With Parvati still under lockdown and the “nano plague” panic growing, Pablo pushes past rumor and into the machinery behind it all. A visit to Corvalis Synthetics—dressed up as a high-end consult—turns into an ambush, forcing Pablo to fight her way out through gleaming showrooms and hidden surgical bays. What she finds there confirms the worst: morphs bearing the tell-tale growths are being altered and stripped, their stolen egos funneled off through illegal darkcasts to places far beyond the reach of Parvati’s law.
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With Parvati still under lockdown and the “nano plague” panic growing, Pablo pushes past rumor and into the machinery behind it all. A visit to Corvalis Synthetics—dressed up as a high-end consult—turns into an ambush, forcing Pablo to fight her way out through gleaming showrooms and hidden surgical bays. What she finds there confirms the worst: morphs bearing the tell-tale growths are being altered and stripped, their stolen egos funneled off through illegal darkcasts to places far beyond the reach of Parvati’s law.
As local security chief Jaden Smith finally sees the scope of the operation, Pablo makes a hard choice: trust a frightened darkcaster tech who’s also trapped in the racket, pull what data she can, and get both of them off the aerostat before Nine Lives and their allies can close the net. The final chapter wraps the “Bump in the Night” investigation with loose ends tied just tight enough to survive—while leaving the larger conspiracy very much alive out in the dark.
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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