# Derelict — ISV Corvid — room key

ISV Corvid misjumped. The drive fired with the nav plot half-loaded and the ship came out somewhere with no stars in the right places. The crew rationed, then argued, then stopped. The drive is cold. The plot is still half-loaded.

Last log entry: Tech Okafor. Their trail runs through three rooms.

Hook: Tamura's suggestion about what comes after a third is written down, and it was carried out.

## Upper deck

**1. Bridge**

Vacuum. Suit up. Consoles dark. One chair is turned to face the door.
Salvage: the nav core, holding a jump plot no charts contain. Worth a career to the right astrogator.

**2. Crew quarters**

Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Hazard: a crewmember's tally scratched into every surface. Stare too long and you lose your own count.

**3. Galley**

Table set for six. Frost on the plates.
Hazard: the ration printer was run on anything that fit. Whatever it printed last is still in the tray.
Log fragment (Cpt.): "Rations to half. Then to a third. Tamura suggested what comes after a third. I dismissed him."

**4. Medbay**

Dark. Emergency lighting only. Battery light blinking. The last treatment is still on the screen.

**5. Cargo hold**

Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.

**6. Cargo hold**

Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Salvage: intact cargo, untouched; the crew were too disciplined, or too frightened, to open it.

**7. Engineering**

Scram lever pulled and wired down so it stays pulled.

**8. Lab**

Sample cases open. The freezer is warm.
Trail 1/3: Tech Okafor's slate, screen cracked. The last entry: "Going to life support (2, lower deck). Back in ten." Nothing after it.

**9. Escape pods**

All pods gone. Empty cradles.

**10. Life support**

New filters stacked by the door, still in their wrap.

**11. Hangar**

Shuttle still here, hatch open, seats empty.

**12. Drive section**

Fuel gauges at zero. The log says they were not.
Hazard: the drive core is cold but not empty. Charge is bleeding off as static; metal tools jump in your hand.
Log fragment (Eng.): "The core will fire once more. Once. Either we pick a direction or the ship does."

Connections:
- Ladder at column 19, row 1 → Lower deck

## Lower deck

**1. Cargo hold**

Straps cut. Whatever was lashed here left in a hurry.
Trail 3/3: The code from the last room opens the locker here. Inside, Okafor's own recording of the last day. It is the first account aboard from someone who was there.

**2. Life support**

Scrubbers dead. The air is whatever is left.
Trail 2/3: Okafor got this far. One set of boot prints in the dust, heading for the cargo hold (1, lower deck), and a door code scratched into the frame.

**3. Escape pods**

Empty cradles, same as the other bay.
Log fragment (pod panel): four pods launched, four headings, none of them toward anything.

**4. Engineering**

Something moved in here — recently. Reactor cold. Tools laid out for a repair nobody finished.

**5. Lab**

The notes stop mid-word. The pen is on the floor.

Connections:
- Ladder at column 13, row 2 → Upper deck