ALIENS Chariot of the Gods

 



The Aliens RPG starter set contains the "Chariot of the Gods" prewritten adventure.  The adventure is in three acts and each of the five player characters get personal agenda cards for each act.  They can earn story points for completing their objectives.  I ran the adventure with three players as a one off session between our D&D campaigns.

Initially we were going to have more but a few people could not make it on the day.  I actually think it worked better with less players at it gave me more NPC's that could get killed without having to hand out new characters to the rest of the players.

Overall we liked the system with the option to push rolls and gain stress dice that could make bad things happen.  It certainly works well for a one off adventure.

Adventure Summary.

The crew of the USCSS Montero were woken from cryo-sleep and found a derelict ship that was lost 77 years ago.  They boarded to investigate.

They were creeped out by the dead bodies and scratch marks on the walls.  CALI-2000 the computer powered up the reactor to recharge the ships batteries.  Will fixed the air system and pilot controls.  Leo craftily activated the cryo-sleep thawing.  As they explored the ship more Cam, the other technician, disappeared.

On a search for drugs Soph found an alien in the science lab and Leo scarified Ava-6 the Synthetic to get out alive.   Finding five crew alive Will used his medical skills to help them recover but Dr Cooper complained of headaches and then his head explodes as a creature climbed out from inside him!

While this was going on Leo made a deal with Clayton, the other corporate officer and activated the self destruct on the Montero killing Captain Miller.

Leo worked out he was infected and had to get back into the science lab for the cure.  Will charged in with his cutting torch while Clayton shot the monster.  Leo went for the syringe of strange black goo and injected himself.  Having almost killed the Alien (who was constantly failing to hit with 8 dice) Will got eaten while the others ran away.

Joining up with Soph in the computer room things went from bad to worse with everyone pointing guns at each other.  Clayton got shot and as she died it turned out she was a synthetic as well! Leo beat Soph half to death.  The only other survivor at this point was Medical Technician Flynn and a Colonial marine who had been left comatose in the corridor.  

Leo, Flynn and Soph retreated to Claytons secret escape pod.  At this point the Alien goo in Leo's blood was driving him mad with rage and he could not operate the controls.  Flynn (played by Will at this point) gunned him down.  Flynn and Soph then escaped in the pod.  End credits shows the pirate ships that had been tailing the Montero moving in from behind...


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