Chapter 6. Monster Assets – The Level Totally Needs One of These

The mystery continues! At this point, the player has made it back to the import/export broker's shop in the Marketplace section of our space station, but what do they see? We could go a few different ways here, such as an interdimensional portal, advanced military hardware, or even something mystical. One of my favorite authors has always been H.P. Lovecraft, a horror fiction writer from the early 1900s. His short stories often revolved around themes of forbidden knowledge, cults, hidden secrets, and madness-inducing horrors, and he often talked about Elder Gods from beyond the stars. What if our intrepid hero stumbled upon an Artifact from another world with ties to just such a nameless star god that devours sanity? Surely, an importer on a busy space station could make a fortune selling such a thing to a collector. Why would he care about the stories of madness attached to it? That would only add to...