Endgame Flavor
“We don’t have much more time before we need to leave the system,” said the captain grimly. “This may be our last chance to find a habitable world.”
“Are you sure this a good choice?” asked Chloe. “It looks like this is another gas one. Not that I have anything against gases, but I like having some solid ground as well, you know?”
“Do you have a better idea?” asked the captain.
“I guess not,” said Chloe.
Sitting at their screens, the four of them watched the probe descend towards the planet. Yet as it drew closer to the planet, the probe began to shake back and forth.
“What are you doing, Arete?” asked Chloe, swiveling her eyestalks towards them.
“Nothing!” said Arete. “It’s just doing this on its own! I can try and figure out why, hang on…”
Arete pulled up some of the detailed readings from the probe. Wind speeds: 2000 kilometers per hour... Storm frequency: high .... Magnetic field: 27x third planet in system...
“With winds like that, no wonder the camera is getting thrown around,” said Arete. “I’m barely getting other readings, but they aren’t promising either – the thing Chloe brought up earlier about there not being land is a pretty big issue.”
“Unfortunately, I don’t think we have time to investigate any other planets,” said the captain. “We’d best head back home and file a report about what happened.”
“Are you sure about that?”
Chloe, Arete, and the captain all turned to look at the voice. Before them stood the communications officer, each eyestalk tracking a different member of the crew. In his hands he held a phaser, aimed directly towards the captain.
“Move, and I fire,” said the communications officer, levelly. “There’s two ways this can go. Either you can sign off on my report, detailing the habitability of Uranus and Mercury, and I’ll drop you on a habitable moon somewhere. Or, you can refuse, and I’ll just shoot you.”
Chloe and Arete exchanged a glance. The two of them simultaneously darted in opposite directions. The communications officer swung his phaser around, firing at both of them, but trying to track both of them simultaneously well enough to aim was difficult. As he fired wildly, the captain slammed a button down.
“This is the captain speaking,” xe said, talking so quickly the words nearly started to blur together. “There is an emergency on board. I confirm the presence of a saboteur–”
The communications officer’s phaser bolt struck the captain, who crumpled to the ground next to Arete and Chloe. The communications officer walked over to the device that the captain had been using.
“This is the communications officer,” he said. “As our captain was saying, there were two saboteurs aboard our ship, Arete and Chloe, who were conspiring to falsify data. Unfortunately, in my efforts to subdue them, I was unable to save our captain. I must report, however, that they doctored the records concerning the planets Mercury and Uranus, which I have now visited and confirmed habitable.”
did i win
aret aret
what an awful game
Nobody in spec chat figured it out either
i have unequivocally, beyond the shadow of a doubt, indisputably lost
If you want to see me rant for the first time about a game go check out informed spec where I ranted about what happened this game
I haven’t actually been salty before because I can always accept that there were things I should have saw in games
I think both Hermes and Marluna didn’t play badly but at the same time there was zero way we would have ever gotten there on Aleph
i was considering marluna/hermes because of the lack of a tracker CC but i also wasn’t reading the thread and didn’t care
this is not a place of honour
this existed
i think that accuratley sums up this game
sorry for being really manipulative to you btw
i just didn’t think you were the tracker and I thought leaving you alive would be the best for us
i also thought it would be funny for you to die in lylo
were you hermes or
i barely read game
gghana was herms?
this sounds callous but Litten living to day 3 for once as a villager in a playerlist like this and then dying was chefs kiss