Schrodinger's Catastrophe

Schrodinger’s Catastrophe! is an adventure for Mothership about a derelict research vessel, The Boxed Isotope, that may or may not have a cat on board. It is designed to be played in a single session.

Originally designed as a freighter, The Boxed Isotope was haphazardly modified into a research vessel by the minor micro-corporation Temporal-Tyne Industries. The research team had been experimenting with quantum drive components, and one member thought it would be funny to recreate Schrodinger’s famous thought-experiment using the ship’s cat, Duchess.

The results were disastrous.

Now a derelict, the Boxed Isotope, drifts in space. At times, it emits radiation. 

At other times, a faint life sign can be discerned.