1 · COFFIN DECKS ★ START
Rows of frosted pods, deck after deck, further than the emergency light reaches. Red strobe. Two pods stand open, dripping.
◆ The PCs' pods. Screens glow: name, ASSET №, BALANCE: 50.0 LABOR-YEARS, REPORT FOR INDUCTION. Touching a screen opens the itemized invoice — still scrolling. Invoice timestamp puts the year at 2412 (nobody ever asks; make sure they see it).
◆ Index kiosk (rack-end, badge-locked): LAST FULL REBUILD: 34 YEARS AGO · EXCEPTIONS: 4,112 · SYNC → MASTER: RECORDS CORE. The index is garbage; that's why Dez reads plates by hand.
◆ Origin props: under every crooked HELIOS TRANSFER sticker, dead-company branding — Eternity Gardens brass ovals, CryoGenix teal ("YOUR FUTURE, ON ICE™"), SubZero snowflakes. Five companies' customers, racked by acquisition lot. WRITE-DOWN tags on some pods.
▲ Evidence trail: two open pods and wet footprints. Security's first patrol sweep starts here (Clock 1). At Clock 3 the pre-docking sweep scans plates against the manifest — don't be here.
People here
Likely moves
- Read the room — Perception 🟪. Clock Dez's cracked keytab, the bypass tool, the plate she's hunting.
- Con / calm the patrol — Charm/Leadership/Deception 🟪🟪. They're kids with sticks; kindness earns one volunteered true thing.
- Work a pod's service bus (legacy seam) — Skulduggery/Mechanics 🟪🟪. Every pod has the same unsecured maintenance port Dez's tool uses.
- Ask "what year is it" — no roll. 2412. Let it sit.
Only the PCs woke: Dez popped two emergency releases before learning a sleeve wipes frost off nameplates. The PCs were the learning curve. Nobody else wakes all session.