[Backdated before the Swear-In] A Story.

[perfectlyhuman]

You're in a broken down space station.

The lights are off. There's no one here. The team working the planet observation project were planning their mission to planet Xyrek 5X0 to look for alien life and rock samples to bring back home. One day they started sending distress signals and asking for help, saying space motors were beginning to malfunction. You were sent in for repairs, but because Xyrek 5X0 is so far away, it took you a week to get there. And now there's no one there to greet you.

You stand in a dark hallway, and there's three doors, one in front of you, one to your left, and one to your right. There's one enough power to open one at a time.

The door to your right has a broken OPEN button, but you can probably fix it. The one in front of you looks fine. The one to your left looks like it's stuck on something, so it's a couple of inches off the floor.


What do you do?

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[drivesadesk]

All right, I crawl into it.

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[perfectlyhuman]

You get in the vent. It's really dark and hot and cramped in there, but you can crawl around.

The path splits up ahead. To the left, there's a fan in the corner and grates in the end. To the right, it just keeps going and gets really dark, so you can't see how long it is.

Where do you go?

[drivesadesk]

If it went to the left, it would have pulled those grates out. I go to the right.

[perfectlyhuman]

It's a really long tunnel and it takes a while until you see any light. It turns to the left, and then splits again to either side.

Both sides have grates at the end. One leads to a hallway, and the other leads to a room.

[drivesadesk]

Okay, I guess I look down the grate that leads into the room. What do I see?

[perfectlyhuman]

You can only see part of it, but it's a room with a bunch of screens, a bunch of buttons and a chair. The chair is knocked over and there's that black slime all over the buttons. The screens are off.

[drivesadesk]

Can I remove the grate so I can climb down?

[perfectlyhuman]

Yeah, you can just push it off.

[drivesadesk]

I push it off and climb down. Once I'm down, I look to see if the computer's turned on, or if it's just the monitors that are off. I turn on the computer if it's off, or the monitors if it's just the monitors.

[perfectlyhuman]

Looks like it won't turn on. The keyboard is covered in that slime and so is the computer. The monitors look okay though.

[drivesadesk]

Is it plugged in?

[perfectlyhuman]

Yes. Looks like it's just damaged by the slime.

[drivesadesk]

Does the damage look like something I can repair?

[perfectlyhuman]

No. Looks like it's really stuck in there and you don't have anything to clean it out.

[drivesadesk]

All right. I leave the room and look around. What do I see?

[perfectlyhuman]

Another hallway.

You're deeper into the space station now, and there's no windows here. Only the energy lights are on. There's a lot of that slime in here, all over the walls and the floor. 

There's three doors on the right, two on the left. The hallway splits into two ways on the end. On the wall it says med bay to the left, and control centre to the right.

[drivesadesk]

I go to the med bay first. If it's not there, I could at least grab some supplies in case I get injured if I end up fighting it.