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It's cold, and there is smoke in the air. You remember what air feels like as something tells you that you have finished refueling.
For whatever reason, everything hurts. When trying to remember your circumstances, all that comes to mind is the assurance that you are in an AUXILIARY OUTFLOW PIPE and that you still have possession of the MAIN STARTER. After a while, it becomes clear that you can move your limbs, though your memory is still loading.
Standing may be an issue, and there are noises similar to your own reactor coils coming from near by as pieces of metal fall to a nearby surface. Something is waking up.
Your frame is 40% intact, you have 100% fuel. Your connection to the network is weak, and your HUD is set to the OFF position... Only posts ending in odd numbers can provide meaningful commands.
What will you do?
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>>49800
Leave the pipe.
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>>49877
To say it was an easy journey would be a lie - you had to crawl through auxiliary-auxiliary ducts strewn about the curved floor until gravity finally did its job. Unfortunately, you forgot to withdraw your fueling tubes and they flop about in a messy electric tangle.
Whatever was waking didn't stop waking, and your budding memory suggests it was an ANTIBODY that won't stop pursuing. Falling through the air into a large chamber, you land on top of a sub-station of some kind. It would be easy to get down from, though you seem to be surrounded on all directions by a wide open chamber, except for the direction to your right.
The fall hurt a little bit and exertion took a minor toll.
Your frame is 39% intact, you have 98% fuel. Your connection to the network is decent, and your HUD is set to the OFF position... All commands seem functional at the moment.
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>>49954
Turn your HUD ON.
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>>49954
Turn the HUD on and look for possible exits.
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>>49959
>>49988
You raise your Mark 7 and begin to interact with it. After a brief humming from somewhere in the back of your neck, your eyes flash with a brilliant amber... it's kind of crummy, but at least your current filters allow you to see the color green.
Somehow, the sub-station is registering as an exit, as is the pipe up above, though there's no obvious way to reach it. Not to mention, there's an ominous whine coming from that direction.
Your HUD tells you that there are several kilometers in every direction except to your right... which is a few minutes walk. There are life signs in that direction, though they haven't moved much since before your sensors first reached them 7.74 million hours ago.
It would seem that your obvious exits include heading to your right or fiddling with the sub-station.
Your frame is 39% intact, you have 97% fuel.
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>>50028
Wonder what those two bright dots on the pipe are. After you're done with that, fiddle with the sub-station a tad.
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>>50028
Ask yourself why some of your commands don't seem to go through. Afterwards, go right.
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>>50058
Taking a while to reorient yourself, your mind keeps tugging back to the pipe. Unsure why, you have your sensors scan the area behind you and produce an image of high light interests. It took some doing, as processing high yield imaging takes time to accomplish.
It seems as though some of it was water reflecting light, though that light was coming from an Antibody's socket cannon. The Model AN seemed to shrug off the restraining bolts you slammed on its shell a few hours after you woke, and now has a perfect bead on you, free to track you wherever you get to. Fleeing to the life signs now would put them at risk.
You stake a peaceful resolution on the strange reading from the sub-station...
(con't)
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>>50244
Keeping both eyes on the Antibody, you decide now is a good time to withdraw your fueling tubes and begin a readout on access standards or some such... Your vocab registries are still weak... And it seems the operating system of the sub-station is a near match! It will take some time to calibrate, but the Model AN's socket cannon is also cold.
It will take another action to activate the sub-station, which now in fact seems to be part of a mobile construct. Most likely, it belongs to an old military vehicle. It will take two actions for the Model AN to fire and score a direct hit, causing frame damage unless actions are taken to prevent it.
Time seems to be short, but you do have tools at your disposal. Your trusty Model 7 is a high impact rail gun, which fires cylindrical rounds. Against the Model AN's shell, it isn't much use unless you manage to get under it. You have an additional restraining bolt, in cylinder shape. It took seven to shut it down long enough for you to refuel from 4%.
Your frame is 39% intact, you have 96% fuel.
What will you do?
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>>50257
Welp, I'm gonna be going now.
Wish you good luck OP.
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>>50310Alright! Hopefully stuff was decent, I'm very new at this and running on zero sleep but wanted to try improv writing. Have a good one.
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>>50319From what I see, it has potential. The one thing I'm having trouble with is actually understanding what is going on. That might be because I'm not a native English speaker though.
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>>50257
Wait wait wait, let's reorient ourselves a bit and try to remember what we are and what our purpose is.
Once we've got our bearings, we need to repair ourselves don't we. Dig around a bit and see if we can't patch ourselves up with something in here. We need to be quick, our integrity is falling fast. We don't need permanent solutions, just temporary patches we can make to pull ourselves together before moving on.
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>>50387Next time, this is the command we go with. In hindsight, starting a thread on 28 waking hours was a poor choice. Sorry, man. Thanks a lot for participating, you made fun choices.
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[spoilers]I like the narration, original world and ilustration. Hope it won't die[/spoilers]
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>>51764It's spoiler, not spoilers. You also can use Ctrl+s and it'll put the tags automatically.
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>>51790Thanks for the info. Is the story / graphics inspired by "blame!" manga?
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