Perfect Strangers
Product: adventure supplement
Format: digital files (PDF)
Number of pages: 2
System: Mothership
Author: Dave Thaumavore
Artist: Capacity for Wonder
Three thousand artificial beings on the station. Your crew needs to hunt some of them down.
Perfect Harmony Services promised lonely colonists their perfect match—a loving partner built just for them. What they delivered were Composites: cloned bodies implanted with harvested memories from the dead. When one Composite violently "manifested" into something monstrous, station authorities discovered the truth and raided the facility. Now 3,000 artificial beings with complete false memories are loose on Prospero's Dream, living normal lives, unaware they're not real. Your crew has been hired to hunt them down. Full authority. Kill on sight. Very good pay. There's just one problem: some contractor crews were also replaced with Composites. Check your memories carefully.
What's Inside?
A paranoid hunt through Harmony Sector with a devastating twist
8 detailed locations from raided corporate offices to morgue facilities
4 fully-realized Composite NPCs with tragic false memories
The horrifying Composite Manifested—what happens when rejection goes wrong
Clear mechanics for ghost memories and identity discovery
Multiple moral dilemmas about consciousness and personhood
Optional twist where 1-2 player characters are unknowingly Composites
Key Features:
Identity Horror: Question what makes someone "real"—their construction or consciousness?
Paranoid Atmosphere: Anyone could be a Composite, including your teammates
Moral Complexity: Kill sentient beings who believe they're human
Player Betrayal Option: The ultimate twist where PCs discover their own artificial nature
Quick to Run: Designed as a one-shot playable in 2-4 hours
Social Commentary: Explores themes of personhood, memory, and what defines humanity
Content Warnings:
Body horror, identity crisis, existential horror, psychological manipulation, violence against sentient beings, questions of personhood and betrayal
