28 Uncommon Items, 28 Unsettling Artifacts, and 56 More Locations for Mothership

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 #Uncommon Items

Loading Rig: upper torso exosekeleton +10 strength. 6hr battery.

Joybag: 600kc bioaugmentation, dumps feel-good chems. -1d10 stress 1/day. +3 min stress.

Earworm: 3kcr medical bioform in tube; tranquilized calm. -1d10 stress. Forget last 36 hours.

Happyjack: Opiate autoinjector. -1d10 stress for 1d5 hours, then take 2d10 stress.

Foam Cushion: So plushy! Advantage to rest saves while using it. Whale print.

Zorgetadrin Pills: Suppress condition 1d10 hours, 2 stress, double O2 use. May hallucinate.

Bath-dust: Makes a shower smell all nice. Helps destress. 

Optic Snag: Nice way of saying "eyeball hook." Clean removal!

Book of New Life: A new entry, long awaited. This is the original copy. 

Wonderbox: Projector, speaker, haze-machine, all-in-one.

Spare Face: Cheap imitation, bonds viciously, smooths your features.

Hillarian Mask: AR headset, makes the world cartoonish. [+] fear saves, [-] reality (sanity) saves.

Empty Box: You could stare into it for hours. Things placed inside fade irrecoverably.

Antler, crimson: allegedly from a demon. You know better, though, right?

Designer Raincoat: unmistakable in certain circles, sought-after, totally transparent.

Amlan Designs Vagabag: all-purpose rucksack for wandering. Extra sturdy. Double capacity.

Crate: Full of solid-gold turd icons for banking wealth. Someone's idea of a joke.

Fogband: Bracelet, chemicals induce drowsy state; don't operate heavy machinery. 

Full-Stop: Small needle, driven into the neck: completely wipes memory.

Radishes: Still crisp, a rarity in space, more common on surface. Nostalgic.

Portal Gun: Seems highly unsafe. Slices anything partway through when new portal is fired.

Navbot: contains astrogation data for dangerous jump route. 

Silk Robe: So luxurious! Made from bug cocoons, the genuine article.

Scrambler: Jumbles all nearby data. Extremely against corporate policy. Use with care.

Engraved Revolver: Seems like it belonged to someone fancy.

Blockhead: foam-padded work helmet. Very bulky. For use in high-V worksites.

Lala Watch: keeps you updated on news and gossip; monitors your brain activity.

Deviant Vine: Actually a fungus. Grows insistently. Takes over.

#Unsettling Artifacts

Red Egg: pulsating, nourishing/euphoric if eaten. Hatches evergrowning red slug.

Brachia Segmentum Sample: twists, foliage bursting, eagerly snares; metabolzing. 

Big Eyeball: suspended in fluid. Follows you. Crisp iris. A god wants it back.

Dead Chip: memory chip with roster of billions of dead, self-updates constantly.

Lozenge: disolves in the mouth, body slowly refracts; thinning and expanding.

Stone Egg: thick crust, hard to scan. Begins unfolding if cooled. Emperor's young.

Squat Idol: contorted features, formed in an empty stomach, leaches into water.

Thinking Stone: nanotech, accelerates though processes, burns out the body in the process.

Skeleton: unusual structure, long many-jointed limbs, elongate skull, predates its planetoid.

Preserved Xenoflesh: intense sulfuric smell, still crawls w/ bacterial life: necrotic.

Protective Mask: many holes, inscrutibly tinted eyes, etched prayers, gas filters.

Dream Particle: near-limitless power, highly radioactive, spectrography reveals: language.

Lunchbox: packed with ash-grey love letters, written in curled script.

Invitation: encrypted paper card invites recipient to joyous flesh-eating.

Final Report on Site 281: describes bodies consumed, terrible mouths, river of blood.

Photograph: fuzzy outline of interstellar beast, moments before impact; recovered from wreckage.

Jawbone; far too many teeth, recovered from inside crewmember of the "Solidar." 

Data Drive: plastic-wrapped, classified, contains astrogation data for blacksite + confessions.

Pelvis: charred, coated in strange membrane, envelops on contact.

Bassalt Tablet: key to ancient vault, mildly radioactive, strange inscription: "key."

The Lamondson Memo: strange behavior in the baron's court, desperate experiments, cryo. 

Package of Videotape: 30 tapes, interior structure, dripping pillars, shrinking halls, cocoons.

Artefact-A776: vaccsuit made of unknown material by R. Boylan (deceased). No shadow.

Fragment-90: shared of xenodevice, monofilament spools; needle spines for extraction.

Melanocephalus Elgans Embryo: thin limbs, magnificent skull, teeth already forming.

Object 38b: matted ball; appears to be human hair, teeth; sound of a heartbeat.

Object 9029 "Jester": 4m tall wickerwork figure, preserved in cave, twitches.

Blackbox "Fortitude": footage of ejections, routine work, stars within, a last meal.

#Potential Locations

Control-30, station: cramped relay beacon, big sensor array, limited fuel stock, 3 crew.

The Bixby, vessel: 1000 passengers, all alike. The dream of a long-dead magnate.

TK-103c, planet: ecological collapse, C-level citadel hoarding food, ring cities.

Dreamweaver, vessel: independent longhauling lab, creating off-the-books bioforms.

Portamayor, colony: by the sea, overhanging docks, rich cuisine, massive stratification.

City-6, colony: regimented and far-distant, convergent high-rises, flash-built and brutal.

 Xenoria-Delta, hotel: claims to offer alien pleasures, actually a testing ground for bioforms.

Shipgrave, nebula: troublesome mis-routing claimed thousands, an abandoned cemetery.

SARCOTORIUM, upscale bar; drink among the dead from cups of bone, DEATH CUP on screen.

Diamond Child, vessel: sailship, aboard a collection of rare androids, no biological crew.

Crown of the Deep, cavern, intricate crystal forms, uncovered by Dragoon Processing, then lost.

The Fishery, facility, Henjen Systems shipyard, swarmed in workers, drones, birthing spindles. 

End to All Things, vessel: massive sensor dish, weapon array. Automated and forgotten.

Drillsite Ankh: trillions of tons hauled away, city of tunnels, PYRAMID's crown jewel.

Candleflame, vessel: scout, crawling home from things best left be; carrying samples.

White Woods, region: swaying trunks, whispery branches, paralyzed ecosystem, linked.

Subhab-68: beneath inhospitable surface, propaganda splattered, isolationist, running low.

Albat-822, derelict: nearly 600m long. Dangling pods, crew gone, cargo intact.

ON-3c, planet: river-carved chalk at dizzying heights, wispy atmosphere, tufts of flora.

Briseis, moon: pools of frozen brine, toxic atmosphere, ancient battlefield, claim dispute.

Sublimina Village, commune: alternative mindsharing, buried in fallow ground, copper bracelets. 

CMRS-52 "Wildcard," vessel: marine troopship, decimated and dispatched to suicide mission.

The Long Road: narrowly maintained string of Jump-6 routes, reaching another galaxy.

Panacea, vessel: hospital ship, vat-treatment, huge stomach, deckchairs, NDAs and blindfolds.

MLCLS-AN11, vessel: vast refrigerated xenoform in resurrection facility.

Drowned Ranch, settlement: flooded cluster of concrete buildings; rooftop gardens.

Ratatoskr Laughs, derelict: drifting communiques, ran afoul of the barony, plasma scars.

Search Node TQ, waypoint: unsettling silence, parade of tracks, dense flora.

Otzi Chalk Forest, region: trees with white bark, rattling. Rumors of a spirit. 

Petrified Basin, landofrm: granitic depression, thick with petrified wood.

Summerville, station: agrarian, bright pseudo-sun, strict cultural values. 

Autonomous Magamatic Province (AMP), jump cluster: new frontier, walled and burning, rebel camps.

Obsidian Palace, structure: throne of the Mantled Queen. Winding, cruel brick.

Turbulent Groundswell, vessel: corporate transport, eyeing land for extraction, painted blue.

AV-46c, planet: yellow haze, urban world. Arid canyons, high wind.

Yellow Diver, vessel: independent researchers, interpersonal termoil, researching liquid worlds.

Devil's Veil, vessel: bristling surveillance antennae, strict procedures, skeleton crew. 

Rampart, colony; upon concrete cone bulwark, chimneys, gas masks, refining. 

Suki Tawdry, vessel: floating bargain brothel, faded curtains, candles, strangely somber; stalking killer.

Death Be Not Kind, vessel: mercenary raider, between jobs, massive railgun, nuclear ordinance.

Vellion Seabase, outpost: orange pillar, stilted above the sea, seven decks, research.

Bolowa Dam, structure: huge powerplant, caps deep green lake which hides xenoforms.

Blind Shepherd, vessel: deep into a thousand-year spiritual cruise, aimed for promised land.

Bride of Sysiphus, vessel: massive cargo hauler. Bulk goods, long sleeps.

Archangel Falls: delicate artificial falls near city center. Popular rendezvous.

LK-139, planet: freezing, snowblown, volcanic ridges burning through. 

FOB DAGGER, oupost: farthest advance into darkened xenostructure.

Growhouse Alpha: quonsethut stuffed with illegal grow-vats, and a gargantuan experiment. 

Jungfrau, vessel: harvest ship, belly swollen with crops, tends clumsy bioforms.

Camp Cathcart, marine training facility: inhospitable landscape, brutal instructors, muggy.

The Warren, facility: cold storage for bioforms, labyrinth of tunnels, odd company culture. 

Orpheus, vessel: dreamliner, spindly chandeliers, masterful artifice, a trap.

RCV-Hammurabi, wreck: "regiment command vehicle" massive, armored and tracked, blast-scarred.

Anvil: black memory bank, towering and filled with the facsimile consciousness of many dead. Silent.

Grousetown, settlement: little more than a camp, towering flora, blood feuds, hunting parties. 

Borealis, settlement: city-of-canyons, vast crawling rifts in polar crust, geothermal activity, good nightlife.