Mothership RPG This Bunker Needs a Scrub
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Pamphlet Adventure for Mothership 1e
This Bunker Needs a Scrub
"Five corpses, a bunker on the Moon, a cleaning contract. What's crawling in the vents wasn't in the estimate."
What it's about
The most dangerous cleaning job you'll ever do on the Moon
This Bunker Needs a Scrub is a pamphlet adventure (two-page brochure format) compatible with Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG 1e. A one-shot mission designed to be played in a single evening, without weeks of preparation: open the pamphlet, prepare the crew, and set off.
The premise of This Bunker Needs a Scrub is as simple as it is disturbing. Mrs. Helja Linko's lunar bunker has met a horrific fate: an alien centipede terrorized party guests with fangs and acidic spittle, claiming five victims before being put down. The heirs want to sell quickly. Your crew has been hired to package the bodies and leave every room spotless. Easy money. The reward is 5kcr per head.
Inside this pamphlet, you'll find an extended bunker to explore, three cleaning tools powerful enough to be used as weapons, a potential mystery to solve, lurking dangers in the ventilation ducts, a selection of handout maps for players, and NPC portraits. The tone is classic Mothership: light on rules, merciless on outcomes. Conceived as a one-shot, but it can be seamlessly integrated as a location and mission into any campaign.
⚠️ Content Warning
Centipedes, blood, decomposing bodies. This Bunker Needs a Scrub is explicit horror: play knowing what you're bringing to the table.
From the FroGames Desk
🧹 The secret in one line
The cleaning is just an excuse. What you're really testing is your crew's nerve.
🩸 From the table experience
Starts as a simple job. Ends with someone screaming in a duct and no one wanting to go in first.
Four tables, one pamphlet
Who really needs this adventure
This Bunker Needs a Scrub isn't for everyone, and that's okay. Here are the four types of tables that will get the most out of it.
If you're a time-strapped Warden
You have a free evening and a group that wants to play now. This pamphlet reads in twenty minutes and runs itself: a strong premise, a ready bunker, maps and portraits already in hand. You say "let's start tonight" instead of "we'll talk about it next month."
If you love visceral horror
Here there's gore, claustrophobia, and a monster hiding where you're not looking. Cleaning rooms full of corpses while something crawls in the vents is exactly the atmosphere you're after. This isn't polite horror.
If you want to try Mothership
You have the core rulebook and want to understand how Mothership feels at the table without investing in a mega-module. A low-prep one-shot is the right way to test Stress, Panic, and lethality in a single evening.
If you run a campaign
You need a ready-made location to insert between sessions. This bunker hooks into any Mothership campaign as a detour, secondary contract, or trap for overconfident crews.
This Bunker Needs a Scrub
FrogScore editorial rating by FroGames based on rules, format, and adventure toneWhat you open in the pamphlet
Four pillars of This Bunker Needs a Scrub
An extended lunar bunker
Room after room, the crew explores a refuge full of secrets, surprises, and tension. Large enough to support an entire evening of exploration and cleaning gone wrong.
3 cleaning tools
Three unique and powerful tools, designed for cleaning, perfect as improvised weapons. Intelligent design: each tool is both a resource and a noisy problem.
A mystery to solve
Underneath the cleaning contract lies something amiss. A potential mystery adds a second layer to the one-shot, for groups who want to dig deeper instead of just escaping.
Ready maps and portraits
A selection of handout maps for players and NPC portraits, may they rest in peace. Material you show at the right moment, without having to draw anything.
Honesty first and foremost
What you will NOT find in this pamphlet
We'll tell you before, not after purchase. This Bunker Needs a Scrub is a pamphlet adventure, not a complete box set or rulebook. Here's what it does not contain.
The Mothership rulebook
To play it, you need the Mothership 1e core manual (rules, classes, dice). This pamphlet is a compatible adventure, not a standalone system.
A long campaign
It's designed as a one-shot for an evening. If you're looking for an extensive mega-dungeon style campaign, this isn't it. However, it can be hooked into an ongoing campaign as a location.
Pregenerated character sheets
Bring your own characters or create them on the fly with Mothership's quick character creation. The pamphlet provides the mission and enemies, not a ready-made crew.
Italian edition
The pamphlet is in English. The text is concise and the English of the Mothership world is accessible, but it needs to be readable at the table.
A box of components
It's a printed pamphlet in brochure format, with handout maps and NPC portraits. No miniatures, no plastic tokens, no game board.
"Soft" horror
Centipedes, gore, and decomposing bodies are at the heart of the adventure. For tables that avoid explicit splatter content, this is not the right choice.
No surprises in preparation
To bring it to the table tonight, you only need this
✅ You need…
- This pamphlet, with maps and portraits
- The Mothership 1e core rulebook
- 2 to 4 players plus a Warden
- Percentile dice (d100), pen, and character sheets
❌ You DO NOT need…
- Weeks of preparation
- Other expansions or supplements
- Extra maps (handouts are included)
- Prior experience with horror adventures
FroGames Tip
Mothership punishes heroes. Before the first scene, remind the group that cleaning tools are powerful but noisy: using them as weapons attracts what lives in the vents. Keep the Stress and Panic rules handy, because you'll need them more often than expected here. And let the NPC portraits do the dirty work: showing them at the right moment is worth a thousand descriptions.
📄What the pamphlet containsEverything you open in the brochure format
🎲What you need to play itThe pamphlet is an adventure, not a system
Mothership 1e core rulebook
The system manual, with rules, classes, Stress, and Panic. It's the engine that runs the adventure.
A Warden and a crew
2 to 4 players plus the GM. Characters brought from home or created on the fly with Mothership's quick creation.
Percentile dice and sheets
Mothership's dice set (d100 and polyhedral), pen, and character sheets. Nothing else.
One evening, five moments
What a cleaning shift is really like
The briefing
The heirs show the contract. Five victims, a bunker to clear out, 5kcr each. Seems like easy money. Everyone nods. No one asks about the "centipede."
The entrance
The hatch opens. Inside, the air smells of disinfectant and something else no one wants to name. The lights hum. The first corridor awaits.
The first room
The first body. And the first cleaning tool, set down as if someone were already working here. The crew realizes cleaning won't be the hard part.
Something in the vents
A noise above their heads. It's not the fan. The first Stress roll. Someone suggests leaving. Someone else remembers the 5kcr.
The final bill
Who gets out, with how many credits, and with which crew members remaining. The bunker is clean. More or less. Something, perhaps, was left behind.
From the box to the table
How to organize a session
Read the pamphlet
Fifteen, twenty minutes. Bunker map, three tools, the mystery, dangers in the vents. All concise, all ready.
Prepare the crew
PCs brought from home or created on the fly with Mothership's quick character generation. Just a few minutes to have a crew ready to get dirty.
Open with the briefing
Present the heirs, the contract, and the reward. Show the NPC portraits and the handout map. The tone is that of an ordinary job.
Let it escalate
From here on, cleaning becomes survival. Manage Stress and Panic, let the vents speak, and watch the evening transform.
Honesty in comparison
This Bunker Needs a Scrub vs other Mothership adventures
| This Bunker Needs a Scrub | The Haunting of Ypsilon 14 | Another Bug Hunt | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | Pamphlet, 2 pages | Classic one-shot | Extended introductory adventure |
| Duration | 1 evening | 1 evening | 2 to 4 sessions |
| Tone | Splatter, morbid cleaning | Paranoia, monster among the crew | Military bug hunt, introductory |
| Preparation | Minimal | Minimal | Medium |
| Main challenge | High lethality, monster in the vents | Distrust and survival | Learning the system from scratch |
| Positioning | Essential one-shot | Classic reference | Official entry point |
Why it ends up in your cart
Why it's worth 5 euros
Almost zero prep
Open the pamphlet, read for twenty minutes, run. No map to draw, no monster to stat.
An irresistible premise
Cleaning a bunker full of corpses for easy money is already a story. The hook sells itself at the table.
Tools that become weapons
Three cleaning tools, powerful and ambiguous: each object is both a valuable resource and a noisy risk.
Tension in the vents
The danger you don't see is the scariest. The vents keep the table on edge.
Table-ready material
Handout maps for players and NPC portraits included. Show them at the right time and the atmosphere does the rest.
Fits anywhere
A standalone one-shot or a location to attach to any Mothership campaign. Two uses, one purchase.
Its lasting value
How long will This Bunker Needs a Scrub last
An unforgettable evening
3 to 4 hours of cleaning gone wrong, with a mystery to solve and a crawling monster. A complete one-shot, with a beginning, tension, and a finale all to be played out.
A location that remains
Reuse it as a stop in your Mothership campaign, or replay it with a different crew: new choices, different outcomes, same atmosphere. The pamphlet remains useful well beyond the first evening.
Bring This Bunker Needs a Scrub to your next Mothership table and discover how dirty an evening can get.
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The next step
The questions you're asking
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it worth it for such a short pamphlet?
How explicit is the horror?
Do I need the Mothership rulebook to play it?
How many players are needed?
Is it in Italian?
Can I use it within a campaign instead of as a one-shot?
This Bunker Needs a Scrub is a horror pamphlet adventure by Pyry Ovén compatible with the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG 1e, in English. In this two-page pamphlet, your crew is hired to clean out Mrs. Helja Linko's lunar bunker after an alien centipede attack: a one-evening one-shot mission, with an extended bunker to explore, three cleaning tools usable as weapons, a potential mystery, dangers in the vents, handout maps for players, and NPC portraits. This Bunker Needs a Scrub is perfect as a low-prep Mothership one-shot or as a splatter location to drop into any campaign. Content warning: centipedes, gore, decaying bodies. Find This Bunker Needs a Scrub and other Mothership 1e adventures on FroGames.it.
Mothership RPG This Bunker Needs a Scrub
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