>>41575341
Crouch as quickly as I can, then begin moving as fast as I can, quietly in the opposite direction, stealthy.Use the noise as a direction, MOVE as fast as you can, with your hands trying to feel for anything to guide you.

Also, begin counting backwards from 10 to 1 to calm down as we walk.

It is likely that panic will set in.
I was in a situation like that once, but it was gunfire.

>>41575341
Turn on flashlight, go into the door not leading to the monster or the docking place.

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You turn on your flashlight. You find Ellie, who cover her face from the strong light.

The sound does not stop.

>>41575615
Get to the dang airlock already.

>>41575408
You should probably read the linked archive before posting dumb things since absolutely jack shit of that would have helped.

>>41575631
Why would we do that? Our ship ain't docked anymore,
>>41575615
Move into the door on the right on _Storage_Left.
We COULD jump down to where the crates are, but I think that the unknown is dangerous.

>>41575671
That door is a dead end retard, what are you gonna do there? And the other is the one with the monster breaking through.

There's at least a space suit at the airlock to grab and another door to put between you and the endless hunger of the beast.

If you need to, put on the space suit and space the monster. Like at the end of Alien.

Just have to tie yourselves to something.

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>Get to the dang airlock already.
You enter the airlock room.

Yoy notice your suit is no longer here.

>>41575739
grab STRING if it remains.

>making a quest thread without quest in the subject

Sincerely: fuck you.

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>grab STRING if it remains.
You pocket the rest of STRING from the other hook.

>>41575739
INVENTORY.

>>41575927
How about the banging? If it hasn't stopped, go into the room where we found the small key.

>>41575927
Discuss desperate crazy idea for clinging to hooks while opening airlock when monster comes in.

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>INVENTORY
Jack has
- Flashlight

Ellie has
- Butterknife
- Magnet
- Fire Extinguisher
- Air Vent Cover
- Three Wooden Table Legs
- Gun with No Bullets
- String

>>41576030
Arm self with fire extinguisher.
Use vent cover as a shield.
Return to the walkway.

>>41576079
>not having faith in your trusty BUTTERKNIFE

>>41576001
The vent doesn't go very far, dead end, and only one person could fit in there to cower and hide. Jack doesn't have an access card for the computer.

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>Arm self with fire extinguisher.
>Use vent cover as a shield.
>Return to the walkway.

With your improvised shield and weapon, you bravely walk back into the corridor.

The banging stops.

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>>41576279
Puzzle where did the purple and the damage to the wall go.

>>41576279
Enter door on the right.

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>>41576313
>Puzzle where did the purple and the damage to the wall go

They are right there and didn't disappear in an editing accident.

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>Enter door on the right.

You enter the Cargo Control.

Everything seems to be as you left it.

>>41576451
Look inside dark vent with the benefit of flashlight.

Go back and cautiously open the formerly monster-occupied door for a split second to glimpse inside before slamming it shut again.

>>41576451
Check whole room with flashlight to make sure everything really IS as you left it.
Attempt to turn on the lights with the computer.
Tell Jack that we tried enterin that vent before but didn't because yuck.

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>Check whole room with flashlight to make sure everything really IS as you left it.
As best as you can tell, the only difference is that there is no power.

>Attempt to turn on the lights with the computer.
It seems to be off. Pressing the On button doesn't seem to help

>Tell Jack that we tried entering that vent before but didn't because yuck.
He tells you to wait and enters the vent, leaving you in the dark

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He returns with a note.

He also tells you that the air vent seems to be covered in that purple stuff on the corridor, but the one in the vent looks dry.

>>41576628
Open the door to the intersection room without going through.

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>Open the door to the intersection room without going through.
Jack stays with the flashlight ready to look, while Ellie presses the button, to check if the beast is still there.

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>>41576809
Yep. Still there.

>>41576929
See if you can help each other use the cargo to reach Storage_Down_Left.png

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>See if you can help each other use the cargo to reach Storage_Down_Left.png
Jack says that maybe you can, but he doesn't think he will be able to make the jump alone and that, no offense, you don't seem like you could do it either.

Those boxes are a long ways away.

He says it is safer if only one of you takes the lantern and goes, while the other says up here. Alone. In the dark. With a beast right on the other side of the door.

>>41577049
Let him go down.
Because at least we know there's something between us and immediate death.
God knows what's down there.

>>41577049
Think racist thoughts about how you thought rabbits were really good at jumping.

Send Jack down.

>>41577049
What about if one of you dangled off the ledge and the other climbed down their body? Are the two of you strong enough to do that?

Or we could make a rope out of our clothes.

On another note, are the doors dangerous if they close suddenly? We might be able to squish the monster with one of them, if need be.

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>>41577049
>you can't go down there

>it would be safer if one of you went down there

uh what?

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>>41577274
He explains that you can't just stay here, yet you can't both go down either. Whoever goes down must take the flashlight.

>What about if one of you dangled off the ledge and the other climbed down their body?
Jack sheeply tells you that he shoots guns from inside ships because he is not really great on the strangth part. Manly phisique is not really one of his attributes.

>Are the doors dangerous if they close suddenly?
They have sensors to check if a person comes inbetween them. You do not know if they are still active with the power down, though.

>Let him go down.
Before he goes he tells you to be careful. He says that the layout of the ship is different, that doors connect where they shouldn't. Whatever is causing this is messing with more than whatever that beast on the other side of the door is.

He asks you for something to defend himself with. Maybe the Fire Extinguisher to hit people with, or maybe the Butterknife.

>>41577309
Butterknife. Always bet on Butterknife!

>>41577309
Give him the fire extinguisher, we have wooden ligs and a vent covering

>>41577309
Let him have the fire extinguisher. It can serve more than one purpose.

>>41577309
Would two of the table legs be useful to him, or are they too frail? We might want to keep the fire extinguisher, since we know there's a large, heavy monster near where we are now.

>>41577309
If he needs more items dropped down, just signal with the flashlight

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>>41577309
>Manly phisique is not really one of his attributes.

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>Fire extinguisher
You are now Jack. Ellie gives you her Fire Exinguisher, and you two take a look on the ground below. Looks safe.

She helps you jump to the metal crates and you climb down to the ground.

>>41577574
Do a full sweep of the room to see if there are any immediate dangers. Then look to see if there's anything behind or between the crates that you can reach.

If you're safe, we can check out that thing on the ground.

>>41577574
get yet another note. go left.

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>Do a full sweep of the room to see if there are any immediate dangers. Then look to see if there's anything behind or between the crates that you can reach.
You do that and everything seems safe enough. You note a passage to the right, going around the boxes and a quick look tells you it is also safe.

[Cont.]

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You find a piece of paper that miraculously isn't torn apart.

[Cont]

>>41577821
Do you recognize him, Jack? How well did you know the crew of the ship?

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You get to the other side of the room.
There doesn't seem to be much in here.

>>41577744
Is that purple stuff on that crate coming from inside it, or from between the two crates, or is the corner just stained with it?
>>41577904
What is that on the wall?
Pick up thing on the ground.

>>41577821
We're checking the backs of these notes, right?

>>41577821
>Simon Croly's Elegy
>Poems and Songs by William Murdoch
>W. Murdoch that supposed wrote The Metal Glen in Ruby Quest
https://books.google.com/books?id=LkMZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
That is some mightily layered references you have there.

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Let me try that again

>Pick up the blue thng
The blue thing is a bullet

>Do you recognize him, Jack? How well did you know the crew of the ship?
You knew your mates, the other people from the weapon's section of the ship, but not many from engineering.

>Is that purple stuff on that crate coming from inside it, or from between the two crates, or is the corner just stained with it?
It seems to be... corroding it.

>What is that on the wall?
They seem to be claw marks. They do not seem to be random, however. It almost seems like it is supposed to be the drawing of a... door.

>We're checking the backs of these notes, right?
Yes.

>That is some mightily layered references you have there.
People were going to call it a ripoff no matter what. Might as well throw in an appropriate reference and be done with it.

>>41578046
>>41578063
The OP is skipping.

Somebody hit it.

>Jack: Quickly turn around... to uh, go back towards the door.

>>>SIMON CROLY'S ELEGY
>>William Murdoch

>O Death! relentless, harsh and cruel,
>Has Nick, at last got scant o' fuel?
>That thus thou send'st us a renewal,
>> O' grief and dread;
>Ye've reiv'd New Brunswick o' a jewel,
>> Sime Croly's dead.

>Great was his mind, great was his merit,
>And great the fame he'll yet inherit,
>A nobler, or mair mainly spirit,
>> Frae earth ne'er fled;
>How can the browster-bodies bear it,--
>>Sime Croly's dead.

>Weel was he bred, weel was he born,
>E'en fame yet touts his grand-sire's horn,
>Still green the laurels, did adorn,
>> His father's head,
>But greater far, was he we mourn;
>> Sime Croly's dead.

>New Brunswick's sons are cloth'd in gloom,
>Arising frae his sacred tomb;
>It's daughters blushing in their bloom
>> By love are led,
>To weep, where low his banes consume,
>> Sime Croly's dead.

>Weel may they pour their mounfu' notes,
>O'er where his mortal carcase rots:
>Ilk creature cloth'd in petticoats,
>> Black, white, or red,
>He lov'd, as drunkards love their pots,
>> Sime Croly's dead.

>He was the couns'lor, pride and patron,
>O' mony a heartsick, lane auld matron,
>Wha noo hae nought but Tabby Bautron
>> To fill his stead;
>Thrang down their cheeks the tears are patt'rin,
>> Sime Croly's dead.

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>Jack: Quickly turn around... to uh, go back towards the door.

You do that. You see nothing strange or unusual in the way.

>>41578180
Oh hey, a claw. Could we use that to get back to the upper level?

>>41578180
Examine crane-controls-looking thing then go through the door.

>>41578078
>You knew your mates, the other people from the weapon's section of the ship
That's quite a bit of mating for one guy, isn't it?

Then again, I guess that's not exactly unusual for a bunny.

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>Examine crane-controls-looking thing then go through the door.
It is shut-down. It appears to only work when there is eletricity.

>Oh hey, a claw. Could we use that to get back to the upper level?
Not right now, unfortunately. The catwalk you were in is to the left, the claw is to the right. Maybe youcould move it, if you manage to restore power.

>>41578358
Do not mind the green aura. T'was an editing mishap.

>>41578358
Enter door.

>>41578373
You're SURE he's not a green lantern?

>>41578373
Jack: Awaken as Chosen of Secrets.

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>Enter door.

You have gone through the door.

There is someone here.

>>41578472
Examine their appearance. Wave uncertainly, but don't speak.

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>Examine their appearance. Wave uncertainly, but don't speak
He seems like a perfectly normal armadillo.

He doesn't seem to approve your waving. He leaves.

>>41578585
Scan the room for anything else.

>>41578585
Sweep the room.

>>41578585
Do the stairs go down, too? Or is there anything on the floor of the stairwell?

If not, we can climb and check the door.

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>Sweep the room.
You find another set of claw marks.

You... You were sure this stairwell went further down. You didn't come do the cargo bay often but... nevermind.

>>41578671
Do you think there were actual doors at those places before the ship started changing?

>>41578671
Jack: Ascend

follow ye armadillo who definitely did not recently die and is probably a different guy.

>>41578671
Can we interact with the claw door? By tapping on the wall, for instance, or pressing where buttons would be?

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>Do you think there were actual doors at those places before the ship started changing?
You are not sure, but you don't think so. As far as you remember this stairwell went further down to the deep storage, where the bulk of the stuff was kept.
This part up here is just the temporary storage, used when you need to chack one of the crates. No one ever went to the Deep Storage, though. The machines did all the work and brought up the cargo you asked.

>Can we interact with the claw door?
You pass you hand where the buttons should be, but nothing happens. It looks to be a simple wall.

>Jack: Ascend
You have reached the Intersection.

You see the southern door closing as you enter.

>>41578790
Man I thought that door would do some space twisty thing where we ended up back upstairs in a place that made no sense but I didn't think it would be this door.

>Immediately back up to the door and fumble for the control panel to open the door behind you again. Don't take your flashlight off the rest of the room

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>open the door behind you again
>Don't take your flashlight off the rest of the room
As far as you can see, the thing is busted. Which is good, since if you hadn't don a good job breaking it the creature would have managed to go through.

But that means you are also stuck in here.

>>41578903
Ponder if you have the stomach to go through bloody door.

Then go into F.Deck to check on status of ship in the controls.

>>41578917
Or
OR
We could ask our partner on the other side of the door to open it up and get back together.

>>41578958
There's no point in both people getting stuck on this side yet.

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>Ponder if you have the stomach to go through bloody door.
Of course you have! You are a manly man! Kinda.

>Then go into F.Deck to check on status of ship in the controls
Oh, hey, this place still has power! Finally.

>>41579046
Fiddle with the controls and reroute the positronic relays to the flux capacitors or whatever. RESTORE POWER

Also check your old home the closet, for nostalgia's sake.

>>41579046
Knock on the door that leads to where Ellie is. She doesn't have to come through, but it would be nice to confirm that she's safe.

>>41579046
See if you can open the right door or not.

Also wonder why the doors all work when nothing else does.

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>Knock on the door that leads to where Ellie is. She doesn't have to come through, but it would be nice to confirm that she's safe.
She answers that she is glad that you are alive and asks if she can come over. YOu tell her that it is better to wait, since there is no point in two people being stuck on this side.

> check your old home the closet
You try to open it, but it asks for authorization. Now that you stop to think about it, back when the ship wasn't fucking around with space, that door didn't lead to a closet. That was a whole other part of the ship behind there.

>See if you can open the right door or not.
Nope. This whole thing is starting to piss you off. You should be able to go in there! That is Weapon's control. Your job is to be in there!
But the goddamn door won't let you.

>Also wonder why the doors all work when nothing else does.
It would be difficult to solve a crisis if people couldn't go from one place to another.

>RESTORE POWER
You fiddle with the commands. You are finally no longer stumbling in the darkness! This is your place, this is your machine. Well, not yours, but pretty much like yours.

Yet it stops you. Tells you to go talk to someone from engineering, so that they can figure it out.

>>41579221
Attempt to brave the bloody gate. Door. Thing.

Try not to wonder where the beast went.

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>Attempt to brave the bloody gate. Door. Thing.
As you turn to leave the room, the FUCKING DOORS ON THE RIGHT COME FLYING THROUGH THE ROOM.

Did... did the Captain just punched a set of metal doors open?

He seems angry.

"YOU! Jack, is it? My console! My room! Not yours. Back to your post, before I crush that pathetic damaged thing you call a brain!"

Yep, he seems angry.

>>41579305
Isn't he coming from where your workplace is?

Is he normally like this? I'm not sure it would be wise to tell him about all the freaky things that have been happening, if he's that violent.

>>41579305
"We have no power, captain! Someone in engineering is fucking around! Also I have no access card."

Move rightward towards door.

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>Isn't he coming from where your workplace is?
Yes

>Is he normally like this?
No, he is usually understanding. He even helped you get this position, even if you had never met him before. And he certainly couldn't tear down metal doors.

It really doesn't look like the captain you knew.

>I'm not sure it would be wise to tell him about all the freaky things that have been happening, if he's that violent.
>"We have no power, captain! Someone in engineering is fucking around! Also I have no access card."
You are torn between telling him everything or not. You don't know what to do.

>>41579415
Uh. What should I be shooting at, captain?

Is it Ellie's ship

Can I have my access card again?

>>41579415
"Are we under attack?"

If you are, then get to your workstation (after checking that it is, in fact, your workstation) and help fight them off. If not, then you should tell him about the power outages and dangerous creatures on the ship; if he seems willing to listen, also ask if something bad happened to him recently.

>>41579444
If so, then we should point out that she was responding to a distress signal.

>>41579473
No. If he wants to shoot down a ship doing nothing wrong explaining "but they're nice" isn't gonna help him stop being insane. He'd probably add on hunting the invader onboard.

At that point you have to sabotage the weapons system and blame it on Engineering not giving you power.

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He goes to the control panel and stars muttering to himself.
"Weapons in order. Life-suport systems in order. Power grid fully functional. At least the ship can work without me bossing it around."

Huh... you are pretty sure that last one is a lie. I mean, it was written POWER SHUTDOWN in bold letters all over the place...

>Uh. What should I be shooting at, captain?
"Nothing, soldier. I simply expect my crew to stay at their bloody positions and not wander around. Is that too much to ask?"

>Can I have my access card again?
He stops for a moment, before turning to look at you.
"You lost your access card? You are a disgrace." He spits, his voice filled with disgust. "Ask Synthia, I am not your maid."

>>41579629
Is Synthia a robot or something, Jack? Where is she?

Well, was gonna explore rightward anyway. Go then.

>>41579629
For lack of a better option, point out that we woke up bound and gagged in a closet after the new experimental engine was deactivated. Then see if anything happened to the weapon consoles.

>>41579629

This bird be loco in the coco. Pretend like you'd man your station and seem more ecstatic than you would normally be to impress the... captain.

>>41579703
No, just say that there was something wrong with the folks in Engineering messing with the power.

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>Is Synthia a robot or something, Jack? Where is she?
She was the girl that took care of that stuff. Checked if the cleaning robots were doing their duties, supervized the meals and made sure that there was nothing missing from anyone. She and the Psycologist, Dr. Prince, were always together, making sure the crew was fine.
Her location, however, you do not know.

>No, just say that there was something wrong with the folks in Engineering messing with the power..
“Did you hit your head soldier? Are you insane? Because the board I am looking at says it is all running smoothly. So either you know better than this computer, which I don’t think you do, or you should shut the fuck up and do what I tell you.”
“We should have reached the edge of the galaxy weeks ago. What the hell are we still going in here? Anderson must be fucking up something on the new engine. When we finally activate it, and get out of this bloody place, it better run smoothly, or I will rip his bloody heart out.”
“Now go to your post! Do your job and see if everything is running smoothly. Never know when we might need to shoot some people.”

>Well, was gonna explore rightward anyway. Go then.
You enter the Weapon's Control. Smaller than what you remember, but the computers are still the same.

>>41579862
Examine and exposit on the purposes of all those panels and that one big black button.

open that hatch.

>>41579862
>“Did you hit your head soldier?
Quite possibly, since we woke up in a closet with memory loss. That was kind of an important detail. But if the Captain's not going to listen, there's no point in talking.

Check the systems on your console. See if everything's working, and if there are any records left of recent activity.

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>Examine and exposit on the purposes of all those panels and that one big black button.
All the buttons are for when you want to shoot people. Calibrations, checking where to fire when you are orbiting a neutron star so that your bullet isn't sucked in or destroyed by the magnectic forces, all that.
The big black thing in the middle is where you would pass your access card, if you had one, and allow use of this station.
Your remember there being dozens more, just like this one. Now...

Anyway. You can't fire anything, since you don't have your access card, but you can still boot up the system and check "if everything is running smoothly," as the captain said.

>Check the systems on your console
You get the thing up and running, but you barely turn it on and an error pops up. "Blockage on the Ammo Supply Line"
The ammo supply line, heading just down that hatch over there.

>>41580017
Down the hatches.

>>41580017
Can you use any scanners, to see if there's anything unique in or around the ship?

We came here directly from the previous room, correct? Not through other rooms or corridors or anything?

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>Can you use any scanners, to see if there's anything unique in or around the ship?
By what you managed to see in the captains console, the space around you was clear. The only two things in this whole sector of space were the Happening Skyline and a small, unknown one, which you imagine is Ellie's.

>We came here directly from the previous room, correct? Not through other rooms or corridors or anything?
Yes.

>Down the hatches.
It is dark in here, the light from up above not being enough to reach this deep.There should have been lights in here. There should have been some walking space, so you wouldn't need to crawl in between the ammo to check what is causing the blockage.

There should have been.

But there isn't.

>>41580098
Add AMMO to INVENTORY to get it out of the way.

Examine orange thingy. Pls be access card.

>>41580098
Okay, so what's there instead? Has the room rearranged itself? Are there new walls where there should be corridors?

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>Okay, so what's there instead?
There is a small tight space, barely enough for you to crawl through. This should have been a corridor, so that people could run and quickly reach the bowels of the gun to solve whatever problem there was.

>Has the room rearranged itself? Are there new walls where there should be corridors?
Yes. Everything is in smaller numbers or far more cramped than before.

>Add AMMO to INVENTORY to get it out of the way.
Son, this is a 100Kg Ferroslug. You don't carry one of these things. These things carry you, if you are dumb enough to be looking on the wrong side of a spacesip's weapon.

>Examine orange thingy
YES. ACCESS CARD GET!
Not yours, but still. This one belongs to someone called "S. Croly"
Should get you somewhere.

>>41580167
Ascend. Check in on how crazy captain has gone in your absence.

Wonder if the access card will let you into Engineering.

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>Ascend
At first there is white.
You are not really sure what happened.
There was a really loud bang, that's all you are really sure of. Yet the world... it- it is- moving?

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SHIT. SHIT. SHIT.

[ANIMATED!]

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Someone just sot your gun! YOUR GUN! WITH YOU IN IT!

You- you don't even know where to start freaking out. Just the fact that you didn't die is amazing. You wouldn't believe if someone told you.

Shit. What now?

>>41580295
Go haunt the captain with your new ghost powers.

>>41580295
Okay, Jack, calm down and think through this.

Someone activated the gun. It may or may not have been with your work console and a stolen access card. Ask to the Captain in the next room if he saw anyone; the only way into this room is through that one, so if someone else entered your room, they'd have to go by him.

Also, check the sensors to see if Ellie's ship is okay.

>>41580295
check if Sime's access card even works on your console.

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>check if Sime's access card even works on your console.
Nope.

>Ask to the Captain
Apparently the Captain also had a bad day. A part of his console has been completely torn off, though it is still functioning.

>check the sensors to see if Ellie's ship is okay.
Seems to still be intact. The gun fired at nothing.

>>41580390
Check if you can go left now.

If not, try the bloody door.

>>41580390
>Seems to still be intact. The gun fired at nothing.
Unless this was an extreme long-distance shot at a target past the short-range scanners, it was probably meant to get rid of you when you cleared the obstruction. Is it possible that the weapon was programmed with a delay so that it would fire as soon as it was unblocked? If not, then could it have been accessed from another part of the ship?

Those wires look important, but I take it they're outside your area of expertise.

Any idea where the captain went? Can you tell if either of the other doors were opened, like from accumulated dust or anything? If we can't tell that, then we should backtrack, because we know that route's a dead end, before seeing if we can access the door to the left.

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>Check if you can go left now.
Still asks for an access card you don't have.

> Is it possible that the weapon was programmed with a delay so that it would fire as soon as it was unblocked?
No. Guns can have no delay, just so shit like what just happenend couldn't happen.

>could it have been accessed from another part of the ship?
The only place that can fire weapons is the Weapon control room. Even from the Cockpit it is impossible.

>Any idea where the captain went?
There are no clues to where hewent. No broken doors, at least.

>If not, try the bloody door.
Pulling your trustworty flashlight you head to the bloody door!

>>41580516
It's...white?

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The bad news is that you are not going to go through that door.

The good news is that now you know ther the monster/worm/thing that attacked you before is.

>>41580547
Enter Engineering.

>>41580505
>Still asks for an access card you don't have.
So the one you do have doesn't work?

If the gun couldn't have been fired except from that time and place, then that leaves two possibilities. One is that the hardware has been altered somehow. The other is that whoever stole your access card ran into the room and fired the weapon while you were in the firing mechanism. If it's the latter, the most likely suspect is the Captain; if it were anyone else, he could have seen them, but he could have set up that trap for you.

If so, then it's it's likely that it might be a monster either impersonating or controlling the Captain, which would also explain why he's acting differently.

Before we go through the bloody door, we should talk to Ellie and tell her that her ship is still intact, and that there's a possible shapeshifter on the loose.

>>41580579
>leaves two possibilities
No it doesn't.

It leaves a third far more likely possibility considering what you've seen in this nightmare ship. It's magic I ain't gotta explain shit.

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>Enter Engineering.
It is very dark in here.

There is a loud humming coming from the hole in the middle of the room, the sound of a gigantic fan spinning very fast.

Simon Croly is here.

>>41580615
"Hey, who turned out the lights?"

>>41580615
Gaze into the abyss.

>>41580615
Describe what Simon looks like now, and that thing he's in front of.

And that tube of red stuff.

And are those doorways labeled?

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>Describe what Simon looks like now, and that thing he's in front of.
He looks perfectly normal.That thing he is in front of seems to be a control panel, though you can't see if it is working or not.

>And that tube of red stuff.
You don't know, but the stuf seems to be moving quite fast.

>And are those doorways labeled?
The top one says "Chief Engineer's Office"
The one in the bottom says "Spare Parts"
The one to the right says "S-Engine Room"

>"Hey, who turned out the lights?"
He smiles, sadly.
"It makes it harder to see, doesn't it? Yes, I do imagine that that was her purpose. Don't think badly of her.She is... just trying to help you, though you can't quite see it yet."

>Gaze into the abyss.
You approach the gianthole in the floor andsee the web of blue growing ever more complex asit descends into darkness. You can feel a slight breeze coming from it.

He starts to talk.
"It seems foolish that after all you did, it was all for naught.
But something being foolish, something being useless, has never stopped anyone from trying it again and again."
"We always keep a glimmer of hope that maybe this time it will work."
He gently caresses the Control pad in front of him.

>>41580767
So whose vision is she trying to hide us from?

>>41580767
Head towards S-engine room. On the way look at the panel Simon is caressing.

>>41580767
You notice doors don't seem to lead where they used to?

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>You notice doors don't seem to lead where they used to?
That is not her. She can't do that. But it bent her, broke her, until very little was left.But she didn't give up, so neither can we.

>So whose vision is she trying to hide us from?
"Hide? Oh no. She is trying to make you lose. It wants us to come back, you see? Nothing can escape it. Not once it went in. But we did. We got out."
"But now, I think, she changed her mind."
The lights turns on as he says that.
"See? Maybe doing something foolish over and over does pay out."

>>41580850
Rush towards and grab the crazy armadillo away from the edge.

>>41580850
>I hope the least suffering for you.

>>41575341
>Please, suggest an action.
Put Quest in the title.

>>41580850
"What are you doing?!"

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>Rush towards and grab the crazy armadillo away from the edge.
You run to him as he jumps and barely manages to grab his ankles. He turns to look at you.

>"What are you doing?!"
"Something foolish and useless. Maybe this time it will work."

You can barely see as his tail smacks against your face and you let him go, allowing him to fall on the spinning blades down below.

Where the tail hit, a stinging mark stays. It will probably disappear in a few minutes.

>>41580924
Watch him fall.

Examine console.

Enter Spare Parts.

"she" sounds like the ship, or someone with influence over the ship.

"it" sounds like the subspace hell dimension the S-Drive accesses to travel intergalactically. That they escaped, but not really. This place has only one foot in reality.

Where does the trap door go?

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>Watch him fall.
You watch him until he disappearsinto darknesand hear as his body hits the blades down below.

>Examine console.
It seems to be a more complex examining of the engine. The normal one, not whatever this S-Drive is. The readings are weird. Some parts are blown to bits, while others are working overtime.

>Enter Spare Parts.
You enter the small room. You see no spare parts around

You feel cheated.

>>41581003
get ye toolbox.

Enter S-Drive.

>>41581003
Check that button. It is different for a reason

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>get ye toolbox.
Toolbox GET! It is locked, though.

>Check that button.
It appears to be loose, but you can't quite remove it with yourbare hands.

>Enter S-Drive.
"Requires Chief Engineer's permission," says the door.

>>41581082
Simon's access card can't open it?

Go down the hatch.

>>41581094
Bet it is locked.

If it is, go get Ellie. Her knife can get us that button

>>41581094
can't open the toolbox I mean.

>>41581116
The button isn't really important.

>>41581139
Of course it is. With it we can reunite our brave heroes! Also, we get a cell to put our enemies.

Except the captain. He is badass.

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>Go down the hatch.
You discover that it is locked.

>can't open the toolbox I mean
That require an old fashioned key. You know those made of metal.

>go get Ellie
You head back to the intersection, to get Ellie.

>>41581163
inb4 cliffhanger

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You are Ellie.

It is really dark in here.

Jack has been goe for a long time. You don't really think he is coming back. You are starting to think that you should have been the one to go down.

You hear something bang twice against the door, then stop.

"Ellie, open up. It's Jack."

>>41581208
Open up.

>>41581208
This is bad, either lights aren't on everywhere or this happened while the real Jack was in the Flight Deck or Engineering.

>>41581208

Wait for a bit before opening up to hear if there are any alarming noises.

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>Open up.
You have entered the Intersection.

Thee is no one here.

>To be continued.

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>>41581262
welp.

Now suddenly time traveling to before the table was destroyed.

>>41581262

Well fug.

Comments or sugestions? I don't know when I will continue this, but it will probably be next week.

Twitter: @LuthQM

If someone could archive this, I'd be very thankful. It is nearly 9am here and I am in desperate need of sleep. These things always take much longer than I expect.

>>41581262
Well, we didn't actually suggest that ellie enter the intersection, you know, just that she open up the door.
But ah well, I suppose the narrative requires some liberal interpretation of stuff.
Nice quest so far, OP.

Well now Ellie REALLY can't give Jack the gun to combine with the bullet to slay the beast and enter the bloody door.

>>41581300

Thank you for bringing us mindboggling madness. I felt that there were some unnecessarily long pauses, but that might be just me because I'm feeling nervous and anxious. One update in 7-10 minutes is an okay pace.

>>41581300
What's the name of Ellie's ship? I don't believe that was mentioned.

Whoever's archiving these threads, you should probably get rid of the character name tags and add horror, mindfuck, and cute.

Butterknife and space animals are pretty dumb too, but they're dumb in a good way so I'd keep them.

Just got caught up. I really like the pixel art, but at times it's hard to figure out what I'm looking at, like >>41580262

Maybe that's just me, though.