2026-10-20 · station
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Wayfarer Station lost power, then heat, then everyone. A cascade fault dropped the bus mid-shift, with the tender a week out and the crew could not bring it back. They gathered in the warmest room and waited. The station has been at minus sixty for a long time. Last log entry: Cpt. Adeyemi. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: Bring the bus back and the station comes back — and the mayday resends, and someone answers.
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: hub deck PNG · ring deck PNG · hub deck .dd2vtt · ring deck .dd2vtt · GM key (text) · editable file
Story sheet: derelict-wayfarer-station-hub-deck-story.png derelict-wayfarer-station-ring-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.
Something moved in here — recently. Traffic control dark. The customs desk still has a queue rope up.
Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Cold. Frost on every surface. 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.
Log fragment (Eng.) "Bus dropped. Not the reactor — the reactor is fine. Something between the reactor and us said no."
Salvage the fault. A single component, expensive, sabotaged. Fit a spare and the station lives.
The notes stop mid-word. The pen is on the floor.
Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Hazard frost on every surface, thick enough to hide the floor. Grates, drops and open hatches are all the same white.
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.
Connections:
- Lift at column 18, row 16 → Ring deck
- Stairs at column 19, row 16 → Ring deck
- Ladder at column 20, row 4 → Ring deck
Lift and stairs up to the hub.
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.
Trail 3/3 The arrows stop here. Cpt. Adeyemi's recorder is wedged behind a pipe where nobody passing would see it. It holds the last day, start to finish.
One sample tray labelled and signed. The rest are blank.
Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Log fragment, on a slate held in a frozen hand "hour 58. still here. tell Moreau's mother"
Trail 2/3 More chalk. Adeyemi slept here at least one night: a bedroll, ration wrappers, and the same arrow, pointing to the medbay (2, ring deck).
Table set for six. 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.
Log fragment (Cpt.) "Moved everyone to the galley. One heater on the battery. Sixty hours, the engineer says. Then the battery."
Trail 1/3 Chalk marks on the door frame, Adeyemi's tally of the days. Below the last mark, an arrow and two words: "the crew quarters (4, ring deck)".
Connections:
- Lift at column 15, row 13 → Hub deck
- Stairs at column 16, row 13 → Hub deck
- Ladder at column 17, row 1 → Hub 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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