2026-11-10 · shuttle
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FTV Sable split down the middle and stayed split. Three of the crew wanted to turn back, one wanted to press on, and the ship drifted while the argument went from words to doors to worse. By the end the bridge held the doors and the drive section held the power. Both factions kept logs. Both logs end the same week. Last log entry: Tech Kowalczyk. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: Someone is still keeping the log, in a third hand.
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-ftv-sable-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.
Vacuum. Suit up. Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Hazard improvised tripwire on the door, wired to a flare. Loud, bright, and it draws whatever is still moving.
Log fragment (Cpt.) "They have the reactor. We have the air. I intend to see who blinks."
Salvage the flight recorder, intact. It shows who fired first, and whoever is left on either side will want it.
Trail 2/3 A second log hidden behind a panel, kept by Kowalczyk. It disagrees with the official one about one thing, and that thing is in the cargo hold (4).
The coffee machine is still warm. The rations are gone.
Hazard the food printer was poisoned. Both sides say the other did it. Anyone who eats from it is sick for the rest of the session.
Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
Log fragment, under a bunk a list of names with lines through them, in two different hands.
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Log fragment (Deckhand) "Moved the cargo before either side could claim it. Neither side has asked me. Yet."
Salvage the cargo is what they were fighting over. It is worth exactly what someone will pay to keep it quiet.
Trail 3/3 Where Kowalczyk's private log pointed. Under a deck plate, in a sealed sample bag: Tech Kowalczyk's recorder. It covers the last day, all of it, from someone who was there.
Something moved in here — recently. Cold. The torch has not fired in weeks.
Hazard a jammed hatch with a body on the far side, holding it shut from habit. Move the body and the hatch swings open at once, onto whatever is waiting behind it.
Trail 1/3 A note taped up at eye height, signed Kowalczyk: "If you are reading this, check the bridge (1) before you trust anything in the log."
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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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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