“Go, go, go, it’s not far behind!”
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Clarke is two steps ahead of you as you pass the door to the mess and is just heading into the access corridor to the outer ring when Duncan, sprinting from the machine lab, slams him into the bulkhead, hitting his head repeatedly against the metal.
@Gungeon make a panic test because of your secret phobia.
@Scribbs behind you, you hear another Duncan laughing. “We were never going to let him go…”
Good enough for me!
Isaac is already past Duncan and Clarke before he can react.
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I think self preservation is the name of the game. Bridger keeps on after Isaac.
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The two survivors pound the corridor, reaching the airlock with the suits just as the screaming behind them fades…
Is there anything you do before you cycle the airlock and attempt your escape @Gungeon and @Scribbs ?
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Bridger stops the feed from JIM’s body cam, vowing silently to not watch the recording, but aware that someone might be interested in what was happening in the machine lab.
“Let’s get the hell out of here and back to the Beast” he mutters, glancing nervously back down the corridor.
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Isaac, running, just nods a few times without looking at Bridger.
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You swiftly strap on the EVA suits and as the airlock depressurises The Starbeast is revealed, only a short manoeuvre away.
Both lose 5 stress.
What are you both thinking as you propel yourself towards the Starbeast?
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Bridger is concerned at what they will find on the Beast. The emergency protocols fired their cryopods out for a reason, and they’re no clearer in understanding that. Still, it has to be better than dealing with a self replicating crazed android right?
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Takes Notes.
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Isaac is thinking similar. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
He’s also cursing himself for switching that thing back on!
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((Tangent alert. @RossM have you seen the upcoming RPG due to be published by Osprey, Those Dark Places? Very much aiming for the same theme of sci-fi as Mothership))
(No, but I’m in for the Orbital Kickstarter.)
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You sail wordlessly through the void to the Starbeast main airlock, behind you The Orlok shines as the light from the nebulae makes it glow like a star.
You have survived.
Please uplevel your characters using the following format…
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And so, after 10 months, two forums and the loss of half the team @Scribbs and @Gungeon this mothership Christmas one shot is over.
Thanks for sticking with me and putting up with my ridiculous festive nonsense. All criticism hugely appreciated, both on the one shot and the system. Hopefully I can get it packaged up so that other people can run it this Christmas!
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Thanks for running the game @RossM, it was very enjoyable.
To wrap things up, Bridger would improve his Sanity and Fear saves, wipe clear all his stress, and would get the Explosives expert skill. This would reflect the things he used and the experience of the things encountered.
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Yes, thanks @RossM for running this great game. I had a load of fun and hope it continues! I loved checking in to see what updates there were (also to your RPG @Scribbs! Nudge nudge 
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Isaac will also improve Fear and Sanity saves.
Gain First Aid if okay and save the final point.
Remove the phobia (in all likelihood to gain it again later haha)
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Thanks both.
Notes…
The whole plot was organic. The 12 days gag was always in there, but the murderous ai causing all computers to glitch was only incorporated after one of the players rolled so low for their intelligence.
There was a whole alternate plot that bridger was a vampire, because of the puncture wounds in the neck of some victims. (Although possibly also caused by the carving fork for the turkey.) If I run this again I will probably remake the space craft the Demeter, to hammer this home.
Also literally everything was a Christmas joke. I refuse to reveal any of them except that the reason why the sole survivor was wearing a vest and no shoes is because Die Hard is definitely a Christmas film.
Mistakes. For a long time the original Clarke was going to regain their mind and in a fit of grief shoot themselves, but after discussion the spectre of suicide just wasn’t something I felt ever needed including.
Mothership is a great setting, but literally everything is derivative. I really need to think of something different for next Christmas.
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