like feeble wings. them to leap a surprising distance.
05 Security Guard Everything from the ribs down has fused into a slug-like tail, their Their bite is envenomed and causes
Uniform emaciated hands making scraping noises as they drag themselves along. nightmarish hallucinations (Body Save or
1d5 Stress/round until a successful Save).
06 Office Drone Outfit Eyes are on stalks, mouths a horrid lamprey-like hole. A cowl of flesh, like a robe, trails from
their body.
07 Wacky Bowtie and Flesh like a deflated balloon, they envelop their prey and regurgitate Their body sprouts fleshy, rigid tubes
Loud Suit acid on them to break through the skin. that leak purple ichor through grasping
phalanges.
08 Dripping and Torn A rack of antlers emerges from their eyes and fuses with their forehead, Their skin is a terrifying shade of
Hazmat Suit pressing up into the sky. There is no difference between their mouth and pinkish‑orange and their mouth leaks a
throat, just a pulpy mess of gnashing needle teeth. steady trail of pus.
09 Imposing Their arms have become excessively long and withered yet exhibit Crystalline formations erupt from inside
Executive Suit sinuous strength. Their face has collapsed into their torso, which is a their bodies.
colossal screaming vertical maw.
10 Cult Style Robes Beaklike mouth surrounded by tentacular whiskers, eyes like a goat, an They vomit a horrifying slurry of pus,
enormous third eye has ruptured through their forehead. viscera, stomach acid and partially
digested meals to deter pursuit.

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 A1. EXTERIOR: Broken glass, crumbled walls.
(A) FLOOR: No combat encounters. A2. LOBBY: Cracked tile floors, receptionist desk
EMPHASIS: Abandoned, nothing of value, mundane. (broken glass & broken console).
LOOT: Low value damaged furniture, office supplies. A3. WAITING ROOM: Moldering, overturned couches
and chairs, dessicated potted plants, ruined carpet.
A4. STORAGE CLOSET: ALIVE INSIDE spraypainted on
A1 B5
locked door, empty.
A5. EMPLOYEE BREAKROOM: Broken plastic
ergonomic furniture, corkboard spattered with blood,
A4 wilted inspirational calendars, RUN LIKE
HELL spraypainted on the wall.
A7 A6. MAINTENANCE CLOSET: Smells
like disinfectant, pile of cleaning supplies
A5 from fallen shelf (covers RUSTED METAL
HATCH: maintenance shaft to B5—hatch
is jammed with a Metal Fire-Axe, remove
to open).
A6
A3 A2 A7. GLASS FRONTED ELEVATORS:
Non-operational to Upper Floors .
Humming generator powers the
SUBTERRANEAN ELEVATOR: held open with
A1
B1 a spanner; vandalized: TO HELL
[stencilled] and SEND HELP [freehand].
Goes to B1.
B2
(B) FLOOR: No combat encounters. A6
KEY POINTS: Abandoned and quiet unless the ALARM goes
C3
off. Flickering, minimal light unless ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTROL is fixed at B7.
B4 B5
If B7 is opened and not secured, B3

Gaunts may reach (B) floor.

If B5 is open and not secured, B6

Gaunts may reach (A) floor.

B9
MOOD: Eerie, desolate, flickering lights, possibly
ear-splitting alarm. Mysterious barricade in B9, area B7
littered with spent shells, no bodies.
B8

B1. ELEVATOR: From A7 opens to a staircase. Past double doors: white tile floor,
flickering lights, abandoned gurney (blackened sludge) in makeshift triage.
BARRACKS
B2. DECONTAMINATION LOCK: Hissing air, sealed door to B3, if ELECTRIC PANEL (B7) is not fixed, reads
everyone entering as “contaminated,” sets off alarm, flashing red lights throughout the floor until disarmed. Door to
B3 is one-way unless someone in B1 works the panel.
B3. WAITING ROOM: Door hisses open, spent shells, flickering track lights. Security (B4) has a Squad Automatic
Weapon (SAW) pointing into B3—barrel slagged.
B4. SECURITY ROOM: Locked safe (Revolver & First Aid Kit), spent potassium flares, slagged machine gun.
B5. ARMORY: Empty gun racks, spare magazines and loose ammo on the floor. HATCH DOOR (ladder to A6—Metal
Fire Axe is wedged in the locking wheel,cannot be opened from B5 without Strength check). C1
B6. BATHROOMS: Black & white tiles, grimy floors, water is stagnant, pipes non-operational.
B7. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS: Corpse (dessicated, old) propped against the wall, single gunshot wound to
the head. Pistol on the floor. GOODBYE BLUE SKY spraypainted on the wall. Environmental control terminal can be
fixed here (Intellect check [Computers]): disables alarm, turns on regular lighting. FLOOR PANEL (can be pried up, access to spartan security shaft
to GUN RANGE at C10.)
B8. LIBRARY: Overturned shelves, formerly hidden door to ELEVATOR TO C1. Most of the reading material is sodden, blood spattered, or burned.
Several spent potassium flares. Every round spent searching yields a rumor from the table on the opposite page. T=True, F=False, HT=Half True.
B9: SOCIAL SPACE: Barricades (overturned couches, tables, and chairs) surrounded by spent potassium flares and shells. Posters on the wall
warn of the dangers of poor sanitation, recommend vigilance. A few rifles with jungle-clipped magazines are propped against the barricade along
with a dog-eared copy of “Treat Your Rifle Like A Lady.” None of the barricades have taken arms fire. SEALED DOOR to the BARRACKS. Takes
several rounds to open and Gaunt can be heard behind the door the entire time.

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 (C) FLOOR: Every round spent sitting still, 1D10 GAUNT (see “To Quickly Generate Gaunt
Walkers in the Tower”) arrive, increasing die each round (Round 1=1d10, Round 2=2d10, etc.)
Gaunts take 4 rounds to open a blast door.
KEY POINTS: If the ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS on B7 or C6 aren’t fixed: flickering lights
and portions of complete darkness. BLAST DOORS are noted as being either opened or
closed, they can be cut with a hand welder in 3 rounds.

C1. ELEVATOR: Opens to lobby. Sandbag barricade (2 slagged SAWs and 3 rifles with jungle clipped magazines propped against) blocking stairs
down to C2. Spent shells and potassium flares.
C2. PITCH BLACK HALLWAY: Lights on if ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS have been fixed. Broken glass (crunches underfoot), GET SOME
FUCKERS spraypainted on the wall, spent shells, potassium flares. Blast Door to C10 closed. Blast Doors to C7/C6 open. SEALED DOOR to the
BARRACKS.
C3. DARK MAZE OF CUBICLES: If ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS aren’t fixed there is flickering track lighting. Cubicle walls, monitors,
complicated diagrams on the wall, all shredded by small arms fire. Fire extinguisher in the corner near AIR DUCT which leads to B5.
C4. SUPERVISOR’S OFFICE: Makeshift barricade (conference table). 3 Pulse Grenades, empty magazines. NO ROOM IN HELL spraypainted on
the door. Plate glass wall to C2.
C5. BREAKROOM: Overturned tables, plastic ergonomic chairs, broken coffee machines, some instant coffee.
C6. DARKENED HALLWAY: METAL EMERGENCY DOOR (welded shut, cement shaft to D9). Partially set up cutting rig. Blast door to C7 is open.
C7. SPARTAN CONCRETE HALLWAY: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS at C7a. Entrance to C8 is blocked by a sandbag barricade. Dark unless
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS have been fixed.
C8. CHOKEPOINT: Overrun barricade. Blast door to C10 is open. Blast door to C9 is closed. Dark unless ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS have been fixed.
C9. ELEVATOR: Leads to D1. Disengaged unless ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS are fixed. Propped open with a spanner.
C10. GUN RANGE: Many pistols, rifles, and shotguns in locked gun cases. Target wall is heavily marked by arms fire. Target Papers depict
Gaunts & Authority Figures (a la “They Live”).
C4 C3
B5
C3

C3 C5

GAUNT WALKERS
COMBAT: 65 D9
Infernal Scream + Bite1d10 Claw 3d10
SPEED: 40
INSTINCT: 30 WOUNDS: 3(30) C6
Infernal Scream: Fear Save or 1d5 Stress.
35% chance of a scream instead of attack.

Rumors from the Library in B8

C7 The beasts hate water. T
These things just want to lay eggs in us. F
C2
Those monsters are two separate aliens. T
C7a
C8
The Screamers only move in the darkness. F
Luminescent worms bring the nightmares. HT
If you hear howling dogs you’d better start running.
T
The messed up things burn like paper. Burn them
C10
all. T
Watch out for the skeletons on the beach. They’re
still alive. F
D1 C9 There’s a city full of more dead aliens than anyone

THE BARRACKS: B9 & C2: both have Sealed Doors to the Barracks (hallways of repetitive rooms
stuffed with bunk beds). This floor is full of Gaunt (the elevator can stop on DORM floor—scratched
out: THE DEAD RULE HERE is scrawled over it.
• If C2 door is breached: use d20's instead of D10s for Gaunts.
• if B9 door is breached sitting still incurs 1d10 Gaunts per round.
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 (D) FLOOR: All the active gaunts from Floor C pile into the elevator shaft and eventually come
pouring in. The floor should feel rushed given less space to maneuver.
MOOD: Dripping uniform concrete, Light is HARSH RED EMERGENCY LIGHTS.
NOTE: PCs can survive (by escaping through D9), solve the mystery (by using the console at D6),
or save the day (by activating the lift at D5 and take the lift D3 to the E floor).

D10
C6

D1

D11

D8 D2
D9 D7

D3

D4

ESCAPE TO SURFACE

D6
DOCUMENTS IN D6:
Documents actually are valuable to
those with scholarly bend or the
D5a morbidly curious. Of immediate
importance: notes that the Dead
Gateway is powered from the
D5 Necropolis.

D1. ELEVATOR: Elevator from C9 opens to a room full

of Broken Consoles on workstations and 1d10 Gaunt Walkers.
D2. COMPUTER STATION: There is a clearly visible operational terminal.
The collective knowledge of the survivalists can be transferred to D6 for download (D2 terminal lacks outside access). Hanging banner reads
THE END IS NEIGH, the floor is littered with empty champagne bottles, broken champagne flutes, and dusty confetti. Corpses at some terminals are
wearing party hats.
D3. PLATFORM ELEVATOR: to E1 (Activated at D5), floor spray painted: HOLD INFINITY IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, ETERNITY IN AN HOUR.
D4. ELEVATOR ACCESS BALCONY: Steel guardrail, Plummet to E1 by going over railing.
D5. OBSERVATION ROOM: Provides a clear view of E1. ELEVATOR CONTROLS for D3 (power up, set timed departure).Breaking a support
beam at D5a collapses the hallway, sealing D5 from D4.
D6. TERMINAL ROOM: Many cubicles, access to complete documents from the organization (see SIDEBAR), can transmit the files. Corpse of
Defiance Commanding Officer (CO) Tecumseh Grimaldi sits in an office chair. Facial gunshot wound, at his feet Massive Gold Plated Pistol (Holds
7+1 shots, can fire semi auto, does damage die of a Pulse Rifle, knockdown of a revolver, short range) and in his pocket: inventory of the
Defiance and safe password (TALLY HO).
D7. LOCKERS: Lockers (Environmental gear, light ballistic armor) in uniform rows. Two separate decontamination rooms to enter D4.
D8. BREAKROOM: Overturned tables, plastic ergonomic chairs, vaguely inspirational posters about upcoming apocalyptic war, several very old
bottles of champagne in rusted buckets.
D9. VERTICAL SHAFT: EMERGENCY DOOR from C6 drops into an access room between a room of broken monitors and scientific equipment and
Specimen Examination Room (D10), entrance is a metal freezer door (THICK, cannot enter D9 from D10 without breaking the door). Spraypaint
YOU’RE ALREADY DEAD; Painting of a Doglike Creature in a strange smudged style (3,000 credits; outsider art) — hidden behind the painting is
an ESCAPE SHAFT to the surface. The shaft is wired with timed explosives when the painting is removed, plastic explosives lining the shaft are
activated and explode in 10min collapsing the shaft and sealing the exit. Anyone within 20m of the blast takes 3d10 damage (Body save for half).
D10. SPECIMEN EXAMINATION ROOM: Somewhere between a butcher shop and torture chamber. Chainsaw, various medical saws and
probes. Disassembled Gaunt Hounds and Walkers hang from hooks. On shelf: preserved Gaunt parasite in a specimen jar.
D11. GUN LOCKERS: Assault rifles and shotguns. Extremely motivational posters about killing the Gaunt.
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 (E) FLOOR: Full of complex, dusty machinery humming and flashing as it boots up and comes to
life. A control panel in E3 can control the gates and disable the automatic firing of the bomb (E2)
into the core of the planet. Igniting the bomb before it explodes destroys the Gaunt, the planet,
and the moon colony, containing the Gaunt incursion.

E1. PLATFORM ELEVATOR: As the platform from D3 slides down to E1, a mournful pattern of synth notes plays (D, A, Bm, G, D, Em, D, A, Bm,
G, D, Em, A, A, G, D, A). The moment the synth pattern finishes playing, klaxon alarms spring to life, and a single red spotlight illuminates the
FISSION CORE BURNER BOMB.
E2. FISSION CORE BURNER BOMB: The sleek and illuminated Fission Core Burner Bomb slices deep into planets before reacting with the
core, fissioning it and producing a dramatic planet destroying explosion. In order to detonate the Dead Planet, the party much use the controls at
E3 to open the Gate at E4 and arm a launch code. Behind E4 is a nearly limitless supply of Gaunt.
E3. COMPLEX CONTROL ARRAY: Terminals open the gates (all closed when the crew descends but the gate to E4 starts to open automatically
and E2 arms with a countdown).
E4. ELEVATOR ACCESS BALCONY: The tracks are corroded and drip with biological taint--vast webs of viscera and flesh and the screaming
malformations of the gaunt surge forth from within.
E5. EXIT TO THE SURFACE: There is a well-stocked APC if someone opens the gate between E3 & E5 and E5 and the surface, the party will exit
near the crash site of the Defiance after 20 minutes (if driving) or an hour (on foot).

E4

E1

GAUNT WALKERS E2 E3
COMBAT: 65
Infernal Scream +
Bite1d10 Claw 3d10
SPEED: 40
INSTINCT: 30 WOUNDS:
3(30)
Infernal Scream: Fear
Save or 1d5 Stress. 35%
chance of a scream E5
instead of attack.

MK109-NR ARMOR POINTS: 40

SPEED: 30 (Max 150 km/h)
CAPACITY: 13 passengers

Thermal Vision
up to 200m.
Chaff grenads x8
Rear Mounted Smoke Grenades
x2 Flame Throwers (1 Wound)
x4 Sentry Machine Guns (5d10 DMG)
x1 32 Round Light Mortar (1d10 MDMG)

THE RED TOWER: FLOORS D-E

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ALPHA GAUNT DEATH WORMS
COMBAT: 75 COMBAT: 20
» Horrific Scream and Bite 3d10 DMG and Claw 3d10 » Bite 2d10 DMG
DMG or TELEKINETIC DRAIN SPEED: 45 (swims through air)
SPEED: 60 INSTINCT: 30
INSTINCT: 65 WOUNDS: 1 (10)
WOUNDS: 6 (45)
Special Abilities
Special Abilities
» BURROW: When causing 10+ DMG, victim must
» HORRIFIC SCREAM: Alpha Gaunt always screams make a Body Save or the worm starts implanting
before an attack. The scream forces a Fear Save and itself into their face.
adds d10/2 Stress upon failure. 35% chance of a
scream instead of attack in combat. Spectral, parasitic worms that must find a host to
» TELEKINETIC DRAIN: 1 Wound, -5 Intellect and inhabit this universe as their bodies are not suited
Sanity, Sanity Save or 1d5 Stress. to anything but their native environment. Inhabiting
a victim involves the death worm burrowing into
Alpha Gaunts are emaciated, leathery, graceful, the throat and cranial regions of their victim.
and tall. They are produced when a higher form of When they have successfully implanted, they
Death Worm parasitizes a near-perfect host. radically transform the host.
A series of grasping claws protrudes from their
torso to their face and becomes a mouth and The host’s cranial structures split down to the
telekinetic organ which lift their prey into the air, chest from which webbed and clawed appendages
draining them of life. burst, tipped with the host’s teeth. The host’s skin
thickens and stretches tightly across protruding
joints and skeletal structures. The resulting
amalgamation—parasite and host—is known as a
Gaunt due to its emaciated figure.
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 GAUNT CRAWLER
COMBAT: 15
» Bite 2d10 DMG or Ranged Spike 2d10 DMG
SPEED: 40
INSTINCT: 10
WOUNDS: 1 (10)

Special Abilities

» HIVE MIND: for each Crawler beyond the first,

Combat and Instinct are increased by 5.
» PARALYZING SPIKE forces Body Save or become
paralyzed for 1d10 rounds.
» ACID SPRAY released in 3m long cone and adds
additional 1d10 DMG.
» TOXIC GAS released in 5 sq m cloud and adds 1
Stress per round in cloud and 1d10 DMG.

These tentacled and armored creatures are the

first of the Gaunt to come into living dimensions.
They’re about .5 meter slong and scurry around
using a long, prehensile proboscis, cleaning up
scraps left by larger Gaunt. Black spines undulate
down the backs of the “bugs,” some of them
containing paralyzing agents or other toxins.

GAUNT HOUNDS
COMBAT: 60
» Bite 4d10 DMG
SPEED: 85 (run and/or glide)
INSTINCT: 45
WOUNDS: 3 (20)

Special Abilities

» HOWL: Adds 2 Stress and a 5% chance of forcing a Panic Check.

Fast, six legged animals akin to a dried out, leathery

hyena. Flaps of skin connect to the legs on each
side allow for gliding attacks from elevated
locations. Toothed jaws open impossibly wide.
Four dead glassy eyes are set on top of the
creature’s skull. A stiff, lashing tail is held
erect and can often be seen above the
grass. The Hounds stand about 1.5m
tall at the shoulder and utter a loud,
baying howl when the scent of
prey is picked up.
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 GLOW SKULL
COMBAT: 15
SPEED: 10
INSTINCT: 50
WOUNDS: 1 (5)

Special Abilities

» BLINDING FLARE: Flashes brightly and moans when

non Gaunt are spotted. Forces Sanity Save. 40%
chance exploding when attacked (2d10 DMG to

GAUNT WALKERS
those Nearby).

Brittle hyaline globes filled with phosphorescent

liquid ensconce internal skulls that moves within
the green glow of the liquid. They act as sentries
and will flash and moan when a threat is detected.
COMBAT: 65
» Infenral Scream and Bite 1d10 DMG
and Claw 3d10 DMG

GRABBER TREE
SPEED: 40
INSTINCT: 30
WOUNDS: 3 (30)

Special Abilities
COMBAT: 10
» INFERNAL SCREAM: A group of Gaunt Walkers SPEED: 00
always screams before an attack. The scream forces INSTINCT: 10
a Fear Save or 1d5 Stress upon failure. 35% chance WOUNDS: 4 (40)
of a scream instead of an attack in combat.
Special Abilities
Gaunts here are emaciated and hunch-backed
with willowy arms, squat legs, and webbed digits. » SEEDPOD: Body Save or be pinned to the ground by
They are as comfortable moving on two limbs as the seed’s exploding roots. Strength Check to get r.
four. Their faces consist of immense eyes and » INFECTION: 25% chance the Tree is infected by
high nostrils atop an elongated vertical orifice of Death Worms. Infected Seedpods release black,
interlocking bone tipped digits. caustic sludge (2d10 DMG/round until freed).

Drab olive green trunk, split into five branches and

topped by slender red grass-like structures.
Oval seed pods twice the size of a human head
dangle from the ends of twisted vines and are
hurled at warm blooded bodies.

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SLIMEMOTH
COMBAT: 25

TRI-WORM
» Bite 2d10 DMG
SPEED: 40
INSTINCT: 15
WOUNDS: 2 (10)

Special Abilities
COMBAT: 50
» SLIME: Produces copious amounts of slime when » Tongue Lash 3d10 DMG or Club 4d10 DMG
attacking. Body Save or -1d10 Speed. SPEED: 20
INSTINCT: 20
Half a meter long and greyish in color with a fat, WOUNDS: 3 (15)
legless, slug-like body. Moist, heavy wings make a
sound like wet leather flapping in the wind. Special Abilities

» TONGUE ATTACK: Body Save or additional 1d10

DMG per round until laceration is wrapped.

A 4.5m long, .5m diameter moist, black, thick-

skinned, aquatic worm with a tetrahedral head,
and a large, compound eye on each side. Three
sharp tongues lap from the tip of the cone
head. Despite having three legs,only two are for
locomotion; the third is a weapon.

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D100 I SEARCH THE BODY... DERELICT CRAFT MOON COLONY RED TOWER
00 Vial of amber liquid (alien-human hybrid foetus)
01-09 Breast Pocket Satanic Bible
Blindfold (eyes painted on) Commando Knife with Compass
10-19 Key to a Storage Locker
20-24 Scalpel
25-29 Vitamin Sludge Glass Eye
3 Shotgun Shells
30-34 Lagomorph Foot Venerated Goat Figurine
35-39 Napkin (coordinates scribbled on back)
Painkillers SMG Magazine (loaded)
40-44 Lipstick
45-49 2d10 Credits St. Christopher’s Medallion
K Ration
50-54 “Touch the Void” Cyanide Pills Pack of Cigarettes (Green
55-57 Music Player Apple)
3 Potassium Flares
58-60 Bounty Notice for Relevant Crewmember
Tiny Wax Gaunt Sculpture
61-63 Anxiety Medication
Pack of Cigarettes (Red Apple logo)
64-66 Switchblade (blade engraved with BAD BITCH) Wrap Around Black
67-69 Cheap Sunglasses Sunglasses
Plastic Ziptie Handcuffs (4x)
70-71 Hula Girl Grey’s Anatomy
(highlighting focuses on
72-73 Compass digestibility of parts)
PATCH: “TO DESTROY YOU IS NO LOSS”
74-75 Spy Codebook
76-77 Receipt for Alimony Payment “Never Sleep” Alertness Pills
ZIPPO: FUCK OWLS
78-79 MOTIVATIONAL REMINDER: This Will Pass

80 BRACELET: Right Now, I Am Not In Danger. Right Now I Am Safe Pinup Playing Cards
81 Playing Cards (marked) A Scalpel Faded Photograph of a Child
82 BOOK: Horse Races Gambling Guide Music Box plays “Tom Dooley”
83 PIN: Panic! Honorable Discharge Papers (pension eligible)
PAMPHLET: A Great New
84 Painkillers (crushed to snort) Chopsticks
Darkness
85 Postcard (nice casino) Key (storage locker)
86 COLONY SHIP BROCHURE: A New World For A New You Packet of Dodgy “Alertness Powder”
87 PATCH: These Are Just Feelings, They Will Go Away Anti-Anxiety Pills [text mostly Russian]

88 PIN: All Matter Wants To Be On Fire Sobriety Coin

89 PAMPHLET: What A Union Can Do For You Canteen (full of moonshine)
PAMPHLET: Distilling BOOK: Cook Crank With Your Mess Kit
90 PIN: Bleed the Pigs
Rocket Fuel Alcohol
91 Animal Mask (cloth) BOOK: Unions: A Parasite Draining YOUR Wages
92 Box Cutter MAGAZINE: Thomas of Sweden
93 BOOK: A Brief History of Hideous Dust PATCH: “I’m Here To Defile Your Place of Worship”
Sculpting Tools
94 Holdout Pistol MAGAZINE: Hot to Frot
95 Thermal Lance (tiny) PATCH: Grinning Reaper ”Let’s Earn That
96 Machete Saw Paycheck”

97 Bandana PAMPHLET: The Faceless Hero: Grunts Through

Goat Visitation Token
98 ZIPPO: FUCK CAPITALISM The Ages

99 .50cal Round Bottle Opener Shot Glass (alien bone)