Eclipse Phase “Think Before Asking” Chapter 6: Cruciform Confessions

On the ice-scarred moon of Fornjot, the team pushes deeper into the covenant’s habitat, tracing glitching simulspaces, broken security, and eerily cheerful religious adverts toward the truth. A covert scouting run through the chapel reveals a horrific “ritual” of pain, penance, and repetition enacted by nearly identical child morphs—echoes of the same ego punishing itself in the name of salvation. With Vector confirming that their quarry lies entombed somewhere beneath the complex, Nila and Maxine must decide how far they’re willing to go, who—if anyone—can be trusted with what they know, and whether the most dangerous thing on Fornjot is the buried device or the desperate believer who wants everything to end.

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.

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