Apollo 2015/07/29(Wed)22:38 No. 659264 ID: defceb
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Select a character!
1.The Captain
2.The Soldier
3.The Engineer
4.The Cook
5.The Medic
6.The Janitor

3. (or maybe 4 or 6 as backup choices).

5.

4

welcome to Space Station 13. Round type: Changling

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Apollo 2015/07/29(Wed)23:25 No. 659282 ID: defceb
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>Be the engineer

The story begins with a murder. A murder and a lot of shouting. The corpse was just found in the Sleeping Quarters - First Ring. Now the other survivors are shouting amongst each other. They think an alien did it. They think an alien is hiding amongst them right now. They all shouted nasty things and debated so fiercely that Sparrow started to cry, and hid in a nearby air vent to get away from it all.

Sparrow doesn’t handle this kind of stress well. She cries easily and likes to hide from things that scare her. She is the only survivor that can travel through the air vents.

Her current inventory contains:
One wrench
One roll of duct tape
One canister WD-40
32 Anxiety Pills
3 ‘cigarettes’

Who was the corpse?

>32 Anxiety Pills
How often can you take one of those. Have you taken one of those yet.

>She is the only survivor that can travel through the air vents.
The alien might be able to too.

>3 ‘cigarettes’
But no 'lighter', unfortunately.

>what do
You're the engineer, you should know the ship's layout. Can we see a map?

It would be good if we can find something to defend ourselves.

get a blowtorch for weapon.

>>659282
Yeah, if there's an alien I'd be fully prepared to encounter it in the air vents at any given time. Don't assume you are safe in there. Except from other humans, you're probably safe from whoever is actually human. Mostly. What other sort of stuff would you have as the engineer available to you? Like if you went and grabbed stuff from elsewhere? What repairs does the ship need? Focus on what you need to do now, not the panicked discussion.

You're safe for now. Who was killed? How?

Apollo 2015/07/30(Thu)00:12 No. 659293 ID: defceb
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Sparrow doesn’t quite recall the last time she took an anxiety pill. Her memory isn’t very good when she is worried. She takes an anxiety pill. It’s supposed to take a few minutes to take effect. She wishes time would move faster.

Everyone is currently located in the First Ring, which contains various civic rooms such as the Sleeping Quarters, the Mess Hall, and a Movie Theater. Above them is the Command Module, which requires the Captain’s permission to enter. Below them is the Second Ring, which contains rooms such as the Armory, the Medical Station, and Cold Storage. Further down is the [Engine], which she will need to repair if she wants the ship to ever move again. Sandwiched in-between the rings are the Escape Pods, if any of them are still functional.

The poor victim was somebody Sparrow never knew personally. They were mauled to death, as if by a wild animal. Sparrow doesn’t like to think about the corpse. Sparrow doesn’t like to think about how the alien might able to sneak through the air vents too. She takes another anxiety pill. Sparrow wishes time would move faster.

>>659293
Well, start moving downwards, I suppose. Engine's not going to fix itself.

>>659293
If there's something on board, you don't want it to get back to a populated area. Don't repair the engines.

Head to the armory immediately.

Apollo 2015/07/30(Thu)00:58 No. 659299 ID: defceb
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Sparrow rushes to reach the Second Ring, leaving the rest of the survivors behind. She’s relieved to be away from all the shouting; the lonely silence of the hallways is far more comforting to her. The idea of an unknown predator, however, is far from comforting. She finds herself stepping cautiously around every shadow and minor creak along the way. Sparrow contemplates taking another pill.

Connecting the First and Second Ring together is a large airlock. Curiously, it is rejecting Sparrow’s entry. Either it's broken, or the machine has been hacked to deny her access. She supposes she could force the door open, but she would not be able to close it once on the other side.

Sparrow’s communicator rings with two new text messages:
Medic:Meet me at the Movie Theater. We need to talk. Private matter.
Soldier:I’m locking down the Armory until further notice. Captain’s orders.

>>659299
Well. Breaking an airlock sounds bad, so we probably don't want to do that yet. Is there any other way you could get to the other side?

If not, I suppose we should see the Medic.

>>659299
Tell us about the other crew members.

Also report the malfunctioning airlock to the captain.

>Sparrow contemplates taking another pill
You just took two. Let it be. What's the maximum dose on those, anyways?

>>659301
Report it after you've moved away from the door. So just in case the captain is the shapeshifter, he doesn't have your location.

>go meet doctor in movie theater
Let's head in that direction. What are our escape options if this is a trap by the alien? Do you know the doctor well enough you could ask a question only they could answer? Could you rig up some kind of bio scanner? (Maybe that's what the doc wants help with). How many exits from the theater, and can you get in without being seen by anyone else? (Vents again, I guess).

>didn't know victim
So no one critical to ship function then? That's a relief. Still upsetting, but a relief.

Being the only one who can fit through the air ducs makes you a prime suspect for the alien. Minimize your contact with other crew members.
Meet the Medic. Do not agree to a heart transplant if he offers it.

>>659299
There should be other doors linking the rings.

Also: Alien ambushes means buddy system and open radios.

Apollo 2015/07/30(Thu)12:33 No. 659364 ID: defceb
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Sparrow walks towards the Movie Theater. The Medic is a very quiet, serious person. Whatever he wants to talk about must be important, given their situation. Unless he’s the alien luring her into a trap. She’d be walking right into it. Sparrow doesn’t like the idea of walking into a trap. It makes her feel small and weak. She contemplates finding a closet to hide in and hope that everything would just blow over.

She messages to the Captain that the Airlock door is broken. Maybe there are other doors to get to the other side. She hasn't used them, if they exist. But the door she always uses has a large number 4 on it, so logically there should be a door with a large 1, 2, and 3 on them. Maybe the stress is making her forget where the other airlock doors are. Meanwhile, Sparrow realizes she left the communicator on for that whole message, and now thoroughly embarrassed, apologizes and turns it off.

Sparrow was so distracted in her idle thoughts, that she barely noticed the Soldier and Janitor in front of her until she bumped into them.

“Oh, there you are!” The soldier says, loud and boisterous as always. “Where have you been?”

“She probably just got scared and ran away like always, give her a break.” Says the Janitor in his low, somber tone.

“This is a state of emergency! We can’t have people all running off in different directions. The Captain has already locked himself up in the command center, so the five of us remaining need to stick together!”

>>659364
Oh, um, sorry. Tell them you're going to go see the medic.

We don't necessarily need to stick together, thanks to electronic communication, but we do need to keep track of each other.

I'm here with you two, Medic's waiting for me in the theater, Captain's on the bridge. Where's the cook?

Open up some notepad function on your phone. Write down what time it is, and where everyone is. Update those notes (without overwriting the old data) every time you get new information, and every time you take another anxiety pill, always with timestamps.

Sparrow, how well do you know the rest of the crew? Do you know anyone's secrets? Do they know any of yours? A question about something very personal usually kept secret could be used to check if someone is themselves or an alien. (Although you can't ask this kind of question where two people can hear, or it ruins the secret and it's value as an ID).

>Sparrow was so distracted in her idle thoughts
Don't wander around distracted. That will get you ambushed!

>>659367
>>659368
No, no. Bad! Don't tell there where the medic is. Either of them could be the alien, and the medic said this is private. If it's not a trap, he's trying to keep it secret for a good reason.

>medic could be a trap
The problem is how we feel out the medic without tripping the trap, if it is one. We need escape options. Multiple escape routes planned. Maybe rig up some smoke bombs or some other trick.

>the five of us remaining need to stick together!
Say you appreciate the sentiment, but that may be logistically difficult considering you all have different responsibilities.

Although groups do have a small advantage. They can't both be the alien, right?

...if it's so important that everyone stick together, does he know where anyone else is? (If they know the medic is in the theater, then it's not so secret or a trap. If they think the medic is somewhere else, than the medic deceived them, or there's a medic at one location and a alien at the other).

In fact, make this a rule. Always ask for information first, and see what they say, before providing your own. This increases your chance of catching a liar, and not feeding the alien info.

Don't tell anyone you were in the vents. If the alien assumes all the humans are too big to fit, that gives you a small advantage.

Apollo 2015/07/30(Thu)14:21 No. 659392 ID: defceb
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Sparrow doesn’t like being around the Soldier. He is very loud, and makes fun of her for being such a scaredy cat. She tries to muster up the courage to make a strong response. “I n-n-n-need to go see the medic.” She stutters out. A for effort. “T-t-they’re waiting for me.” She thinks it best to refrain from mentioning the movie theater. That place only has one entrance and exit, though Sparrow can sneak out through the air vents as well. If she can find a maintenance closet on the way, she could use the spare parts to make a Smoke Bomb or possibly a Taser. The Janitor should know where all of those are and have the keys to access them.

“W-we should stay in groups. I’ll b-be with the medic. Where’s the cook?”

The soldier and janitor glance towards each-other. “...I thought he was with the medic?”

Sparrows tries to process this information. The medic said it was a private matter. Did they invite the cook along? Or maybe the medic is the alien and ate the cook already? Or the cook was the alien and used the medic’s communicator? Why are they staring at her? Do they think Sparrow is the alien? She feels very uncomfortable here. They’re giving suspicious looks. Sparrow would like to leave. She must look very suspicious right now. But she’s not suspicious she just can’t handle this kind of stress and now they’re just staring at her but she doesn’t like it when people stare at her this is a lot of unwanted attention what if they’re both aliens but that wouldn’t make sense they said there was only one alien-

Sparrow takes another anxiety pill. She wishes she had a lighter right now, but she doesn’t know where she last left it. Maybe she should be writing this all down.

No, don't leave journals behind! That's what the crew does before they get devoured by aliens for some hero to find later. Be the hero, Sparrow!

Tell the Soldier and Janitor you're still going to see him, or it, but you'll need a maintenance closet key so you can protect yourself. Fashion a tazer for defense.

Tell them that the medic texted you (maybe wave your comm so they can see the inbox, but don't open the text), but he didn't mention the cook.

Either they separated, or the medic just failed or mention it... or the alien is with the cook, or has the medic's comm?

Maybe you should text the medic back, and ask him if he's seen any of the others.

Um. Ask these two how they know the medic and cook are together. Did they see it, or did someone just tell them?

Ask if the janitor could get the three of you into a supply closet. You can uh, prove you're you by doing something engineer-y with the supplies? Oh gods, the alien's not an engineer too, right? That would make you too easy to replace. That would be terrible.

What kind of communicators do you have? Just text or can they do audio? Arrange with them to message the cook asking if they are ok at the same time we message the medic, since one alien probably can't do two things at the same time. Then include in your message to the cook asking what they need to see you about.
How about, unless the cook responds with an extremely good reason for privacy, we just ask these guys to come with us? I can't think of any compelling reason for the survivors to not stay in the same room whenever possible.

>>659392
Ask for an escort?

Apollo 2015/07/30(Thu)15:06 No. 659405 ID: defceb
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Sparrow decides not to leave notes behind. Dead people leave behind notes in all the horror games she’s played. Or painted murals and left up posters. She decides she won’t do any of that, because she’s a hero! Or so she tells herself...

“D-did you see them together, or…?”

“I guess not. They were the last two left in the Sleeping Quarters, so I guess we just assumed. Ha! Silly us.”

“Ffffuck. Let’s go back and see if we can find them.”

The three of them try using their communicators to text the Cook and the Medic, asking where they are. Neither of them respond.

“I’ll g-go find the medic, you guys can search for the cook.” Sparrow stutters some more, taking a step away from the two of them. She’d like to be alone now. “M-may I please have a key for the supply closet? I’d like to get something to defend myself with.”

The Janitor tosses her a spare key, warning her that it’s the only spare he has right now, and gives her directions to the nearest supply closet. They part ways, the Soldier and Janitor leaving together, and Sparrow leaving on her own. She’s still scared, but at least finds some comfort in solitude.

Apollo 2015/07/30(Thu)15:06 No. 659406 ID: defceb
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Select a character!
1.The Captain
2.The Soldier
3.The Engineer [Unavailable!]
4.The Cook
5.The Medic [Unavailable!]
6.The Janitor

4.

The cap!

Cook.

The Cap'N!

O GOD WE KILLED HEEEEER

Let's go with 1 and curl up into a little ball and cry.

The captain!

Soldier next

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2015/07/30(Thu)18:35 No. 659450 ID: ebcefd

1. Might as well get a chance to be the cap for a bit before the zombie engie comes out of the ceiling to eat him.

>No response on coms, split up anyway
Welp.

Apollo 2015/07/30(Thu)22:52 No. 659491 ID: defceb
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>Be the Captain

Captain Kerouac may die a bloody and beaten mess. He may die crying for his mother. He may even die by being jettisoned out an airlock. But he refuses to die sober. Kerouac has holed himself up in the Command Module, and refuses to leave the safety of said module until he has at least one taste of everything in his alcohol collection. In the meantime, his perch allows him to:

1.Monitor the security feeds
2.Remotely lock and unlock doors.
3.Activate automated security [Broken]
4.Check crew logs
5.Make announcements over the telecom.
6De-activate the ring rotation, halting artificial gravity. [Locked, pending engine repairs.]
7.Remotely launch the escape pods.
8.Disconnect primary power source, forcing the ship into emergency power mode.

According to a message he received earlier from the Engineer, one of the airlocks to the Second Ring is malfunctioning. He finds this mildly concerning, but not as concerning as the temperature of his drink. He idly wonders if maybe the refrigerator is malfunctioning too.

According to the monitor in front of him, only one of the escape pods is giving a signal that it’s still functional. He supposes that would work to get one person to probable safety, if the worst comes to worst.

>>659491
Safety where? Where would the escape pod go?

Look at some crew logs.

Hey, question. What about the murder made people think it was an alien and not, you know, regular old murder?

>escape pods
Where did we park this boat, anyways. Is there even anything habitable within reach of the escape pod?

>what do
1 and 4. Look for information.

Launch that escape pod into the sun. No easy way out for this predator.

Monitor those security feeds, and remotely lock the armory door. The only one getting fully loaded today is you.

>>659495
>What about the murder made people think it was an alien and not, you know, regular old murder?
It probably had something to do with the vicious mauling the victim received. >>659293

Apollo 2015/07/30(Thu)23:33 No. 659503 ID: defceb
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Kerouac remotely locks the Armory first. The only thing getting loaded today is his liver.

The Escape Pod could put one person in cold storage and launch them back homewards, sending a distress beacon all the way. With a little luck, and a lot of patience the person could conceivably be picked up by friendlies. Not that it matters now, because he just launched the escape pod into the sun. Now they’re all truly stuck until the alien is dead. Or they’re dead. He briefly considers if it was the right choice, but counters that thought with a quick consultation from Captain Morgan.

Kerouac flips through the security feeds. The Engineer appears to have squirreled their way into a supply closet and is busying themselves with something that is certainly off-regulation. He fights the urge to give her a stern talking-to about the rules on his ship. Elsewhere, the Soldier and the Janitor appear to be walking together back towards the Sleeping Quarters.

And on the fourth screen..? Uh oh. Where is that supposed to go? Is there an audio feed? is it the kitchen

Apollo 2015/07/31(Fri)00:26 No. 659511 ID: defceb
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The fourth panel is supposed to be showing the Kitchen. Kerouac gives the screen a few hopeful taps, and takes a lucky shot of something off-blue, to make it work again. Whether by percussive maintenance or fortunate happenstance, it works.

Through the camera he sees the Cook, who is apparently searching for something. The search is no easy task for one who is completely blind, but that does not deter said cook at all. Normally Kerouac would be opposed to having someone with such an impediment for a space flight. But very few cooks can make a proper steak in zero-gravity, and in that war his stomach won.

Hm, I wonder if someone's rearranged his stuff. Maybe he's wondering where all the booze went.

Check the movie theater cams. Reflect on the dark irony that tomorrow was going to be Scary Movie Night.

>>659503
Wasn't the Soldier supposed to lock the armory?

>>659511
Hmm. Message everyone and ask for them to report in every half hour. Also, ask the Medic where he is. Don't see him on the cameras.

>>659511
Message everyone and have them give you a status update.

>automated security (broken)
Where would the engineer need to go to fix that? (since I assume it'd be really high tech) Does it have scanners/work off the cameras or is it something where you hit the *kill person* button?

Captain, you're a disgrace! You might as well have launched yourself into the sun. Stop drink, pull yourself together, and take command of your ship, dammit!

Check the crew logs, for starters.

Apollo 2015/07/31(Fri)22:39 No. 659629 ID: defceb
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>Wasn’t the soldier supposed to lock the armory?
Was he? Kerouac certainly doesn’t recall giving any orders to.

>Automated security?
If the engineer were to repair it, the security could be programmed to attack anything not registered via IFF, attack only people registered via IFF, shoot anything that moves, or overload and explode as soon as something trips either of the first three conditions.

He decides to message everyone demanding that they check in both immediately and every half-hour. He also asks the Medic to report his status, as Kerouac can’t see them anywhere.

On the camera he sees the Cook discover the location to his lost communicator. His ringtone must have finally pointed out where he lost it. The Cook calls him back right away.

“Captain! Chef Taylor reporting in. I’m in the kitchen right now, and I haven’t seen any sign of the alien. Ha! Get it? Seen?”

“....yes, yes, I get it.”

“Also I think someone raided the alcohol cabinet. That might be relevant-”

“I’m sure it's nothing to worry about.”

Apollo 2015/07/31(Fri)22:39 No. 659630 ID: defceb
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Oh dammit he lost the video again.

>Was he? Kerouac certainly doesn’t recall giving any orders to.
Then the soldier lied, or the captain is too drunk to remember.

>what do
Check the logs, since the cameras aren't helping now.

Shit, the Captain doesn't know the Engineer got sent that message from the soldier. No reason to even ask about that, either.

>>659630
Did you also lose the call? I think the Cook just got et. The alien might cause electrical interference...

Medic and Cook stop responding I think we can write them off, and inform the others that they are probably dead. Tell the Engineer she should probably try to get the automated defenses working.

Also tell everyone you've locked the armory for the time being, until you learn how to track the alien.

Apollo 2015/08/01(Sat)00:12 No. 659641 ID: defceb
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Kerouac’s communicator brings up nothing but janky bursts of static now. He decides to keep himself busy with the crew logs and a shot of some french sounding drink instead.

Medic: Thistle Crow. Age 32. Earth-born, a rare sight to see these days. He served as medical aid throughout most of North America until chemical damage forced him to be relocated to Mars for surgery. After a few years rest for recovery, he now enlists in spaceflights to bring medical aid there whenever possible.

Engineer; Sparrow Jager. Age 28. Born and raised on a Jupiter platform. Suffers from severe anxiety, the likes of which would normally prevent her from getting work in spaceflight. She was only let on board with certification from some government doctor.

The two supposedly got into some sort of romance behind closed doors, but such activity is NOT ALLOWED on Kerouac’s ship! Even if he did find it adorable.

Speak of the devil, the Medic finally got back to him.

Medic:Safe, bjusy, is men.

Well that doesn’t explain much of anything. Cameras are still down, too. He hopes they’ll be back up soon. It does get a little lonely in the Command Module.

Apollo 2015/08/01(Sat)00:12 No. 659642 ID: defceb
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Select a character!
1.The Captain [Unavailable!]
2.The Soldier
3.The Engineer
4.The Cook
5.The Medic
6.The Janitor

>>659642
2 because he's sussssspicious.

5, a perfectly normal human being. Yes. Let us slip into his skin-shell.

Let's see what's cooking.

4.

5, let's see what he is busy with.

>Attack anything not registered via IFF
That would be useful as fuck. I think we need that asap.

>adorable paranoid / blind romance
Okay, we have to see where that's going. Preferably before one of them dies.

3 and/or 4.

Apollo 2015/08/01(Sat)15:53 No. 659719 ID: defceb
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>Be the medic

Thistle Crow doesn’t want to die like this.

He’s lost a lot of blood, and to make matters worse he’s fairly certain the alien uses some sort of venom. He feels cold, and his extremities have become dull and unresponsive. Crow barely managed to form a reply to the Captain’s message, and now he can’t even move his fingers enough to reply to Sparrow’s. He wishes Sparrow was here already. He wishes he had more time. He wishes he didn’t act like such an ass the last time they met.

He hears someone enter the Movie Theater.

>>659719
Well, what did the alien look like?

try to tell the others you are dying, and if they see you alive it's a fake.

What happened, anyways? How'd you end up like this?

What do you have in inventory?

>Crow barely managed to form a reply to the Captain’s message
Why'd you say you were safe if you weren't?

>someone enters theater.
Call out (weakly) for help. You're going to die without help anyways, and if that's the alien, you don't lose anything you're not already losing giving away your position.

It's... probably not Sparrow? If it was her, she's have snuck in through the vent next to you.

Physician, heal thyself!

Apollo 2015/08/01(Sat)19:09 No. 659747 ID: defceb
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Crow barely even saw the alien before it attacked. It was shortly after he left the Sleeping Quarters. The lighters faltered, and in that moment something leapt out at him. It managed to bury a stinger on his side before he ran off. Ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, it hurts. He could barely even see it when he ran away. It’s one of the men, he knows that for sure.

His inventory contains;
One air filter.
Stethoscope
Latex gloves
Key-card, Medical Station
A box of 80 band-aids.
A roll of gold star stickers. For the nice patients.

Apollo 2015/08/01(Sat)19:09 No. 659748 ID: defceb
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“hhhhhhHHHelp.” The word struggles to crawl out of his throat, breaking into more of a coarse hiss than a word. Sparrow pokes her head into view. She’s scared. He tries to reach out to her, but his arm doesn’t respond.

“Is t-that really you, Crow?”

>Is t-that really you, Crow?
Mumble some kind of secret to prove it's you. If you had a closed door romance, you must know at least one, right? Something she told you, or you told her, or that the two of you did. Or mention an embarrassing birthmark or something.

Assuming you don't scare her off, walk her through what she needs to do to treat you. You're too weak, but she can take directions, be your hands.

try to confirm and get out that medical card, you need some first aid.

Expend 40 band aids to restore max health. That's how it works, right?

Call out to Crow, relay the information about where you were attacked to her. When you say stinger, did it seem to come off a tail? These designs are curious too. Are they painted on? Is it the alien's own fluids? If so, someone should get a sample of that to the medical station for analysis.

Do you have a nickname for Sparrow? Use that. She's pretty worked up, so you'll have to stay calm. Say you're hurt and you need some help, downplay it if you have to.

>>659747
Sounds like that confirms the alien causes electrical interference. So either the Cook is the alien, or he was near it.

>>659748
Nod. If she can get to you, try your best to tell her about the lights flickering before it attacks.

Die dramatically on Sparrow's arms, turning her into a gritty no-nonsense antihero with a thirst for RECENGE

Apollo 2015/08/05(Wed)01:34 No. 660415 ID: defceb
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“You’ve got a birthmark on your butt shaped like a-”

“Okay, okay, I believe you!” Sparrow shuffles closer. She reaches out tentatively to touch Crow’s wound, but can’t quite muster the courage to do it.

“It’s not that bad, I’ll be okay,” Crow lies. He inhales sharply as he tries to sit up a little more. She’s scared, he needs to look calm and collected as he dies. “You uh… wouldn’t happen to have a Med-Kit, would you?”

Sparrow shakes her head. It was worth a shot.

“Alright. I need you to listen carefully. I’m not going to be able to help you out with this one. I need to…” Bleed out, succumb to venom, who knows what else. “...rest. Here. You’ll have to handle this problem alone.”

“...but…”

“You can do it. I believe in you. The thing is one of the other guys. It causes electrical disturbances, lights flickering, communicator problems, all that spooky skeleton bullshit. If you see that, run. If you’re okay with ditching the gaggle of assholes we call a crew I’d recommend running straight to the Escape Pod. All things considered, I’d recommend the escape pod even if you liked any of those other guys. If you want to stay though, then we have a bigger problem.”

“Bigger than an evil shape shifting space alien?”

“The air vent, do you hear anything?”

She listens quietly, and shakes her head again.

“That’s the problem.”

tell her to take your card too, may be a few places that a second kind of access level could be useful.

The air circulation is disabled? Well it doesn't make sense for the alien to sabotage it since it would die alongside the crew. It's probably damaged due to the collision.

Ask for a kiss before she goes.

>Med kit
Where are those kept?

>bleed out and succumb to venom
Well, we can't stop the later right now, but isn't there something in here she could bind the wound with? Stop or slow the bleeding.

...give her a gold star. On the nose or cheek.

>sparrow
You needs to find a medkit asap, and get to the central controls or fans for the ventilation system. Where are those things?

>>660421
It only doesn't make sense if you assume the alien has the same oxygen requirements we do, or that it's not carrying emergency air as part of its plan. (And it could always choose to turn the air back on later if it needs it. The sabotage could be intentionally reversible).

The oxygen can wait a little longer, it's your blood oxygen levels that are most pressing. Speaking of pressing, apply pressure to your wound with a strip of cloth or something. Sparrow's bandanna, for instance? Give her the key to the med lab too, if you don't give it to someone they'll just loot it off your body anyway. Tell her to bring the stinger there for analysis of the venom.
Then tell her, you know what, don't bother with the escape pod. I get the feeling someone's probably made off with it already... Probably the captain, the damn coward.

>>660415
any chance she could get to the medical station and get you a first aid kit in time? give her the card or let her go through the vents.

Okay, if we assume reliable narrators (so none of the perspective characters have been the alien), and if we assume the alien isn't shape-shifting quickly and at will and has actually assumed the role of one of the others, then it's currently the cook, the soldier, or the janitor. (My guess would be the cook).

Throw out the latter assumption, and anyone we encounter could be the alien. Throw out the former and flat out anyone could be.

>medkit
Went back over the panels hoping we'd passed a box on a wall with a cross somewhere, but nope. We haven't even seen one. (It would be good practice to have them stationed in regular intervals around the ship in case of emergencies, but I wouldn't be surprised if incompetence or sabotage means we won't find one nearby).

Apollo 2015/08/05(Wed)18:04 No. 660525 ID: defceb
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“It sabotaged the oxygen system?”

“Without triggering the alarms. Whatever we’re dealing with is smart, or at least smart enough to know we need air. Probably messed around with more stuff we don’t know about. Take my gear, I’ve got a key to the med-bay. You can use my clearance to get into anything there. Also…” He tries to move his arm. “I’m, uh… going to need your help with this part.”

>Give her a gold star.
Boop. Now she’s crying again. Keep it together, Crow.

“Get going now. Don’t worry about me. I just need to… take a nap. I’m sorry.”

From here Sparrow can:
[1] Get in the vent and fix the air systems before everyone suffocates.
[2] Run to the escape pods.
[3] Run to the engines and see what she can do there.
[4] Run back to the rest of the crew.
[5] Tell Medic to suck it up and drag his sorry ass to the Medical Station. She can make it in time, she thinks. Maybe.

>>660525
5 because god damn it you have to at least try.

4) Suck it up and keep breathing Crow, I'm bringing some big guys back here to drag you to the med bay.

Fuckit, 5. You don't like any of the other jerks. Why should you let Crow die just so they can breathe? You're little, you need less air, you'll pass out last anyways.

Get him to medbay, then you can worry about the vents.

>>660525
5555555555

FFS guys she's tiny, she's not carrying this huge lump of nerd back to the medbay, you'll just get her out of breath - not good with the life support offline. Get the Soldier and Janitor to help!

>>660525
5. its a horror story, but trying to save the lover is in character. even if the lover dies and comes back as a horrific alien monster.

soo...5 it is.

Apollo 2015/08/05(Wed)22:28 No. 660579 ID: defceb
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“Sparrow, stop.”

“No. I’m taking you to the medical station.”

“Sparrow you need to escape. I’m dead meat as is.”

“I’m not giving up on you! I can take you there. It’s not far, it won’t take long. We can make it.”

“Sparrow-”

“We can make it. I know we can make it. We have to.”

Apollo 2015/08/05(Wed)22:29 No. 660580 ID: defceb
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Select a character!
1.The Captain [Unavailable!]
2.The Soldier
3.The Engineer [Unavailable!]
4.The Cook
5.The Medic [Unavailable!]
6.The Janitor

The Cook. Give Apollo a break from arting things. (Seriously, they haven't invented VISORs yet?)

Janitor

Cook.

Also, evil alien probably sabotaged the escape pod anyway, or set it to launch into the local star or something.

Apollo 2015/08/06(Thu)14:35 No. 660691 ID: defceb
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Chef Taylor is at least 90% certain that somebody is about to walk into his kitchen. If he assumes it’s not the Captain (who is drunk, as always), then he would say it’s a 25% chance of it being an evil, shapeshifting alien. He supposes he should be prepared for the worst.

Taylor’s current inventory contains:
One rather large knife
One chef hat
Keys to Food Storage
A box of cigarettes
A letter. Supposedly it’s from his daughter. He still hasn’t opened it. Been too busy.

Wait, there’s two voices. Probably the Soldier and the Janitor come looking for him.

>A letter.
How do you read it? Is it in braille, or does the computer read it to you, or what.

>Wait, there’s two voices.
Well, they can't both be the alien, right?

>>660692
There could be two aliens, definitely. No reason to assume there couldn't be.

Why aren't you wearing your chef hat?

Apollo 2015/08/06(Thu)15:03 No. 660697 ID: defceb
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How do you read it? Is it in braille, or does the computer read it to you, or what.
The letter is in braille, he hopes. Maybe. If it isn’t then he’ll have to ask someone to read it to him and that would be Awkward.

Taylor supposes that both of the people can’t be aliens. Maybe. Unless there are two aliens? He doesn’t like the idea of two aliens running around. That’s just two too many.

Apollo 2015/08/06(Thu)15:03 No. 660698 ID: defceb
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“Oh, there you are.”

Ah! Taylor was so wrapped up in thinking about two aliens that he didn’t notice the two people walk right up to him.

“Are you okay?” One of them speaks. He’s decently certain it’s the Janitor. Maybe. Honestly the two of them have very similar voices, and he’s equally disdainful of hearing either.

Yeah, why?

>shape-shifter aliens
>can't even tell which people are which
...well, you're basically screwed, aren't you.

>Are you okay?
Yes, of course. Do I look like an alien killed me?

Apollo 2015/08/06(Thu)18:12 No. 660738 ID: defceb
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“Yeah, of course. Why, do I look like an alien ate me?”

“You look fine. But it’s dangerous to be alone! We need to get everyone back together and figure out a plan.”

“We could do blood tests, like that one movie.”

“MacKenzie if I have to hear about that movie again-”

Apollo 2015/08/06(Thu)18:12 No. 660739 ID: defceb
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Taylor hears a sound not unlike a computer crawling into bed.

“Uh oh.”

...are the lights out? Did we just lose power?

>>660742
Looks like we're going to be the blind leading the blind. We suddenly became useful!

I've got a bad feeling about this...
Tell them to stay quiet, and stay low.

Wait. What's that um, triangle thing behind them?

Apollo 2015/08/06(Thu)21:11 No. 660771 ID: defceb
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“What happened, did we lose power?”

“Lights are out. I don’t like this.”

“Keep your voices down, I’ve got a bad feeling about-”

One of them stumbles into a stack of pots, sending them crashing into the ground. Taylor is at least 60% certain he hears a wet thud in the middle of the thunderous cacophony.

Apollo 2015/08/06(Thu)21:12 No. 660772 ID: defceb
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“FUCK! er, I mean, fuck, sorry. I’ll pick them up.” They wave their arms around blindly, trying to find all the pots. “Well here's one, where the hell did the rest go?"

>light flickers
Shit. One of these guys is definitely the alien.

...also, I'm pretty sure the alien either just pushed a guy into the pots and pans to get him hurt, or used the cover of the noise and darkness to attack.

Tell them that the other pots are probably where the other guy's now-dead body is.

Also I suspect some of the shards are at your feet. Don't step on them.

Does the kitchen have any matches or means of starting a fire? If the alien prefers to attack in darkness that getting some non-electric light is a priority (assuming we have any other surviving humans left in the room for the light to help).
Fire will consume air faster, but relatively reliable light will offer more of an opportunity to repair the air systems without getting eaten.

>One of these guys is definitely the alien.
Or it was hiding in here somewhere. The cameras have been having problems before now.

my friend, that was an alien attack.

Apollo 2015/08/07(Fri)17:50 No. 660897 ID: defceb
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“Voices down” Taylor whispers, “There’s some matches in the shelf to your right.”

“Can you see them?”

Taylor contemplates slapping this person.

“...right.”

The two of them feel around the shelves until they discover a Matchbox. Taylor hears the distinct sound of his companion lighting a match.

“...where’s MacKenzie?”

“I think he got hit by the alien.”

“I don’t see him anywhere though.”

A faint noise like sandpaper rubbing against itself rings into his ears. Taylor feels he would be better off not hearing that noise ever again.

Better get your knife out.

...that sound is probably bones breaking. Or maybe it's the sound of the alien moving across the broken pots. Where did it come from? Try to hit the alien with your knife.

Apollo 2015/08/07(Fri)17:59 No. 660900 ID: defceb
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Taylor equips his Rather Large Knife. The sound is only getting louder now, though still faint. The other person doesn’t seem to be able to hear it.

Taylor is at least 50% certain the noise if coming from around the corner. Maybe he could get a surprise strike on whatever is there. Or miss horribly and leave himself exposed to alien murderbits.

Warn the other guy about the noise, and hand him the knife. He can see.

Apollo 2015/08/08(Sat)15:15 No. 661102 ID: defceb
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“Psst. Take the knife.”

“Uh, Taylor…”

“Take it, you can see.”

“Taylor I think it’s right behind me.”

“What? But I thought it was over here-”

Apollo 2015/08/08(Sat)15:16 No. 661103 ID: defceb
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All at once the kitchen erupts into a cacophony of noise. Utensils fly off the shelves, trays flung across the room, and wooden desks splinter. Taylor tries to scramble away from the chaos, accidentally stumbling over the shattered remains of the pots along the way. Something grabs him by the forearm and pulls with a mighty heave.

In the middle of it all, Taylor really wishes he had taken the time to read the letter.

Apollo 2015/08/08(Sat)15:16 No. 661104 ID: defceb
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Select a character!
1.The Captain
2.The Soldier
3.The Engineer [Unavailable]
4.The Cook [Unavailable]
5.The Medic [Unavailable]
6.The Janitor [Unavailable]

...soldier?

Are you about finished with your meal, Soldier?

Apollo 2015/08/08(Sat)16:50 No. 661122 ID: defceb
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>Are you about finished with your meal, Soldier?
Quite.

Soldier MacKenzie thinks he may have overdone that a little. He supposes that if he can get to two more people, then he should be able to get off this wreckage. He still isn’t any closer to getting into the Command Module though. Hmm….

>>661122
Do you even plan on staying undetected anymore?

What are your abilities?

I would check the escape pod bays for panicked survivors. What are your abilities?

Rip cook and janitor. Sorry guys.

Why do you need people to get away?

Can't you just steal an escape pod?

can you EAT the command module

Apollo 2015/08/11(Tue)15:44 No. 661735 ID: defceb
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>can you EAT the command module
If he were still in his mature body, yes. Unfortunately, the collision forced him to revert to a relatively infantile state. He’s not very fond of it, as it feels sluggish, slow-witted, and very limited compared to his full form. Though even in this state he knows himself to be an apex predator amongst this species. Oh how he wishes he could just launch out here and drift out amongst the stars. To sleep and dream for sweet eons at a time. But first, breakfast.

MacKenzie, or rather, the alien possessing MacKenzie’s appearance, would very much like to maintain cover for as long as it remains useful.

His current inventory includes:
Key-card, Armory
One Med-Kit
Two cigars, questionably cuban.
One chocolate bar.
A sketchbook filled with doodles of naked men. How lewd, MacKenzie. How lewd.

He could…
[1]Try to figure out a way into the command module. The Captain shouldn’t have camera access to this room yet, so he can still figure out a clever lie to sneak in there.
[2] Forget that and go find the other runaways. He’s fairly certain the Medic should be dead by now, anyway.

Any particular reason you need to eat people? What's stopping you from just gorging on months worth of rations now that you're in the kitchen? Biomass is biomass.

What do you need the command module for anyways?

Go to the armory, using mysterious paths only you know how to traverse, and sneakily arm yourself before heading for the command module.

Oh: why didn't you kill the medic when you had the chance? What was the point in leaving it to chance and/or time?

Apollo 2015/08/11(Tue)18:20 No. 661771 ID: defceb
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>Any particular reason you need to eat people? What's stopping you from just gorging on months worth of rations now that you're in the kitchen?
Nutrition! He already attempted to gorge himself on their food storage, but found most of it to be filled to the brim with artificial products. It was… unpleasant to purge, to say the least.

>Why the command module?
The Captain is in there! He’s a sitting duck. Granted, the sitting duck behind heavy locked doors and sealed vents.

MacKenzie resolves to travel to the Armory first. Perhaps he’ll find something of use on the way. If he recalls right, the only way from one ring to the next should be through the air-locks, which he had previously forced shut.

...and have since been opened again. He can hear someone talking from here. They’re breathing heavily, exhausted. Probably strained themselves doing something wasteful, he muses.

“I can’t... I can’t take you any farther. I’m sorry. ...Crow? Come on Crow, talk to me. Don’t- don’t fall asleep now. I’ll figure something out. That’s what you said, right? That I can figure this out. Wake up. Please wake up.”

Check for cameras. Offer a helping hand. If they ask where the janitor was, answer truthfully: you last saw him with the cook, and they kinda disappeared after that. How odd.

>artificial food products disagreed with the alien
This all could have been prevented, if only the cook had splurged on organic produce. (That would somehow keep for a long voyage).

>The Captain is in there! He’s a sitting duck.
Does the captain have any intrinsic value to you besides a source of nutrition? Otherwise the other two are far easier to get at.

>Sparrow and Crow
Looks like you've found your last two meals. And one's unconscious or dead, and the other is exhausted. It should be child's play to take them now. (Convenient, as you've regressed to a child).

Only question is if you even bother to try and pretend you're MacKenzie before you eat the scared thing. ...hopefully those pills she's always taking haven't filled her with too many artificial chemicals?

Shoot him with the taser as soon as he comes around the corner, Sparrow. Fried jellyfish time.

Considering it is just a lone coward and a dead man the alien should get really cocky and showboaty

Not MacKenzie should offer assistance to make sure the Engineer isnt trying to lure possible shapeshifters into a trap. She can be usefull to try to get to the Captain

Does the alien retain any of the knowledge from the people it consumes or does it just mimic their image?

Also it mentioned that it wants to just drift in space, how did it get on board the station?

I feel like we need to learn more about that special book the Soldier carries with him

Apollo 2015/08/14(Fri)18:51 No. 662419 ID: defceb
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One's the coward and the other is already wounded, if not dead. Looks like the coward has done the favor of tiring themselves out already too. This will be child's play.

Apollo 2015/08/14(Fri)18:52 No. 662420 ID: defceb
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"Sparow, is that you? We can't be walking around alone right now, it's suspi-"

Apollo 2015/08/14(Fri)18:52 No. 662421 ID: defceb
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"-zzaaaGGGGAHAHAGAAHSHGAGGHHH."

Now drop on the deck and flop like a fish! Har har haaaaaaaar.

pretend to die

Damage report!

>Sparrow planned ahead, set a trap, and used herself as bait
I am so proud. Didn't even occur to me she might have been faking. You go, crazy girl.

(Hopefully there was a medkit in the armory. That would seem sort of logical).

>wat do
Spasm!

Seriously though, there's not much you can do but endure, and try and maintain your form. You could try to escape by dumping the body, but then you're exposed, naked, and cover blown.

Your only play is to pretend she fried the real MacKenzie.

Wouldn't it be funny if the trigger for the trap was electrical faults? The one thing that indicates the creature is around. Hoisted by its own petard.

Apollo 2015/08/14(Fri)20:00 No. 662437 ID: defceb
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"GGGRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Apollo 2015/08/14(Fri)20:00 No. 662438 ID: defceb
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>Pretend to die

...the perfect disguise.

Apollo 2015/08/14(Fri)20:01 No. 662440 ID: defceb
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Sparrow is freaking the fuck out. They take another pill. Maybe this one will help.

Kill it! Kill it with everything! For spacing out loud, you're in an armory! Pick one and shoot it!

>>662440
Chop that alien up. Well wait, don't shock yourself.
Do something to finish it off, anyway, without burning the corpse. Think of the scientific study to be done!

Your trap worked! Good job.

Now, sitrep, Sparrow!

How many pills do you have left, how's the medic, did you ever find a medit?

You don't know that it's dead. You need to kill it, or contain it, or get away.

...there was an airlock nearby, right? Could you get clear and vent him out the airlock?

Alternative to shooting it or whatever: cut it in half with the door. Or at least PIN it with the door.

>>662442
>>662443
If you do shoot it, remember to use engineering safety to pick something you can actually hold and handle. And remember to apply your eye protection too.

Apollo 2015/08/14(Fri)20:57 No. 662473 ID: defceb
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Sparrow couldn’t manage to drag Crow any farther than this. Just past the airlock connecting the first and second ring. Hardly even halfway to the Med-Bay. He hasn’t been responding to her words for a few minutes now. Maybe he’s just asleep. She hasn’t had the courage to check his pulse yet. She just has to figure out a way to get him to med-bay and he’ll be alright. She can use a, uh, defibrillator? That always works in the movies. She’s too exhausted to carry him any further now though. The only thing keeping her going is adrenaline. At least her trap worked. Maybe. She hopes.

Her current inventory contains:
One wrench
One roll of duct tape
One canister of WD-40
18 17 anxiety pills-
3 ‘cigarettes’
Key, supply closet
Keycard, Med-Bay
One smoke bomb.
One taser

Sparrow isn’t sure if it’s the pills or the draining oxygen supply but she is starting to feel lightheaded.

She peeks over the shelf to check the body. Maybe if she strikes now she can kill it? Or maybe it’s faking out and will attack her first. She doesn’t want to die.

Apollo 2015/08/14(Fri)20:58 No. 662474 ID: defceb
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...is that thing staring at her?

>>662474
That's a smile. It's faking it. Unless you can trigger the door to pin it you're gonna have to run. It's wounded so it'll be slower.

Discreetly check Crow's pulse. If he's flatlined, at least you'll be reassured as you run for it. As you go, see if you can call the captain and tell him the soldier is the alien and he needs to cut off its pursuit for you and/or get the sentry guns to kill it. You and the captain are probably the only ones left alive now.

Actually maybe you should text the captain BEFORE you start running.

Cover its unnerving stare with duct tape. Spray that thing with WD-40 (it is rocket fuel, after all) and reset the taser trap so if it moves, it goes up in flames. Even if extinguishers kick in, it'll be covered in foam and also tasered. Now, go to life support and fix it.

Wait, it's a jellyfish. Where did the claw in your buddy come from? Does it just shape them at need with shapeshifting?

Okay. You can't approach, or it might eat you. You can't leave, cause if you do, it'll eat the medic while you're gone.

You could try alerting the captain. Maybe he can held, now that he knows where the alien is?

>3 ‘cigarettes’
What are those, exactly? If it weren't for the limited oxygen supply, I'd be tempted to light it on fire.

>draining oxygen supply
Are there any emergency mask thingies? Like, for when you have to do repairs in a low oxygen environment?

>She just has to figure out a way to get him to med-bay
You need wheels. A dolly or something.

...wait. The alien didn't like artificial chemicals. And I'll bet the immature jellyfish bell is more squishier and more permeable than when it's shifted into a shape. Spray it in the face (at range) with the WD40. Poison that sucker.

Apollo 2015/08/14(Fri)23:13 No. 662488 ID: defceb
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>'cigarettes'
Technically they're contraband, but Sparrow doesn't see the fault in bringing a little herb that helps her sleep at night.

Sparrow moves down and checks Crow's pulse without looking away from the thing. She struggles to find it, partly due to her own shaking hands. It's barely even there. She wants to cry. She wants to be anywhere but here.

Sparrow whips out her can of WD-40 to spray the damn thing, bringing it to bear just in time to accidentally intercept a strike from the alien. A stinger pierces straight through the canister, turning a dark murky color as it comes into contact with the chemicals.

Spray that puppy and taze it like there's no tomorrow.

WD-40 is flammable. Normally I'd suggest using a lighter to turn the spraycan into a flamethrower but you didn't have one. Tase the tentacle now that it's covered in that shit.

throw can at it. and some kind of fire.

If wd-40 is somehow lethal to shapeshifting aliens you need to send that story in to corporate headquarters. They can put it on the label and finally prove that wd-40 can indeed be used for anything.

Hose it down if you have any pressure left and try to set it on fire.

It doesn't like the WD-40, hose it down with the stuff.

Well, that answers if it was faking or not.

Throw leaking canister at alien. You can't really spray if the canister is pierced and not under pressure anymore.

>set it on fire
Guys, we're in a low oxygen environment. The fire won't last very long, and then Sparrow and Crow will just suffocate.

>>662605
It shouldn't be a low oxygen environment yet. The ship is big enough for apparently far more than six people, it's only been a few hours since the... actually, we don't even know how long it's been since the collision and the damage to life support.

Anyway what I'm saying is that there's a ton of air and we should be running into problems with a higher CO2 concentration way before problems with lower O2 concentration.

Sparrow is probably just hyperventilating. She should stop that.

>>662488
If tazing it gives you some breathing room, ready the smoke bomb and try to find something with a low platform and wheels that you can load Crow on to.
Make sure to keep an eye on the creature as you may have to choose between Crow and ensuring that the creature does not survive.

Apollo 2015/08/17(Mon)23:17 No. 663561 ID: defceb
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The stinger whips back faster than Sparrow can react, sending the canister of WD-40 tumbling through the air. The alien makes a high pitched squealing noise as the chemicals spray about the room. Sparrow tries to cover her face but she feels like some of it might’ve gotten in her eyes? She wears goggles all the time for things like this! She feels silly and scared and wishes she had been wearing them properly earlier. Lab safety, Sparrow. Lab safety.

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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