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[Inithis]

You come to at the bottom of a huge iron shaft. Drifting around you in a foot of water are chunks of organic mush. Squid, perhaps? You have no time to linger on the subject.

The walls around you shudder, and an enormous screech can be heard. It ends, after a few seconds, as suddenly as it had begun. All you can hear now is the steady drip of dirty water falling from the roof of the shaft. A ladder leads out of your current location.

You remember nothing, save two unquestionable facts.

1. YOU MUST ESCAPE THE GREAT NAUTICA
2. THE WATER IS TRYING TO KILL YOU

All else has faded. The dripping continues, the new liquid mixing with the sludge and the blood from your bandaged wound.
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Welcome to Escaping the Great Nautica. You know nothing, but there is much yet to be revealed.

The game will be run from the perspective of this introduction character. His actions will be controlled by your communal vote, in a simple majority system. I reserve the right to veto actions, whether to keep us on-track or to stop you from doing something instantly lethal. The story itself is under your control, but the setting to a large degree is planned. I will do my best to provide vivid descriptions of each area, and if at any point any player wishes for more detail, please ask and I will provide it. If you are interested in playing, please post a declaration of such. You may also include your first action if you wish.

[StrawBarrel]

I guess I'm interested.

Action: Look at the ladder. Where does it lead? Is it safe to climb?

[Inithis]

The ladder is rusted, but a quick tug on a low rung has no damaging effect. You crane your neck upwards, but you can only just make out the form of a hallway above. You notice suddenly that everything is lit in a red glow, the emergency lights on the walls the only illumination.

[Nunzillor]

I'll give it a try.

Start climbing the ladder.

[StrawBarrel]

I'll give it a try.

Start climbing the ladder.

+1

[Inithis]

You emerge into a long hallway. You can hear the flow of distant water, and looking to your left you can see one of the metal shafts like the one you just exited is quickly being filled with water from a long pipe. A sign is plastered along ten feet of wall;

OVERFLOW CONTAINMENT

In front of you is a screen, displaying a large number of little graphical cylinders. Three are hollow. The other seventeen are filled with solid blue.

Slumped before the console is a pale corpse, wearing a janitorial outfit. Emblazoned across the back: GREAT NAUTICA-MAINTENANCE AND SECURITY-

-The outfit is torn by a knife, skewering the man's left arm to his body. There is no blood on the knife, outfit, or the immediate area.

To your right you can see a stairway leading upwards, with a small sign reading TEMPORARY RESIDENCE.

[spümpkin]

Try to work the machine to stall the flow of water.

[Inithis]

The corpse is blocking the controls. Move him?

[StrawBarrel]

Enter the trap? Yes.