Apocalypse World: Brink

The Station was the major habitation and transshipment point for goods moving from The Gate to Earth and all the colonies and settlements on this side. Decades ago, the Gate failed catastrophically, and we've been on our own ever since. Key adjectives for the campaign: cold, vast, dark, degenerate.

The station has many rings around the central core. Each ring runs independently and can be locked off from the rest. They come in sets of three - 100m wide, 300m wide, 100m wide. In the years since The Gate closed, some rings have lost power, some have lost life support, and some have lost bearings and stopped spinning. The simple way to go from ring to ring is to go to the core, move vertically, and enter the ring you want. Between ring triads, reflectors gather sunlight and illuminate the top and bottom of each ring. The central ring of a triad does not receive light and gets used for industry and other purposes that do not require light. At the bottom of the station is an area whose primary function is to rotate opposite the rings and keep the station from precessing. At the top of the ring, there's a large command and control area, also counter-rotating.

There are 16 ring clusters (making a total of 48) and the station as a whole is about 8km tall. Rings are about 1500m in radius and spin at 0.77rpm.

Within a lit ring, the edge areas are often given over to green space, and those areas are usually more open.

The station orbits the moon of a gas giant. The moon was captured somewhat after the system formed. At any given time, one can usually see half the planet from a station window.

Game Logs

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Recent logs:

• The cannibal, the lunatic, and the wormhole generator, the 3 May 2015 session log
• Another one has turned, the 12 April 2015 session log
• High-v road trip, the 29 March 2015 session log
• Quarantine, the 22 March 2015 session log
• Ark 17, the 8 March 2015 session log
• Look into my eyes II, the 15 February 2015 session log
• A slight attack (of cryopsychosis), the 8 February 2015 session log
• Don't try the fish, the 18 January 2015 session log
• Proscriptions against production, the 11 January 2015 session log
• No room for prisoners, the 28 December 2014 session log
• Wallowing in your neural matter, the 14 December 2014 session log
• Chainsaw Massacre, the 7 December 2014 session log
• Radiation alert, the 30 November 2014 session log
• Huffing fumes, the 23 November 2014 session log
• Painwave projection, the 2 November 2014 session log
• Coronal Mass Ejection, the 26 October 2014 session log
• Look into my eyes, the 19 October 2014 session log
• You woke the witch!, the 5 October 2014 session log
• Everyone wants to pick something apart, the 28 September 2014 session log

House Rules

• When you get a move from another playbook, if that playbook is already in use, you must receive permission from the player using that playbook. Players have the discretion to preserve the uniqueness of their character.

• You can only get xp from using a highlighted stat once per move per scene.

PCs

• Absinthe, Battlebabe, played by Lisa
• Chronos, Driver, played by Leon
• Cipher, SavvyHead (ex-Brainer), played by Joe
• Dr Raskolnikov, The Wolf, played by Jason
• Glinda, Witch, played by Lisa
• Puff, The Damned, played by Jacko
• Swan, Hard holder, played by Jacko
• The Breaker Boys, Urchins, played by Joe
• Torch, Hocus (ex-Faceless), played by Jason

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NPCs

Name	Role	Harm	Armor	Gang Size
Abner	Swan's tunnel rat
Anastasia	Person most important to Cipher
Apollo	Chronos' second in command
Booboo	Big dumb construction worker
Calibanos	Vendor at the Farmer's Market
Cato	Member of Cutter's gang, deceased
Chainsaw	Weapons dealer in the Den
Chauncey	Swan's repair man
Chelsea	Manager at the Waxing Gibbous
Cletus	Head of molten metal in the Din
Cooze	Constable in Absinthe's neighborhood
Crank	Foreman at the Den, deceased
Cutter	Muscle for hire, aspirant warlord
Dr Oculus	Leader of the Farsight Brotherhood
Eyeball	Swan's surveillance expert
Falstaff	Member of Cooze's gang
Farquhar	Works for Savage in Maintenance
Farsight Brotherhood	Faction dedicated to reopening the gate.
Fist	Member of Cutter's gang
Flail	Member of Swan's gang
Fletch	Doctor
Flint	Re-pressurization engineer for the station
Florence	Ag worker
Fungus	Bouncer at the Waxing Gibbous
Fusty	Owner of Fusty's bar, duh
Gerard	Research weenie
Grover	member of Torch's gang
Henri	Broker
Hephaestus	Chronos' engineer
Hermes	Chronos' gofer
Honey	Mutual friend of Absinthe and Cipher
Janet	Freelance intelligence operative
Kylie	Machinist in the Den
Libby	Runs things on part of Ring 12
Lou	Red Stripe heavy
Louis	Doctor, biologist, possible botanist
Lucy	Absinthe's cousin, diamond trader
Mite	Cooze's 2nd in command
Mouse	Runs a makeshift hydroponics bay in Ring 23
Needham	Member of Torch's gang
Neers	Tribe that run the reactor
Nova	Swan customer in Control
Paint	Senior survivor from the old Din security crew
Peanut	Server at the Waxing Gibbous
Phelps	Absinthe's representative in the ship's techs
Plinko	Member of Torch's flock
Plinko the Peg-leg	Member of Torch's flock
Private Sykes	Torch's right hand
Raskol	Small time grifter, deceased.
Rattle	Fletch's enemy
Rocko	Member of Cutter's gang
Roger	Louis' assistant
Savage	Department chief in maintenance
Skinny	Head of Electrical in the Den
Sover	Member of Torch's gang
Sparky	Den chief of maintenance
Table	Swan's EVA specialist
Takahashi	Marine leader on Ark 17
Tatsuko	Cipher's lab assistant
Test	Fixer, rumored not to be as cunning as Swan
Teton	Fixer who deals in secrets
Trace	Union's second-in-command
Trina	Member of Cooze's gang
Turf	Member of Cutter's gang
Twerp	Bouncer at the Waxing Gibbous. Deceased.
Union	Gang leader in the shell, opposed to Turf
Vert	Member of Torch's flock
Warchest	Member of Swan's gang
Willie	Member of Cutter's gang
Woots	Very weird station gang
Yvette	member of Torch's gang

Station Layout

RING	ATMO	GRAV	NOTES
1	Y	Y
2	Y	Y
3	Y	Y
4	Y	Y
5	Y	Y
6	Y	Y
7	Y	Y
8	Y	Y
9	Y	Y
10	Y	Y	Fusty's (Sector B)
11	Y	Y	The Den
12	Y	Y	Fletch the medic
13	Y	Y	Heat exchangers don't work, so this area is very hot
14	Y	N	The Shell
15	Y	Y	Waxing Gibbous
16	Y	Y
17	Y	Y
18	Y	Y
19	Y	Y
20	Y	N	Flycatchers
21	Y	Y
22	Y	Y
23	Y	N	Swan's turf
24	Y	Y
25	Y	Y
26	Y	Y
27	Y	Y
28	Y	Y
29	Y	Y
30	Y	Y
31	Y	Y
32	Y	Y
33	Y	Y
34	Y	Y
35	Y	Y	AgDome w/some connection to Doc Oculus
36	Y	Y
37	Y	Y	Woots and 1/4 without power
38	Y	Y
39	Y	Y
40	Y	Y
41	Y	Y
42	Y	Y
43	Y	Y
44	Y	Y
45	Y	Y	Savage's place/Station Maintenance
46	Y	Y
47	Y	Y	equipment warehouse for Control
48	Y	Y

Places

• Control
• Core
• Deepcore 6
• Den
• Fusty's
• Gate
• Lefty's Bar
• Ring 13
• Ring 20
• Ring 23
• Ring 45
• Shell
• Truncheon
• Waxing Gibbous

Custom Moves

• When you go naked into the void (i.e. encounter hard vaccuum without the benefit of an intact vac-suit or breathing apparatus), you are taking 2-harm (ap) per tick you spend depressurized. Further, anything you attempt is acting under fire. This situation can be helped by:
  • breathing gear, which reduces the harm to 1-harm (ap) per tick.
  • a damaged vac-suit, which removes the act under fire condition.

• When you rummage through your oddments to find something useful to your present situation, roll+sharp. On a 10+ you have just the thing, or near enough that it'll work more or less like you need it to. On a 7-9 you can make it work if you have to, but using it this way will be acting under fire. On a miss, you try to make it work and something goes horribly wrong in the process.