I’m looking to gauge interest in a one-shot Alien RPG game
I haven’t read the rulebook yet, but I’ve heard good things about the system. It appears that the core game comes with a one-shot adventure using pre-gens.
I would probably run this the week of Halloween on one night of: Sunday 27 Oct, Monday 28 Oct, Tuesday 29 Oct or Wednesday 30 Oct
I’ll have more details once I get more familiar with the system
Anyone interested should post here and let me know which day(s) would work for you
The Scenario
Hadley’s Hope is a “shake and bake” colony located on the moon LV-426. Established in 2157, the colony is a terraforming, research, and mining facility, and a new home to its pioneers. By 2179 there are 158 colonists there, and the first natives of LV-426 had been born. The giant processors are changing the atmosphere: now breathable, but still choked by dense clouds and wracked by electrical storms. The sky is always gloomy, more like night than day. Even when the sun is above the horizon it’s often hidden behind the giant form of Calpamos, LV-426’s parent planet.
Some said building the colony was unwise. The moon hadn’t even been mapped in 2157, the weather would make life a constant struggle, and the violent geology made it feel as if the world didn’t want anyone there at all. Yet someone at Weyland-Yutani allocated the budget and gave the green light, and so Hadley’s Hope was founded. Supervisor Al Simpson got stuck into the job and the colonists soon learned to live with LV-426’s quirks. it wasn’t long before they were making a success of this most unlikely of colonies.
Hadley’s Hope, jointly funded by Weyland-Yutani and the United Americas, has a “them and us” feel to it, with any visiting corporate folk looking down their noses at the colony’s laborers. Despite this, the colony has been developing well. There’s opportunity aplenty - and risk aplenty, too.
Four days ago, a wildcatter named Russ Jorden was brought back, infected with something. He died, and some snake-like parasite disappeared into the guts of the base. Security has had no luck catching the thing, and somehow more people were infected. Rumor has it that some of them have died, and that there are more of these snake-things than Supervisor Simpson is admitting to. Simpson spoke over the intercoms, calling for calm.
Crisis or not, you have a job to do. Twenty-four hours ago, you headed out on a maintenance run to Processor 9, happy to leave base until the crisis blows over. Ten kilometers out, Singleton’s tractor gave up the ghost. A nasty, mechanical crunch told you it wasn’t going any further. Calls back to Hadley’s Hope got a cursory response: you were told to wait, and they’d get to your little problem when they had the time.
While you waited, you got to talking about the crisis and the Weyland-Yutani corporate shuttle that arrived right before you left. The shuttle carried an inspection team led by company agent Miranda Reynolds and her chief scientist Theodora Komiskey. Sigg relayed something he’d overheard - a hushed conversation about the shuttle being quickly and quietly readied for departure. Reynolds and Komiskey are likely the only two who can authorize its use, and the only two with the access keycards needed to use it. For all you know, it was Reynolds who ordered Jorden out there in the first place. It’s not right for the Weyland-Yutani reps to just skip out and leave you - the workers - to clean up this bloody mess! If things go bad, why shouldn’t you get those keycards and get away instead?
A day has passed, and you’ve still heard nothing. All further attempts to contact Hadley’s Hope have been fruitless. No one is coming to help. The only communications you pick up on are garbled, panicked even. There’s no option but to walk back, and see what the hell is going on…
Two questions. Can we get into orbit? Do we have a nuke? 
It seems an interesting system, if possibly depressing, but it would be tough for me to make those days. I’ll know better once it gets closer.
There is, or at least was, a corporate shuttle. I doubt that they had a nuke on it, though.
There are slots for up to 5 players
I’m intrested
I should be able to do Mon-Wed if nothing goes wrong.
How does Wed the 30th at 7:30 sound?
Here are the pregens for this scenario. Because every character has a personal agenda and too much info would give away secrets, you won’t see more details until characters are chosen. If the character you are playing gets killed or turns traitor, you can pick up one of the NPCs and continue playing.
MacWhirr, Officer
FULL NAME: Janice Macwhirr
JOB: CA Union Organizer
AGE: 42
PERSONALITY: Officious
Hirsch, Ex-Marine
FULL NAME: Morgan Hirsch
JOB: Cleaner
AGE: 39
PERSONALITY: Religious
Singleton, Pilot
FULL NAME: Hannah Singleton
JOB: Tractor Driver
AGE: 32
PERSONALITY: Self-sufficient
Sigg, Scientist
FULL NAME: Sonny Sigg
JOB: Lab Technician
AGE: 29
PERSONALITY: Curious
Holroyd, Roughneck
FULL NAME: Henry Holroyd
AGE: 35
JOB: Mechanic
PERSONALITY: Hard-working
I’ll give Henry a try
The system is pretty streamlined, but just so that you know what sorts of actions you can take in a given circumstance, I’ve linked a quick reference sheet below:
Quick Reference Sheet for Alien
hope nothing went wrong
I’m sorry I didn’t make it last night. I honestly forgot what day it was. Teaching this class has been kicking my butt. I haven’t taught this one in about 10 years so it’s not coming easily.
If there is still interest in trying out the game, we can still run this as a one shot some time soon. It would be nice if we could get at least one more player.
Sorry for joining the party late. I would be interested in trying this out as a one-shot. Any Monday night would work for me since Rando has put our Starfinder playtest on hold for a bit. Just let me know if this day would work for everyone and what I would need to read before the session. Besides the scenario information of course. Also, did anyone pick characters or will that be decided the night of the session. It does not matter to me what I play, I am sure I can cause a TPK with any character:)
I’d be down for this if there’s room for an additional player.
It looks like Monday will work for me too. I have a reminder in my calendar in case I forget what day is what again.
Are we all good for Monday the 4th? 7:30 eastern
im in talked to the guy downloaded the sooftware can’t wait total noob
Monday works for me!
We will be using Fantasy Grounds, because that is what I’ve been using for eons.
You can play using the free demo version: https://www.fantasygrounds.com if you don’t already have it.
We will be in the discord server in the Virtual Tabletop channel
See you all on Monday!