Dragonmeet scenarios

I'll be running two adventures at Dragonmeet 2009

Slot: AM Slot
System: Forgotten Futures XI: Planets of Peril
Adventure title: A Ceres of Unfortunate Events
The Smithsonian Institution needs scientists and other personnel for an interesting mission - exploring the water-filled interior of the asteroid Ceres. Somehow the adventurers have exactly the right combination of skills they're looking for. It's the opportunity of a lifetime... just hope it isn't the final opportunity of your lifetime.
3-6 players
2-3 hours
characters provided.

Slot: PM Slot
System: Forgotten Futures XI: Planets of Peril
Adventure Title: Earth Girls Aren't Easy
After the mysterious death of a mine owner, his daughter must travel to Titan to unravel his affairs and get the mine back into production. Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to make sure that she doesn't rock the boat too much. Titan has a lot of secrets, and it will be a disaster if some of them come out...
3-6 players
2-3 hours
characters provided.

As usual I'll also be selling stuff for charity. If I understand things correctly I'll be in the basement near the stairs - same place as last year. Hope I'll see some of you there.

Another beastie

This one's a "Caterpillar-beast" from Uranus, basically a series of six-legged animals that join together to look for food - they're blind (sight isn't actually much use because the planet is always covered in dense mist limiting visibility to about 50ft) and the leader uses its "sensory disc" (the sucker thingy at the front end of its body) to seek food. Once they find it they attack in a continuous chain of teeth and sharp claws. Their nervous systems are linked so they essentially become one animal.

As usual some jagged edges etc. should be invisible in the book, since it's going to be reproduced pretty small.

( caterpillar beast )

The idea was later used by James White in one of his Sector General books, the second collection of Ambulance Ship stories I think.

That's almost the last creature, apart from some living crystals from Pluto, basically nanobots with an appetite for metal, carbon, etc. Next I start on the tech side of things, space travel, etc. which will hopefully go a bit faster.

Incidentally, does "Load Up On Guns (Friends Optional)" sound good as a title for the section on weapons?