A silhouette blocks the stars, darker than the space it drifts through. Several amber eyes encased in crystal peer out from the shadows.
When dappled in light from the closest sun, the remnants of petroglyphs can be seen carved across its hull, hewn from a single black stone harder than steel. The ship has no comms, no transponder, just a pulsating thump within a membrane running through the stone like a vein of ore. A glistening docking umbilical gently sways as it’s pulled behind the vessel, stretching toward anything that approaches, looking to touch, to connect.
Traverse the organs of the Gift, a ship that eats and breathes and feels your clumsy boots plodding about within it. Let it caress your brainstem to impart its hopes and fears.
About The Stone-Flesh Gift:
The Stone-Flesh Gift is a TTRPG module with a focus on exploration and body horror, to be played with the Mothership sci-fi horror RPG. The players will wade through the innards of a lost ceremonial offering, an ancient alien bioengineering factory and living ship called the Gift, as they work to avoid its dangers, discover its secrets, and plug their brains directly into its organs to feel their thoughts.
Content Warnings: body horror, violence, gore, disease, addiction, loss of autonomy, themes of reproductive agency
Contents:
• 25 rooms, most with unique thoughts and feelings
• 12 creatures, hazards, and NPCs
• 10 diseases and a system to spread them
• 23 items and materials, along with recipes for most of them
• a d100 I Search the Body... table
• a custom ship manifest for the Gift
• rules for running and repairing the ship's life support, flight controls, FTL capabilities, and digestion
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40 pages, staple-bound, digest-sized (5.5" x 8.5") zine, full color throughout.
PDF included
