2026-10-23 · freighter
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RSV Cinder split down the middle and stayed split. Eight of the crew wanted to turn back, three wanted to press on, and the ship drifted while the argument went from words to doors to worse. By the end the bridge held the doors and engineering held the power. Both factions kept logs. Both logs end the same week. Last log entry: Nav Petrov. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: The company's recovery contract pays double if the recorder is destroyed on site.
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-cinder-upper-deck-story.png derelict-rsv-cinder-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 5 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.
Consoles dark. One chair is turned to face the door.
Hazard improvised tripwire on the door, wired to a flare. Loud, bright, and it draws whatever is still moving.
Log fragment (Cpt.) "They have the reactor. We have the air. I intend to see who blinks."
Salvage the flight recorder, intact. It shows who fired first, and whoever is left on either side will want it.
Straps cut. Whatever was lashed here left in a hurry.
Salvage the cargo is what they were fighting over. It is worth exactly what someone will pay to keep it quiet.
Cold. Frost on every surface. Empty cradle. Scorch marks.
Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
Hazard the food printer was poisoned. Both sides say the other did it. Anyone who eats from it is sick for the rest of the session.
Log fragment, under a bunk a list of names with lines through them, in two different hands.
Vacuum. Suit up. Panels off, parts sorted on the deck by someone who ran out of time.
Hazard live cable stripped and laid across the deck. The mutineers' idea of a lock: anyone who steps on it takes a hard hit, and a loud one.
Sample cases open. The freezer is warm.
Water reclaim tank split; the deck is ice.
The coffee machine is still warm. The rations are gone.
Log fragment (one of the two) "They pass food under the door. They do not speak. Day nine."
Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Cold. The torch has not fired in weeks.
Trail 2/3 A second log hidden behind a panel, kept by Petrov. It disagrees with the official one about one thing, and that thing is in the escape pods (4, lower deck).
Connections:
- Ladder at column 22, row 2 → Lower deck
Something moved in here — recently. Scrubbers dead. The air is whatever is left.
Hazard a jammed hatch with a body on the far side, holding it shut from habit. Move the body and the hatch swings open at once, onto whatever is waiting behind it.
Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Shuttle still here, hatch open, seats empty.
Trail 1/3 A note taped up at eye height, signed Petrov: "If you are reading this, check the drive section (10, upper deck) before you trust anything in the log."
All pods gone.
Trail 3/3 Where Petrov's private log pointed. Under a deck plate, in a sealed sample bag: Nav Petrov's recorder. It covers the last day, all of it, from someone who was there.
Scram lever pulled and wired down so it stays pulled.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 17, row 4 → 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.
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