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ViewScream: Heart Soldier Senshi
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 limited 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—
Quick Links: How to Play | Rules | Bridge | List of Roles
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 limited 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 RECEIVED
You receive the following Real Space Technology:
Problem type: Weapons
Tech received: Antimatter Blast Cannon
Description provided: A focused laser with enough force to blast both matter and anti-matter, it's a high-powered weapon often used for desperate measures.
Result: Success
Problem type: Psionics
Tech received: Remote Cerebellar Shield
Description provided: HEIR BRAINS ARE NOW SHIELDED FROM CHEMICAL OR PSYCHIC TAMPERING/MANIPULATION/TAINT
Result: Success
Problem type: Engineering
Tech received: Photon Spiral Generator
Description provided: The generated photon spirals will make the core run a self diagnostic and repair when interacting with the system. It should get the core up and running again in a matter of minutes.
Result: FAILURE
RESULT: THIS IS GOING TO HURT
The good news is that, after shrieking intermittently for the last several hours, the alarm klaxon seems to have burned out its own wiring.
The bad news is that the, uh, proton core? Yeah, that thing, from its position at the back of your room (where it presumably does…. proton core things) is white hot. In fact, you can begin to see little vivid purple loops of energy sparking off it. And now the whole room is thrumming beneath you, the overloading energy venting any way it can.
As the proton core glows brighter and impossibly brighter, do you look away? Do you shelter yourself against a wall or behind your strange machinery? Or do you stare at it, as though directly into the sun, letting the incandescence sear you until your watering eyes produce tears of blood?
Just as you think you can’t bear it any longer, there’s a musical chime from THEMiS’s systems and… the sealed door of the bulkhead opens.
Run.
Behind you, you can feel the blast of heat and light more than you hear it—before your eardrums are blown out and the world erupts into silence. Plasma and shrapnel alike lash at your legs before you finally make it out of range and collapse to the floor.
Hey, it’s just like an action flick! ...Right? You consider the ruined backs of your legs; the still-silent world around you.