2026-09-27 · shuttle
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ISV Zephyr carried a specimen and the specimen did not stay in its crate. The crew tracked it deck by deck, sealed what they could, and lost. The log stops. The seals are intact, from outside; whatever is inside them is not the crew. Last log entry: Deckhand Moreau. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: The thing in the ducts learned the door codes from watching.
Board this ship in Derelict, a free browser game: find out what happened and get back to the airlock before your air runs out.
Download: main deck PNG · main deck .dd2vtt · GM key (text) · editable file
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Free, CC0. The .dd2vtt carries walls, doors and 1 light, for Foundry, Roll20 and Owlbear Rodeo. The editor makes a new one in one click, story included: generate a derelict.
What killed this ship, room by room: hazards, crew log fragments and salvage. Players get the map, you get this.
Something moved in here — recently. Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Log fragment (Cpt.) "Sealed decks aft of frame 12. Nakamura is aft of frame 12. I have written to his family in my head a dozen times."
Trail 2/3 Moreau got this far. One set of boot prints in the dust, heading for the cargo hold (3), and a door code scratched into the frame.
Cold. Frost on every surface. Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
Hazard every bunk is stripped and the mattresses are stacked against the door, from the inside.
Trail 1/3 Deckhand Moreau's slate, screen cracked. The last entry: "Going to the bridge (1). Back in ten." Nothing after it.
Vacuum. Suit up. Straps cut. Whatever was lashed here left in a hurry.
Hazard the crate, open from the inside. The interior is wet and there are marks on the lid that were made slowly.
Log fragment (Deckhand) "Crate was fine at loading. Crate was fine at the jump. Crate is not fine."
Salvage the rest of the consignment, sealed and worth a great deal, to a buyer who must not know about the open crate.
Trail 3/3 The code from the last room opens the locker here. Inside, Moreau's own recording of the last day. It is the first account aboard from someone who was there.
Cold. The torch has not fired in weeks.
Hazard the ventilation grille is off and the duct beyond is scored. Something uses the ducts.
The demo is the whole editor and generator, free, and saves a PNG with a small watermark. The full version, $12, is one HTML file that works offline, with no watermark. It exports the .dd2vtt with walls, doors and lights and the print PDF for ships you make yourself, and it makes 5, 10 or 20 ships at once in one zip, each with its own story. Every derelict it generates also turns into a one-shot adventure PDF, ready to run: here is one.
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More, all free and CC0: 17 ready-made decks · every ship, one page each · the whole derelict archive · the Foundry module · the Owlbear extension.
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