Fold-Derelict resonance snare rigged into a corridor or chamber.
A Fold-Derelict rarely leaves the room empty. Months or years after the hull cracked, a
resonance pattern lingers in the bulkheads -- pressed into the metal by the terror of
whatever the crew saw at the end. Step into the wrong corridor and the room remembers
with you: dread first, then the visions, then a check the body writes before the mind
catches up. The snare is not rigged on purpose; it is rigged by what was there. The
only safe route is the one Fold Lore can map -- and the only fix is to leave the room
quieter than you found it.
Rules Reference
Field
Value
Detect / Dc
20
Detect / Note
Perception (DC 22) feels the dread before the visions; Fold Lore (DC 20) reads the resonance signature.
Detect / Skill
Fold Lore
Prevented By
Dampened resonance, Crew never enters
Reset
Manual; resonance decays over weeks but never fully clears without Fold Lore work.
Save / Dc
20
Save / Note
Sap damage on failure; a fail by 5+ triggers a Perils-adjacent vignette as the handler chooses.
Save / Type
Will
Trigger / Detail
Engages any crew that holds position in the resonance field for 1d4 rounds or that speaks aloud in the chamber.
Trigger / Type
proximity / mental contact
Category
hazard
Disarm
dc: 22
Field
Value
dc
22
note
Map and dampen the resonance; does not disable, only shortens the exposure.
skill
Fold Lore
dc: 22
Field
Value
dc
22
note
Read the bulkhead harmonica and chase the resonance to its dead end.
skill
Sensors & Signals
Effect
description: Dread accumulates; pernicious until rest.
Field
Value
description
Dread accumulates; pernicious until rest.
modifier
-2d4 sap
target
sap
description: Crew pulls back from the threshold on a failed save.
Field
Value
description
Crew pulls back from the threshold on a failed save.
modifier
Frightened 1d4 rounds
target
condition
description: Hallucinatory overlay; crew cannot reliably target hosts in the corridor.
Field
Value
description
Hallucinatory overlay; crew cannot reliably target hosts in the corridor.
modifier
Visions 1d4 rounds
target
psychic
Mitigation
description: Fold Lore maps and dampens before the crew enters.
Field
Value
description
Fold Lore maps and dampens before the crew enters.
description: No speech, no tools, no comms in the chamber; reduces the trigger to proximity-only.
Field
Value
description
No speech, no tools, no comms in the chamber; reduces the trigger to proximity-only.
Severity Tiers
damage: 1d4 sap
Field
Value
damage
1d4 sap
saveDc
16
tier
trace
damage: 2d4 sap + visions 1 round
Field
Value
damage
2d4 sap + visions 1 round
saveDc
20
tier
settled
damage: 4d4 sap + visions 1d4 rounds, peril trigger on fail by 5+
Field
Value
damage
4d4 sap + visions 1d4 rounds, peril trigger on fail by 5+