We’re now five days into November, which means we’re five days into NaNoWriMo. This is equal parts encouraging and terrifying. How are you doing? Remember to be kind to yourself no matter what your goal is for the month! (And hydrate and all that jazz.)

Anyway, without further ado as I am le tired:

Luci and the Sky Diamond

The first game/system specific plot hook/one-shot idea! This is specifically for Scum and Villainy, but you can absolutely use it for any game. It was just written with Scum and Villainy (powered by Forged in the Dark) in mind.

The Hegemony’s upper crust—the most powerful elites among the most powerful elites—have secrets just like everyone else. Your Crew has been hired to get some of those secrets and help share them, as sharing is caring. And this kind of caring will help liberate a number of worlds from Hegemony control and cause chaos for the empire.

However, those secrets are stored in a highly secure vault known only as The Sky Diamond, a space station turned fortress of sorts by a curious data broker only known as Lucien.

The Crew must find a way to charter approved transport to the Sky Diamond, make their way in, and access multiple servers undetected, as the unspoken rules of the establishment are that any caught with mischief on their minds are simply ejected from the airlocks.

Can your Crew sneak in Luci’s Sky Diamond, steal the requested data, and escape? Will the other treasures here prove too tempting and derail the plain? This could be the heist of the millennium, but only if you don’t get caught.

GM Tips and Tools

The prep portion of this job is critical for things to work out. Gathering intel on the Sky Diamond, the relevant data vaults the Crew will have to steal from, and the potential VIPs who may be present and on the look out for suspicious sorts.

Lucien is, fortunately, both incredibly vain and arrogant, and so he is easily played in terms of gaining entry.

This can easily, like many one-shots turned campaign, be a great starting point or an adventure to plug into an existing Scum and Villainy campaign.

Stay safe in your travels among the stars; good luck and godspeed!