Star Warriors, Dungeon Openers, Dinosaur Alignment Spectrum

Cosimo Galluzzi

Star Warrior

Esoteric soldiers who have emptied themselves into the void, and returned bearing the fire of the heavens.

HD, Saves, Weapons and Armor: as cleric

The star warrior unlocks a new stellar chakra with each level.

Level 1: M-type, Root 
By rooting themselves firmly to the ground, a star warrior may deflect d12 damage or resist being knocked prone 1/day. 

Level 2: K-type, Sacral
The star warrior gives birth to an astral familiar of 1/3rd their HD. If it is dismissed or defeated, it will be [level] days before a new one may be made.

Level 3: G-type, Navel
Once per day, the star warrior may draw upon their inner spiritual reserves and gain d6 points to be added to whatever rolls they wish. 

Level 4: F-type, Heart
The star warrior anoints their weapon with their heart. Their next [level] attacks are treated as magical. Usable 1/day. 

Level 5: A-type, Throat
The star warrior may make three single words of Command per day. 

Level 6: B-type, 3rd Eye
The star warrior has awakened their third eye, and may now see ghosts, spirits, and auras that would be otherwise hidden. 

Level 7: O-type, Crown
Once per day, the star warrior may awaken any of the stellar chakras in one of their allies. They will be able to use it as a true star warrior would.

Dungeon Openers 

1) The Vault
Stairs leading down to a double door of engraved black stone. A circular hole has been blown through the middle, and the doors bulge outwards. Charred corpses are stuffed in the hole in an apparent attempt to escape. Several managed to crawl through before death.

2) It's Raining Men
Players find themselves falling out of of a stormy and scabrous sky with thousands of others. Snap to black upon hitting the ground. They will awake as they are dumped out of a gigantic iron corpse-wagon. A plague doctor stylite is there, overseeing the operation.

3) Escape Room
Players wake up inside a haunted house. Impossible spaces abound, doors and windows boarded up.  Kicker: the house is buried underground. Presumed modern setting, good for CoC or EE.

Dinosaur Alignment Spectrum

All dinosaurs may be measured according to the following three alignments.

Animal <---------> Monster

Natural <---------> Gonzo

Domesticated <---------> Wild

Spectrum A can replace "animal" with "people" as needed. Specific dinosaurs within a piece of media may be categorized differently. Dinosaur alignments are spectrums rather than binaries. Gonzo includes outmoded models of dinosaurs, including tail-dragging and potentially not having feathers.

Examples:

• Jurassic Park = Monster / Natural / Wild
• Jurassic World = Monster / Gonzo / Wild
• Walking with Dinosaurs = Animal / Natural / Wild
• Dinotopia = Animal / Natural / Domesticated
• Land Before Time = People / Natural / Wildness dependent on environmental factors.
• Dinosaur Clerics = Monster / Gonzo / Wild and Domesticated Variants.
• The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins = Animal (with monster flourishes) / Gonzo / Wild

Unnamed Mothership Setting: Solar Gazetteer

Jakub Rebelka

Part two of my Unnamed Mothership Setting.

Planets were generated using Mephit James' repurposed Traveller tables with some extra aide from the Stars Without Number and Red Tide tags. Distances between stars came from Space Engine which is terribly helpful in general.

For the sake of space, I'm not going to detail every single planet that was rolled up. There are a whole lot of indistinct dwarf rockballs and asteroids out there, so unless there's something particularly interesting about them, they shall be elided. Planets will be listed in order outwards from their sun, with the orbital region in parentheses. Moons will be listed in italics under their parent planet.

Some Handy Terminology

• Epistellar - Really close to the star.
• Inner - Close but not that close to the star.
• Outer - A sizable distance from the star.
• Terrestrial - .02-5 Earth Masses
• Helian - 3-15 Earth Masses
• Vesperian - Tidally locked 
• Pelagic - Ocean world
• Bathypelagic - By God that's a lot of ocean
• Panthallassic - Even the sky is ocean.
• Gelidian - Frozen 
• Pelagic-Gelidian - Frozen crust surrounding subsurface ocean.
• Post-Gelidian - Cooling tectonic world, subglacial oceans.
• Cytherian - Venus-like
• Arid - Mars-like
• Amunian - Terrestrial ammonia worlds 

 

Sol - G2V

Home sweet home. Even the posthumans still have a certain fondness for it, living out in the Oort cloud or in micro-Dyson-swarms. Every major body in the solar system has been settled by this point, though much of the activity has moved outwards towards Jupiter and Saturn: interstellar ships are much more likely to stop off at Callisto or Titan, with their goods launched towards the inner system via mass driver. Venus is home to thousands of aerostat nations, Earth is coming out of centuries of environmental reclamation, and Mars is heavily para-terraformed.

Proxima Centauri - M6V

The closest star to Sol and the cultural hub for spacers. All three planets and their orbits have been heavily settled and para-terraformed. Most of the system population is transient, but those who stay on permanently are a proud and stubborn community - corporate interests rarely reach far into Proximan doings, co-operatives and mutual aid organizations flourish.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Gargarin	Rocky vesperian	Epistellar	0	Complex single-celled
Armstrong & Aldrin	Binary rocky dwarfs	Inner	0	No
Shen	Arid Methane	Outer	0	No

For visitors overwhelmed by the thousands of cantinas, hostels, shrines, and spaceports around Proxima, pay a visit to Clever Lu's in Shen orbit. It's got work, people, talk, drinks, whatever you're looking for.

Alpha Centauri - G2V / K1V binary

A prime example of what not to do. The original colonization attempt collapsed under incompetent leadership and construction by the lowest bidder, leading to a period of violent anarchy then replaced by a militaristic corporate-fascist police state. Over 60% of the system's habitats were built with faulty water purification and filtering systems (using proprietary hardware and legacy software from a defunct company with no documentation) that cannot be fixed without completely replacing them. The native environments of both Onwards and Prosperity have undergone catastrophic mass extinctions via industrial exploitation.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Upwards	Panthallasic Helian	Outer	3	Single-celled producers
Onwards	Pelagic	Outer	N/A	Large macroscopic
Prosperity	Arid	Outer	1	Complex global ecology +potential proto-sapients

Barnard's Star - M4.OV

Barnard's Star has a single shining attraction: the planet Dorothy is a tropical paradise.  Some combination of the planet's air, water, and temperature triggers the human body to purge itself of stress and toxins. Locals have the highest non-augmented life expectancy in human space and some of the best health. The artificial islands of the planet are held up as a poster-child of environmentally-non-invasive colonization. Generations of such good living have made themselves manifest in the local population with a borderline-dangerous naivety of life outside the system and a complete disregard for measuring time.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Dorothy	Pelagic Gaian	Inner	1	Large macroscopic
Alice	Amunian	Outer	0	Single-celled producers
Lirazel	Saturnian Dwarf-Jovian	Outer	1	No

Travelers might also wish to explore the bizarre daydream-cultures of Wonderland Arcologies of Alice and all the court machinations of the Chess Queens.

Sirius - AOmA1 + White Dwarf Companion 

With empty Epistellar and Inner orbits, the few bodies orbiting Sirius are cold and empty. Hardly befitting their namesakes, but the Dog Star needs its pack.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Gelert & Guinefort	Binary icy dwarfs	Outer	0	No
Hachiko	Arid Methane	Outer	1	No
Laika	Cthonian Jovian	Outer	4	No

Most of the system's settlements are in the business of mining and volatiles. Of note are Lonely Glow, a partially-abandoned debtor's prison on Hachiko, and the feral autofactory General Product Production Installation 113 in Laika orbit.  

Epsilon Eridani - K2V

An economic powerhouse and the third most populated system in human space. Originally settled by ships of the Indian-Venusian Diaspora, it has since expanded into a bustling, diverse, and all things accounted for not terrible place to live. All major worlds in the system have been settled, and the few posthuman habitats seem to be oddly fond of the human population, inasmuch as they can be.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Matsya & Kurma	Twin burning terrestrials	Epistellar	0	No
Parashurama	GelidianGaian	Inner	3	Simple global ecology
Rama	Campian (Hot, wet) Gaian	Outer	0	Complex global ecology
Krishna	Amunian	Outer	1	Complex multicellular
Buddha's Belt	Dust Ring	Outer	N/A	N/A

Of note to scientists is the extinction of any life on Parashurama outside of the subglacial seas due to swift cooling of the climate. Digs have revealed an extensive fossil record, and the planet is oft cited by those believers in ancient alien civilizations.

Ross 128 - M4V

Currently entrenched in a gamelike civil war of ritualized combat, fought in daily one-on-one combats broadcast openly, backed by an elaborate system of points and territories. The religious tension at the root of the conflict appears to have originated in political demographics that jumped over into belief systems. Dozens of minor faith-parties have emerged in the cracks, starting their own proxy conflicts.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Radamanthus	Chlorine Vespirian	Inner	0	Single-celled producers
Aeacus	CryoNebulous Helian	Outer	2	No
Minos	Arid Ammonia	Outer	0	Complex multicellular

The majority of the system's settlements are in orbit around Aeacus, save Charon City on Minos, home to the Silicon Sepulchre - a library of memories and experiences from over half a billion androids from across human space.

Tau Ceti - G8Vp

With so little in the system, Tau Ceti is a more of a stopover location than a destination. Hou Yi and Chang'E are both settled, though not heavily. Of note are reports of unexplained freak geology below the clouds of Chang'E and the Hou Yi biotech and agritech industries - the system is the sole supplier for a panoply of exotic genengineered foods.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Paris & Helen	Binary hephaestan dwarfs	Epistellar	0	No
Hou Yi Chang'E	Arid world with Cytherian companion	Inner	0	Single-celled producers / No

Luyten's Star - M3.5V

Contains almost nothing of note or importance. The very definition of a filler M-type.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Lean	Jovian with icy moons	Inner	4	No
Lurch	GeoNebulous Helian	Inner	2	No
Lacrimosa	Bathypelagic	Inner	N/A	Single-celled producers

Weitown: A small settlement that mines volatiles from the moons of Lurch. Serves as a stop-over and refueling depot for interstellar travelers. Founded by ex-corporate soldiers abandoned without pay or pension. They aren't particularly fond of company, which leads to conspiracy theories of hidden wealth and dark secrets.

More Cowboy Bebop

82 Eridani - G6V

The Red Ash Plague (named for what it does to victim's skin) has crippled the system, and after years of work no one has been able to find a cure or an origin. it comes and it goes in cycles that follow no pattern, it is survivable one day and lethal the next. it has made the locals secretive and withdrawn, communicating with outsiders purely by masked broadcast and hiding their scarred faces.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Moriarty	Thetusian Helian	Inner	1	No
Holmes & Watson	Cytherian + Pelagic	Inner	0	No / Single-celled producers
Adler	Arid methane	Outer	0	No

There is a running reward of a hyperelite's ransom for any clue to the cure or origin of the Plague, posted by the eccentric and short-sighted trillionaire behind the catastrophically failed Baker Street  adventure habitat. The habitat is still there and technically still in operation, the owner is still technically alive, the androids technically still keep to their roles but all have fallen into disrepair.

Delta Pavonis - G8IV

In the grips of a humanitarian crisis after a meteroite slipped through the detection net and struck Laozi, crippling the planet's infrastructure. Resettlement of refugees to Diogenes orbit is underway, but there are not enough ships and not enough space. With the loss of Laozi's solar farms, food production for the entire system finds itself in precarious position.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Laozi	Rocky Terrestrial	Epistellar	3	No
Diogenes	Neptunian SubJoviam	Outer	2	No

The Lamp in Diogenes orbit serves as the governmental hub in the system. it is currently overwhelmed with desperate people looking to flee the system and the government's philosopher-parliament is overwhelmed.

Gliese 581 - M3V

Founded by Proximan anarchists driven out by the Centauri Wars, the system is the keystone world for autonomists in human space. In order to remain as independent as possible from capitalist interests the system does keep tight watch on who enters (especially with Gliese 667 so close by).

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Eat-the-Rich	Arid	Inner	1	Complex single-celled
No Gods	Thetusian GeoHelian	Inner	4	No
Liberty	Arid	Inner	N/A	Large macroscopic
No Masters	Hyperionic Geohelian	Inner	1	No
Responsibility	EoGaian	Inner	N/A	Complex global ecology

If one is feeling social, visit Lalu Lilalo's, in No Masters orbit. It can provide whatever entertainment you can want or need, from hanafuda to fighting games to just making friends with strangers / having sex with them.

Gliese 667 (Fu Xi / Nüwa / Shennong) - K3V / K5V / M1 trinary

The first two stars of this trinary circle each other closely, and so have cleared out their orbits of everything but some asteroids and a few rocky dwarfs. Gliese 667 C (Shennong) orbits A&B at a much greater distance, allowing it to maintain a stable system of its own.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Huangdi	Halcyonic Helian	Epistellar	2	No
Leizu	Chlorine Vesperian	Epistellar	N/A	Single-celled
Zhuanxu	Twin Cytherians	Epistellar	0	No
Dì Kù	MesoGaian	Inner	2	Multi-cellular
Tang Yao	Cytherian	Inner	1	No
Great Shun	Arid Methane	Outer	5	Building Blocks

Despite its position, the system is second only to Sol in terms of population and economic output. It has little love for spacers and Company loyalty is strong. Asteroid kowloons filled with unfortunate poor pepper the region. A wide-spread crackdown on the makers of anti-government / anti-corporate VR interactives has, as of yet failed to dredge up the underground master-artist "CC540".

Fomalhaut - A3 V / K5Vp / M4V Trinary

Fomalhaut A is the only star of this trio to be settled thus far. Multiple dust rings make travel in the system difficult, stripping unprotected ships bare from friction.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Atargatis	Arid terrestrial	Inner	1	Single-celled
Oannes	Pelagic-Gelidian	Outer	1	Small macroscopic
Dagon	Saturnian Dwarf-Jovian	Outer	3	No

The largest settlements in the system are Ahab on Oannes and Jonah in Dagon orbit, operated by rival family-owned companies. They've taken the system's economic downturn in stride, using the high unemployment to hire raiders to harass their competition's ships.

Arcturus - KOIII

A great curiosity among xenobiologists: a system where an old and expanded star has consumed or expelled all but two of its worlds, and both of those worlds are as overflowing with life as Earth in its prime, with multiple species on the cusp of sapience? A coincidence that ought be too good to be true.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Tormance	Rocky vesperian	Inner	0	Complex global ecology + potential proto-sapients
Alppain	Bathypelagic	Outer	0	Complex global ecology + potential proto-sapients

For the protection of the local environments most of the population lives in orbit (Main stations Maskul and Nightspore), though small settlements do exist planetside. The initial colonists were of an esoteric neo-gnostic sect that has grown only stranger in the time since, often overlapping with the scientific demographic.

The word "uplift" is not bandied about lightly. It has a tendency to spawn riots.

comelms

Trappist-1 - M8V

A xenobiological grail: five planets with life, potentially with the same point of origin. Its distance from other major worlds has kept it at a relatively low population. It is home to  variety of exiled and heterodox religions, most being splinters from the Titantian Catholic Churchs, the displaced Martian Cathars, the Buddhislamic Fellowship, the Techno-Presbyteriat, and the Old Orthodox Xenodeists.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Anthony	Cytherian	Epistellar	0	No
Augustine	Burning terrestrial	Epistellar	0	No
Benedict	Vesperian	Epistellar	0	Multi-cellular
Scholastica	Arid methane	Inner	1	Complex single-celled
Hildegard	Amunian	Inner	0	Single-celled
Dominic	Post-Gelidian	Inner	1	Single-celled
Francis	Pelagic-Gelidian	Inner	0	Complex multi-cellular

The primary settlement is Subiaco on Benedict, which is run by the ever-patient remnants of the officially-dissolved Jesuits.

Zeta Reticuli - G3-5V / G2V binary

A lively and populous system, famous for the heterocultural communes of Le Guin, the Domes of the Living Dead on Herbert (kill rabid flesh-eating gene-engineered clones for the entertainment of the streaming audience), the android-run habitat of Positronic in Brackett orbit, and Rocketman's Repose around Bradbury, the memorial of every known human to have died in space.

ZR-A

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Brackett	Cytherian	Inner	0	No
Verne & Wells	Dwarf Binary	Inner	0	No
Le Guin	Xeric Gaian	Outer	0	Complex global ecology
Herbert	Arid ammonia	Outer	1	Multi-cellular
Bradbury	Poseidonic SubJovian	Outer	2	No

 

ZR-B 

With little of interest beyond resources and some xenological studies, few ever visit Zeta Reticuli B. There are no permanent settlements in-system - automated fuel depots and comm buoys will be your only company.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Barney & Betty	Binary Rocky Dwarfs	Inner	0	No
Niburu	Panthallassic Helian	Outer	0	Large macroscopic

Upsilon Andromedae (Titawin) - F9V / M4.5V binary

Located in a relatively unpopulated region of human space, Titawin serves as a sort of regional hub for explorers and travelers. It is home to the storied Academy of Astrogation in orbit around Majriti.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Saffar	Hot Jupiter	Epistellar	0	No
The Dancers	Six Companion Dwarfs	Epistellar	0	No
Samh	SuperJovian	Inner	2	No
Majriti	SuprJovian	Inner	3	No
Salt	Arid	Inner	N/A	Large macroscopic
Zarqālī	MesoJovian	Inner	2	No

Upsilon Andromeda B is known to have a epistellar Vespirian orbiting it. An exploratory expedition is currently being crowdfunded and selection of the membership is underway.

Mu Arae (Cervantes) - G3IV-V

Home to the most Earth-like planet yet found, the system is a home for wanderers, dreamers, fools, and scientists (or so goes the stereotype). Corporate interests from Gliese 667 are present and active, but have been barred from interfering with La Mancha in any way by the initial settlers - no permanent surface colonization has yet been made. Like Titawin, the system serves as a hub for exploration further out beyond the Frontier Margin.

Name	Description	Region	Moons	Life?
Dulcinea	Hot Sub-Jovian	Epistellar	0	No
Rocinante	Water-rich Dwarf Jovian	Inner	4	No
Quijote	MesoJovian	Inner	3	No
La Mancha	Continental Gaian	Inner	N/A	Complex global ecology
Sancho	MesoJovian	Outer	1	No
Cardenio	Arid Methane	Outer	0	Small macroscopic
Dorotea	Arid	Outer	1	Multi-cellular
Marcela & Grisóstomo	EoGaian / MesoAmunian	Outer	0	Simple global ecology / Small Macroscopic

Map of Relative Locations

If distances seem weird, it's the Z-axis at work.

Trip Table / Distance in Light Years

Click for bigger version.

Yes, I Would Like More Planets to Add to This

• Gatecrashing, plus exoplanets featured in Farcast, Seedware, and H-REP.
• Expedition, Wayne Douglas Barlowe. The Discovery Channel adaptation is good too.
• Halo. That first game is unapologetically an Aliens ripoff and it's great.
• Known Space, Larry Niven. Creepy weirdo author, but he made some nifty space places.
• Hyperion, Dan Simmons. Damn, I love this book.
• Warframe, especially the new Fortuna expansion.
• All of Chris Tamm's space posts and Michael Raston's Blasphemous Roster.

Unnamed Mothership Setting

Ismail Inceoglu

There's a bright and shining center to the universe, and it's a long ways out from here. Door's been closed for ages. No trespassing, no solicitation, no visitors without an appointment. The future went on ahead without us and left us behind, with all the dust and the rust and the dinged-up hand-me-downs.

It's a big, old, empty, beautiful universe. Little islands of people trying to get by, and a whole lot of black between.

(Mothership is a fantastic game, people.)

Space Travel

Ship's engines of 30 or below are considered sublight drives.

Engines greater than 30 are considered warp drives.

Engine Stat	Ship Speed	Per Light Year	Time Dilation	Time Debt
10	0.75 C	456.56 days	321.42 days	135.14 days / LY
20	0.85 C	420.04 days	226.45 days	193.59 days / LY
30	0.95 C	383.51 days	120.53 days	262.98 days / LY
40	12 C	30.44 days	N/A	N/A
50	24 C	15.22 days	N/A	N/A
60	36 C	10.15 days	N/A	N/A
70	48 C	7.61 days	N/A	N/A
80	60 C	6.09 days	N/A	N/A

Jump drives are rated according to how many decaLY can be traversed in a single hyperspace jump. The standard shipboard time passage is 3 days / light year. Hyperspace travel is highly irregular on the observer side: roll 1d10 - on a 9-10, multiply the travel time by xd10 (x=Jump rating) and multiply it by travel time to determine any delay. 

Extraterrestrial Life

Life is out there, and it's not even particularly rare. There's carbon/oxygen-based life, methane-based life, ammonia based life, chlorine based life. Most of it is microbial, and of the larger organisms found none have shown any signs of technical prowess beyond simple tool usage. There are a great many dolphins, apes, and elephants among the stars, but man is still alone. The stars are as quiet as they have always been.

Technological civilizations of the deep past are still a matter of debate. No direct evidence has yet been found, but certain paleontological digs (Epsilon Eridani d in particular) have garnered some popularity in the scientific community.

They Might Be Giants

Posthumanity (that is, those humans who digitized themselves long ago and all their offshoots and descendants) is a not-quite-sleeping giant. By population and spread, the digital gods dwarf humanity's interstellar civilization by orders of magnitude, but they play no real part in the lives of folks like you and me. The gulf between is too great to bridge. This has actually worked in humanity's favor.

They prefer habitats to planets, building dyson swarms around red dwarfs set to last trillions of years and filling up Oort clouds with supercomputer processors. They typically ignore humanity entirely, save in those cases where they feel the need to swat away intruders. Communication with them is non-existent, but it seems that for the time being posthumanity is content to let its forgotten brethren go along its own way.

I Owe My Soul to the Company Store

Outside of collective communities (and sometimes even then), it's a gig economy out there. The Company posts a job, freelancers with a ship take it. It's rarely a friendly relationship: the Company provides nothing beyond pay upon completion - any other support is going to come from the assorted unions, collectives, religious organizations and co-operatives out there.

While there are, of course, thousands and thousands of interplanetary and interstellar companies out there, spacers will invariably just call them the Company.

Some Notes on Tech

• Hyperspace communications are invariably fucked every time they are attempted. News travels as fast as the fastest ship.
• Self-improving AI and digital upload tech are quashed hard by posthumanity. They don't want competition. Weak AI will get a pass.
• Timekeeping still runs on the 365.25 day Earth year. Exactly what year it is is not supremely important.
• Cybernetics and biotech are out there, but are usually for cosmetic and health purposes.
  

Sung Choi

Solar Gazetteer

Human space is an irregular, blobby sphere stretching outwards from Sol. Thousands of systems have been explored and hundreds permanently settled, but in the scope of the final frontier that doesn't mean much. Even with faster-than-light travel, space refuses to be any less big.

Most populated worlds are within 50 light-years of Earth - beyond that margin colonies become progressively more widely scattered and independently-minded. Out past 250 LY it's mostly nothing but out'sters and posthumans and "here be space dragons".

I'll be putting up a companion post soon detailing a sandbox of 18 nearby solar systems, plus a scattering of other exoplanets to throw down wherever you might wish.

Stuff Outright Stolen From Eclipse Phase

For more goodies, I recommend the Farcast, Seedware, and H-Rep blogs

Name	Description	Source
1. A Thousand Words for Fire	Open-source extreme life-achievement challenge.	Farcast 212
2. After-Eden	Commune that celebrates preventable medical disfigurements.	Farcast 57
3. Ageshift	Medical treatment to induce outward signs of a specific age.	Farcast 259
4. Anthropomorphism	Mindhack; subject anthropomorphizes everything.	Seedware 133
5. Asshole Geese	Even in the future, they are assholes. Semi-reliable guards.	Seedware 291
6. Bonsai	Fun hobby when you have lots of time and no gravity.	Seedware 262
7. Boomfruit	Exploding fruit. Harmless, usually entertaining.	Seedware 302
8. Bouncerfeet	Flexible feet with opposable toes, can hold objects.	MRG 13
9. Break Bread	Nutrient-rich bricks; add water and last a week off of one.	Farcast 96
10. Brownies	Out-of-sight domestic cleaner bots.	Seedware 95
11. Bruixera	Possibly-legendary den of iniquity.	Farcast 225
12. Burning Plague	Engineered virus; causes flammable tumors.	Farcast 201
13. Cancer Dreams	Engineered disease; stress-generated cancers.	Farcast 245
14. Case	Cheap, poorly-made android models. Off-the-shelf.	MRG 15
15. Catal Hayuk	Neolithic historical recreation habitat with permanent population.	Rimward 63
16. Catopia	Popular VR MMO. Everyone is a perfectly normal cat.	Seedware 281
17. Cheshire	Hairless cat breed with chameleon skin. Freaky as hell.	Seedware 13
18. Church of Luminous Saints	Militant post-Christian sect; really likes themselves some WMDs.	X-Risks 74
19. Coiled Canines	Friendly like a dog, wriggly as a ferret, long as a snake.	Seedware 110
20. Common-Sense Network	Low-pop. anarchist collectives running local direct democracy.	Rimward 175
21. Cubehive Corp	Makers of affordable ultra-compact housing and habitats.	H-Rep 147
22. Designer Synaesthesia	Popular mindhack among artists and unorthodox scientists.	Seedware 231
23. DIY Shipyards	Enthusiastic anarchists build anything to order if you help out.	Rimward 86
24. DNA Chaff	Grenade filled with organic dust; throws analysts into a tizzy.	Panopticon 150
25. Drooga	Mind-altering vodka-variant; tends to start sizable riots.	Farcast 133
26. Dummy Barrier	Insulation between a hacker and	H-Rep 60
27. Earthcon	Convention celebrating Earth and its old cultures.	Farcast 337
28. Elysian Fields	Habitat dedicated to those dying in peace and dignity.	Sunward 137
29. Engineer's Womb	Exowomb implant; safe, quick, comfortable.	Seedware 119
30. Eusocial Monkey Butlers	Exactly what it says on the tin. Popular with the rich.	Seedware 81
31. Exonaturals	The business of getting alien resources from here to there.	Farcast 215
32. Faceless	A faceless sphinx of black stone; popular 'net rumor.	Farcast 145
33. Francesca's Cheese & Wine	Hole-in-the-wall vender-fabber; no one knows who Francesca is.	Seedware 208
34. Fur Coat	Actually a living organism that you wear.	X-Risks 157
35. Gardener Bees	Programmed and modified beehives. Guardwasps available.	Panopticon 154
36. Get Your Ass to Mars	Spaceship fleet hosts anarchist olympics.	Rimward 173
37. Glowstick Fungus	Grows about a foot and a half, glows green-yellow.	Farcast 308
38. Gold Ballast	It's basically worthless for anything else.	Farcast 298
39. Grendal's Loop	Hyperspace coordinates that send you back where you started.	Farcast 218
40. Gut Macrofauna	Some people just want to be a hive. For art.	Seedware 52
41. House of Screaming Bricks	The worst prison in human space. No one owns up to it.	Farcast 29
42. Hypothetical Handbook	Popular series of "what-if" guides, from mundane to mad.	Seedware 16
43. IP Enforcement	They aren't above sending someone with a gun.	Rimward 65
44. Jellybone Suit	Vacuum-sealed goo-suit for extreme environment protection.	Farcast 4
45. Jester Virus	Engineered virus; causes uncontrollable laughter.	H-Rep 211
46. K-Flask	Add water and some organic primer, get milk. Ferments well, too.	Farcast 67
47. Kaiju Therapy	Put on VR, pretend to be a monster, feel better.	Seedware 190
48. Language Synthesis	The art of building a functioning language from scratch.	Farcast 159
49. Laughing Policeman	Interrogation drug; target induced to openness and cooperation.	Firewall 175
50. Liangamish	Giant genitalia-themed temple complex.	Farcast 288
51. Lick Me I'm Delicious	Ship fleet out to visit every human-settled world.	Rimward 173
52. Lilith Sequence	Genemod; Allows reproduction via parthenogenesis.	Farcast 126
53. Livestock	Non-sapient humans modified for food; popular with the rich.	Seedware 142
54. Maintenance Rats	Smart rodents modified to actually fix the wiring.	Farcast 235
55. Manna Tree	Nutritious high-water fruit, aspirin bark, rot-resistant wood.	Seedware 86
56. Meathab	Space station made out of meat. Probably alive.	Rimward 77
57. Medicrabs	Cute little robot buddies to stitch you back up.	Seedware 44
58. Medusa Locks	Muscular dreadlocks, a replacement for hair.	Seedware 205
59. Minervan Fleet	Wandering ex-military fleet looking to find enemies fight them.	X-Risks 78
60. Mme. Bleu	Android fixer / crime boss. Bodies found across human space.	Farcast 65
61. Mobile Greenhouse	Precisely what it seems. A touch of nature on barren worlds.	H-Rep 34
62. Mood Lizard	Therapy animal. Quiet, good at cuddling, skin responds to owner.	Farcast 151
63. Moon Worms	Add water and sugar, it generates alcohol.	Seedware 68
64. Mortal Diamonds	The remains of war heroes, compressed into diamonds.	Farcast 285
65. Nanobrush	Little blue pellets that will clean out your mouth. Minty fresh.	H-Rep 178
66. Neptunium Skull	Legendary cursed / radioactive artifact, Holy Grail of thieves.	Farcast 172
67. New Day Corp	Developers of neanderthal genome splices.	Panopticon 121
68. Nostalgia Cigarettes	Drug; induces feelings of nostalgia.	Seedware 199
69. Pearls	Painful side-effect of glitching internal nanomachines.	Seedware 237
70. Pod Variants	Typical human-presenting models for androids.	Corebook 142
	1) Ayah - Caretakers, teachers, nannies.
	2) Basic - General-purpose androids.
	3) Pleasure - Sex-change module + pheromonal control.
	4) Security - Not quite extra muscle, but same principle.
	5) Vacuum - Built for space work; 0-G and stellar radiation.
	6) Worker - Sturdy and solid, good for manual labor.
71. Programmers Without Borders	Charitable organization of hackers and devs. They'll fix you up.	Farcast 317
72. Red Five Advanced Hueristics	Advertising firm dealing with stolen military programming memes.	X-Risks 86
73. Relationship Mapper	Software to map out and detail someone's entire social web.	Panopticon 156
74. Remnant Garden	Gardens grown around corpses.	Seedware 280
75. Rep Day	Holiday for giving gifts to people on your rep network.	Farcast 263
76. Robo-Mule	Everyone's favorite six-legged luggage-hauler.	Gatecrashing 162
77. Rocket Rhosa	Traveling armorer, weaponsmith, and whiskey-chugging veteran.	Farcast 290
78. Rust Hound	Dog breed, originally modified for Mars. Big and red.	X-Risks 160
79. Sharkteeth	Removable tooth, grows to a dagger in mineral-rich water.	Farcast 88
80. Shiprot	Object lesson in entropy; the wear and tear of a ship in use.	Farcast 306
81. Shipslug	Vacuum-adapted; often used for exterior ship repairs.	Farcast 144
82. Shut-In	Drug; induces feelings of melancholy, focus, and introspection.	H-Rep 96
83. Slitheroid	Robotic-presenting android model with serpentine lower half.	MRG 91
84. Soma Fruit	Fruit bred to carry low-intensity social drugs.	Farcast 326
85. Spigipede	Kinda like a pig and a worm, popular food among spacers.	Farcast 287
86. Survivor's Yeast	Add it to nearly anything organic for edible, unpalatable sludge.	Seedware 267
87. Tasping	Mindhack; pleasure/reward centers linked to a specific action.	Seedware 140
88. Tentaball	A ball with tentacles. Used as a ranged restraining device.	Seedware 101
89. Terracotta Warriors of Mars	Once-popular android design.	Seedware 236
90. The Conch	Refugee ship given over to three Company scions. Bad news.	Rimward 137
91. The Holy See	The pope, in space. Also a woman. Jesuits in space too.	Rimward 46
92. To Be Tuesday	"Game" in which players control the same android for one day.	Farcast 192
93. Transbovine	Modified cows; includes superauroch beefslugs.	Farcast 63
94. Translucent / Bioluminecent	Common cosmetic biomods.	Seedware 18/19
95. Vengeance of Enki	Engineered disease; targets ability to comprehend symbols.	Farcast 140
96. Virtue Plague	Engineered disease; subjects become high-empathy pacifists.	Seedware 203
97. Void Sisters	Shadowy sisterhood with plans on shaping the future.	Farcast 268
98. "Wait, That Was You?"	The typical outcome of being the feature of a viral meme.	Panopticon 147
99. Wild Artificials	Robots with animal-level AI, loose and able to reproduce.	Sunward 177
100. Winterist	Genemod, sexless, save for short monthly periods of fertility.	Rimward 189

 

Social Networks

Rep Network	Who's Online	Source
@-rep	Autonomists	Corebook 286
*-rep	Space Marines	Farcast 211
B-rep	Androids	Me
C-rep	Civic / Corporate	Corebook 286
E-rep	Ecologists	Corebook 286
F-rep	Media	Corebook 286
G-rep	Criminals	Corebook 286
H-rep	Homebrewers	H-Rep 4
K-rep	Kindness Network	Farcast 36
P-rep	Video Games	H-Rep 184
R-rep	Research	Corebook 286
T-rep	Teamsters	Me
X-rep	Explorers	Gatecrashing 148

Cowboy Bebop

Class: Book Club Witches

Lin Jin

Monsieur came up with a template for GLOG witches, thought I'd give it a spin.

The Book Club

The story of Book Club goes something like this:

In the late 18th or early 19th Dynasties of Egypt's Middle Kingdom (That is, in the time between Akhenaten and Ramses the Great), there emerged a certain mystery religion devoted to Thoth and his consort Ma'at. The women of that order devoted themselves to unveiling the secret mystic and scientific knowledge of the universe. They sought to use it as a tool against isfet, the crawling chaos at work beneath and behind the world.

It was too late to turn back when the priests finally realized the scope of that undertaking. Isfet nibbled away at the pillars of the earth, it seeped through the foundation walls of the universe, it wore a thousand thousand masks and brought ruin in its wake wherever it was made manifest. It couldn't be stopped, only turned away for a time. They pressed on regardless.

The order endured up until Julius Caesar got his book-burning on and the cult was scattered to the winds and shadows. Practitioners would gather in twos and threes all the way from Londinium to Samarkand, keeping the art alive.

Cut to today: the ancient priesthood has transformed into a loose confederacy of paranormal investigators, fronted primarily by the academic sorority Theta Omega Theta. The religious practices and secrecy are mostly gone now, but the magic is still there.

The modern Book Club serves as a point of contact and intermediary with the preternatural world - government's not much help, and there's only so much the neighbors can do. They'll deal with most things, crawling chaos or no.

When there's something that can't be explained and discretion is advised, call a friend in Book Club. Paperback trades go without saying.

Bookworm

The boots on the ground, called together and sent out when and where they're needed. A lone Bookworm means a pretty unexciting investigation is afoot, or it's just typical inter-species disputes that need settled, or some other known-unknown. For anything dangerous or truly uncertain, they will move in covens.

Perk: You're familiar with the language and culture of one of the mythos peoples. You gain a +1 to reaction rolls with them, and have a 3-in-6 chance to answer difficult questions about them.

1. Deep Ones
2. Ghouls
3. Tcho-Tcho
4. K'n-Yani 
5. Sand Dwellers
6. Cats

Signs:

• You can ping the presence (general distance and direction) of your coven-mates.
• Can memorize a single page of text; new input overwrites old.
  

Librarian

The heart of Book Club. They call together meetings, gather covens of Bookworms, train new members, wrangle the Ibises, and maintain the network of connections and contacts. Most Librarians have settled down after colorful careers as Bookworms, though they'll go back out into the field if things get heated.

Perk: You have a network of contacts to pull on for aid and information. Roll 2d6: on a 10+ they're able to help you out no problem. On 7-9, there is some sort of cost involved (information is spotty, you owe them a favor in return, etc). On 1-6, no one can help you. You may use this ability [Template] times per session.
Drawback: 25% of income goes towards maintaining the Club.

Signs:

• You can send a secret message to the home of anyone you have shared a meal with. Messages must be less than 20 words and will vanish after being read, of if read by the wrong person.
• You have a familiar (cat, dog, crow, rat-thing) and can assign it simple tasks.

Ibis

You've been in the Club for far too long. It's all you've got left. You've torched your outside relationships and most of your social standing. People rightfully call you crazy, but crazy has kept you alive. You spite the crawling chaos just by existing.

Drawback: You've gone batshit. You have developed an obsessive phobia or a mania from your interactions with the Mythos. It has served you well and kept you alive, but its hold on your life has become absolute.

Signs:

• You can create a hideous droning piping noise at will.
• You can remove an eye and roll it around like a marble. It still works.
  

Works  

Dream-Key
R: Touch T: Person D: [dice] hours.
Sends a willing target (caster can target self) into a deep sleep. This lasts for [dice] hours in the waking world, and [sum] x2 hours of dream-time.If cast as a coven, the casters may pool or split their WD among as many targets as desired.
Craft: "Silver Key" potion.

Contact
R: 100 miles / Varies T: Magical being D: Until dispelled.
Caster makes contact with a magical / extraterrestrial / extrauniversal being. If used in the Dreamlands, there is no range limit. If [sum] > 10, non-magically-sensitive individuals may be contacted. For entities existent outside normal space, the spell must be cast at a location of some power or significant to that entity.
Craft: A small engraved or painted icon of the target.

Sign of Thoth
R: N/A T: Entryway D: Until dispelled.
By inscribing the sign of Thoth (Θώθ), the caster may invest [dice] to bar the way of any supernatural being of [sum] HD or less.  Invested dice do not return until the spell is dispelled.
Craft: Drawn upon the doorframe in chalk.


Reveal Invisible
R: 20' T: Area D: 1 hour
Any entities, pigments, or objects that are normally invisible to the human eye are revealed. If 4+ [dice] are invested, the effect is permanent.
Craft: A bag of fine, silvery dust.

Warp Spasm
R: 15' T: Being D: Instant
Target must make a save vs magic or be wracked with powerful seizures for [dice] turns. If [sum] > 12, they will gain a permanent mutation.
Craft: Wishbone charms, ready to be snapped.


Memory Fog
R: Touch T: Being D: Permanent
Target's memories of the last [dice] hours are muddled. They will not be able to recall faces, names, exact conversations, and all but the most obvious details. If [sum] > 25, this spell can effectively blank-slate an individual.
Craft: Tattoo of an eye with an X pupil on the palm.


Burning Cloud
R: 20' T: Area D: [sum] turns
Does [dice] damage / turn to all beings within the cloud.
Craft: A rough red-gold powder, warm to the touch.


Hypergeometry
R: Touch T: Self  D: Instant
Caster jumps into hyperspace and can move through walls, doors, objects, individuals etc, without detection, for [sum] x 5'.
Craft: Effigy of the caster, twisted out of shape.

Bookworm Emblem Work - Friends in Low Places

R: N/A T: Being D: Session
The Bookworm may summon aid from the mythos people she has familiarity with. Barring any usual circumstances (finding oneself in another plane, for example), help will arrive in d6 hours and will remain until the end of the job, the session, or it becomes too dangerous. Caster gets only one free use of this spell: a further favor must be fulfilled before it can be cast again

Librarian Emblem Work - Shielded from their Eyes

R: Touch T: Object D: [sum] hours
The target object (and anything inside it) is shielded from preternatural detection and the attentions of the Old Ones or Crawling Chaos for as long as the spell is active. If this spell is cast with 10+ [dice] during the Witching Hour, the effect will last for a full year and can be extended to the size of a house.

Ibis Emblem Work - Artifact Destruction

R: 5' T: Magical Object or Being D: Instant
This spell will only work if all Work Dice are burnt. The targeted item or possessed individual is immediately and completely consumed in fire and will be destroyed instantly with no save. This spell only affects material targets; the enchantment has a blowback chance as it dissipates (save vs. magic).

Wyrd Transports 

1. Shantak - Horse-headed, bat-winged, elephant sized. Smells of salt and slime.
2. Possessed Bicycle - Will never conspire to throw you off.
3. Bookmobile - Shelves full of well-thumbed paperbacks and extra ammo.
4. Nightgaunt - The tickling isn't that bad, you get used to it after a while.
5. Solar Barge - More of a canoe, really. Shiny and gold.
6. Gigantic Cat - A tabby the size of a tiger.

You Have Captured the Attention Of...

1. The Haunter in the Dark
2. The Bloody Tongue
3. The Faceless Pharaoh 
4. The Bloated Woman
5. The Crooked Man
6. The Thousand Eyes

To Shake the Attention of Chaos...

1. Pound of flesh - sacrifice 1d6 HP.
2. Lay low, lay low - You may not cast at above 1 WD for the rest of the day.
3. Fast and meditate - regain no HP or spells tonight.
4. Snuff the candle - burn off all WD used for this spell.
5. Show of Strength - all spells require an additional WD to cast.
6. Keep your cool - WD spent today are rolled with disadvantage.

Losing Your Grip

1. The magnitude of what you're attempting to do hits you like a lead brick. The spell fizzles out, and the strain of blooming existential crisis prevents you from casting again for d7 days.
2. Isfet strikes back at you. Roll d6 to select a horrible wound table, then roll d6 for the wound.
3. A horrible wound as above, but this time it heals wrong; you bear a cursed branding mark of isfet. Dogs and cats hate you. Humans know something is very wrong with you at a moment.
4. There's nothing left to be done, and there's nowhere else to go. You've reached fail-state. You have two options: taking your life, or throwing yourself into the embrace of isfet as its servant.

Tyler Crook

Callsigns and Operations

Callsign	Operation
1) Tanith Lee	"Dark Dance"
2) Margaret St. Clair	"Sign of the Labrys"
3) Shirley Jackson	"Haunting of Hill House"
4) Gertrude Barrows Bennet	"The Heads of Cerberus"
5) Mary Shelley	"The Last Man"
6) Charlotte Perkins Gilman	"Yellow Wallpaper"
7) K.J. Bishop	"The Etched City"
8) V.H. Leslie	"Bodies of Water"
9) Anne VanderMeer	"The Big Book of Science Fiction"
10) Priya Sharma	"All the Fabulous Beasts"
11) Farah Rose Smith	"Eviscerator"
12) Autumn Christian	"A Gentle Hell"
13) Betty Rocksteady	"Like Jagged Teeth"
14) Tiffany Scandal	"Shit Luck"
15) Leza Cantoral	"Cartoons in the Suicide Forest"
16) Gwendolyn Kiste	"Hardened Hearts"
17) Elizabeth Hand	"Prince of Flowers"
18) Margret Cavendish	"The Blazing World"
19) Molly Tanzer	"Creatures of Will and Temperament"
20) Silvia Moreno-Garcia	"Love and Other Poisons"