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Third Session (12 page pdf) – “The Black Spot” – The alien Engineer wants the PCs’ brains to fuel its plans. They resist, quite unreasonably. And on Captain Riggs’ hand – the black spot.

This session is the climax of the Black Spot mini-adventure; the PCs fight the Engineer who is the alien in charge. Fighting and navigating around on the alien ship is always quite a complex trial, as is only right. Aliens! Zombies! Jellyfish! And as one might expect, once you kill the head alien the self destruct countdown starts (all gamers immedately go into a reenactment of the Predator laugh from the first Predator movie whenever this happens).

They kill the alien, get the gold, escape the explosion, and get back to the ship. All is well and time for the denouement – except Serpent has brought Captain Riggs’ arm bearing the Black Spot, well known and universally feared, as a trophy and brandishes it around. The crew goes batshit crazy; the session summary doesn’t get many of the details probably because it really caused a lot of sudden RP that required everyones’ attention; they end up shooting the arm out of a cannon to forestall a possible mutiny but the crew is still all unhappy and in a hullaballoo. Never underestimate the superstitiousness of sailors was the take-away lesson here.

Second Session (11 page pdf) – “They Dwell Below” – In the seamount, there’s a very strange vessel with some very unfortunate things in it. Like brainsectoids!

Under the seamount the PCs fine what is clearly an alien vessel for an alien that likes harvesting brains. And repurposing brains. And putting brains in vending machines. And in alien zombies. And in human zombies. The ick factor is high and indeed we’re moving into a horror-heavy part of the campaign.

And the PCs are only slightly surprised when Captain Riggs turns on them and pushes Wogan into a pit of black leeches! Much fighting ensues to clear this deck of the spaceship of unfortunate and dangerous threats.