Mark Johns'son (Pencil_Art):((I understand that you are from a different timezone, but sorry! I don't want to slow the game down for one player too much.))
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
No damage to any limbs
Traits:none
Inventory:
[2] You spot a short fellow popping up out of a box! The others seem to have spawned in the same way as you, so they are also players most likely. That leaves the short one by process of elimination...
You swing your arm upward to bring up the HUD but nothing happens. Must be a bug.
You walk over to him and try to ask if he is a questgiver... it comes out as a "BLEARRGH" as you vomit the contents of your lungs out onto the floodplain. Gasping, you suck the mask back on--narrowly avoiding a dangerous gulp of alien air.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
No damage to any limbs
Traits:none
Inventory: [1] Waypoints? Well there's two--the shuttle crash site and what looks to be a puddle slightly larger than the others, off in the distance (let's call this "north").
Now for the pods...
[2] Pod #1 is a bit of a pain to get open. As you lift the cover, you find that it was unoccupied. The covering glass flashes text at you: "NO PROGRAM"
[1] Pod #2 appears to have someone inside. You pull on the handle and... well, needless to say who you found inside does not look pretty. It is a man whose shoulder appears to be missing and bandaged over. His skin is wrinkled and black as death, and the oxy-gel in the pod is sky-blue rather than orange pastel.
Based on your knowledge of pod mechanics... this one must have lost power some time ago. The gel turns blue when it's deoxygenated, much like blood. If the pod were powered the gel would not have turned blue, even if the person inside were dead.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
No damage to any limbs
Traits:none
Inventory: [6] You scrounge around a bit. The surrounding floodplains don't seem to have any remarkable terrain or plantlife. Something tells you that this world is some kind of barren wasteland, populated only by extremophile microbes and eldritch space horrors. A fitting place to go down!
Inside the shuttle, you cut yourself on a sharp corner as you enter. Surprisingly, your blood doesn't boil off into the alien atmosphere. That's kind of disappointing.
There are scorch marks on the inside as well, along with pieces of broken glass, shredded benches, mangled bits of metal, and six spots where the pods used to be. The cargo bay door is missing from its hinges.
You find a rack of six drab, conformist orange-and-yellow uniforms with glass faceplates. You also find a medical locker that's unlocked--but it slammed into a wall, most likely, and so the cover is stuck on. It will take some force to pull off.
Before you look for anything else, you notice your jumpsuit's arm is already soaked in blood.
As for the pods, one's empty. The other... definitely resembles a crash site more closely. There is a dead man inside, black from necrosis.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
2 damage to left arm - Will take 1 additional damage in 3 turns if not patched up
Traits:none
Inventory: [5] You check your pod. Nothing other than the jumpsuit and the oxygen cylinder. Then you look up.
Nyar's already injured himself on one of the sharp corners of the wreck. Inside the wreck there is a rack of suits, a closed medical locker, and a further compartment (in the direction of the pilot's seat) whose door seems to have been jammed in place. The shuttle really must have hit the ground hard. The pilot's canopy isn't shattered though, despite the rest of the vessel.
There are also scorch marks inside.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
No damage to any limbs
Traits:none
Inventory: [3] Your hand parts, revealing a barrel and a small pair of needles with an arc running between them. Firing, you fill the entire box with quite a blaze, singing your outer layers and clothes!
On the other hand, the box became quite malleable. You stick your hand through the top, and pull yourself out into a barren floodplain, quite a far cry from the verdant fields of your home. The sky is violet and the stars are smothered out by dark clouds. It's quite ominous, in fact.
A man walks up to you and promptly vomits.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
All bodyparts - 1 damage
Traits:Man of Steel: You don't need to breath and have lots of cool features, but are vulnerable to long-term wear.
Inventory:
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Topic: Blind Fate - Turn 42 (Updated 2/24) (Read 48983 times)