Eclipse Phase “Think Before Asking” Chapter 5: Echoes on Fornjot

Strapped into a tiny stealth shuttle with nowhere to go and nothing to do but talk, Vector, Nila, and Maxine finally let their guard down—sharing the ghosts of Mars, lost families, and the reasons they ended up working for Firewall in the first place. Their confessions end when the scans come in: Fornjot is a tiny, ice-caked moon carved over with Hebrew script, a ring of domes orbiting faith and paranoia…and something has gone very wrong. Guardian drones hang frozen mid-patrol, two small bodies drift dead outside the main airlock, and the habitat’s systems are a chaotic mess of broken security, religious spam, and glitching VR. Slipping in through an emergency lock, Vector quietly taps into the local mesh, only to find a place where nothing is properly hidden and nothing quite makes sense—half-finished work, scrambled safeguards, and a handful of remaining egos. Among them, a looping simulspace of two figures watching themselves watch themselves hints that whatever happened here isn’t done echoing yet. 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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