2026-11-08 · freighter
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MSV Sextant misjumped. The drive fired with the nav plot half-loaded and the ship came out somewhere with no stars in the right places. The crew rationed, then argued, then stopped. The drive is cold. The plot is still half-loaded. Last log entry: Deckhand Nakamura. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: The wrong sky outside has one star that is getting closer.
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-msv-sextant-upper-deck-story.png derelict-msv-sextant-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 3 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.
Hazard the nav plot, if touched, tries to complete the jump. The drive answers, and whoever is aboard when it fires goes with it.
Salvage the nav core, holding a jump plot no charts contain. Worth a career to the right astrogator.
Reactor cold. Tools laid out for a repair nobody finished.
Vacuum. Suit up. All pods gone. Empty cradles.
Cold. Frost on every surface. Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Water reclaim tank split; the deck is ice.
Empty cradle. Scorch marks.
The notes stop mid-word. The pen is on the floor.
Log fragment (Dr.) "Catalogued the sky. Nothing matches. One of the stars has moved since yesterday."
Table set for four. Frost on the plates.
Hazard the ration printer was run on anything that fit. Whatever it printed last is still in the tray. Anyone who eats it is sick for the rest of the session.
Straps cut. Whatever was lashed here left in a hurry.
Salvage intact cargo, untouched; the crew were too disciplined, or too frightened, to open it.
Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Hazard a crewmember's tally scratched into every surface. Stare too long and you lose your own count. Anyone who reads it through loses an hour.
Log fragment (Cpl.) "Nobody sleeps. The stars are wrong and everyone checks them every hour to be sure."
Trail 1/3 A keycard on a lanyard by the door, Nakamura's face on it. The door log says it last opened the lab (3, lower deck).
Fuel gauges at zero. The charge gauge is not.
Hazard the lights come on when you enter and go out behind you. There is no automation on this deck. Anyone who falls behind is alone in the dark: roll for an encounter.
Hazard the drive core is cold but not empty. Charge is bleeding off as static; metal tools jump in your hand.
Log fragment (Eng.) "The core will fire once more. Once. Either we pick a direction or the ship does."
Connections:
- Ladder at column 7, row 6 → Lower deck
Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Scram lever pulled and wired down so it stays pulled.
Sample cases open. The freezer is warm.
Trail 2/3 The card's last door. On the wall in grease pencil, in Nakamura's hand: "LIFE SUPPORT, BOTTOM LOCKER." That is life support (5, lower deck).
Empty cradles, same as the other bay.
Scrubbers dead. The air is whatever is left.
Trail 3/3 The bottom locker, its seal unbroken. Inside: Deckhand Nakamura's recorder, with the last day on it, all of it.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 2, row 9 → 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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