For the past few days, I have soloed my way through Death Station, an interesting sci fi adventure for Traveller (27 pages). The system that I used to run it was Traveller: Explorer’s Edition (same place for a buck, 74 pages). I used Magic the Gathering cards as the solo engine. The first P.C. character that I generated was by the old school method. The good news is that he survived this process. Yes, it is possible for your character to die as you are rolling him up. The other four characters I pulled from a different Traveller module. So, my five characters picked up the quest and in a few hours they were exploring in the laboratory ship (getting in took a bit of work). They quickly discovered that someone or something had cut through the sub-flooring and my group used these tunnels to access some of the levels of the station. In the main lab they found proof that the scientists were experimenting with animals with several drugs that they had created. They soon found dead bodies, a mentally unstable scientist (Stavro), and were attacked by a crazed monkey. They also had to deal with traps and a crazed Lycur (dog/wolf). After this they found the scientific library computer with more proof of the experiments. So they downloaded this info and they still had the partially damaged laptop with test results from the main lab. Next, the scientist Harris came up to them. Uh, he was not acting normal either. So, the P.C.s escorted the two scientists to their ship along with the scavenged items/science data. During this ship journey, Stavro “changed” and attacked the party. He was subdued, but now there was a total of three damaged party members. The final thing that happened was that when they got back to the quest giver and gave him a report. The deal was for them to get 1500 credits each. Well, he said that their mission was only a partial success and he gave them 750 each. What a jerk. Maybe you will have better luck with this.
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