2026-11-01 · station
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Willet Station sealed itself. Whatever came aboard with the cargo took the doctor first and the captain last, and in between somebody welded the medbay shut and painted a warning on the outer hull that has since flaked away. The beacon is still set to WARN OFF. Last log entry: Deckhand Petrov. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: Lot 14's shipper has a second consignment on the way to a colony of forty thousand.
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-willet-station-hub-deck-story.png derelict-willet-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 2 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.
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Traffic control dark. The customs desk still has a queue rope up.
Racks empty. The lock was cut from the inside.
Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Salvage forty crates. Lot 14 is open. The others are worth a fortune to someone who does not ask where they came from.
Trail 2/3 Petrov's other glove. Scratched into the bulkhead beside it at hand height: "THE LAB. DON'T." That is the lab (5, ring deck).
Reactor cold. Tools laid out for a repair nobody finished.
Consoles dark. One chair is turned to face the door.
Log fragment (Cpt.) "Set the beacon to WARN OFF. If anyone docks anyway, they were warned."
Trail 1/3 A glove on the deck just inside the door, Petrov's by the name stitched in the cuff. The other one is in the cargo hold (3, hub deck).
Connections:
- Lift at column 11, row 15 → Ring deck
- Stairs at column 12, row 15 → Ring deck
- Ladder at column 10, row 3 → Ring deck
Lift and stairs up to the hub.
Hazard bodies, arranged. Someone took care over this. Disturb them and a grey dust lifts into the air: anyone unfiltered rolls against the contagion.
Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
Log fragment (XO) "Kowalczyk is calm now. I have locked her in. I have told her it is for the fever."
Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Hazard one bunk is still occupied and the occupant is still warm. They are calm, and they reach for the nearest hand: a touch is a roll against the contagion.
Battery light blinking. The last treatment is still on the screen.
Hazard contagion. The isolation field failed with the power. Anyone who breathes here unfiltered rolls against it, and a failure is the fever that comes before the calm.
Log fragment (Dr.) "Fever, then the calm. The calm is the dangerous part. Adeyemi was fine at breakfast."
Salvage full trauma kit, sealed, and a case of broad-spectrum antivirals that did not work.
Hazard the door is welded shut from outside, and someone scratched a warning into the weld. Cutting through takes time, light and noise: roll for an encounter when they start.
Something moved in here — recently. Sample cases open. The freezer is warm.
Hazard broken sample cases. The floor is wet and it is not water. It soaks through boots: anyone who walks through it rolls against the contagion.
Salvage the doctor's notes, complete, on a data slate. They end mid-sentence.
Trail 3/3 Deckhand Petrov is here, or what is left of them. The recorder on their suit is still running and covers the last day.
Connections:
- Lift at column 14, row 13 → Hub deck
- Stairs at column 15, row 13 → Hub deck
- Ladder at column 13, row 1 → Hub 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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