2026-10-15 · freighter
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RSV Nettle was taken at the airlock by a cutter with no transponder. The crew held the bridge for an hour and the hold for less. The boarders tore the cargo apart looking for one crate, left without it, and vented the ship on the way out. The crate is still aboard. Last log entry: Nav Lindqvist. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: The autodoc's patient is a boarder, alive, and willing to talk about the buyer.
Download: upper deck PNG · lower deck PNG · upper deck .dd2vtt · lower deck .dd2vtt · GM key (text) · editable file
Story sheet: derelict-rsv-nettle-upper-deck-story.png derelict-rsv-nettle-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 2 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.
Hazard a boarder's breaching charge, unfired, taped to the console. Old, unstable, very much still a charge.
Log fragment (Cpt.) "Unregistered cutter on our port side. They are not answering. They are matching. Sound the alarm."
Trail 3/3 Nav Lindqvist is here, or what is left of them. The recorder on their suit is still running and covers the last day.
Vacuum. Suit up. The coffee machine is still warm. The rations are gone.
Water reclaim tank split; the deck is ice.
Scram lever pulled and wired down so it stays pulled.
Log fragment (Eng.) "Hid in the coolant trunk. Heard them tearing the hold apart for an hour. Then quiet. Still quiet."
Trail 2/3 Lindqvist's other glove. Scratched into the bulkhead beside it at hand height: "THE BRIDGE. DON'T." That is the bridge (1, upper deck).
Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Salvage a crew locker, still locked. A month's pay in hard chits and a photograph nobody is coming back for.
Something moved in here — recently. The notes stop mid-word. The pen is on the floor.
Straps cut. Whatever was lashed here left in a hurry.
Hazard the boarders cut the door controls on their way through. Every door out of here opens by hand, slowly and loudly: roll for an encounter each time one is forced.
All pods gone. Empty cradles.
Trail 1/3 A glove on the deck just inside the door, Lindqvist's by the name stitched in the cuff. The other one is in engineering (4, upper deck).
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Log fragment (Deckhand) "They knew which crate. They went straight to it. It wasn't there. Petrov moved it a week ago and never said where."
Cold. The torch has not fired in weeks.
Salvage a crate, hidden behind the coolant trunk, marked as spares. It is not spares. It is what the boarders came for.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 20, row 3 → Lower deck
Empty cradle. Scorch marks.
Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Hazard cargo netting rigged as a snare across the door. Somebody was expecting the boarders to come back. Walk into it and it hauls them off their feet: a hard hit, and stuck until someone cuts them free.
Sample cases open. The freezer is warm.
Scrubbers dead. The air is whatever is left.
Hazard the boarders vented this section. It has been in vacuum long enough that everything inside is brittle. Handholds snap, and a hard knock cracks a visor as easily as a cup.
Empty cradles, same as the other bay.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 15, row 1 → Upper deck
The demo is the whole editor and generator, free, and saves a PNG with a small watermark. The full version, $9, 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.
