Adventure Seed 5: Old Junk

Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 14:29:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mark Clark <markc@brahms.udel.edu>
Subject: Adventure Seed 5: Old Junk


Everybody can find parts for a two-year-old Ling Standard Products air 
raft (just go to the dealership), but where do you go for a compensating 
magnetostrictor for your classic Funilawari Dyno-speeder, out of 
production for over a century?  Well, you do just what collectors have 
been doing since the Rule of Man - go to a swap meet!

The planet Carlisle is centrally located, and supports a thriving salvage
industry.  It hosts an regular (once every five years) swap meet for
vehicle collectors, and thousands of vendors travel to the planet to set
up temporary booths, where they sell and trade parts and complete
vehicles.  Parts for almost any vehicle are avalible, either used or like
new. 

CLASSIC TRAVELLER

A Noble patron hires the players to provide transportation (if they 
have a starship) or security (if they do not) for his shipment of classic 
air-rafts to Carlisle.

1) All is as it seems - use this as a chance to pull out all those 
vehicle designs that have been hanging around.

2) All is as it seems, but unknown to the patron one of his air-rafts is 
stolen goods - conflict ensues when the original owner sees it at the 
swap meet.

3) The "Noble" is actually a smuggler (of what is up to the referee), and 
the air-rafts have the smuggled item(s) hidden inside them.

4) As 1, but the players discover one of the air-rafts has a sentient 
TL-16 robot brain installed.  The brain pleads with the players to free 
it from servitude, but the air-raft is very rare and expensive, and will 
lose most of its value if the brain is removed.

MEGATRAVELLER

1) The players are from the Wilds, looking for parts to repair an 
essential transport system on a Failing world.  A collector recognises 
the player's ship's vehicle as a rare model, and offers to buy it.

2) As 5, but the collector tries to steal the vehicle.

NEW ERA

1) Carlisle is now a boneyard.  The players are sent to explore, and find 
a version of Virus that is a collector of old vehicles.  It controls an 
army of vehicles and robots constructed out of scrap parts.  The Virus is 
potentially friendly, and will be happy to trade with the players.  It 
wants rare vehicles and trade literature, and will send the players on 
quests for what it wants (it knows where all the vehicle museums in this 
sector were). 


Note: This seed was inspired by my upcoming visit to an auto swap meet in 
Carlisle, PA.  Hope you like it!