Phagefall: A Crisis in Dieselspace
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Welcome to Dieselspace!
A realm of high-octane adventure and danger lurking around every corner! Within this wildspace system¸ the world of Dior'Tet and its sprawling megacity¸ Industropolis¸ are a hotbed of political intrigue and cut-throat corporate competition. Building off Voidfarers Guide to the Verse Season 1¸ Mechanics and Artificers will quickly fall for the quirks¸ charms¸ and grimy underbelly of the City of Steel.
Here¸ parties of daring adventurers fly through the skies on airships powered by roaring diesel engines to fend off raiders and pirates¸ militant workers unions resist megacorp control by sabotaging factories and organizing strikes¸ and vehicles roll off the assembly line for shipment to every corner of the Verse. You might find yourself negotiating with the powerful warlords of mining consortiums to secure delivery on a gas contract¸ racing hoverbikes against charismatic humanoids and clockwork automatons¸ or facing off against dark sorcerers who wield terrible powers in the sewers and other dank corners of society. Here¸ magic is feared¸ and trusty Heavy Oil powers the fantastic machines that propel characters across the skies and highways.
Outlining the Dieselspace system and its celestial bodies- its sun Hela¸ surrounded by rotating asteroid belts; the sister planets Dior'Tet and Mar'Shun¸ which recently fought a grinding interplanetary war; the icy ocean world Arenac and its refinery moon Korx which produces millions of liters of Heavy Oil for export; and the sandstorming gasplanet Taa'To where megacorps refine bricks of atmosphereium on low orbit extractor plants- this book provides history¸ seeds and visual inspiration for the DM to run a full custom campaign here. Unbeknownst to the working masses¸ a silent killer approaches Dieselspace's doorstep- the C-Virus!
Surviving the Phagefall
Moving from system to system¸ infecting all life it can find¸ the viral hive mind of the C-Virus arrives as a Megaphage- a mile wide bioship- quietly descending on a prey planet filled with the mutant specimens of those poor souls infected on the last world the bestial alien intelligence feasted upon. Inside are stats for nine phage zombie variants:
Phage Tissue¸ C-Virus Spore¸ C-Virus Infected Giant Bat Zombie (Beta Strain)¸ C-Virus Zombie (Alpha Strain)¸ C-Virus Zombie Herd (Alpha Strain)¸ Winged C-Virus Zombie (Omicron Strain)¸ Giant C-Virus Spore (Orbus Strain)¸ Viral Mass (Delta Strain)¸ Phageclot (Sierra strain)¸ Omega Strain Titan
A DM might run an entire campaign in Dieselspace just to drop the Phagefall from the skies as the party's heroes are about to triumph against the bad guys¸ making the problems of yesterday seem like a distant memory. Dieselspace offers fertile ground for noir and pulp action campaigning¸ featuring:
Diesel Power! Hop in the cockpit of the Aerochariot¸ Jetbus¸ Dieselwheel¸ Battletank¸ Armored Rover¸ ColoniCorp Exoloader and more. Contend with CorPo Security¸ Panicked Mobs¸ ColoniCorp's aarakocra mercenaries¸ and Father Kant Korpeland's flamethrower-wielding Purge Cultists
Escape the megacity during Phagefall and get a message to the Universal Health Corps Faction for reinforcements to explore U.H.C. Field Hospitals¸ massive modular medical ships staffed by Bonob Doctors¸ and potentially meet the Cerebral Administrator and help U.H.C. EMTs capture phage zombies and a Dieselspace Hellwasp in a quest to discover a cure.
In block after block of seemingly inescapable city¸ can your party survive a deadly outbreak?
Just remember: YOU GOTTA BURN THIS THING!