January 11, 2005
Ire #8: The Dire Outpost
MSNBC - Arctic village loses power in subzero weather
Our IRE this week involves a small, but interesting story in the far North. As the linked article indicates, the village of Kaktovik is in dire need of heating supplies, isolated and cut off. Worse, the power generating plant is out of commission.
A continued story of isolated survival, and the seed for our latest IRE.
I see this as an adventure set on a space station. The PCs, in a Traveller-esque universe, themselves only managed to limp to this free port, which suffers catastrophe not long after their arrival.
Help will come, but its a matter of trying to survive until that help can come. The PCs' cleverness will be tested.
The PCs ship is too badly damaged to use to escape, although PCs and NPCs alike might try to crowd into it for life support. The planet that the station circles isn't much good either, a mining outpost on a world without much in the way of a biosphere.
Ratchet up the tension with a meteor shower or other hazards, and the PCs and NPCs alike will have a white-knuckle time of it until relief arrives.
Posted by Jvstin at January 11, 2005 6:36 PM