Journey to the Tomb of the Spider Princess

I'm on a four day trip to Prague, visiting my brother. I had a 10 hour train ride ahead of me and so inspired by technoskald's Stygian Library solo campaign , I set out to improvise a sci-fi depth crawl. Welcome to Station Δ. An abandoned space station orbiting an unnamed planet. It is of great interest to the Space Federation as it is the last recorded location of the Important McGuffin. The station doesn't have the best reputation. Allegedly, due to unknown planetary influences, the internal structure of the station is in a constant quantum flux, rearranging and altering. Thankfully, through the wonders of modern technology, there is a way to locally stabilize the quantum field. Temporarily anyway. And its still not exactly safe. Rather than dirtying their own hands, Space Federation decides to hire a crew of freelancers specialized in voidship salvage. Que the Fragmented Leap. It is a hauler class inter stellar vessel (ISV). It's crew is as follows: Captain Percival ...

Over the past week I slowly continued to unfold the story of our intrepid party. I started with some downtime activities. For prices of various items I'm using the  Basic Fantasy Equipment Emporium . I got to do couple combats and I'm quite pleased with how dynamic they feel while only using a series of coin flips (e.g. will the attack land, coin flip , will the injury be substantial, coin flip ). I also got to use ChatGPT for the first time, specifically to generate a short little poem. Nothing groundbreaking but it saved me some time. Intermission Rechthorst, a town of 5 000 straddling the river Ganz. Once an important trade centre, now a shadow of its former self after the resources of the Keferhals Forest have been depleted. It remains a cosmopolitan town and a temporary home to many explorers, opportunists and swashbucklers. Other than that, it is known for its beer brewing, with some breweries exporting their products as far as the Coast of Smiles. Town is led by a daring...