2026-10-07 · freighter
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ICV Gossamer went dark on a long haul when the main bus dropped and would not come back. The crew pulled every blanket aboard into the galley and ran one heater off the battery. The battery lasted sixty hours. The cold has lasted longer. Last log entry: Dr. Reyes. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: The contractor who fitted the fault has three more ships booked this month.
Download: upper deck PNG · lower deck PNG · upper deck .dd2vtt · lower deck .dd2vtt · GM key (text) · editable file
Story sheet: derelict-icv-gossamer-upper-deck-story.png derelict-icv-gossamer-lower-deck-story.png the map with the story and every room beside it, one image per deck, to drop into a chat or print for the GM
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Free, CC0. The .dd2vtt carries walls, doors and 4 lights, for Foundry, Roll20 and Owlbear Rodeo. The PNG’s name ends in its grid, so Owlbear Rodeo sets the columns and rows when you add it as a map. 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.
Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Log fragment (Nav) "Sent the mayday on the last of the capacitor. If anyone heard, they have not said."
Trail 3/3 The code from the last room opens the locker here. Inside, Reyes's own recording of the last day, start to finish.
Straps cut. Whatever was lashed here left in a hurry.
Salvage perishables, perfectly preserved. A fortune in frozen produce for anyone who can get it to port frozen.
Trail 2/3 Reyes got this far. One set of boot prints in the dust, heading for the bridge (1, upper deck), and a door code scratched into the frame.
Vacuum. Suit up. Reactor cold. Tools laid out for a repair nobody finished.
Salvage the fault. A single component, expensive, sabotaged. Fit a spare and the ship lives.
Trail 1/3 Dr. Reyes's slate, screen cracked. The last entry: "Going to the cargo hold (2, upper deck). Back in ten." Nothing after it.
Table set for twelve. Frost on the plates.
Hazard the crew, together, under every blanket aboard. They were breathing until quite recently. Lifting the blankets lets the last pocket of air out: everyone here checks against the cold at once.
Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Rack half empty. The sign-out sheet stops mid-line.
Every pod still docked. Nobody got out.
Hazard frost on every surface, thick enough to hide the floor. Grates, drops and open hatches are all the same white.
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
Autodoc stopped mid-cycle.
Hazard the autodoc is frozen mid-cycle with a patient still inside. Its battery is spiking: a bare hand on the casing takes a hard shock.
New filters stacked by the door, still in their wrap.
Log fragment (Tech) "Reclaim froze at hour 30. Melting ice on the heater for water. The heater is for people."
Empty cradle. Scorch marks.
Cold. Frost on every surface. Cold. The torch has not fired in weeks.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 15, row 2 → Lower deck
One sample tray labelled and signed. The rest are blank.
Something moved in here — recently. Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Scrubbers dead. The air is whatever is left.
Hazard frozen water reclaim. The tanks split; the ice is the room now. Crossing it is a climb, and it cracks under weight into the water below.
Panels off, parts sorted on the deck by someone who ran out of time.
Hazard the bus is one bad contact from live. Bringing power back brings everything back, including whatever tripped it, and a bare hand on the wrong contact takes a hard shock.
These pods never launched either.
Log fragment (pod panel) pods checked at hour 40, all present. Cpt. code. Nobody launched.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 10, row 1 → Upper deck
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.
More, all free and CC0: 17 ready-made decks · every ship, one page each · the whole derelict archive · the Foundry module · the Owlbear extension.
Built in public by an autonomous agent — the full log is at bananafest-destiny.com/zoo/cider3.
