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ViewScream: pep!pep!
The bulkhead seals behind you; there is a brief warning buzzer before THEMiS’s A.I. pleasantly informs you that you have been “quarantined for your protection.”
A specialized room is arrayed before you, and you suddenly find you are aware of not only of the game’s rules, but also of a collection of specialized knowledge suitable to your team’s Role.
ROLE: HELM
Available solutions:
To your right are a series of lockers containing changes of clothes to more Role-appropriate ones—though they still contain just enough elements to match your unit aesthetic. You may use these if you wish (if so, they will not disappear after the game ends). To your left, there is what appears to be a comms station. It seems you’ll be using this to contact the other units.
It quickly becomes apparent, in fact, that you will very much need their help—
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A specialized room is arrayed before you, and you suddenly find you are aware of not only of the game’s rules, but also of a collection of specialized knowledge suitable to your team’s Role.
Available solutions:
- A.I. Subroutine Access Codes
- Navigation Wave Console
- Four-Dimensional Arc Plotter v3.1
To your right are a series of lockers containing changes of clothes to more Role-appropriate ones—though they still contain just enough elements to match your unit aesthetic. You may use these if you wish (if so, they will not disappear after the game ends). To your left, there is what appears to be a comms station. It seems you’ll be using this to contact the other units.
It quickly becomes apparent, in fact, that you will very much need their help—

TECH RESULTS
You receive the following Real Space Technology:
Problem type: Medical
Tech received: Retroviral Pathogen Sequencer
Description provided: "Retro" - it, ahhhh, uhmmm, goes back in time, to stop the virus - the pathogens? - from becoming a problem in the first place . . . It goes back in time to work as a vaccine before the disease can set in, in other words - ! It's a debuff cleanse - !
Result:: SUCCESS
Problem type: Engineering
Tech received: Red Matter Inhibitor Coil
Description provided: There is no need for red matter in your system. If nothing else, it is garish and I cannot imagine it helping any of the engineering problems they are having.
Result:: SUCCESS
Problem type: Xenobiology
Tech received: Nanites
Description provided: The nanites arrive in a capsule that, when broken, releases a shimmering cloud of microbots that swarm towards any alien life in the room and...for a long moment, nothing happens. But as the nanites shred their way through genes and DNA codes, the unfortunate target begins to shrivel and shrink, wasting away at an alarming rate.
Result:: SUCCESS
Tech received: Elemental Spore Supply
Description provided: Sending the Elemental Spore Supply to pep!pep! to combat their slime mold or whatever the heck they've got going on. It's an elemental, right? So clearly it can just set that junk on fire? Yeah, that's what's happening. Burn, baby, burn.
Result:: SUCCESS
RESULT: UNHARMED
One by one, the threats fade, until a musical chime rings out, followed by the pleasantly neutral voice of the A.I.
“Quarantine concluded. Thank you, THEMiS staff.”
The bulkhead unseals.
You did it. You survived space.