2026-10-31 · freighter
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ISV Oriel went through a debris field that was not on the chart and came out the other side with holes in it. The air went in stages, one compartment at a time, and the crew moved forward ahead of it until there was no more forward. Six weeks, give or take. Last log entry: Nav Tamura. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: A distress beacon is still running. It is not the ship's.
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-oriel-upper-deck-story.png derelict-isv-oriel-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) "Debris field not on any chart. Cpt. says ride it out. We are riding it out."
Dark. Emergency lighting only. One cradle empty. The rest still docked, cold.
Something moved in here — recently. Water reclaim tank split; the deck is ice.
Cold. Frost on every surface. Shuttle still here, hatch open, seats empty.
One sample tray labelled and signed. The rest are blank.
Hazard hull plate hanging by two rivets. Touch it and it goes, with whoever is holding it.
Autodoc stopped mid-cycle. The patient is not in it.
Salvage autodoc still charged. Two courses of trauma meds, one vial with the label scraped off.
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.
Scram lever pulled and wired down so it stays pulled.
Log fragment (Eng.) "Patched the aft seam twice. It will not hold a third time. Told her. She knows."
Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
The coffee machine is still warm. The rations are gone.
Log fragment, handwritten "If you find this, the pod took Reyes and the kid. Do not look for us in the hull."
Trail 1/3 A note taped up at eye height, signed Tamura: "If you are reading this, check the hangar (4, lower deck) before you trust anything in the log."
Fuel gauges at zero. The log says they were not.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 14, row 3 → Lower deck
Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Hazard loose cargo drifting in vacuum. Anything not tied down moves when the ship does.
Every pod in this bay still docked.
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.
Trail 3/3 Where Tamura's private log pointed. Under a deck plate, in a sealed sample bag: Nav Tamura's recorder. It covers the last day, all of it, from someone who was there.
Vacuum. Suit up. Empty cradle. Scorch marks.
Trail 2/3 A second log hidden behind a panel, kept by Tamura. It disagrees with the official one about one thing, and that thing is in life support (3, lower deck).
Reactor cold. Tools laid out for a repair nobody finished.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 10, 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.
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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