2026-10-19 · freighter
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RSV Peregrine took a micrometeoroid swarm broadside about six weeks ago. Half the hull is open to space, the rest is holding by habit. Crew of seven. One pod launched; the bodies aboard do not account for the rest. Last log entry: Tech Petrov. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: One of the bodies is wearing a suit from a different ship.
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: upper deck PNG · lower deck PNG · upper deck .dd2vtt · lower deck .dd2vtt · GM key (text) · editable file
Story sheet: derelict-rsv-peregrine-upper-deck-story.png derelict-rsv-peregrine-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 3 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.
Something moved in here — recently. Consoles dark. One chair is turned to face the door.
Hazard shattered viewport, edges razor-fine. Suit tears on contact.
Battery light blinking. The last treatment is still on the screen.
Salvage autodoc still charged. Two courses of trauma meds, one vial with the label scraped off.
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Racks empty. The lock was cut from the inside.
Salvage one rifle, no magazine, and a flare pistol with three flares.
Reactor cold. Tools laid out for a repair nobody finished.
Trail 3/3 The arrows stop here. Tech Petrov's recorder is wedged behind a pipe where nobody passing would see it. It holds the last day, start to finish.
Cold. Frost on every surface. One cradle empty. The rest still docked, cold.
The coffee machine is still warm. The rations are gone.
Log fragment (Cook) "Six weeks of air on the board. Cpt. says four. I am not asking who is right."
Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Hazard hull plate hanging by two rivets. Touch it and it goes, with whoever is holding it.
Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Way in only across the breach. The way that led here went with the hull, so getting in means crossing open space.
Sample cases open. The freezer is warm.
Cold. The torch has not fired in weeks.
Log fragment (Eng.) "Patched the aft seam twice. It will not hold a third time. Told her. She knows."
Connections:
- Ladder at column 11, row 4 → Lower deck
One sample tray labelled and signed. The rest are blank.
Hazard floor buckled; the lower half of this room is a drop into the void.
Trail 1/3 Chalk marks on the door frame, Petrov's tally of the days. Below the last mark, an arrow and two words: "the escape pods (6, lower deck)".
Empty cradle. Scorch marks.
Straps cut. Whatever was lashed here left in a hurry.
Hazard loose cargo drifting in vacuum. Anything not tied down moves when the ship does.
Panels off, parts sorted on the deck by someone who ran out of time.
New filters stacked by the door, still in their wrap.
Hazard cracked O2 line. Sparks here mean fire, then no fire, then nothing at all.
Log fragment (Tech) "Sealed sections 3 through 7. If anyone is in there, they are not answering the comm."
Every pod in this bay still docked.
Trail 2/3 More chalk. Petrov slept here at least one night: a bedroll, ration wrappers, and the same arrow, pointing to engineering (4, upper deck).
Connections:
- Ladder at column 7, 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.
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