Stargrave - Hydroponics

 On Sunday we played the next scenario in our campaign. Due to illness & work, we only had 3 of the 6 players attend.

 

Scenario - Having made it to a spaceport, some repairs were made to the ship, empty chairs recruited for, you look at what remains of your treasury....it isn't much.

You spend some time ruminating over the logs from the time at the Q37 facility. A small bit of info about another facility on a planetoid piques your interest. It's location is several jumps away & not much else is mentioned other than 'Alien Resources' & a name....A43

Your ship arrives at the planetoid & sets down. Your crew exits the ship & begin searching for an entrance, though your sensors are not helping much. You see some caves in rugged hills & make towards them. As your climbing the ground beneath your lead crewmen crumbles & caves in. He manages to avoid tumbling in & closer inspection reveals what remains of a corroded panel beneath the earth. Looking within, occasional flickering lights & metal piping can be seen. Humid warm air rises from the hole.

Using the rapelling gear, your crew drop down to the floor below, finding yourselves in an artificial jungle. Momentarily confused, you then realize its a highly advanced & unusually large Hydroponics Laboratory, built within the caverns below the hills. Scores of trees filled with strange fruit stand in large water bowls, whilst smaller vegetable plots & berry bushes fill spaces in between. The air hangs thick & warm, while the sounds of dripping & bubbling water come from all around. Your crew starts to fan out to investigate when you hear the ominous 'ping' of your life trackers. If that wasn't enough, the cable connected above is snapped & tumbles amongst your scattering crewmen. You won't be going back out that way...

In the centre of the lab are a set of sealed doors within a rocky outcrop.

 Setup: The scenario follows the info from the Q37 book with the addition of the following.

The doors in the central rock lead to  a control centre. The console within unlocks the doors at the edges of the boards & these cannot be exited until unlocked. Players can attempt to hack/pick the main doors (TN18). Another console sits atop another rocky platform. This console controls the main doors & can be hacked (TN14)

 Inside the control room, a player may spend 2 actions downloading the schematics of the facility. 

 Players must exit through one of the 3 doors on the far side of the table from where they entered.

As we were down to 3 players, I changed the exit door locations to the corners.

Chens crew was quick to reveal a ping marker & revealed a couple of worker bugs. Let the fun begin!

 

One of Kurt's infected crewmen changed into a plague zombie in the middle of his crew!

 

A couple of bugs appeared near my crew as well, including an acid spewing one...Oh joy!

 

Chen found a couple members of his crew locked in melee with the worker bugs.

 

The rest of his crew continued...seemingly leaving them to their fates.

 

Kurt dropped a wall of force to block Chen's crew from getting to the control centre. This ended up being a pain for his own crew as it was blocking the path towards his exit doors.

 

As loot was gathered, the slow slog to the exits began. It didn't help that by this time, we were all suffering -2 move due to water from burst pipes.

 

As Chen was getting closer to his exits, he found himself inundated with several bugs that had appeared around his crew....wonder how that happened!

 

Chen had several crewmen taken down, but we all managed to get through our exits.

Until next time!