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Voting closed: January 24, 2012, 08:28:04 am

[Dariush]

The first thing you feel is the earth under your body. The second thing you feel is a terrible pain everywhere. After realizing those two things, you decide to lie for a few moments more and remember what the hell happened.

That appears to be pretty easy: after turning your head you see a spaceship. Or, rather, something that used to be a spaceship. It's exterior is full of holes, the few solid parts are twisted and warped and you can hear some sort of alarm going on inside. The entrance is blocked by a huge pipe that broke off from... somewhere. However, it may be worthwhile to search for another way to enter.

Suddenly, you realize that it is... er, was your ship and it i... was called Andromeda. Dragging into your feet, you check around your body. Quite surprisingly, in addition to arms to legs you find a pair of leathery wings on your back. Unfortunately, the left one is pretty badly broken.

Other details start drifting in - the wings were the result of a genetic experiment, conducted... pretty long ago. It also gave you a solid build to withstand gravity on other planets and a pair of gills. You were also the sole living thing on that ship. What you can't remember, however, is your name and anything that happened before this shipwreck.

You slowly drag yourself to a sitting position and through pounding headache take a note of your surroundings. To the left there is your spaceship; to the right there is a forest of strange trees that look like palms but have leaves about half a meter thick; straight ahead is a plain with some huge moving shape in the distance; to your back is a probably unclimbable mountain. You take a deep breath and try to decide what to do next.

Status:
Map:

Code: [Select]

..S.T
...TT
...TT
^&@TT
^^^^T
@ - you;
& - spaceship;
T - trees;
^ - mountains;
S - strange shape;

Wounds:
Left wing broken;
Countless bruises;
Dizzy;

Inventory:
Damaged spacesuit;
A knife;
A backpack with the following contents:
- a week's food rations;
- laser pistol;
- PDA with discharged batteries;
- a strange, faintly glowing stone;

[Demonic Spoon]

Eat glowing stone. Attempt to find a splint or something to brace your wing with or check if the ship's medibay is intact.

[Dariush]

Eat glowing stone.

It's far too big to swallow and far too hard to take a bite off. Besides, you get goosebumps whenever you bring your hands near it.

Attempt to find a splint or something to brace your wing with

A quick look around reveals nothing that even remotely looks like a splint. Maybe you should think about cutting off one of those strange leaves?..

check if the ship's medibay is intact.

You are stranded outside the ship and the only apparent entrance is blocked. If you want to get inside the ship, you should search around for another entrance... And hope not to collapse from pain and exhaustion on the way.

[Demonic Spoon]

Check strange trees for sentience. If not sentient cut a leaf off of one along with a branch or whatever for a splint or whatever, I don't know, I'm not a doctor!

Check for another entrance into da choppaship. Use autohypnosis to resist pain and exhaustion.

Smash glowing stone into smaller pieces so that you can swallow it. Swallow glowing stone. Goosebumps are a good sign.

Ignore the strange shape, it's probably nothing important.

[Loud Whispers]

Attempt to find reflective surface / mirror for shocking reveal of our appearance.

[Demonic Spoon]

I'm betting we're some sort of space vampire. Check to see if we sparkle in the sunlight.

[Dariush]

OOC: hereafter I'll use underlined text to signify the passing of time. All non-underlined actions are assumed to be instantaneous. Also, all actions will be done in the order of posting, unless one of the earlier ones would render a later one impossible, but not the other way.

Check strange trees for sentience. If not sentient cut a leaf off of one along with a branch or whatever for a splint or whatever, I don't know, I'm not a doctor!

You approach one of the trees and give it a solid whack. Surprisingly, the trunk breaks. After a moment's shock you remember that your muscles were strenghtened, so that's no wonder. Then you get to work on the leaf. A few cuts with your trusty knife and the green balloon-like leaf is free from the rest of the tree and oozing sap that burns your hand when you touch it. Using it as a splint is out of the question. Looks like you'll have to do without flight for a while.

Status change:
Right hand is now burned.
Added a Thick leaf with burning sap to the inventory.

Check for another entrance into da choppaship. Use autohypnosis to resist pain and exhaustion.

With a bit of concentration you, surprisingly, manage to escape the pain. You can't imagine why you would call it autohypnosis, but whatever rolls your rocks.

Status change:
No longer Dizzy.

You set off around the ship in search of another entrance. You can't find anything, and are left to wonder why the hell would the designers make a spaceship with only one entrance. Maybe you should make one yourself?...

Smash glowing stone into smaller pieces so that you can swallow it. Swallow glowing stone. Goosebumps are a good sign.

Against your better judgement you swing your fist and ram it into the strange stone. Immediatly, you are struck by a powerful electrical shock and pass out. When you wake up, the strange shape is noticeably closer.

Status change:
Now Shocked.

Ignore the strange shape, it's probably nothing important.[/b]

That actions proves to be remarkably difficult, since the now-closer shape now appears to have a head and four legs, out of which two are hanging in the air. In fact, it looks like a T-Rex from Earth. And now it is visibly heading into YOUR DIRECTION.

Attempt to find reflective surface / mirror for shocking reveal of our appearance.

Probably the teeth of that... thing would serve as a decent mirror. In other words, you can observe your obviously human arms and legs, which gives you no reason to believe your face would be something else.

I'm betting we're some sort of space vampire. Check to see if we sparkle in the sunlight.

No, you do not. You rub your temples - for some reason after this crash landing your head is filled with absolutely ridiculous ideas.

[Loud Whispers]

>Attempt to hide behind weird alien trees. If said space-dino attempts to eat us, push tree over and LOW AND BEHOLD ACIDIC GLORY!

>Then look at reflection in shiny teeth

[Dariush]

>Attempt to hide behind weird alien trees. If said space-dino attempts to eat us, push tree over and LOW AND BEHOLD ACIDIC GLORY!

You run behind the nearest trees. Suddenly you stumble and fall to the earth. Once there, you look at what caused you to fall and see that you have stumbled into the cut-down acidic trunk and horribly burned your leg, but didn't feel the pain due to shutting off pain and exhaustion earlier. Due to this realization, the concentration wears off and now in addition to having a burned leg and a burned arm, your entire body is racked with pain. Oh, and there is still the dinosaur thing. Nice going so far.

Status changes:
Paralyzing pain;
Left leg horribly burned;
Your Shock has worn off;

Apparently even if you managed to escape the monster's attention for a moment, your stumbling around brought it back on your trail. Now you can see some humanoid shape sitting on it's neck. Oh, and it's teeth are indeed shiny.

>Then look at reflection in shiny teeth

The dinosaur thing is too far away for you to see your reflection, but you decide against common sense to wait until it comes closer. Suddenly your vision clouds over and you see the thing shuffling closer, step by slow step, then biting off your head. Your vision suddenly clears, leaving you with a pounding headache. As if you weren't in enough pain already. But at least you still have some time before the dinosaur approaches biting distance.

Status changes:
You have gained mental capacity (MC for short) indicator;
You have gained Prediction ability (MC cost: 1 point per minute, full drain if the prediction ends with death);
Headache;

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

MC: 0/10

Map:

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..STT
...TT
^&.@T
^^^^T
@ - you;
& - spaceship;
T - trees;
^ - mountains;
S - dinosaur thing;

Wounds:
Left wing broken;
Countless bruises;
Right hand burned;
Left leg horribly burned;
Paralyzing pain;
Headache;

Inventory:
Damaged spacesuit;
A knife;
A thick leaf with burning sap;
A backpack with the following contents:
- a week's food rations;
- laser pistol;
- PDA with discharged batteries;
- a strange, seemingly unbreakable, !INEDIBLE!, faintly glowing stone;

Abilities:
Prediction (MC cost: 1 point per minute, full drain if the prediction ends with death);

OOC: I won't be using a specific system to keep track of the character's health, but instead will apply logic as to how the wounds will influence the current situation. Please don't abuse our hero.

[PokemonRocks85]

Find a stick or rock which is better and throw it far away so the dinosuar can get distracted enough for you to run.

[Loud Whispers]

>Attempt to use prediction

[Demonic Spoon]

Use laser pistol on dino. Pewpew!

If the dino is still alive afterwards use the stone on it like a grenade. Since the stone seems to release a electrical discharge if it receives a large impact.

Ignore human figure on its back, it's probably nothing important.

[Dariush]

Find a stick or rock which is better and throw it far away so the dinosuar can get distracted enough for you to run.

After a quick look around you notice one of the rocks that were broken off when your spaceship crashlanded into the side of the mountain lying right within your reach. You pick it up, take a good swing with your good hand and throw it as far as possible, to the other side of the dinosaur. It doesn't bat an eye, continuing on it's way to it's mea... er, to you. You facepalm, amazed once again how something so ridiculously pointless could come into your mind.

>Attempt to use prediction

You've used it just several minutes ago and seen what will happen. Besides, your mental capabilities are emptied after the last time.

Use laser pistol on dino. Pewpew!

Suddenly remembering that you still have a deadly weapon with you, you clumsily shake down your backpack and fumble in it's contents with your good hand. As the giant thing grows nearer (you can now almost see your reflection on it's shiny teeth!), you pick up the laser pistol, undo the safety, hastily aim at it's head and pull the trigger.

Unfortunately, the figure on it's back chose this exact moment to emit some half-gurgling half-screeching sound and jump down from the dinosaur's neck. Your shot misses the animal and makes a perfectly round opening right through the alien's head, making it turn it's jump into a graceless tumble. As you stare shocked at the corpse, you remember the giant dinosaur still standing a few meters away. Except now it's wide-toothed grin has vanished and, in fact, it is slowly backing away, glancing between your laser pistol and the corpse of it's master. That master, by the way, looks nothing like human, but it's easy to see how you could have confused it with one - it is, in fact, a quadruped, with it's head sticking on a long neck from the center of the backside. It was using the front two legs for controlling the dinosaur, but up close all four limbs look identical. You should do something with the corpse and the dinosaur, but what?

Status changes:
1 shot in the laser pistol expended;
1 MC regained;
Paralyzing pain is replaced by moderately crippling pain;

[Demonic Spoon]

Punch dinosaur in snout to establish superiority.

"I am your master now!"

If that doesn't work shoot it.

[Dariush]

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