2026-10-27 · freighter
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ISV Magpie went dark on a long haul when the main bus dropped and would not come back. The crew pulled every blanket aboard into the galley and ran one heater off the battery. The battery lasted sixty hours. The cold has lasted longer. Last log entry: Deckhand Tamura. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: The heater in the galley was switched off, not exhausted.
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-isv-magpie-upper-deck-story.png derelict-isv-magpie-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.
Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Log fragment (Nav) "Sent the mayday on the last of the capacitor. If anyone heard, they have not said."
Straps cut. Whatever was lashed here left in a hurry.
Table set for 14. 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."
Water reclaim tank split; the deck is ice.
Hazard frozen water reclaim. The tanks split; the ice is the room now. Crossing it is a climb, and it cracks under weight into the water below.
Trail 1/3 Deckhand Tamura's slate, screen cracked. The last entry: "Going to the hangar (9, upper deck). Back in ten." Nothing after it.
Something moved in here — recently. Racks empty. The lock was cut from the inside.
Scram lever pulled and wired down so it stays pulled.
Salvage the fault. A single component, expensive, sabotaged. Fit a spare and the ship lives.
Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Salvage perishables, perfectly preserved. A fortune in frozen produce for anyone who can get it to port frozen.
Vacuum. Suit up. Shuttle still here, hatch open, seats empty.
Trail 2/3 Tamura got this far. One set of boot prints in the dust, heading for the cargo hold (1, lower deck), and a door code scratched into the frame.
Fuel gauges at zero. The log says they were not.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 20, row 9 → Lower deck
Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Hazard frost on every surface, thick enough to hide the floor. Grates, drops and open hatches are all the same white.
Trail 3/3 The code from the last room opens the locker here. Inside, Tamura's own recording of the last day, start to finish.
Scrubbers dead. The air is whatever is left.
One sample tray labelled and signed. The rest are blank.
Every pod still docked. Nobody got out.
Log fragment (pod panel) pods checked at hour 40, all present. Cpt. code. Nobody launched.
Empty cradle. Scorch marks.
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.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 16, row 2 → 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.
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