So the rules preview for Mothership 1e is out to backers now, and being one of that lucky number I have given it my perusal. Among noteworthy changes is the fact that downtime in port can convert stress into better saves, as determined by the port's classification.
X-Class
- Pornographic slickspace with a jailbroken scenario generator
- Blood sports arena (flash cloned c-levels and celebrities)
- Blood sports arena (self-service)
- Blood sports arena (tricked out robots)
- Religious service (Orgiastic Dionysian rites)
- Religious service (Radical splinter faction)
- Public execution (traitors to the syndicate)
- The Hungry Bug (good dumplings and cheap beer)
- Dealer: Angeldown
- Dealer: Hypermeth
- Dealer: Quantum Devil Engine
- Dealer: Turingfuck.exe
- Public appearance by local crime lord
- Delvers' (dive bar for all the weirdos)
- Goblin Market (pirated and handmade goods; sometimes both)
- Xenofungus-infected shaman performing spore rituals
- Specialty brothel ("The Kink Buffet")
- Passion play (Tragedy of the Lady of Fangs)
- Illegal bodymod surgery hall (observers welcome, color commentary provided)
- Place that was at some point a Burgar Konig franchise. Definitely not cursed.
C-Class
- Cafeteria (automated food dispensary)
- Religious service (Nocinax Pilgrimage revival preacher)
- Multi-denominational chapel space & fellowship hall
- Talent show (open signups)
- Gaming lounge (inadvertently retro due to age of equipment)
- Universe's saddest marijuana dispensary
- Standardized corporate auto-brothel (capsule)
- Little Spacers' Library
- Volunteer chore roster
- Sit on a bench and watch the maintenance drones
- Union hall (charity spaghetti dinner)
- Hang out at the commissary store
- Community herb garden
- Mama Fiorini's Pizza Place
- Theater (Fuck the King of Space)
- Community college evening classes (audit)
- Dealer: Space Heroin
- Low-rent occult paraphernalia store (Neo-Wicca, New Age 3.0, Folk Capitalism)
- Swap meet + flea market and scrap sale
- Chain restaurant (Great Googly Moogly's)
B-Class
- Cafeteria (Chain fast food)
- Hookah bar
- ISWU brothel (willing to moonlight as bruisers if the gig is right)
- Blues lounge (Real folk blues)
- Tea shop (private rooms available)
- Codepriest offering tech support and exorcisms
- Religious Service (Principles of Prosperity and Profit)
- Religious Service (Small Gods)
- Religious Service (Church of the High Houses)
- Mahjong parlor (obvious front for the mob)
- Devil Hunters' Lodge (public demonstrations)
- Neo-neanderthal drum circle
- Vat-meat BBQ joint
- Union hall (members only)
- Designated injection site
- Dealer: Blue Sand
- Spacers' memorial
- Theater (Admiralty Blues: The Movie)
- Cat lounge
- Happy Devil Noodle Company
A-Class
- 0-G laser tag courts
- Boutique craft fair
- Axe-throwing pop up
- Full tactile immersion slickworld pods
- Codepriest cluster-monastery
- Mindfulness observatory
- Craft distillery (in the neoliberal hell future they have somehow made IPAs worse)
- Religious service (Ancient alien xenotheism with barely-whitewashed racism)
- Religious service (Principles of Prosperity and Profit, subscribed members-only circle)
- Singleship races
- Immersive AR LARP
- Escape room (Abducted by the Zetians)
- Anime convention
- Wandering preachers (International Society for MANA-YOOD SUSHAI Consciousness)
- Dealer: Space Mead
- Circus (0-G acrobatics and stage magic)
- Corporate tech exhibition
- Union recruitment drive
- Guided station tours + historical reenactment (Recombination era)
- AI generated live concert with android idol troupe
S-Class
- Pornographic slickspace with a no-restraints scenario generator
- Blood sports arena (debtors)
- Religious services (Orgiastic Dionysian rites, except with yuppies and performative wealth)
- Religious services (Human sacrifice to appease the Market)
- Public execution (class traitors)
- Botanical garden (special exhibit of imported Earth flowers)
- "Communing with the aetheric intelligences" (the fuck does this even mean)
- A lovely night at the opera (pack your go-bag)
- Living art installation (The Esoteric Ecstasies of St. Balai-an of Garamond d)
- High-society gala (Designer infectious diseases)
- Dealer: Ulfire Lotus
- Dealer: Ultima Amanitia
- Dealer: ExtraSensoryOverload.exe
- Full-body cosmetic treatment
- Public dueling garden (walk-ins welcome)
- Cybernecromantic seance
- DIY chimera lab
- Fine dining experience (multiple courses of artificially-scarce foods)
- Human zoo (current exhibit "Exotic Cultures of the Rim")
- [REDACTED] Have fun figuring out where your missing time went.
Yay Mothership.
ReplyDeleteYES! Love this!
ReplyDeleteExcellent. J'aime.
ReplyDeleteFunny how similar X- and S-Class is... makes you think huh? Nifty!
ReplyDeleteAyup.
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