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A Near-Future Mothership Scenario
I wrote an adventure for Mothership. It's about a mysterious structure found on the surface of Enceladus, which is an ice moon orbiting Saturn. An interesting thing about it is that it's not set in the usual Mothership assumed setting, rather it's closer to our own reality and you take part in a near-future NASA mission.
I created it originally in a rough form for Gromb's halloween games event. Spooktober 2024 I believe he called it. We'd all run little one-shot games for halloween over the month of October. It was super fun, and it inspired me to write this adventure.
Here it is!
Writing is Hard
This is not the first adventure I've ever written. But it's the first one I've shared online. When I ran it, it was only half-written up. I went back to it after and tried to polish it up. That was a very difficult process. I learned that creating an adventure you can run is only a fraction of the task of writing up an adventure you can share for other people to run.
This is not the first adventure I've ever written. But it's the first one I've shared online. When I ran it, it was only half-written up. I went back to it after and tried to polish it up. That was a very difficult process. I learned that creating an adventure you can run is only a fraction of the task of writing up an adventure you can share for other people to run.
I also learned that the closer you get to the end of a project, the more inertia it seems to acquire. I think 80% of the work for this thing was done in the first 8 weeks. After that, it was all these tiny tweaks that just seemed to take forever to complete. Part of that was motivational. It's less exciting to go through the end product and make sure there's no spelling mistakes or whatever. So you're less inclined to sit down and do it.
Anyway, it's June 2025 now, about 6 months later, and I'm ready to be done with it. I know it's a bit of a mess, but it should more or less be functional. It'll probably kill your players, and the setting makes it difficult to tie into a campaign. Sorry about that.
Thanks
Mum and Dad,
Tommy,
Cormac and Dowens,
Gromb and Wilber H Force,
Jim and Graham,
Johnny and Tristan,
Kevin, Mark and Ryan,
Luke / Elia for the final playtest and some friendly feedback,
Mr. Mann, miles1545, and many other people on the purple osr server,
The thinking adventure server for being encouraging about writing,
The Mothership Warden's manual for being very helpful in figuring out how to even start.