Up until the point (Ev3) where she goes 
into hiding, Baralou will remain calm and 
reserved. She will express interest in the 
Matrix and, if necessary, will distract the 
characters with questions abut the 
Jetsom disaster. 

Following the meeting, a degree of calm 
will settle over the Moneyspider and its 
crew. The player characters may invest- 
igate the matter of the Captain's death if 
they wish, but Ellen will oppose any 
attempts by them to interfere with the 
ship or its crew. If, for example, the 
characters consider overpowering Ellen 
and/or the other crew at this stage, the 
referee should remind them that Ellen 
represents the power of the ByChem 
Corporation, whose ship they are on, and 
that a ByChem relief ship is on its way. 

Ev2. Lifeboat Adrift 

Castuss' "Way Out" 
Baralou will have overheard Castuss' 
muttered comments at the meeting and 
will have decided that he must die. Her 
chance to kill him will come when 
Castuss secretly sneaks to the M2 lifeboat 
to check his "way out" (while everybody 
else is occupied or asleep). Baralou will 
follow Castuss, kill him with her laser 
pistol and hide the body (dressed in her 
spare uniform) in the micro-still control 
room (L1). here she will also sabotage the 
life-support unit cooling device (see Ev3). 

Then, working through the computer, 
Baralou will launch the lifeboat This will 
sound the ship's alarms. Ellen will rush to 
the bridge and summon the characters 
and crew (including Baralou) there. Every- 
one on the bridge will hear a phony 
"distress message". This will seem to be 
coming from Castuss in the lifeboat, but 
will actually be produced from within the 
M/MN/CN (communications) and M/MN/ 
LG (languages) programs under Baralou's 
command. The referee should make 
secret intuition checks for any characters 
with psycho-social skill. If they succeed, 
they will notice that Castuss' voice seems 
strangely calm. 
 

Unless the player characters quickly 
subdue him, Ellen will put Daqor to sleep 
with a dose of telol. Then, she and Fiator 
will take Daqor to the sick-bay (M13) and 
strap him down on a recovery couch. 

Ev3. Playing Dead 

Baralou's next step will be to take 
suspicion away from herself by pre- 
tending to be dead! 

First, she will hide in one of the engine 
compartments (M10). Then she will use 
her control of the ship's systems to send 
the elevator (L3) up to Snobol. A little 
later, the characters will hear Baralou 
calling for help on the intercom - a call 
the player characters can hardly refuse. 
Since Baralou has control of the M/GL/ 
CN (communication) program, this mess- 
age will seem to come from the control 
room of the Snobol micro-still (L1), 
although she is actually in the engine 
compartment. 

Since Baralou has sabotaged the cooling 
apparatus of the life-support unit in the 
micro-still control room (L1), she knows it 
will explode if she commands it to 
overload. She will start the overload just 
as the characters begin their trip up to 
Snobol, and the explosion will occur just 
before they reach the micro-still (L1). 

When the characters investigate, they 
will find that the room, including the life- 
support unit and M/CR (chemical re- 
fining) computer, has been completely 
wrecked. They will also find the very badly 
mutilated remains of a Yazirian wearing 
Baralou's uniform. The body is actually 
that of Castuss Wallorr (see Ev2), but it is 
completely unrecognizable, and the 
characters should be led to believe that it 
was Baralou. 

The explosion will not breach the outer 
walls, but as the life-support unit will be 
destroyed, the air in areas L1 and L2 will 
become unbreathable 10 minutes after 
 

Ev4. Elevator Failure 

As they pass the mid-point on their 
journey back to the Moneyspider, the 
characters will notice that the elevator 
(L3) is not slowing down properly. THis is 
because Baralou has changed the M/ 
EV/TR (transport) program. 

The characters have about 2 minutes to 
slow the elevator before it hits the 
Moneyspider. Otherwise, it will crash at 
110 meters/turn. Any character attemp- 
ting to slow the elevator using technician 
skill must make a successful operating 
machinery roll at a bonus of 10%. If the 
character succeeds, the collision speed 
will be reduced by d100+(10 x technician 
skill level) meters/turn. When the elec- 
ator hits the Moneyspider, all characters 
inside will suffer 1d10 points of damage 
for each 20 meters/turn of its speed 
(rounded down). Skeinsuits and inertia 
screens will halve this damage. 

Since the M/EV/TR (transport) program 
has been changed, it cannot be used to 
slow the elevator. 

Neither the elevator nor the Moneyspider 
will be appreciably damaged by the 
collision, and Baralou (still hidden) will 
restore the M/EV/TR program back to 
normal. 

Ev5. Death of Daqor 

While the player characters area away, 
Baralou will distract the attention of 
Fiator and Ellen with a temporary, but 
very noisy, fault in the communication 
system on the bridge. 

While Fiator and Ellen are on the bridge, 
Baralou will sneak to the sick-bay and kill 
Daqor with a large injected overdose of 
anesthetic. Next, she will go to Fiator' 
room and take the filters out of his gas 
mask (see Ev6). Then she will return to 
the engine compartment (M10). 

Any character with medical skill who 
makes a successful diagnosis will be able 
to identify the cause of Daqor's death as 
poisoning by anesthetic. If Ellen and/or 
Fiator are accused of killing Daqor, they 
will deny it and will say that they were 
together all the time.