WARNING - Contains Fallen London SPOILERS
Postal Rat Heist (A Sunless Sea re-skin of Honey Heist by Grant Howitt)
Its Hallowmas 1894. You are disgraced postal rats looking to restore your reputation by undertaking the greatest package delivery in the history of the neath. Two things -
One: Nefarious pirates have learned of your delivery and mean intercept it, by any means necessary
Two: You are a G*****N RATTUS FABER.
Roll 3D6 to determine your role, and your rat type:
Descriptor:
1. Dreaded
2. Delicious
3. Persuasive
4. Honey-mazed
5. Shadowy
6. Mysterious & Indistinct
Rat Type (Special Ability):
1. Sewer Rat (Increase Nightmares)
2. Ship Rat (Zalty Behavior)
3. Marsh Rat (Peckish Consumption)
4. House Rat (SCIENCE!)
5. Roof Rat (Find cheese)
6. Venge-Rat (Dangerous action)
Role:
1. Gunnery Officer
2. Chief Engineer
3. Cook
4. Surgeon
5. Captain (or Co-captain)
6. Mascot
Name your postal rat, if you want. You can talk, but other species tend to not take you seriously.
Stats:
You have two stats - Rat and Postal Worker. Both Start at 3. Use Rat to gnaw, scurry and climb, burrow, increase nightmares, and generally do rat stuff. Use postal worker to do anything not directly related to being a rat.
Actions:
When you act, and the outcome is in doubt, roll a D6. If it’s equal to or under the relevant stat, you succeed. If it’s over the stat, you fail. If you’re using your rat special skill, or doing something covered by your role, roll 2 dice and pick the lowest.
Bonus Hat Table (roll a D8):
1. Pirate Hat
2. Exceptional Hat
3. Pair of Luminous Neathglass Goggles
4. Fecund Amber Tiara
5. Sporing Bonnet
6. Cosmogone Spectacles
7. Ridiculous Hat
8. Roll Twice
Changing States:
Hey GM! When a player rolls dice and the lowest dice they roll is a 6, introduce a twist or unseen complication into the proceedings.
Frustration - When a plan fails and you run into difficulty, move one point from Postal Worker to Rat.
Duty - When a plan goes off without a hitch, move one point from Rat to Postal Worker.
You can voluntarily move one point from Rat to Postal Worker by doing a flashback scene in which you and the other rats plan out the delivery over tea in the back room of the Nuncio post office. You can voluntarily move one point from Postal Worker to Rat by eating a load of cheese.
The End:
If your Postal Worker stat ever reaches 6, you are lured by the pull of Nuncio and betray the party. If your rat stat ever reaches 6, you flip out rat-style and lose it, presumably to be picked up by rat hunters from the Department of Menace Eradication (DoME).
Random Tables to set up the adventure:
The package is being sent to a:
(first word)
1. Bizarre
2. Possessor of an improbable number of weasels
3. Revolutionary
4. Coffee-addled
5. Dangerous
6. Baroque
(second word)
1. Rubbery Pirate in Gaider’s Mourn
2. Blemmigan Researcher in The Uttershroom
3. Urchin in London
4. Clothes Colony in Polythreme
5. Spider Cultist in Saviour’s Rock
6. Starved Priest in the Chapel of Lights
Aside from your advance payment in cheese, your ship is carrying:
1. The finest surface cheese produced by especially posh cows
2. A briefcase full of purified red-honey extract worth 5 million echos
3. A former Prince of Hell
4. A knife that turns anyone who holds it into Jack of Smiles (a serial murderer)
5. Prince Albert’s violin, thought to be haunted by his ghost
6. Miss Venderbight 1894, an especially attractive Tomb-Colonist
Security Threats (roll twice):
1. Hellishly advanced enemies
2. Your damaged rustbucket of a ship
3. The nightmare in the mirrors
4. A snuffer spy on-board
5. Unsecured cargo
6. The deadly Wax Wind
Pirates:
1. Rogue Ireme Riddle Fishers
2. Port Carnelian Tigers
3. Extremely lost surface pirate
4. Cabal of Seekers
5. A corrupt heiress
6. The Pirate Poet herself
But little do the rats know (GM keep this secret):
1. This ship is rigged to blow!
2. The Masters are en Route!
3. Look - a rival team of disgraced postal rats!
4. They’ve been set up!
5. The cargo was actually sorrow spider eggs, and they are hatching!
6. The islanders are angry!
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