A / First contact
The threshold.
Freight docks, cargo rails and berths built in different eras. The automatic systems still respond. That is not the same as a welcome.
Incoming transmission Charon's Refuge / Tenebris Secundus
Hearts in the Void · A VeilFarers adventure
The station
is silent.
Something
is not.
A contract. A missing heir.
A crossing that changes everything.
01 / The assignment
A simple job.
Until it isn't.
Recover a missing heir. Reach a distant station. Decide whom to trust when the contract stops explaining what you find.
Crossroads
Take the offer.
Powerful interests want someone found. Buy a ship, book passage or steal your way out. Your transport is already part of your story.
The Veil
Make the crossing.
Between departure and arrival lies impossible space. The journey gives the crew time to discover who is travelling beside them.
Charon's Refuge
Answer the silence.
A station in the shadow of Tenebris Secundus. Uneven power. Occupied berths. No one answering traffic control.
The destination is written. How you get there belongs to your crew.
02 / Approach the refuge
Welcome, authorized
personnel.
A research station that grew into a community.
Now most of its windows are dark.
Sector directory
Conceptual sector overview · not a floor plan
Explore the sectors
B / Public concourse
The ghost of a working day.
Market stalls, repair workshops and a cantina called Last Call. Ordinary places become clues to the people who used to fill them.
C / Living quarters
Someone called this home.
Crew quarters, family pods, a shared galley and a medical bay. Beyond the machinery, the refuge holds the traces of a community.
D / Station systems
Power has a price.
Reactors, auxiliary systems and service catwalks. Keeping a station alive takes more than finding the right switch.
E / Research access
Every archive keeps something.
Server nodes, observation spaces and security partitions. The research spine connects the refuge to the work that brought it here.
A / Docking ringENV / SYSTEM TELEMETRY
- Oxygen
- 20.4%
- Energy
- 21.6%
- Comms relays
- 3/6
- Life support
- 67.2%
- Water reserve
- 58.4%
- Pressure
- 98.6kPa
03 / Beyond the contract
The signal is real.
The contract is not
the whole truth.
This is a situation.
Not a script.
- You are not alone.
- Rival crews bring their own loyalties, methods and reasons to get there first.
- The station does not wait.
- Clocks, discoveries and changing environments turn action and hesitation into consequences.
- The last word is yours.
- Bonds, evidence and the choices you make shape what follows you out of the dark.
New! First Crossing 1.1 · Rules 12.06
Learn the system.
By playing it.
The fastest way to understand VeilFarers. Learn the rules by playing, without reading the full collection first. First Crossing is a complete starter session for 3–5 players and one Keeper, designed for 3–4 hours. Secure transport, cross the Veil and make first contact aboard Charon’s Refuge.
Begin with five Level 1 Sleeping characters and the rules you need at the table. Continue into the full adventure when your crew is ready.
Required · Version 1.1
First Crossing
A complete first session for 3–5 players and one Keeper, designed for 3–4 hours. Includes starter rules and a route into Hearts in the Void. Requires the companion Table Kit.
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Required · Version 1.1
First Crossing — Table Kit
Player references, Keeper cards, five Level 1 character folios, sealed continuation handouts and four printer-friendly map plates. Companion to First Crossing 1.1.
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Optional · Version 1.1
First Crossing — Color Maps
Four map plates for screen use or optional color printing: Harrow Dock, Dock K-17, Charon’s Refuge and its docking ring.
Download PDFDownload the session and Table Kit together. The kit includes printer-friendly maps; the color-map PDF is an optional companion.
Your first crossing starts here
A job can end.
A crew can begin.
An introductory adventure with room for investigation, difficult loyalties and the unexpected. Take as many sessions as your table needs.
- 10
- Pregenerated crew
Custom characters welcome - 07
- Map plates
Color & printer-friendly - 01
- Campaign beginning
Your choices carry forward
Free PDF · Read the briefing. Gather your crew. Make it yours.