My PC's have taken to carrying hazardous cargo in an attempt to make their monthly payments and save for improvements. They are making a lot of money and so far they have been very lucky. I did not tell them the exact chance of something going wrong, preferring the vague term "not-uncommon".
So when the inevitable failure occurs, what kind of nasty consequences should that entail? I was thinking of the obligatory radioactive or biological cargo, with accompanying disease and quarantine. The problem is that I feel microorganisms, like bacteria and viruses, have been done to death.
For their first failure I was inspired by the Cowboy Bebop episode in which a mutated lobster terrorizes the crew by moving through the maintenance and ventilation ducts and attacking them when they least expect it. Maybe some form of alien macroorganism that is being shipped with cryogenic technology, which of course fails and when the pissed off organism escapes it wants to take it out on the PC's. Some nasty foot-long critters. Mayhem ensues...
So what are other ideas to include in the hazardous cargo category?
So when the inevitable failure occurs, what kind of nasty consequences should that entail? I was thinking of the obligatory radioactive or biological cargo, with accompanying disease and quarantine. The problem is that I feel microorganisms, like bacteria and viruses, have been done to death.
For their first failure I was inspired by the Cowboy Bebop episode in which a mutated lobster terrorizes the crew by moving through the maintenance and ventilation ducts and attacking them when they least expect it. Maybe some form of alien macroorganism that is being shipped with cryogenic technology, which of course fails and when the pissed off organism escapes it wants to take it out on the PC's. Some nasty foot-long critters. Mayhem ensues...
So what are other ideas to include in the hazardous cargo category?