Eclipse Phase “Bump in the Night” Chapter 1: New Skin, New Trouble

On the pleasure aerostat of Parvati, nothing is supposed to be serious—until people start vanishing. Pablo Jimenez, a scum-born security specialist sleeved into a new morph, arrives on Venus expecting a well-paid bodyguard job for socialite Duala Chatterjee. Instead, he wakes to a lockdown, rumors of a “Titan nano plague,” and the unsettling news that his new employer is already missing. As Pablo adjusts to his unfamiliar body and the heavy pull of Venusian gravity, he begins to dig into Parvati’s underbelly: burned-out clubs, wary locals, and workers who clearly know more than they’re willing to say. His first leads take him from a morph warehouse on the edge of the aerostat to a cramped back-alley apartment where someone is quietly running hardware that shouldn’t exist under a stationwide quarantine. Episode 1 sets the stage for a tense, investigative crawl through Parvati’s neon-stained shadows, as Pablo starts piecing together how a rash of disappearances, suspicious morph traffic, and whispered plague rumors might all be connected. About the Chronicle Think Before Asking is an Eclipse Phase scenario (originally written by Anders Sandberg and adapted to second edition) run on the scum swarm Failance Recourse, a tangled mass of salvaged habitats drifting around Saturn. In this story, the player characters are Firewall sentinels embedded in a lawless, reputation-based society full of experimental morphs, illicit tech, and fringe philosophy. Firewall suspects that a quantum-triggered antimatter device—capable of being detonated instantly from anywhere, by someone who can never be traced—has been smuggled into or through the swarm. The chronicle follows Vector, Nila, and Maxine as they navigate scum politics, shady pilots, and fragile social networks, trying to locate the weapon, understand who built it, and decide what to do with something too dangerous for anyone to own. It’s a mix of investigation, social engineering, and transhuman horror, steeped in Eclipse Phase’s trademark questions about identity, power, and how far you go to stop an existential threat. 🗨️ Hop into our Discord! Love the stories? Want to chat with the storyteller and players? Or maybe you're just looking for a place to geek out about tabletop roleplaying games? Whether you're a seasoned GM, a curious newbie, or just love hearing epic tales unfold, our community is the perfect place to hang out, ask questions, share your own adventures, and connect with fellow TTRPG fans. Come say hi—we’d love to meet you! 👉 https://discord.gg/T9zeN9p Follow Us X: https://x.com/Twin_Cities_VtM Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TwinCitiesByNight/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/twin-cities-by-night/id1246523585?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/twin-cities-by-night YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBUyj7h-xIhwsM3kHK56SRA    

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