One-Shot Initiative: Mothership, Gradient Descent

PLAYER INFORMATION

• Experience required: None
• Age: +18
• Seats: 4

2 seats in every guild one-shot are reserved for the monthly supporter lottery. You may see players in a game's attendee list before guild-wide RSVPs open.

Please scroll all the way down for any and all information, including age restrictions, what kind of experience is needed (if any), what to bring, content warnings, and more!

PRICING
It is $10/per player to play this game at Groundswell Startups.
It is $8/per player if you are a paid monthly supporter of the Guild (via our Ko-Fi or Patreon).

ABOUT THE ADVENTURE
In the depths of the massive, abandoned android factory formerly known as the CLOUDBANK Synthetics Production Facility, rumors tell of powerful artifacts, artifacts that would be worth a fortune should anyone be able to retrieve them. Rumors like these continue to attract treasure hunters willing bypass the blockade, brave the horrors of The Deep, and face the AI known as Monarch. Do you dare enter the deep? If you do can your mind ever hope to leave?

This will be an ongoing open table campaign, each session will be a self contained one-shot but you can join future sessions with the same character and continue in an ongoing story.

ABOUT THE SYSTEM
Winner of the 2019 Gold ENnie for Best Game!

Winner of the Ramanan Sivaranjan Excellence in Gaming Best G** D*** Books of 2018 award!

Mothership is a sci-fi horror roleplaying game where you and your crew try to survive in the most inhospitable environment in the universe: outer space! You'll excavate dangerous derelict spacecraft, explore strange unknown worlds, exterminate hostile alien life, and examine the horrors that encroach upon your every move.

GM: Jonah (He/Him)
• 8 years years playing / 8 years years GMing

WHAT YOU NEED:
• An existing mothership character or a mobile device to use the mothership app for character creation.

WHAT I PROVIDE:
• Blank Character sheet
• Pencils/pens
• Polyhedral dice or game specific dice

GAMEPLAY:
• Learning Session - Gameplay questions encouraged

CONTENT WARNINGS:
• Adult Language
• Descriptions of Alcohol use
• Descriptions of Drug use
• Descriptions of Gore/Violence
• Body Horror
• Psychological Trauma
• Torture
• emotional trauma
• psychological distress
• loss of autonomy
• harm to android children

PROHIBITED CONTENT:
• Sexual Themes

SAFETY TOOLS USED:
• Lines and Veils
• Breaks

PLAYERS CAN EXPECT:
Combat: Medium | Roleplay: Medium | Exploration: High | Puzzles: Low