Stone Flesh Gift, The w/PDF

A silhouette blocks the stars, darker than the space it drifts through. Several amber eyes encased in crystal peer out from the shadows. When dappled in light from the closest sun, the remnants of petroglyphs can be seen carved across its hull, hewn from a single black stone harder than steel. The ship has no comms, no transponder, just a pulsating thump within a membrane running through the stone like a vein of ore. A glistening docking umbilical gently sways as it’s pulled behind the vessel, stretching toward anything that approaches, looking to touch, to connect.

The Stone-Flesh Gift is a 40-page TTRPG module with a focus on exploration and body horror, to be played with the Mothership sci-fi horror RPG. The players will wade through the innards of a lost ceremonial offering, an ancient alien bioengineering factory and living ship called the Gift, as they work to avoid its dangers, discover its secrets, and plug their brains directly into its organs to feel their thoughts.

Traverse the organs of the Gift, a ship that eats and breathes and feels your clumsy boots plodding about within it. Let it caress your brainstem to impart its hopes and fears.

Contents:

25 organs/rooms, most with unique thoughts and feelings

12 creatures, hazards, and NPCs

10 diseases and a system to spread them

23 items and materials, along with recipes for most of them

a d100 I Search the Body... table

a custom ship manifest for the Gift

rules for running and repairing the ship's life support, flight controls, FTL capabilities, and digestion

Content Warnings: body horror, violence, gore, disease, addiction, loss of autonomy, themes of reproductive agency