2026-10-25 · shuttle
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ICV Gallowglass took a micrometeoroid swarm broadside about six weeks ago. Half the hull is open to space, the rest is holding by habit. Crew of five. One pod launched; the bodies aboard do not account for the rest. Last log entry: Dr. Okafor. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: The debris that did this is on a known orbit, and it comes back through in nine days.
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: main deck PNG · main deck .dd2vtt · GM key (text) · editable file
Story sheet: derelict-icv-gallowglass-main-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 and doors, and no lights (the power is dead), 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. Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Hazard shattered viewport, edges razor-fine. Suit tears on contact.
Log fragment (Nav) "Debris field not on any chart. Cpt. says ride it out. We are riding it out."
Salvage a crew locker, still locked. A month's pay in hard chits and a photograph nobody is coming back for.
Way in only across the breach. The way that led here went with the hull, so getting in means crossing open space.
Straps cut. Whatever was lashed here left in a hurry.
Salvage forty crates of machine parts, twelve of them worth carrying. One is marked with a shipping line that no longer exists.
Vacuum. Suit up. One cradle empty. The rest still docked, cold.
Hazard hull plate hanging by two rivets. Touch it and it goes, with whoever is holding it.
Trail 1/3 Dr. Okafor's slate, screen cracked. The last entry: "Going to the drive section (5). Back in ten." Nothing after it.
Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Hazard floor buckled; the lower half of this room is a drop into the void.
Log fragment, handwritten "If you find this, the pod took Reyes and the kid. Do not look for us in the hull."
Trail 3/3 The code from the last room opens the locker here. Inside, Okafor's own recording of the last day, start to finish.
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Fuel gauges at zero. The log says they were not.
Log fragment (Eng.) "Patched the aft seam twice. It will not hold a third time. Told her. She knows."
Trail 2/3 Okafor got this far. One set of boot prints in the dust, heading for the crew quarters (4), and a door code scratched into the frame.
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.
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