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▣▣▣ CONTENTS

HOW TO USE THIS MODULE

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01. How to Use This Module 1
02. Act I: Mission Briefing 2
03. Act II: High Orbit & Atmospheric Entry 6 This module is designed as a game toolbox compatible with the
Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG. It assumes that you are somewhat
-- Conference Room Map 8 familiar with roleplaying games [e.g. rules for Skill Checks and
common Dice Notation such as 1D10] and that you have access to the
04. Act III: Welcome to the Jungle 10 Mothership Player’s Survival Guide.

-- Facility Map 14 The goal of this module is to provide a short adventure that can
be played on it’s own or inserted into a larger campaign. It was

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05. Act IV: Weird Science at Shen Kuo 16 designed and hopefully presented in a user friendly manner with a
focus on information delivery design.
Module 01 - Administration 18
This in mind, there are a few design tools used in the main body
Module 02 - Staff Residences & Recreational of the module to make important details stand out.
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Facilities
Module 03 - Decontamination Suite
Module 03 - Auxiliary Labs & Medical Offices

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Underlined Text important information or game mechanic
such as skill check or reference to a table

DOSSIER
Highlighted Text items, NPC’s, and creatures; something
Module 04 - Main Laboratories + Clean Rooms 24 with stats or mechanics the Crew can interact with
[excluding items not detailed in PRIMEVAL or the PSG]
Module 05 - Garage + Warehouses 26
Yellow Text editorial details or secret/hidden details,
Modules 08-12 - Generators & Plants 26 written for the WARDEN’S EYES ONLY
06. Act V: Escape 28
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Oblique Text narrative text or quotes taken from from
APPENDICES voice recordings, personnel logs, or text media;
typically information that would be read to the players
07. Cast 30
Boxed Text expository or informational text including
-- Facility Personnel Directory 31 Editorial Notes
08. Taxonomic Database 36
///WINNING SCENARIOS
09. Manifest & Notes 46
As with most RPG Adventures, you don’t necessarily win or beat
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10. Appendix N 52 PRIMEVAL. However, there are a few conditions which can be met that
mean you have successfully overcome the challenges presented in
this module.
⋗ Don't. Become insect food. Tell your friends about PRIMEVAL.
⋗ Get Dr. Watanabe safely off of the moon.
⋗ Get off the moon alive.
⋗ Get what Research Data you can off of Ur.

This product is based on the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror Role Playing Game, published by
Tuesday Knight Games. This product is published under license. Mothership RPG is a 01
trademark of Tuesday Knight Games. All rights reserved. For additional information,
visit www.tuesdayknightgames.com or contact contact@tuesdayknightgames.com.

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///ACT I
Ur

51 Eridani B
51 Eridani A ///CORPORATION PROFILE
Takahashi Advanced Genetics is a corporation dedicated to the research
51 Eridani on ways and methods to expand upon the human genome. It’s mission

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statement as dictated by its founder Dr. Ryōsuke Takahashi* was ‘For

MISSION BRIEFING
the betterment of mankind, through research and genetics’. Since then,
TAG has fallen into questionable practices, bureaucratic corruption,
and ‘black’ science under the leadership and management of the gener-
ations following Dr. Takahashi.
*Named after Ryōsuke Takahashi, one of the Directors and Writers of Blue Gender, 1999

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///1D10 CAMPAIGN INTEGRATION

Individual
1D10 Mission Lead Crew Reward Reward

You were commissioned by Pantech

Pharmaceuticals to spy on a science team
///THEN ///MISSION BRIEFING 1-2 T.A.G. sent to the Eridani system. Your
Pantech contact, Laredo Jones, has promised 370kcr 75kcr
The year is 3032. Murmurs of a As the WARDEN, you can choose to you a reward for any information on the
facility. Keep this a secret.
Pantech Pharmaceutical scouting run this adventure as a one-shot
party discovering flora with re- or insert it into an ongoing cam- Your reputation precedes you. Esperanza 250kcr
Ramirez contacts you via an encrypted comms 60kcr
generative properties have be- paign.

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3-4 channel and promises a handsome reward for 10 units of Experimental
you if you are to take this job, off the drive fuel
gun to circulate throughout the [worth 100kcr] Stimpak
record.
sector. The megacorp Takahashi As interplanetary travel is not
Advanced Genetics [T.A.G.] makes a focus of this adventure, here Job posted on a back alley job board, The
Gulch. Commonly used by Corporations to hire
use of its considerable re- are some recommendations about 5-6 Mercenaries and Fixers off-the-books. Kesh 300kcr 70kcr
sources to send a research expe- Demir brokered the deal for you. For whom
the Crew’s: 1. Starting location though, you’re not really sure.
dition to the Eridani system in
search of this mythical plant.
Additional rumors of the company
gathering a task force to send
to the facility have surfaced as
well. It seems that one of their
chief researchers, Dr.

to her last two check-ins.

Yui
Watanabe, has failed to respond
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and 2. Approximately how long it
should take for them to get from
their current location [be it a
multi-level spaceport, a life-
less planetoid, or an over-mined
asteroid] to the Eridani Sys-
tem.

The journey...
7-8

9-10
Your crew came across a rogue S.0.S.
transmission while in transit between
systems. The transmission has attracted your
attention and the promise of access to an
abandoned facility and whatever equipment
may have been left behind.

You haven’t heard from a close friend or

colleague in some time. You know they were
scheduled for a tour with T.A.G. in the
Eridani system. You heard rumors about a
reward through T.A.G. but would likely have
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[1F. Secret
Cache]

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50kcr
[1F. Secret
Cache]

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taken this job without the payment.
⋗ Is rated at no more than a Roll against the Personnel Directory table
///NOW Jump-2 or Jump-3 [pg. 31].
Since then, no one at T.A.G. has ⋗ Consumes no more than 6 Units
been able to get in contact with of Fuel ///MISSION OBJECTIVES
her nor any of the over twenty ⋗ Takes no more than 40 days
personnel housed at the facil- ⋗ Investigate why HQ has been unable to contact the Shen
ity. A corporate arms race has Kuo Research Station
A similar assumption is made
been set off as corporations ⋗ Retrieve the Genetics Research Data Hard Drive Server
about how the Crew receives word PUBLIC
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levy mercenaries as reconnais- Room [Module 01 - Admin, Server Room [1D]]

about this mission and how to
sance teams to venture to the ⋗ Escort Dr. Watanabe back to a T.A.G. outpost or
incorporate it into your new or
jungle moon known as Ur; eager satellite facility
existing campaigns. You can se-
to uncover the mystery of what
lect an option or roll against ⋗ Secure any specimen samples of a plant known as
happened to the Shen Kuo Re-
the Campaign Integration table Orchidaceae Eridani Renovatius
search Facility... SECRET
[pg. 03] for the entire Crew or [Give this to two [2] Crew members. It is a secret
for each individual member. objective and supersedes all others, at all costs.]
WARDEN: Should the players discover that someone else has also received this objective,
02 allow them to work together. The purpose of this is to complicate escaping the Shen Kuo, 03
not to cause in-fighting amongst your players.

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WHAT HAPPENS IF

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THE CREW DOES NOTHING

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⋗ The Countdown Timer begins the moment the Crew
exits Jump-Space and enters the Eridani System.

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⋗ By this point, most of the Shen Kuo Personnel
have been lost. Refer to the Personnel Directory
table [pg. [31]
Hour 0

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C O U N T D O W N
⋗ Several placental cocoons have completed their

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gestation period, releasing a small horde of
Once Campaign Integration [pg. ///TRACKING TIME Intilicets through the facility

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03] has been determined: ⋗ A Larval Clutch has begun the Mutamorphic

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As some time has already passed
process in the Operation Center [5F, pg. 25]
since anyone has been in Hour 4
The Crew receives a communique contact with the Shen Kuo

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from their contact[s] mid- Facility, it’s important to
transit. Due to delays in sub- track the timeframe of events.
⋗ If Dr. Watanabe has been infected by a Coagacet
light transmissions, this is
most likely a pre-recorded
message.
[pg. 05].

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Refer to the Countdown table

Use a paperclip or something Hour 8

as listed in the Places of Refuge table [pg.
17], begin the Coagacet Infection countdown.

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⋗ The Crew or individuals similar on the edge of the page
receives a brief detailing to track the timeframe as soon

20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12
their Mission Objectives as the crew lands on Ur. This
⋗ There is a 50% chance that the remaining
[pg.03] makes it easy to remember where survivors of the Shen Kuo have been overrun
⋗ Regardless of which Campaign you are as well as gives you a ⋗ If infected Dr. Watanabe, has succumbed to her
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Integration results are quick reference to flip back to wounds and been transformed into an Ophidian
Husk.
rolled, the Crew receives the Countdown table. Hour 12
same basic Mission Objectives
from their contact[s]
⋗ The final, Secret Objective
⋗ The Mutamorphic gestation of a Dikeracet has
should then be given to two completed and it has begun to rampage through
[2] Crew Members the facility.
⋗ Dr. Watanabe is lost in the ensuing destruction
[if previously uninfected].
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WARDEN: You can pull the

players aside to give them
these instructions, or prepare
a message or note with the
⋗ A second Larval Clutch has formed.
covert assignment. If possible,
do so in a way that does not ⋗ Michael has located the Renovatius sample and
prematurely reveal how many or has moved it to his Hidden Alcove [pg. 22] for
safe-keeping and future experimentation.
which Crew Members have Hour 20 ⋗ The Shen Kuo Facility has been overrun by
separate assignments.
04 Intilicets.

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///ACT II - High orbit & Argon
0.93%
C02,
Misc.
0.03%
Misc.
5%
///LUNAR PROFILE: UR
51 Eridani B mark 1, colloquially
known as Ur*, is a jungle moon or-
biting the Jovian Planet of 51 Eri-

Atmospheric entry
dani B. It circles in a high orbit
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OXYGEN
20.95% OXYGEN every 42 days and as such always re-
27% ceives some light from the system’s
subgiant sun. As with many jungle
NITROGEN NITROGEN biomes, it is warm and humid with
78.09% 68% dense foliage and tree cover. Unlike
the methane-dense planet it orbits,

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Ur’s atmosphere is very near to
EARTH UR
NORM
Earth Norm.
ATMO
///HIGH ORBIT ⋗ As the ship attempts to enter Though no macrofauna is reported to
the atmosphere the ship may be exist on the moon, it is covered in
⋗ As the Crew enters the megaflora that reproduces via explo-

WARDEN: You can make these rolls yourself or have the Crew roll to
Eridani system they will find 51 affected by a Cosmic Anomaly sive spores. The air of the dense
⋗ Roll against the Cosmic
DAY under jungle is often thick with

decide their own fate. I like to break it up depending on the

Eridani B the 2nd planet from 18hrs dust and pollen. Though these spores
NIGHT
the sun. It is a jovian planet Anomalies table [below] 36hrs and pollen have yet to be observed
28 as harmful to human life, most wear
twice the size of the Sol ///1D10 COSMIC ANOMALIES 42 filter masks or respirators to filter
System’s Jupiter. 1/ out the pollen as it can cause dif-
Micrometeorite storm punctures a ficulty breathing if exposed to the
⋗ Ur is the first moon 1-3 whole in the ship’s hull causing
DAY/NIGHT air for long periods of time.
rapid depressurization
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orbiting this planet
4-6 Solar flare from 51 Eridani ORBITAL *Before it received its current nickname, the
⋗ A Data Buoy satellite circles CYCLES original scouting party referred to 51 Eridani
Ur, periodically transmitting Ion storm in the upper atmosphere B mark as ‘⾬林’ [Urin] which loosely translates
7-9 wreaking havoc with the ship’s to rainforest or jungle. Once teams from T.A.G.
a signal to any ships entering electrical systems
began to scout the moon, its name was shortened.
orbit 10 No anomalies, the ship is able to

1-2

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///1D10 BEACON DATASETS

Beacon damaged by a recent ion

storm; no data received

No macrofauna has been found to

exist on the jungle moon of Ur

The megaflora of Ur reproduces

via explosive pollen and spores
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land without issue

///ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY
⋗ If the Crew encounters an
anomaly, have the pilot make a
Crisis Check [Piloting skill
recommended] and...
⋗ Roll against the Damaged circumstances.
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1-2

3-4

5-6
///1D10 DAMAGED SYSTEMS AND LANDING ZONES

[Critical Success] No damaged systems

Cargo Bay door rent from the ship's hull

-1D5 Max Hull

Fuel tanks punctured and rapidly leaking

-1D5 Fuel

Oxygen tanks punctured and rapidly leaking

-10% O₂ Capacity/30 min.
Landing Zone A

Landing Zone B
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The air is not toxic but reports
Systems and Landing Zones
have been made of difficulty table [page opposite] Computer mainframe short circuited
5 breathing if exposed to the 7-8
-20% Ship INT
atmosphere for extended periods Critical Success: Don’t roll;
of time
Crew is able to stabilize the 1D5 thrusters have burst into flames
Research conducted by the Shen 9-10 For every lost thruster, remove from
6 Kuo facility has been focused on ship enough for a turbulent current Hull Landing Zone C
the rumored regenerative
properties Ur’s megaflora but safe landing
Roll two more times and take the results,
A datagram of Dr. Watanabe’s Success: Roll 1D10-1; Everyone 10 re-roll repeats; On another 10, the ship is
notes and research secured with affected by all damage [This does not
on the ship makes a Fear Save affect the Landing Zone sub-table]
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with 8.2Gb encryption [only a

7 successful Hacking Check can
decrypt the datagram, or suffer 1 Stress
susceptible to acoustic
cryptanalysis [+10%]] Failure: Roll normally; The inspiration to name this module’s moon Ur came from a few different sources. First
EDITOR’S NOTE:

Everyone on the ship makes a was bastardization or anglicization of a generic term in another language. This is a
Transmission from the Shen Kuo: common way places get names and I felt a cool way to give some more depth to the setting.
Fear Save or suffer 1D5 Stress Second was a reference to the ancient Mesopotamian city of the same name, wanting to
evoke something old and unknown. Finally, ur- can be used as a prefix meaning primitive,
8-9 ‘To any inbound shi- *fssh* - Critical Failure: Roll 2D10 original, or earliest. Again, evoking the thought of something ancient and mysterious.
ttacked by cre- *fssh* -rom the Something... PRIMEVAL...
jungle. *fssh* Please send help! and take all effects; Everyone
Send he- *fssh* Aaargggh!!!’ While the jungle moon Ur is fictionalized, the Eridani System, Sun and Jovian Planet
on the ship makes a Fear Save described here are based on a real system. 51 Eridani B was first discovered and catalogued
All data stores in tact; recover in 2014. I make no claims to be an astrophysicist, however, so please do not put any
06 10 Datasets 3-9 or suffer 2D10 Stress stock in the math or metrics listed here. 07

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CONFERENCE ROOM MAP
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///FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION LANDING
> Time
> Air Quality
> Weather/Clime XENOMANGAL
ZONE C
> Lighting TRUNK
VANTABLACK
PYRAMIDION

SHEN KUO

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RESEARCH LANDING
FACILITY ZONE B

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LANDING

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ZONE A

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2 Klicks
1 hour

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WARDEN: Refer to the Conference
Room Map [pg. 08-09]
⋗ 1 hex = 2 klicks = 1 hour
Stage
1
///RESPIRATORY DISTRESS TRACK

No immediate affect

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

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[rough terrain] Stage Allergy-like symptoms
⋗ Each time the Crew enters a 2
new hex, roll against the
Breathing becomes labored
Jungle Encounter table Stage
3 Begin to experience headaches,
[below] and the Jungle fatigue, and optic ataxia
Clime table [below]
⋗ Weather patterns persist Respiratory arrest

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Stage
for approximately 4 hours Body Save or fall unconscious
4 for 1D5 Hours
⋗ For every 2 Hours [approx. 10-
The moon of Ur is a vast jungle covered by ⋗ Landing Zone B: 12 Klicks 20 table minutes] spent in the Suffocation
Stage
an extensive canopy shading a dense East of the Shen Kuo open air without any kind of 5 Body Save or Unconsciousness &

*WARDEN: If you wish to bypass the hex-crawl and go straight to the

underbrush of vibrant plants, vines, and Somehow avoiding and bypassing most of breathing support [filter, Death [PSG pg. 10.3]

facility-crawl, ditch the Valkyrie and skip to Act IV opening the

other flora. It is quiet, save for the the dense foliage of the upper canopy, respirator, etc.], make a Body
occasional puff of an angiosperm the Crew has managed to set down in the Save
expurgating motes of pollen. Rays of light

option to land directly on Module 06 - Landing Pad [pg. 26].

midst of the thick underbrush of the Failure: Progress one stage on
from 51 Eridani filter through the canopy jungle floor. The thick underbrush makes the Respiratory Distress Track
revealing dust and spores floating through travel slow and difficult to orient [to the right]
the air. In contrast to the green horizon, oneself to the jungle.
dark, intestine-like roots with an oil-
like iridescence twist across the ground.
⋗ Touchdown and Landing Zones
⋗ Landing Zone
Characteristics: On a
failure to orient
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As the Crew passes overhead, Day Night
themselves in the dense
they’ll see the Landing Pad is jungle, it is possible to Crashed ORT-X4; chassis twisted and crankshaft damaged. 50% chance of its fuel
currently occupied by another become lost without the 1 source catching fire
vessel, the Valkyrie*, aid of positioning
blocking the ability to land software or some other 2 Galixeo TPS handheld mapper 1D10 larvacets
directly at the facility. means of geolocation. To
There is little space between determine the cardinal 3 Nagacet tracks [Sanity Save or 1D5 Stress]
the edge of the Jungle and the
clearing made to house the
modular facility. Landing a
mid-sized ship would be
difficult if not nearly
impossible.
⋗ Once the crew has landed
on Ur, establish the time
of their landing
Day: 33% Chance
Night: 66% Chance
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direction the Crew begins
heading toward the Shen
Kuo, refer to one of the
Cardinal Headings Tables
[pg. 13]
⋗ Landing Zone C: 19 Klicks
Northeast of the Shen Kuo
The crew has crashed into the canopy of
Ur’s treetop and now finds themselves
suspended in the air some 30m above the
4

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Xenolotus Pod

Razorleaf

Key Card [Engineering]

Sarcofilanex

Larvacet tracks [Sanity Save or 1 Stress]

Sound of something rustling
through the underbrush [Fear Save
or 1D5 Stress]

Bioluminescent Flora (dull if

raining]
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jungle floor. While the thick, spiraling Remains of two [2] Personnel. Roll against the Personnel Directory table [pg.
9
⋗ Landing Zone A: 7 Klicks vines make traversal easy sounds of 31], re-roll repeats.
South of the Shen Kuo creaking branches and metal begin to
A clearing surrounded by dense jungle. fill the air. Empty Placental Intilicet Cocoon [Sanity
10 Extinguished Flare
Save or 1 Stress]
It appears as though this was a ⋗ Landing Zone
favorite spot for scientists to come Characteristics: The ship
and collect samples as there is will not remain suspended ///1D10 JUNGLE CLIME EVENTS
evidence of deliberate incisions and forever. There is a 25%
samplings taken from the surrounding chance of the tree’s 75-88°F (24-31°C)
flora. Several paths lead out of the branches giving way and 1-2 Fog and a misting rain
88-94% Humidity
clearing along with tracks belonging to the ship falling the
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some kind of all terrain vehicle can be remaining 30m. If it 3-5 Mild weather
85-95°F (29-35°C)
clearly seen. falls, anyone still inside 77-88% Humidity
⋗ Landing Zone must make a Body Save or
Characteristics: Advantage suffer 1D10 DMG. Anyone Heavy Rain 68-80°F (20-27°C)
6-7
on checks determining outside needs to make a -10% Speed on the slick jungle floor 90-100% Humidity
their position and Speed Check or risk being Sporestorm
navigating out of the crushed by the falling Typically occurring after a heavy rain, 70-85°F (21-29°C)
clearing ship, suffering 1D10 MDMG. 8-9 Sporestorms double the density of pollen in
67-80% Humidity
the air. -20% to Body Saves while in the
USE OF SOUND: If possible, an ambient soundtrack played here can help to increase the affected Hex or for the next hour
suspense for this scene. The juxtaposition of a living jungle compared to the stark
silence can underline the impact and surprise of creatures jumping out of the cover of Viridian Thunderstorm
10 Any PC’s with metal gear or armor must make 65-78°F (18-26°C) 11
the thick foliage and attack the party. 10
a Body Save. On a Failure take 1D10 damage 94-100% Humidity
as they attract a rogue lightning strike

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