Ghost Engines (game)

Ghost Engines
Main enemy:	Zoroth
Main setting:	1889
Key crew
Publisher:	Cubicle Seven
Writer:	Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
Release details
Release number:	16
Release date:	8 June 2016
Adventures in Time and Space: The Roleplaying Game
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Ghost Engines was an adventure for the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game, included in the sourcebook All of Time and Space - Volume 1.

Publisher's summary

A prison ship from the far future has crashed into Earth’s past and its cargo – a tyrannical psychic vampire named Zoroth, along with a gang of batlike monsters – has been unwittingly freed beneath Victorian London. The ship’s warden and gaoler, a psychic alien named Peqod, managed to survive the crash too and is preventing Zoroth from escaping the past. But Zoroth wants his revenge, and with the help of a Victorian engineer named Sir Arnold Heath is building a gigantic time trap to capture Peqod so that he might return to have his revenge on the future.

Now, the railways of England have been turned to a darker purpose and strange ghost trains stalk the landscape, searching for Peqod. But, as the net closes in and the time trap prepares to spring, unwitting time travellers are ensnared instead…

Characters

Note that due to the fluid, interactive nature of tabletop roleplaying games, not all of these characters will be encountered during the story and/or may be swapped out or modified at the Gamemaster's discretion. All names are as presented in the text.

• Zoroth
• Sir Arnold Heath
• Peqod the Conciliator
• Jenny
• Vastra
• Strax
• Bert
• Mr Rook
• Kith
• Inspector Crannel
• Uncle Paul
• Steamborgs

Worldbuilding

To be added

Notes

• While Jenny Flint, Vasta, and Strax are explicitly part of the narrative for the scenes set in Victorian London, the book also cites the possibility of the player characters meeting Henry Gordon Jago, George Litefoot, Jackson Lake and/or Rosita Farisi.
• Uncle Paul is Jenny's uncle, and is listed as an optional encounter.
• * Promotional photos and screencaps used to illustrate moments from this adventure include (in order of use) Flatline, The Rebel Flesh, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, Deep Breath, The Snowmen, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, and Kill the Moon (TV story).