Apollo 2015/08/17(Mon)23:18 No. 663564 ID: defceb
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Sparrow grabs her make-shift taser and readies to attack the...

...uh...

...that’s...

...pretty big.

Sparrow would like be somewhere else now.

>>663564
VENT TIME.

Tase it anyway! Then go for the vents. Do you have any more WD-40, industrial chemicals or fuel or anything like that nearby? Maybe you can poison it!

Into the vents, towards the big slicey fan thingy that circulates the oxygen no doubt!

...waaaait, is it making itself big to intimidate you? It just tried to kill you and wound up injuring itself, why isn't it just trying to kill you again? Maybe it's trying to get you to go away so it can eat the Medic.

Call it a big meanie.

Then while it's confused by this non-sequitur, shoot it again.

Captain, if you could maybe see the monster on your screen and do something to help, that would be cool.

Apollo 2015/08/23(Sun)23:33 No. 664763 ID: defceb
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Sparrow throws the taser vaguely in their direction and scampers off into the vents. She hears something that almost maybe sounds like a yelp in pain? She doesn’t linger to find out. Sparrow tries to focus on coming up with solutions! She needs to get to the armory and arm herself! Or get to the engines and rig it to blow up! Though that would blow her up too…. She could run to the Medical Bay and-

Apollo 2015/08/23(Sun)23:33 No. 664764 ID: defceb
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Sparrow realizes that she just left Crow behind.Her throat seizes up and she buckles into a sad little ball on the ground. He trusted her! Or, no, he wanted her to leave him behind. But she could have saved him! Maybe. She wanted to believe that she could. But she just abandoned him. Her heart is racing now. She should run back. Or, no, that, it’s a bad idea. She thinks. Perhaps. She could- he barely had a pulse, right? But that’s more than no pulse he wasn’t actually dead yet. Sparrow’s vision is getting blurry. She’s hyperventilating. She’s made a series of poor decisions and she wishes she didn’t have to take these pills just to try to be normal but maybe if she takes a few more they’ll start kicking in and then she can-

Her communicator blips with a new message.

Captain: I thonk it’s the soljer

Oh, NOW the Captain wants to help.

>>664764
You moved him as far as you could. You're no medic, what would you have even done once you got to the med bay?

Tell the captain that yes it is the soldier. Or anyone other than you and him at this point because EVERYONE ELSE IS DEAD.

Apollo 2015/08/23(Sun)23:51 No. 664767 ID: defceb
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Engineer:Yes it’s the soldier or really anybody elserightnow becuase they’re aLL FUCKING DEAD
Engineer:sorry caps

Captain:already? that was fjast

Engineer:YES ALREADY

Captain:it’s been like five minutes

Engineer:KIND OF MOURNING HERE

Captain:whops

Engineer:I think it’s weak to chemical attacks
Engineer:like wd-40
Engineer:and maybe tasers?
Engineer:do we have a box full of dangerous chemicals and tasers?

Captain:uhhhhhh the engines are full of nasty engine chemicals?
Captain:Tetrahydrawhatevers
Captain:shit can melt your bones
Captain:your bonnnneeeeessssss

Engineer:You’re drunk, aren’t you?

Captain:Never

Engineer: :/

>>664767
Well alright then let's get to fuel storage. Or any chemical storage area really. Set up another trap for the thing and you'll fix the life support after it's dead.

Life support first! You're running out of time. And pills! You've had enough for now.

just spread it on the floor, it doesn't seem to be wearing clothes, aka no boots, so when it steps into a puddle of gross shit it's feet will react.

Honestly
>already? that was fjast
>it’s been like five minutes
is how I feel this quest has been going.

Go to life support and tell the cap to lock down all doors since anyone who would use them is dead.

Apollo 2015/08/24(Mon)00:26 No. 664783 ID: defceb
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Sparrow runs through the vents, out the Second-Ring, into the Engine, and pops out in Storage.

Captain:btw the collision broke the gravityspin-o-thing in the engine

Engineer:thanks I noticed. Lock all the doors you can, I need time

Sparrow hears the dull thud of every door shutting simultaneously reverberate throughout the ship. She has a storage site full of dangerous chemicals, zero gravity, some duct tape, and an adrenaline rush that’s holding off a life crushing panic attack. Maybe it’s the pills kicking in. Or the air supply dwindling. Or she’s emotionally shutting down in reaction to the mess that her life’s become.

Or it’s all of the above and her body is just shutting down instead of trying to deal with all this crazy bullshit.

Either way, she needs a plan, and fast.

Duct tape the barrels in a chain you'll carry behind you in zero-g and punch a hole in one of them so it'll leave a trail.
Find a tool closet with some means of either dispersing or detonating the chemicals. Continue making your way to life support.

Well how is the thing reacting to the locked doors? Is it breaking them down? You could lay in wait behind one of them with a barrel, ready to crack it open and spray it onto the alien. Or heck, put it right against a door it's going to knock down, so that it breaks the barrel as the door breaks.

Apollo 2015/08/24(Mon)13:04 No. 664854 ID: defceb
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Engineer: How’s the thing dealing with locked doors?

Captain: I think it’s in the vents

Engineer: you think?

Captain:it’s still fkucking with the cameras
Captain:oh there it is
Captain:yeah it’s vent-hopping
Captain:you got like five minutes I think

Time to turn that room in the best kill zone of all time.

>>664854
Captain's in a place with sealed off vents... you could flood the vents with chemicals. Get to a safe location or just stay ahead of the chemicals and you'll be fine but the alien will be dead. Preferably your next stop is life support, to get the air circulation&purification working again.

You need to make a trap out of chemical barrels and duct tape.

I'm thinking set things up in spinning rings of stable equilibrium, so when they're broken or the canisters open, it sprays tangent to the spin, at your target.

Built an interconnected paranoid web.

Step 1: Equip goggles.
Step 2: Break a small hole in a tank or open it slightly
Step 3: Break off length of duct tape, coat one end in chemicals
Step 4: Fling sticky chem strands towards vent openings and alien

Also tell the cap to keep talking, since even if it interferes with nearby things you will know when the interference gets too close to you.

>>664861
This. Gas the jelly.

>>664861
>>664890
Is there any way we don't gas the probably but hopefully not dead Crow with this plan? We'd need to remote-seal the vents in that room.

How many different vents do we have in this one room? Prep that many barrels. Open up one end (hopefully there's a neat little screw-cap), reseal it with the flimsiest possible layer of duct tape, then kick it toward a vent, semi-open end first. Conservation of momentum means that when the barrel hits the wall, fluid inside will want to keep moving, so the loose cap will pop off and squirt copious amounts of bone-melty chem gunk out into the vent, like a stomped-on tube of toxic toothpaste.

You can then leave safely via a door, which the captain will unlock for you after the alien is finished learning that The Easy Way Is Always Mined, which any real soldier would have already known.

Apollo 2015/08/28(Fri)20:33 No. 665478 ID: defceb
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Sparrow proceed to dump as much dangerous, caustic chemicals as possible into as many vents as possible. They are now reasonably confident that anything that has ever been organic matter would be burned into a goopy mess if they tried to travel through the vents now.

Captain: I think that’s illegal

Engineer: smd

Captain: harsh

Engineer: I’m either emotionally dead or so deep in despair that I’ve burst through the other side into emotionally dead
Engineer: I can’t feel my fingers
Engineer: I think the drugs are kicking in?
Engineer: work the doors and give me a way out of here

Apollo 2015/08/28(Fri)20:33 No. 665479 ID: defceb
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Sparrow exits storage via the front door. She can already see globs of chemicals drifting lazily out of the vents from here. Given the dangerous nature of said chemicals, she feels significantly less safe.

Captain: things moving
Captain: fast

Sparrow hears a sudden, sharp shriek echo out of the vents.

Engineer: where to?

Captain: idk, cameras are shutting on and off erratically
Captain: want me to kill grav in the rings?

Dull, heavy thuds reverberate throughout the ship.

>want me to kill grav in the rings?
It's a space alien shapeshifter. It can navigate zero g better than I can. Leave the gravity on, so I can keep running.

>vents filled with caustic chemicals
So now if the alien doesn't kill you, or the lack of oxygen doesn't kill you, that's going to kill you when you try to turn the air back on.

Unless we can hook the oxygen supply up to one room and leave the fans off so it doesn't blow through the vents?

>>665479
Cut gravity? Well... I'm not sure that's a good idea. The alien has tentacles, that means it's good at moving around in zero g.

Really that would only help if it prevented the chemicals from getting places we don't want it to be. Considering it's rotational artificial gravity, air turbulence makes things very weird. Sparrow should have a general idea of how unreasonable the rotation would make trying to avoid the chemicals.

Are there any hazmat suits anywhere that could let us just kindof ignore the chemicals until we can vent them (after the alien is dead ofc)? Or can we seal off this section of the ship? Is there more than one air purification system? Can we disconnect it from this part of the ship?

Head to... hmm. If the alien is smart it's going to try to vent the ship on its own. We need to find a way to stop it. Find a weapon of some sort? ...those chems are flammable, right? We could kill it just by getting to a room we can seal off, then flicking a match into the vents. The pressure wave would pulp it.

Do a somersault!

>>665637
no. THREE somersaults.

Apollo 2015/08/29(Sat)23:34 No. 665698 ID: defceb
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Sparrow trails some lazy somersaults through the air

Engineer:Don’t flip off the grav, that might be to their advantage
Engineer:think we can vent out all the nasty chems when we’re done?

Captain:loll

Engineer:is that a no

Captain:Vice-Admiral Morgan wants to know if you can breathe in a vacuum
Captain:I promoted Morgan btw
Captain:the drink
Captain:not the person they were a dick

Sparrow can’t believe he’s gotten this drunk-

Apollo 2015/08/29(Sat)23:34 No. 665699 ID: defceb
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Oh no

Ohh nononononono

There goes the communicator.

Sparrow hears another dull, heavy thud reverberate throughout the ship.

>>665699
Well you can steal a dead person's comms if you find one. There should be lots of those.

You've got some distance from the hopefully dying alien. What's the next priority? Set a new trap? Fix broken ship stuff before you die? Pump stomach before the overdose kills you? Double back for Crow?

Okay so we can't vent the chems. Then this is it, it's over. We're dead. It's probably trying to bust a hole in the hull right this very minute and we don't even know where. If it succeeds, it gets to live and we get to die.

Wait for the comm to bounce off the vent cover and then reclaim it. I doubt the chems are corrosive enough to destroy the thing from a brief exposure, although you should probably not touch it with your bare skin.

SO. WHERE CAN WE ACTUALLY GO.

The way i see it, at this point the Alien would be sick and tired of chasing around a mostly defenseless engineer that has proven to not be as defenseless. The aliens ultimate goal is to get to the captain and get into the bridge. The alien should try to get to the bridge and try to force his way in since his while disguise jig is up.

For Sparrow she needs to find a away to stop herself from dying to the chemicals that are now in the vent and get to the Captain to ensure his safety.

For the Captain he needs to report to his superior Vice-Admiral and get some much needed advice on how to deal with god damn aliens on his god damn ship.

Apollo 2015/08/30(Sun)00:07 No. 665705 ID: defceb
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Sparrow is fairly confident that attempting to recover the communicator would do more harm than good now. As it drifts by she catches a glance at the screen, bearing a new message from the captain.

Captain:I think it’s coming my way?

The screen sputters and shuts off. She takes a minute to reconsider her options.

From here she could:

[1] Run to the command module and hope the Captain would let her in.
[2] Double back to Crow and hope he’s not dead/eaten.
[3] Run into the belly of the engine and find out what she can do from there.
[4] Try to fix the oxygen systems
[5] Panic
[6] Panic and cry
[7] Run to the escape pods and find out if any can be repaired.

Is that a…. hissing noise?

>Is that a…. hissing noise?
That's probably the aline come to kill you. Look around, fast!

...or the alien went and turned the air back on, for revenge. And is about to blow all the toxins in the vents at you. Maybe you need to take cover?

Of the actual numbered options: 1 seems pointless, 2 is where your heart is, 3 or 4 might actually be productive.

>>665705
Oh okay if it turned on the air then we're double dead. Of course it's probably got just as much to worry about as you do. From the sound of things it's busting down the doors to get at the captain...

Let's do 4. We've done all we can to try to stop the alien I think.

I say go for 2 then 1, Not much you can do about the o2 system until the alien is taken care of and panicing wont earn you another gold star

Go do 4, no point fixing the engines with the Threadopsys Donkey onboard.

Do 3, and rig the engine to overcrank and explode. Immediately afterwards make a dash to the escape pods, and attempt an escape. If you have the time you can try to get Crow, but he is presumably eaten by now.

Another option is to get Crow's communicator, and bluff the Alien with saying that you have a) disabled the pods, and b) rigged the ship to explode. Then you can try to lure the alien to the engine room and take him down there, or alternatively get the Captain to open the armoury and give you access to the weapons within.

Apollo 2015/08/30(Sun)14:27 No. 665807 ID: defceb
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Sparrow runs off to find Crow, hoping that he is still alive, somehow.

...or not.

Sparrow decides to bottle up all her feelings and hope that they will just go away on their own.

Apollo 2015/08/30(Sun)14:27 No. 665808 ID: defceb
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Plan B: Sparrow runs towards the Command Module, taking her back through to the First-Ring. Eugh, it seems like the chemicals have already reached here, too. The hissing sound can be heard from here, as well. Not to mention she still can’t feel her hands.

Digital chimes pop to life over the speaker systems, followed by a synthesized voice. “Vacuum warning has been declared in the following areas: Engines, Second-Ring.”

Oh joy. At least the emergency airlocks should be kicking in soon.

Any second now.

Or… or not?

Sparrow does not like the sound of this.

>>665808
Are there any airlocks you can seal manually? Or a hard-suit you can get to?

If you don't establish a place you can breath, you're gonna be dead real soon.

Get thee to a hazmat suit.

Seconding the Hazmat suit proposal. If there is not one in your vicinity, dash for the pods, or medbay, as they likely have stored air.

Apollo 2015/08/31(Mon)21:56 No. 666179 ID: defceb
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Right! Nearest hardsuit! Sparrow thinks the closest ones are by the [b]Escape Pods[b], so she runs there and proceed to slither into one as fast as she can.

Apollo 2015/08/31(Mon)21:56 No. 666180 ID: defceb
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“Vacuum warning has been declared in the following areas: Escape Pods.”

>>666180
Grab that helmet and get it on or die.

And then grab onto something before you're thrown out to drift in space forever.

Go for the helmet, quickly. Also I can think of a reason why the alien would empty the air in here. It is likely it is headed here to escape the chemicals and save its own bacon. Think you can set up a trap after you prevent yourself from, you know death from lack of oxygen?

>>666180
Does this hardsuit have magnetic boots? If so, activate them so you don't go flying.

Grab that helmet, put it on, hold onto something until the air current stops, then grab some air canisters. Use the air canisters for reaction mass if you have to spacewalk.

Contemplate possible methods of survival now that there are holes in the ship. Is it even possible to repair this damage anymore?

Looks like we just opened a can full of nope. The alien survives in space so no point trying to throw it out of the ship. The way i see her best options are to get to the Captain so they can take it down together. The alien is weak ti toxic chemicals and by the sound of it the captain is 50% booze so that should work. Her options right now are to either somehow get around the alien or go to the outside of the ship and get back in from another airlock.

>>666190
Well, if we get it off the ship, it's out of our hair...

>>666188
It's using the doors to control the strength and direction of the vacuum. It has eaten the captain already. It poked holes in its suit, so it's no longer protected from chems, but unless there's somewhere VERY close by where we can get some and use it, this is it.

Alternatively, if there's anything explosive or sharp nearby we can chuck that at it. Ooor if we can poke a hole in a window or something near it so that it gets sucked out like spaghetti ALA Alien 3...

>>666200
Well fuck. Look around for another airlock. Do you know the overall layout of the outside/inside of the ship?

Again, does the suit have magnetic boots? Or any sort of thrusters? If not you're gonna have to look for a path that has handholds, or find something with the reaction mass you need to maneuver.

...optimally we'd be looking for an airlock near the armory. Also, I thought of a potential trap we can set. Get another hardsuit, fill it with caustic chemicals, put it somewhere that the alien is likely to find.

Well, what's useful and near an airlock?

Your suit has come sort of radio, right? Get in touch with the captain if he's still there.

Please tell me the suit includes some cold-gas maneuvering thrusters or a grapple gun or SOMETHING so you're not super-slow-mo boned if you lose your grip.

No cook and no medic means odds of long-term survival are looking bad. Time to think of the larger strategic situation. Make your way to the ship's long range comm system, or better yet a weapons-grade laser, and set it up to send a signal back to Earth.

This is not horror movie monster-victim ominous-journal-making behavior. You are simply an engineer, doing your job correctly. You found a mission-critical bug, you looked for ways to fix it, and now you're going to report your findings to the manufacturer so they can improve the next version.

Waddle around the ship to life support.

Get to the Captain and hope the thing didnt follow you out

What the..? Is that the Captain sticking his head out the window? Did the alien(s) forget humans can't do that? Keep your distance.

Alien behind you, possible help ahead of you. Nothing for it but to run forward. Hope the captain has some drunk brilliance, here.

>>666452
What? Is that another survivor? Oh hey there's a planet in the background, neat.

If you have a radio in the suit, warn them about the predatory alien chasing you. Phrase it so that the alien can't tell you're actually seeing anyone, and are just broadcasting blindly to anyone that might hear you. The more information we deny the alien the better. Although at this point it has almost all the information, having eaten six people.

(I'm actually wondering why it hasn't just left yet. Is it pissed off because Sparrow injured it three times? There's no way it didn't eat the medic. No way. Unless...)

Sparrow how much WD-40 got on the medic when the canister exploded? If a lot of it got on him then the alien didn't eat him.

Of course, this is assuming that is someone wearing a hardsuit (someone that survived the original collision and got trapped outside the ship, but had a hardsuit), and not the alien somehow reaching across the entire station to make a doppleganger of the suitless captain to lure you into a trap. I can't tell actually. If it's the latter stay away obviously, veer right or something.

Apollo 2015/09/01(Tue)22:52 No. 666459 ID: defceb
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"iiiIIIIIii-i-i-I s-s--ss-see yyyyoooou-u-U-u."

Could we have this conversation later? Inside, perhaps?

ahhhhhhhhh!!

>>666459
HOW IS IT TALKING

Apollo 2015/09/01(Tue)23:53 No. 666469 ID: defceb
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"I know you now. Your fears control you, and you fight them with poison."

Apollo 2015/09/01(Tue)23:55 No. 666470 ID: defceb
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"You will die, Sparrow. If not by my hand, then by the toxin flowing through your veins.

>>666470
GET IN THERE.

Also if you ever get into a pressurized section of the ship again, consider inducing vomiting so that you get some of those pills out of your stomach.

Apollo 2015/09/02(Wed)00:23 No. 666481 ID: defceb
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"Enough of this."

>>666481
Alcohol pls.

Time to act Captain, you have been training your whole life for this moment. Listen to Vice-Admiral Morgan and fight the weapon with the only weapon you know, booze.

Apollo 2015/09/02(Wed)00:58 No. 666484 ID: defceb
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"Game over, Sparrow."

Apollo 2015/09/02(Wed)00:58 No. 666485 ID: defceb
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"I wi-"

>>666485
GET DRUNKED

Sparrow try to flail at the captain so he can grab you before you float off.

Grab Sparrow, get back inside!

I second the points made, but you need to see if you have a firearm immediately within access. If you do not dispatch him here, he will just retreat into the ship, and wait until you are forced to fix the air supply due to the suits running out.

>toxins
Force feed him your remaining pills! Avenge Crow!

>>666547

Feed it the kill pills.

Hurry Captain, throw all the booze at it! Make it as drunk as you are!

Apollo 2015/09/02(Wed)14:24 No. 666690 ID: defceb
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"ggrgrrrrAAAA-Aaaa-a-a-a-aaAAAAGAAAGAHHAG"

Apollo 2015/09/02(Wed)14:25 No. 666691 ID: defceb
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_{"AAaau-g-g-g-gggugughghg--gggAAAAAAAAAAAAA."}

Apollo 2015/09/02(Wed)14:25 No. 666692 ID: defceb
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...

>up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, Start, Select

NEW GAME+

>>666694
i thought the captain would have thrown up just as much as sparrow.

poor crow :<