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Mothership: Sleeping Gods - An Another Bug Hunt Campaign
Samsa VI’s terraforming base has been dark for 3 months. Now the Company’s sending you in—fix it, or die trying. Sounds like just another bug hunt!
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Weekly / Friday - 11:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 2.75–3.25 hours
1 / 6 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
CITADEL SYSTEM: Initializing Diagnostic Routine… Time stamp 04:36:22.327 // Kipling Station, Sector 7B-4 Directive Overview: SAMSA VI – Heron Terraforming Station, Greta Base CITADEL PROCESSING… No inbound communication from Greta Base: 90 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes Deviation from established parameters detected. Initiating Low-Priority Alert to regional communications uplink… No response. Cross-referencing planetary assets… Terraforming equipment: UNREACHABLE Atmospheric processors: UNREACHABLE Data relays: Inactive Research logs: UNREACHABLE ... Alert escalated: Priority Shift. AUTHORITY: Directive 14-45-7A | Samsa VI Research – Carcinid Organisms Potential biohazard escalation: uncontrolled environment detected. Profit risk level: High. ... Querying Greta Base personnel logs… Personnel status: Unknown. Biochemistry research protocols: COMPROMISED. ... Alert Level: Omega ... BEGIN PROTOCOL: R.A.Z.O.R. CITADEL DIRECTIVE: R.A.Z.O.R. Objective: Samsa VI Investigation Status: Expedite Recovery Operation Priority: Rendezvous with 2ndLt. Kaplan, Re-Establish communication Contingency: Evacuate Dr. Edem - Mission Specialist 2nd Contingency: Retrieve assistant android (5er Hinton) logic core Compiling freelancer profiles from available assets: CITADEL SYSTEM FINAL COMMAND: "Initiate transport sequence. Time is a critical factor. Communications terminated until successful extraction or complete loss of facility." Remember The Company Is Watching ---------------------------------------------------- MOTHERSHIP is an award winning sci-fi horror RPG that taps into the brutal survivalist nature of the Old School Renaissance, while keeping things sleek and mobile. It has a cassette futurist aesthetic, and notoriously deadly gameplay. Sleeping Gods is my twist on Another Bug Hunt by Tuesday Knight Games and is one of the sleekest, smartest little introductions to a game I've ever read. The campaign will run for 1-8 sessions and will be a self-contained introduction to MOTHERSHIP 1E. It is what is on the package, a bug hunt, a kick down the door shoot 'em up, but also... there's more going on here than meets the eye. The curious, the lucky, or the doomed might fight their way deeper into the mystery of Samsa VI, and learn something true. Why are these aliens here? What happened to the colony? And what the heck has got the company so worked up about this little off-grid terraforming project? What do they know? What are they hiding? And why did Miles name this campaign "Sleeping Gods"!? Save, Solve, Survive, you can only choose one.
Game style
Combat Heavy
Dungeon Crawl
Roleplay Heavy
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Meet the Game Master
4 years on StartPlaying
About me
👋👋👋Hello new potential friends! I want to save us some time and start with what is most important: Inclusivity and accessibility. We’ve all been othered at one point or another, that should never happen at a game table, and absolutely not at a paid one. I work my hardest to ensure that my tables are the exact opposite of that. I’m Miles, (He/her/they) and my experience playing and running TTRPG's for over 15 years had made me certain of this: If you want an action oriented game⚔️, heavy on character👾 and sprinkled with absurd moments🥸, epic stories📖, scenes of powerful awe and tragedy🎭, and a liiiittle flirting😍-I am absolutely the right GM for you! I want my games to play like all our favorite TV shows. I love to adapt stories from all sorts of different genres into a tabletop setting. My GMing is heavily influenced by my experience as a professional actor and stuntman, two jobs I left behind because I loved this more. I bring a trained understanding of story, character motivation, and drama, and I combine that with 17 years of experience performing and improvising on a professional level, and a decade of designing fights for stage and screen. 👾Message me on Discord any time with questions!👾 🎓Cool things I’ve done that I am super proud of🎓 Recently published🎊 - I wrote the full campaign for the Dragon Thrones Kickstarter. Founded Geeks4Good🦸 - One of the up and coming success stories of Actual Play Streaming, back when Crit Role was really gaining steam-we raised over 10k for various nonprofits and charities, and I’m really proud of the work I did there. Nominated for Best Principal Actor🧑🎤 - San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle way back in 2015 for a premiere of a queer Irish play called For the Love of Comrades. Paddy Crean Award🤺 - iykyk 🔮Current professional games that are not on StartPlaying🔮 Eberron Homebrew - 6 years - Full Descent into Avernus (unrecognizably homebrewed) - 5 years - Full Delta Green - 5 years - 2 seats open! Vampire the Masquerade - just starting! - 2 seats open! 🐉A note about D&D🔥🐲 I’ve been playing D&D for a very long time and have logged well over 2000 private games and 500 professional games. My D&D content is bespoke, carefully crafted, and always custom. I have the luxury to be very picky about who I play D&D with, and what I run when I do choose to. I am absolutely available to play D&D on StartPlaying, but only through private booking, ideally for an established group of four people who like my style and want to go in on a consistent weekly game. StartPlaying is my mechanism to help me play games that aren’t D&D, increasing my skill and flexibility as a DM. I hope you will consider joining me at the table for laughs, tears, tales, and some brutal action. Stay Miles Away from boredom!
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Creating your character
We'll roll up characters in the first session. MOTHERSHIP character creation is remarkably simple, and you can do it on the FREE app in less that 10 minutes. We'll then go around and use my proprietary relationship system to establish how the crew all knows each other. This will occupy the first hour of the first game! But: It's MOTHERSHIP, characters will die, and when they do, you'll have to roll up another one. You'll be expected to do this partly on your own. Check out my youtube video where I roll up a character for guidance on how easy this process is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMq4zKbnXeQ
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Mic required, webcam preferred. You'll need to have a computer that can handle running foundry and a chrome browser. Foundry requirements: Minimum Specifications Relatively modern computer running Windows 10 or 11, macOS Big Sur (or newer), or Linux operating systems (Ubuntu 22+, Debian 11+, Redhat 9+, Arch) with support for 64-bit architecture. An integrated GPU to enable hardware acceleration. 8GB of RAM A monitor no smaller than 1366x768. At this minimum resolution many aspects of the UI will feel cramped. A modern web browser like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or Edge with hardware acceleration enabled. (Safari is not a supported browser at this time). Recommended Specifications Relatively modern computer running Windows 10 or 11, macOS Big Sur (or newer), or Linux operating systems with support for 64-bit architecture. A dedicated GPU which supports WebGL 2.0. 16GB of RAM A monitor with 1920x1080 or higher resolution. A mouse. You can use the software with a touchpad but the current software is designed for mouse and keyboard. Chrome or a Chromium-based browser provides an experience closest to the FVTT desktop application. If you do want to learn how to play before the game starts, watch my how to play video on youtube! https://youtu.be/iynHGCwLc0M?si=nYcZHk-3GR3Vfk5a Other than that, enjoy cryosleep, you won't like waking up.
What Miles Away brings to the table
I'll be providing the VTT, setting up the maps, the tokens, as well as crafting sound ambiance and music. Character sheets will be kept in the Vtt unless you really need that tactile feel of paper you can loose between every session. A NOTE: MOTHERSHIP IS DEADLY AND UNFORGIVING. Your character will get the option to save someone, survive, or solve the mystery. They will only get to choose one. Set your expectations accordingly! What else do I bring to every game? 🎭Dynamic role play with unique NPCs with accents, and voices! ✍️I work alongside you to create interesting and fun roleplaying opportunities. ☠️Combat that means something with dramatic and dangerous action scenes that move the story forward. 🤝 I practice collaborative storytelling that invites you to help me create the world. 💕 A welcoming place for people with disabilities, neurodivergence, who are LGBTQ+, or are in other marginalized communities 🐣 Help for players who are new or just confused about parts of the system, and help creating fun and dynamic characters with interesting backstories. 🗺️ a combination of descriptive theater of the mind and bespoke maps, and visual aids. 🕶️Rule of cool guides me! -My favorite parts of TTRPGs- 😆Laughter at the table. 👾Roleplaying and improvising. 🤝Making the story with my players. 😈Foreshadowing and little hints to set up for a big payoff later. 📖Creating stories that are both fun and that matter to me and my players. ⚔️Epic and dangerous combat where you feel both awesome, and very in danger!
Homebrew rules
We'll discuss some "difficulty settings" during out short session 0, which could alter the game a little bit, allowing for more progression!
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Microphone
Headphones
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Safety
How Miles Away creates a safe table
This is a game, your safety is more important than it, or anyone else's experience of it. And that includes you feeling safe: Here's a link to a description of a bunch of safety tools, if you would like one added please request. https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1583202183294.pdf I use the Monte Cooke RPG Consent Checklist to get the vibe, and from there use X, N, and O card system through chat communication. Open door policy is always active, take care of yourself, and at the end of the game we do stars and wishes which is a great time to help guide me to be a better warden, or help express things that might have made you uncomfortable or you didn't know how to handle. Triple check that beastly list of triggers to make sure this game is right for you, and message me if you have specific questions! I'd be happy to answer and make and adjustment.
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