Alien: Heart of Darkness

About the adventure

Join us for Alien the Roleplaying Game, a game of sci-fi horror. YThe company found a new lifeform, and they want you to study it. Their offer’s uncharacteristically generous—you catalog this organism, determine how they can use it, and bring it back so they can slap their patent on it. Fairly routine stuff. In exchange, they’ll hook you up with a cushy corporate department head position, secure you a book deal, and make sure the institute of your choice gives you tenure. Did I mention the money? There’s a lot of it. Simple survey, sample, and analysis job. Seemed too good to be true. Of course, it is. They neglected to tell you this alien life was found by a work crew on a lonely space station sitting on the razor edge of a black hole. They also forgot to mention that the station crew is a prison workforce—composed of murderers, thieves, and the robot guards who wrangle them. This isn’t some minor singularity. It’s devouring its sister stars in a cacophony of swirling plasma, gamma rays, and death. Extremophile or not, what the hell can live in all that? Whatever it is, it’s got to be different from anything we’ve encountered before—something strange. Something alien Heart of Darkness is a cinematic scenario for Alien: the Roleplaying game. It uses the Year Zero system and its signature panic table to enable dangerous combat and nerve-wracking exploration without too much complexity. Characters are pre-generated, and there's no need to know the rules beforehand. Players will select from amongst seven members of a science team and explore a space station on the edge of a black hole, finding madness within. Do you have what it takes to survive the Heart of Darkness?