OSR Challenge: A Month of Traveller Adventures

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A September of Short Adventures

It's a September of Short Adventures over at Asshat Paladins, and I thought I'd chip in. Everyone else seems to be doing fantasy-based adventures, but I've been getting ideas to do Traveller adventures. So I shall produce 25 extremely light adventures over the course of September. There are days I'll post multiple adventures, and a few days may pass where there's nothing from me. Such is the rhythm of life in this post-modern age.

Challengers will produce micro-adventures designed to be run from a printout of the blog post with near-zero other prep. To me that feels more like an encounter, so I'm approaching this challenge from an encounter standpoint. I've got the first few in mind, and I think I can hook most of them together into a full-blown adventure arc. Then again, I may get ideas from left field that don't fit, so don't hold me to tying everything together. We'll start planetside on the TL8 agrarian world of Elysium and spread out from there.

I'll keep updating this post as a cover page containing links to all the adventures. If you're reading this over a feed, each adventure will be in a separate post so you won't miss anything. If you don't want Traveller encounters clogging up your feed, then I'll see you in October. But for those of you sticking around, it should be an interesting journey. Strap in, 5G acceleration commencing...

The Adventures

• Stop, Thief? - A warm-up chase scene.
• Fixing the Factory - Of Ore Slugs and machines.
• What's on the Crystal? - Decryption of the MacGuffin!
• The Trouble With Textiles - Ambush on the way to Athens.
• Concrete Shoes - Facing Victor Marconi.
• An Errand For Victor - A little job in trade for the Vespers' livelihood.
• The Enemy of My Enemy - What can Mike Catalano bring to the table?
• Drop that MacGuffin! - Meeting the MediShield retrieval team.
• About a Guardsman - Who paid Victor to plant the data crystal?
• Zoe's Rat-Faced Man - Tracking down Zoe's blackmailer.
• The Rat-Faced Plan - Where the characters get dirt from Dmitri.
• MediShield's Black Market - How far up the ladder does greed go?
• Dossier on the Pandora Research Facility - Researching the researchers.
• Heading Off-World - Saying goodbye for now to Elysium.
• Stowaway 1 - Will urchins never cease?
• Stowaway 2 - Wait, we have Ore Slugs in the hold?
• Drafting Research Subjects - Big game hunting meets scientific research.
• Approaching Pandora - Fast-talking at the airlock.
• Meeting With Dr. Laura Falken - Why did she make that data crystal?
• Slipping Away With Dr. Falken - Breaking Dr. Falken out of Pandora.
• The Chase Is Joined - Medishield ships and a new faction start shooting.
• Who's Chasing Whom? - Dr. Falken gets a job offer mid-battle.
• The Patron - Keeping busy by working for Calleigh MacRae.
• Whistleblowing - Getting involved with closing the Black Market.
• Denouement: Loose Ends - Other ideas for adventure hooks in Elysium.

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