I'm planning to run a game of DH at a local Con, I was thinking of bassing it roughly on the Broken Chains adventure for Black Crusade but from the side of the Imperium, while the characters where enroute to training in the standard acolyte stuff for the Inqusitor they where in Cryo-Sleep due to the legnth of the trip, they wake up to find the ship under powered, the crew boardering on feral and mutated, and area with some nasty critters (if I could have a genesteller running around without the whole ship being infected I would but I may need to mock up an alien creature of my own or take a look at what else is avliable) and a Sorcerer on the bridge with some followers keeping a Daemon host chained to pilot the ship through the warp on a collison course with Scintilla.

So does them seem like a decent idea for an adventure?
Any ideas of what I can use for the "quarintine area"? Was looking for it to be near ***** black and to just general give the feeling that something was hunting the characters?
Also I'll be using pre-gens of my creation was thinking a psyker,guardsman,assassin,arbite and tech-priest, that sound like a good idea?

Karmadef said:

It sounds pretty ok to me although I would ask why the Sorcerer, if he has had control over the ship and used a daemonhost to run it, hasn't already reached Scintillia? And why would he want to go there? Wouldn't he either want to rule over the ship as its own god-king or take the ship somewhere to escape the Imperium and the Inquisition? I would probably take away the part that they are on a course with Scintillia and run the sorcerer as that he's ruling over the ship as its god-king and wants to keep things just as they are.

Also what kind of Sorcerer are we looking at here? A human using sorcery from Disciples of the Dark Gods (I think it was in this anyway...) or a Chaos Space Marine Sorcerer ( = corrupted Librarian)?

Karmadef said:

I think the basic idea is pretty solid, no problem there.

Karmadef said:

Sounds like a good idea with pre-made characters. In regards to the "quarintine area" you could always have that is the territory of a band of horrifically mutated mutants and the mutants and the feral humans are fighting each other while also leaving sacrifices to the Sorcerer on the deck to win his favor. Otherwise I think in general that some horrific mutant creature could stalk that area.

I wouldn't follow Broken Chains too closely. Maybe, instead of waking up from a long cryogenic sleep to find the ship in shambles, the PCs are simply transporting prisoners when the vessel is damaged by a warp storm, or attacked by pirates/xenos/mercenaries...?

I though about the attack but I'll probably be running a Deathwatch game the same weekend so I don't want to run two battlesque games so I wanted to do the direlct ship to give it more of a survival horror fell to it instead. Was going to have crashing the ship due to the Sorcerer, he is more a non-sactioned psyker with access to Sorcery from DotDG, I think a Chaos Marine Sorcerer might be a bit much for a bunch of low teir acolytes to handle, as the culmunation of an attempt at daemonhood ascencion, lots of death and exploding warp engines, but I actually like the idea with him having set himself up as God-King of the ship, change the feral like crew members as those who bowed to his will instead, and yeah keeping everything that would have likley been on the ship is an idea so mutants in the "quarentine area" is a nice idea thanks!