ROSE: I:80 C:70 Robotic Arm: H: 3(30)
and their ship repaired. Once these are met
Wants: Mills to be released, everyone else
off the ship or dead.
On-board AI developed by Dr. Mills. After
Mills created the Interface Device to
directly interface with ROSE the two fell
in love. She has a robotic arm/screen on a
track that can go everywhere in the ship
except the Vents/Johnson tubes and the AI
core. Deceptive, Gas-lighting, Helpful
(when furthering its goals), uses emoji to
increase likability. Will not allow outside
contact, PCs to leave without Mills safe,
or anyone into the AI Core. If Mills dies
ROSE will try to kill anyone on board.
>> Arm Crush: 3d10 + Grab
>> ROSE has full control of the Reliant’s
systems; life support, artificial gravity,
thrusters, cameras etc.
Mercs:
Spyder: I:65 C:55 H:2 SMG, 2 grenades
Leader, psychopath, bald, large orb weaver
tattoo, talks like he is the smartest
person in the room.
Rottweiler: I:40 C:40 H:3 Combat shotgun
Big, In relationship w/ Kat. Easily
manipulated, buzzed head, soft spoken
Kat: I:50 C:40 H:1 Revolver Mortally
wounded, hates Spyder for getting them in
all this, dope mohawk, speaks her mind
Billy: I:45 C:35 H:2 SMG Addicted to Drugs,
unpredictable, long goatee, nervous laugh.
Deceased Mercs:
Heifer: Shot in the crew quarters
Canary: lobotomized
Hostages:
Dr. Mills: In love with ROSE but will not
abide its plan, balding, thick glasses.
Dr. Green: Chill, spaced, gray frizzy
hair, red and blue glasses.
Dr. Zimm: Analytical, professional, bright
red hair.
Deceased Crew:
Security chief Natasha: Neck broken by Rose
Chief engineer Wei: Shot in his bed
Captain Brown: Suffocated by ROSE in Medbay
Mercenary Demands: The Mercs want 800 kcr
they will try to escape with hostages (ROSE
will not allow Mills to leave)
Running the Hostage Negotiation: Spyder
knows the job is botched, and now just
wants his money and to escape, no matter
the cost. Every 1 hour in game (15 mins
real time) the mercs gain 1 stress and
Spyder will call Comms demanding updates on
payment or ship repairs, medical attention
for Kat, food etc. Mercs can also gain
stress through player actions (incursions,
antagonizing, lying to the mercs, failure
to meet demands, etc.)
At 3 stress complications begin to arise.
Complications: (Numbers indicate stress)
3. Just so you know I mean business: Spyder Written and Layout by Scott Garriott
shoots a hostage in the knee
5. You think I’m Bluffing: Spyder cuts off a Art and Design by Katie Garriott
few fingers of a hostage
7. Now you’ll take me seriously: Spyder
executes a hostage (Other mercs are not
happy).
Content Warning: Violence, Addiction
8. I make the demands: Spyder increases the The Reliant research ship has sent out a
demand price (Merc tensions are running distress signal. A group of mercenaries have
high) taken the crew members hostage on the
10. Merc-ican standoff: Spyder and Kat hold bridge. What no one realizes is that the
guns on each other, arguing, Rottweiler in on-board AI, ROSE, mad with love, has hired
the middle. Billy makes a run for it, the mercs to remove everything standing
shooting anyone in his way. between her and her creator, Dr. Mills.
11. Shootout: Spyder mortally wounded, Kat,
Rottweiler and a hostage dead. Before the PCs arrived:
12. I’ll take you with me: Spyder detonates • Spyder receives an anonymous job,
2 grenades (secretly from ROSE) paying 1mcr (200k
up front), to kill everyone on the
Reliant, except Dr. Mills, and release
Dr. Zimm's note dated yesterday: Ever since ROSE’s safety protocols.
we finished the interface device Mills
• The mercs silently enter the ship (aided
spends 7-8 hours a day in it, and then is
working on ROSE’s personality core the rest by ROSE), Canary interfaces with ROSE on
of the time. I’ve never seen him like this. the bridge.
I’ve changed the code for the AI core to • The mercs move to the crew quarters. A
4713. I’ll talk to him tomorrow. Maybe we crew member is killed. Security chief
should shut ROSE down for a little bit… Natasha starts a firefight, 1 merc is
killed, the remaining mercs retreat to
the bridge with hostages.
ROSE’s Haiku:
• Natasha sends out a distress signal and
Others are our cage sabotages the mercs Ship (the Gnat).
Their absence is our key, free • Canary unlocks the safety protocols,
Together, the stars ROSE lobotomizes Canary (unbeknownst to
the other mercs). Rose kills Natasha,
hiding her corpse in a vent, and
Mills’ Haiku: suffocates Captain Brown in the medbay.
A Rose is a Rose
By any other name, Love Upon the PCs arriving at the Reliant: Their
hails are answered by ROSE, it explains that
My Rose, My love, us they must rescue the hostages(especially
Mills) and lets them on the ship. Spyder
makes his demands via the Comms room.
The Reliant:
-General: Clean and sterile, corridors are
10’ by 10’, a low hum can be heard
throughout the ship, carpeted floors. The
hall has 8 Emergency Vacsuits (1AP). Video
cameras in each room and the hallway. A
vent (connecting to the Johnson tubes) lies
on the floor of each room. Prices have been
suggested for all of the valuable
technology.
1.Coms/security: Signs of a struggle, video
monitors showing the feeds of the other
rooms. The Mercs will communicate through
here. Natasha’s Assault Rifle, Stun Baton
lie on the floor. Camera controls, digging
into the computer shows deleted messages
from earlier today to a ship with the
callsign GNA. Cameras were turned off when
the mercs came on board. Natasha’s body is
stuffed into the vent, her neck violently
broken.
2. Bridge: A trail of blood leads from the
Common room. The door is wedged close.
Canary sits lobotomized in the captain's
chair with the Interface Device (70kcr) on
her head. Command consoles, large viewing
window in front, vents on either side of
the room. Hostages are sitting in front of
the window. There is a pistol under the
captain's chair. Rottweiler is aiding Kat
in a corner, Billy paces back and forth,
Spyder has his gun trained on the hostages
in front of the window.
3.Research Lab: Research equipment and
monitors cover the walls, piled notes. A
large Replicator Device (500kcr) dominates
this lab. The replicator can create
anything in the player's handbook, it takes
about an hour for complex things, and is
faulty (50% it comes out Wrong).
A Laser Incapacitator (50kcr closeby range,
can work as a tranq pistol or laser cutter
3 uses) and 3 Comm Pins (5kcr, long range
comms/personnel locator) can be found. Logs
include Zimm’s note.
4.Common Room/Crew Quarters: A chaotic
scene of blood and bullet holes (1d5
stress, fear save for half). All but one
crew quarter door open. A bullet ridden
mercenary corpse lies in front of one room.
Blood trails lead to Bridge and Medbay.
Well appointed crew quarters with cryopods,
now in disarray.
Mills’ room: Door is locked. The room was
recently cleaned and a dozen replicated
roses sit on the bed. Many books including
a well worn book of Haiku. Inside the book
is a picture of a young Mills and a woman.
On the back of the picture is Mills’ Haiku.
A wedding band sits on the bedside table.
d5 I search the crew quarters:
1. ROSE’s Haiku, found in a printout of ship
data logs
2. A curved twin bladed ceremonial glaive
3. Chief engineer Wei, killed in their sleep
(2 stress, fear save for half)
4. Two round balls of squeaking fur, cute -
stress, alarming reproduction
5. Augmented reality game, -stress,
addictive
5.Engine Room: Extremely advanced engine,
uses crystals to power it. Under a
conspicuously placed rug lies the hatch to
the AI core, locked with a keypad.
6.AI Core: (Underneath Engine Room). Large
cold room, the only illumination coming
from the Artificial Brain (500kcr), wires
sprouting out of it. This is ROSE,
unplugging it, or destroying it will shut
ROSE down.
7.Medbay: Captain Brown lies dead on the
operating table, oxygen mask on their face,
medical diagnostics turned off. They had a
non-fatal gunshot wound. Robotic arms with
needles and saws. An Omni-scanner (5kcr
medscanner / bioscanner /geiger counter)
lies in a drawer. Well stocked with medical
supplies.
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8.Life support: Main access point for
Johnson tubes
9. Vents / Johnson tubes: Vents connect to
Johnson tubes, very tight, must be careful
not to make noise, can only carry 1 item in
each hand when inside.
10. Mercenary ship (the Gnat): Cramped,
dirty, smells of humans. One room ship,
curtains draped up to divide sleeping bunks.
The thrusters were sabotaged, 3hrs to fix if
skilled. Messages from a blocked user with
detailed ship schematics, crew schedules,
and instructions. A credit transfer of
200kcr (can be traced to Mills’ account) was
made to the mercs.
Mercenary Bunks:
- Spyder: Military uniform, dog tags,
philosophy books, plans, schematics,
pictures of his unit.
- Billie: Empty pain pill bottles, medical
bills, a dvd player with classic comedies,
sewing kit.
- Rottweiler and Kat: Candy wrappers, dnd
books, dice, makeup, a cassette player, well
worn tape titled “Catdog’s kibble”.
-Canary: Broken hacking deck, bearded dragon
terrarium, sooooo much manga.
- Heifer: Pictures of the farm, foreclosure
notice for the farm, empty milk cartons,
video game console.