>>95934363
>Running campaign for friends, most of whom have experienced battletech through the mechwarrior games
>Start off with wasps and stingers for the "tutorial", end with them discovering a small cache of mechs for their real units
>Hunchback
>Griffin
>Vindicator
>Waaaay in the back of the bunker, they almost didn't notice it. A marauder in black. All by its lonesome.
>The group nearly comes to blows over who gets to ride it
>When syncing their neurohelms, pass them all notes.
>All the other pilots get the usual ghosts or neurohelm feedback
>Marauder pilot gets static. Make sure to write that this is unusual.
>After every mission, fudge repair rolls for marauder
>Have been reporting AWOL asteks after every mission
>Mechteks who work on the machine will randomly kill themselves
>Players still haven't noticed it yet, keep making jokes about missing crew being trannies or having gambling problems and getting stabbed.

I dont know how I'm going to make this pay off yet, but honestly I'm having a lot of fun with the implication of a haunted marauder on the crew.