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Star-Maddened Explorer
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Type Outlaw
Location The Reach, Albion

[T]hey drove their locomotive too close to the stars, for too long, and were driven mad. Unpredictable and dangerous.[1]

Description[]

Star-Maddened Explorers are aggressive enemy ships found in The Reach and Albion. Their guns fire a spread of projectiles that deal 1 damage each. Destroying an Explorer gives you 171 Experience.

The Star-Maddened Explorer is Defeated[]

The Star-Maddened Explorer is Defeated
Smokinggun
Category Story Event
Type Story
Data ID 293836

The crew of this weathered engine had been driven mad by the winds and the stars and the things that haunt the sky.

Interactions

Actions Requirements Effects Notes
Loot the hold
Perhaps the engine was transporting something valuable when the crew succumbed to star-madness.
Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.


Game note: Gain random treasures.


Examine the captain's logs
They may shed light on what befell the Explorer.
Failed event

Game note: Find a Sky-Story or a Tale of Terror.

Things best forgot
The smell of turpentine hangs in the air. Fresh paint drips from the ceiling, as does a stoker, suspended with ropes. The bedsheets have been painted with amateurish portraits of the dead stoker. In the first few, he is alive. In the later ones, he is not.
Successful event
Always defeated
The captain's door is covered in noughts and crosses. So, it transpires, is the rest of his cabin, his logs, and his body. In every game, the noughts won. Your search turns up a few valuables, and you return to your engine.
Search for survivors
Perhaps one did not succumb to the star-madness.
Failed event Advanced query needs investigation

Game note: Try to gain Crew.

A corpse-cargo
Most of the locomotive's windows are broken. A star-wind whistles through them. You find only corpses in the locomotive: killed in the battle, or barricaded in their cabins, or – in one case – stuffed into a cupboard.
Successful event
A living soul
You explore corridors whose walls and ceilings are daubed with unfamiliar constellations. At last, you find a cabin barricaded from within. It holds a crewman who seems lucid. He begs to join your crew. Your own crew aren't sure. What if the star-madness seizes him?
Yes
You could do with an experienced hand.
The crewman is grateful. He works with a feverish intensity: eagerness to please, or the first signs of the obsession provoked by a surfeit of starlight? Your crew take no chances. Someone watches the newcomer at all times.
No
You'll drop him off at the next port. In the meantime, he'll be confined to quarters.
He looks disappointed, but agrees. The crew are happier with him locked away, and are cheered by being able to perform this act of (sensibly cautious) charity.
Scavenge for parts
The Explorer is beyond repair, as are its crew. But perhaps something might be salvageable.
A messy business
You exhort your crew to get over their d__n superstitions and start stripping the Explorer. They begin dutifully and gingerly, but soon begin to treat the Explorer as the icon of all that they fear: star-madness, the thunder of guns, a wild death in the empty sky. They rip out plating and spare parts with frenzied glee.
Advanced query needs investigation

Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.


Game note: Gain Hull.


Scavenge for parts
The Explorer is beyond repair, as are its crew. But perhaps something might be salvageable.
A messy business
You exhort your crew to get over their d__n superstitions and start stripping the Explorer. They begin dutifully and gingerly, but soon begin to treat the Explorer as the icon of all that they fear: star-madness, the thunder of guns, a wild death in the empty sky. They rip out plating and spare parts with frenzied glee.

Advanced query needs investigation Advanced alteration value probably needs examination. Game note: Gain Hull.

References[]

Sky-Beasts
The Reach Bull CantankeriCantankeriChorister BeesColonised CantankeriCuratorEnduring DreadnoughtMinistry MonitorReach MarauderScrive-SpinsterStar-Maddened ExplorerTackety LiberatorTackety ScoutThe Guests
Albion Albion MarauderBull CantankeriCantankeriColonised CantankeriCuratorDeranged DreadnoughtEnduring DreadnoughtGlorious DreadnoughtGrave RobberMinistry MonitorScrive-SpinsterSenior ScrivenerStar-Maddened ExplorerStar-Seared ExplorerThe Guests
Eleutheria Bull CantankeriCantankeriCuratorDouserEmpyrean OutriderMinistry MonitorScorn FlukeScrive-SpinsterSenior ScrivenerSleeping GrieverStar-Seared ExplorerUndeparted
The Blue Kingdom Aureate LogosBlue LogosCantankeriCuratorEater of the DeadRed LogosScorn FlukeScrive-SpinsterSenior ScrivenerSpirifer Engine
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