Second_Prototype's Space Adventure (CYOA)
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((Ah sorry... I was getting tired last night and so rushed that last post.))
The woman is wearing a sleeveless grey jumpsuit and baggy olive trousers. She's about 175cm with an athletic build, and modest curves. Her dark brown hair is short and messy and her skin is a bit on the pale side, a common look for people who spend a lot of time in space. While her face is moderately pretty her eyes have a hard edge to them. In addition to her cybernetic arm she has a device mounted over one of her ears, you're not sure if this is just something she wears or if it's another implant.
The woman raises an eyebrow.
"You have an ARFS too huh? So you're space adventurer then. You look completely clueless so I'm guessing you just finished your certification?"
She takes a sip of her distilled water and grimaces.
"Tastes like plastic, but it's the safest thing to drink around here."
[Oh come on! You managed to get yourself some alien pussy in the certification sim...*grumbles*]
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The woman is wearing a sleeveless grey jumpsuit and baggy olive trousers. She's about 175cm with an athletic build, and modest curves. Her dark brown hair is short and messy and her skin is a bit on the pale side, a common look for people who spend a lot of time in space. While her face is moderately pretty her eyes have a hard edge to them. In addition to her cybernetic arm she has a device mounted over one of her ears, you're not sure if this is just something she wears or if it's another implant.
The woman raises an eyebrow.
"You have an ARFS too huh? So you're space adventurer then. You look completely clueless so I'm guessing you just finished your certification?"
She takes a sip of her distilled water and grimaces.
"Tastes like plastic, but it's the safest thing to drink around here."
[Oh come on! You managed to get yourself some alien pussy in the certification sim...*grumbles*]
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Okay. From this post forward, I'm just gonna refer to the voice in my ARFS as Arfy. Arfy sounds cute.
Say "Yeah I actually just got my license earlier this day. How smart of you. You recognized that I was clueless. You must have been watching me since I entered this club. Soooo will I be wrong in assuming that you know what I was referring to when I said I came here to find someone like me for 'something else'?"
Say "Yeah I actually just got my license earlier this day. How smart of you. You recognized that I was clueless. You must have been watching me since I entered this club. Soooo will I be wrong in assuming that you know what I was referring to when I said I came here to find someone like me for 'something else'?"
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((Sure I intended the acronym to sound stupid anyway.))
"I'm guessing that you want to join a crew. Well let me tell you something. The PGSG have no standards when it comes to Space Adventurers, it's their dumping ground for people they perceive as useless. They expect 90% of them to get killed out in frontier space and if some of them actually make a useful discovery then so much the better."
She finishes her drink.
"I on the other hand have standards. If you want to join my crew get yourself a space suit then meet me at docking bay 32. Then we'll see if you've got what it takes."
She then gets up and leaves the club.
[Okay just one glance at the holo-display pleeeese.]
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"I'm guessing that you want to join a crew. Well let me tell you something. The PGSG have no standards when it comes to Space Adventurers, it's their dumping ground for people they perceive as useless. They expect 90% of them to get killed out in frontier space and if some of them actually make a useful discovery then so much the better."
She finishes her drink.
"I on the other hand have standards. If you want to join my crew get yourself a space suit then meet me at docking bay 32. Then we'll see if you've got what it takes."
She then gets up and leaves the club.
[Okay just one glance at the holo-display pleeeese.]
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"Okay, Arfy. I'll give you 10 seconds. But remember that you owe me for this."
I then show Arfy what he wanted for exactly 20 (more than I promised) seconds before leaving the club and heading for The Merchant's Quarter.
I then show Arfy what he wanted for exactly 20 (more than I promised) seconds before leaving the club and heading for The Merchant's Quarter.
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You stare at the AI stripper for 20 seconds. To you the whole thing just looks like a computer diagnostic screen gone haywire. As you stare your ARFS starts processing your visual feed faster and faster then abruptly shunts a large quantity of junk data into your cranial buffer.
[Uh hey thanks man... yeah I owe you one.]
Your ARFS is strangely silent after you leave the club. Even though it exists purely as data in your head with no physical form you just know that it's smiling.
You head over to the merchant quarter. There are a wide variety of shops selling all sorts of goods. Some are established corporate chains, while others are little more than street peddlers showing off their wares on a fold out table. The following stores look promising to you:
FlorMart, The Space Taylor, A Hardware Store, An Arms Merchant, and an Antique Store.
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[Uh hey thanks man... yeah I owe you one.]
Your ARFS is strangely silent after you leave the club. Even though it exists purely as data in your head with no physical form you just know that it's smiling.
You head over to the merchant quarter. There are a wide variety of shops selling all sorts of goods. Some are established corporate chains, while others are little more than street peddlers showing off their wares on a fold out table. The following stores look promising to you:
FlorMart, The Space Taylor, A Hardware Store, An Arms Merchant, and an Antique Store.
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((Okay... massive post coming up))
You step into the Space Tailor. The store front shows many fine examples of space suits. It's a cramped store with lots of equipment lying around. There are several alcoves containing assembly armatures and nano-fabricators. One wall has several rolls of space age materials.
The shop keeper is a multi-limbed alien wearing some kind of measuring apparatus on his head.
"Greetings honoured customer, I take it you wish to buy a space suit. This is a boutique store and we only do custom orders."
He looks you up and down.
"Fair warning sir, depending on what you ask for this could get expensive. It might be more cost effective for you to buy a pre-made suit from one of the other vendors."
A holographic display mounted on the ceiling projects an image of a space suit tailored to your physical dimensions in front of you. To the side are various menus detailing customization options.
Space Suit Custom Order:
Basic Space Suit: 500 $tarbucks
A no frills space suit designed to keep you alive in a hard vacuum. The suit can be fully sealed against vacuum, contains a helmet mounted flash light, 30 solar minutes worth of air supply, a climate control system, a small battery, waste disposal system, magnetic boots and class C Radiation shielding which will protect you from general background radiation in open space.
You can upgrade the suit with the modules from the following list:
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You step into the Space Tailor. The store front shows many fine examples of space suits. It's a cramped store with lots of equipment lying around. There are several alcoves containing assembly armatures and nano-fabricators. One wall has several rolls of space age materials.
The shop keeper is a multi-limbed alien wearing some kind of measuring apparatus on his head.
"Greetings honoured customer, I take it you wish to buy a space suit. This is a boutique store and we only do custom orders."
He looks you up and down.
"Fair warning sir, depending on what you ask for this could get expensive. It might be more cost effective for you to buy a pre-made suit from one of the other vendors."
A holographic display mounted on the ceiling projects an image of a space suit tailored to your physical dimensions in front of you. To the side are various menus detailing customization options.
Space Suit Custom Order:
Basic Space Suit: 500 $tarbucks
A no frills space suit designed to keep you alive in a hard vacuum. The suit can be fully sealed against vacuum, contains a helmet mounted flash light, 30 solar minutes worth of air supply, a climate control system, a small battery, waste disposal system, magnetic boots and class C Radiation shielding which will protect you from general background radiation in open space.
You can upgrade the suit with the modules from the following list:
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You do a bit of window shopping and check the other shops to see what space suits are on offer.
The Antique Shop has a rather old but functional suit on sale:
The Arms Merchant has some military surplus for sale:
The Hardware Store has a mining and engineering suit:
FlorMart is selling two types of suits:
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The Antique Shop has a rather old but functional suit on sale:
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Buy the Mk 3 Foreman Engineering Rig with the money in my hyper-dimensional piggy bank.
I then browse the Arms Merchant for guns.
I ask Arfy "Does getting a Space Adventure Certificate make it legal for me to carry a gun?"
I then browse the Arms Merchant for guns.
I ask Arfy "Does getting a Space Adventure Certificate make it legal for me to carry a gun?"
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The Hardware Store is having a promotion and throws in a free space wrench with your purchase.
[Technically speaking you're not allowed to carry anything bigger than a pistol, but out in frontier space nobody gives a shit. If you're really worried about legal issues there are certain tools you can buy from the hardware store that would be handy in a fight.]
You return to the Arms Merchant to look for guns. The Merchant himself is a crusty reptilian looking alien whose language consists of hisses and croaks.
"Ah it is you again. I see you decided not to buy the combat suit. It's okay we can't all be warriors, but the galaxy is a dangerous place and it behooves even the meekest of us to pack some heat yes?"
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[Technically speaking you're not allowed to carry anything bigger than a pistol, but out in frontier space nobody gives a shit. If you're really worried about legal issues there are certain tools you can buy from the hardware store that would be handy in a fight.]
You return to the Arms Merchant to look for guns. The Merchant himself is a crusty reptilian looking alien whose language consists of hisses and croaks.
"Ah it is you again. I see you decided not to buy the combat suit. It's okay we can't all be warriors, but the galaxy is a dangerous place and it behooves even the meekest of us to pack some heat yes?"
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I buy:
Space Bowie knife for 50 $tarbucks
P.E.W pistol $tarbucks for 200 $tarbucks
3 Explosive grenades: 150 $tarbucks in total
2 emp grenades: 100 $tarbuck in total
(Is 1 ammo equal to one shot or is 1 ammo equal to 1 magazine of bullets?)
I then buy 20 P.E.W Pistol ammo which should cost 400 $tarbucks
Space Bowie knife for 50 $tarbucks
P.E.W pistol $tarbucks for 200 $tarbucks
3 Explosive grenades: 150 $tarbucks in total
2 emp grenades: 100 $tarbuck in total
(Is 1 ammo equal to one shot or is 1 ammo equal to 1 magazine of bullets?)
I then buy 20 P.E.W Pistol ammo which should cost 400 $tarbucks
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((It's all 1 ammo represents 1 magazine. The exception is the shotgun, the shells for that are sold individually.))
You buy a P.E.W Pistol, the Space Bowie Knife and some grenades.
You're still in the middle of the Merchant's Quarter.
You could continue shopping at FlorMart, The Hardware Store or the Antique Shop.
Alternatively you could head to the Docking Bays or return to the Club District.
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((Right I'm going to bed...@.@))
You buy a P.E.W Pistol, the Space Bowie Knife and some grenades.
You're still in the middle of the Merchant's Quarter.
You could continue shopping at FlorMart, The Hardware Store or the Antique Shop.
Alternatively you could head to the Docking Bays or return to the Club District.
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((Right I'm going to bed...@.@))
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You enter FlorMart a large store that sells all sorts stuff.
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Buy 3 bottles of space cola. Drink 1 bottle of it and keep the other 2
Buy 3 space condoms
Buy 3 food cubes. Eat 1 and keep the other 2.
After all that, I go to some nearby public restroom, equip my spacesuit, then head to Docking Bay 32 (now carrying an empty industrial suitcase)
Buy 3 space condoms
Buy 3 food cubes. Eat 1 and keep the other 2.
After all that, I go to some nearby public restroom, equip my spacesuit, then head to Docking Bay 32 (now carrying an empty industrial suitcase)
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You watch in morbid fascination as the Food Cube's nutrient jelly morphs into an earth style cheese burger. After eating it you get the feeling that this is what a cheese burger would have tasted like after it had been liquefied, passed through a reverse osmosis filter then baked in an oven. Still good old space cola never lets you down.
You find a public restroom and begin the awkward process of slipping into your space suit while in a tiny cubicle that has the lingering smell of excrement. Still somehow you manage it. You give the next guy in the rest room a bit of a fright when you step out of the cubicle in your engineering rig. The suit itself is a little on the bulky side and fitting through the door way is a bit tight.
You feel like a million $tarbucks walking down the corridors to Docking Bay 32 in your new Space Threads.
After looking around for a while you find the woman from the bar. You know it's her because she's not wearing the helmet on her space suit and you recognize her face. She's sitting on a pile of crates cleaning a pulse rifle. You notice she's wearing some kind of light military suit, you don't know the exact model but it has a lot of similarities the one you saw back at the arms merchant.
[Careful with this one. That's an B4 Adversary suit she's wearing. That means she's either a poser or ex-military and I highly doubt it's the former.]
As you approach she looks up at you disdainfully.
"What the hell do you want?"
You take off your helmet.
"Oh it's you. Guess you were serious after all."
She looks you up and down.
"MK 3 Foreman right? Not a bad choice. If you actually have the skills that go with it then so much the better. Okay here's your test: my ships' inertial dampeners are busted. Go see if you can fix them."
She jerks her thumb over her shoulder at her space ship. You don't recognize the model of the ship but it looks like a heavily refitted military dropship, no doubt adapted for deep space flight.
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You find a public restroom and begin the awkward process of slipping into your space suit while in a tiny cubicle that has the lingering smell of excrement. Still somehow you manage it. You give the next guy in the rest room a bit of a fright when you step out of the cubicle in your engineering rig. The suit itself is a little on the bulky side and fitting through the door way is a bit tight.
You feel like a million $tarbucks walking down the corridors to Docking Bay 32 in your new Space Threads.
After looking around for a while you find the woman from the bar. You know it's her because she's not wearing the helmet on her space suit and you recognize her face. She's sitting on a pile of crates cleaning a pulse rifle. You notice she's wearing some kind of light military suit, you don't know the exact model but it has a lot of similarities the one you saw back at the arms merchant.
[Careful with this one. That's an B4 Adversary suit she's wearing. That means she's either a poser or ex-military and I highly doubt it's the former.]
As you approach she looks up at you disdainfully.
"What the hell do you want?"
You take off your helmet.
"Oh it's you. Guess you were serious after all."
She looks you up and down.
"MK 3 Foreman right? Not a bad choice. If you actually have the skills that go with it then so much the better. Okay here's your test: my ships' inertial dampeners are busted. Go see if you can fix them."
She jerks her thumb over her shoulder at her space ship. You don't recognize the model of the ship but it looks like a heavily refitted military dropship, no doubt adapted for deep space flight.
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(I also bought some space condoms and some other stuffs earlier. I think they should be showing in my inventory. :D)
I don't exactly know what to do. But given that Xenith Landers is a former Spaceship Engineer, I could try my luck. However, he does not recognize the model of the space ship; therefore:
I go and examine the inertial dampeners at close-range, hopefully with my experience as former Space Ship Engineer, I at least have a basic idea of the problem.
I then say to my ARFS "Arfy, do you know what ship this is and how I can fix it?"
I don't exactly know what to do. But given that Xenith Landers is a former Spaceship Engineer, I could try my luck. However, he does not recognize the model of the space ship; therefore:
I go and examine the inertial dampeners at close-range, hopefully with my experience as former Space Ship Engineer, I at least have a basic idea of the problem.
I then say to my ARFS "Arfy, do you know what ship this is and how I can fix it?"
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((Ah sorry. I'm starting to juggle more and more info for this CYOA. Maybe next time I need to simplify things.))
You open up the panel containing the inertial dampeners and quickly fix the problem.Turns out it was a very simple fault caused by some worn out parts.
[As far as I can tell this is a modified military transport designed to ferry entire platoons and their support vehicles to a planet's surface. They're not designed for prolonged space travel so I'm guessing this one has been heavily refitted to include a jump drive, fusion core etc... The Pan Galactic Space Army has been selling off it's surplus equipment dirt cheap since even before the economy collapsed so I'm not surprised that our new boss is using a ship like this.]
The simplicity of the malfunction makes you suspect something. You activate your EM vision and trace the power lines leading to the inertial dampeners. After some searching you realise that some of the ship's modifications were installed haphazardly which caused the dampeners to malfunction before and will likely cause them to malfunction again.
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You open up the panel containing the inertial dampeners and quickly fix the problem.Turns out it was a very simple fault caused by some worn out parts.
[As far as I can tell this is a modified military transport designed to ferry entire platoons and their support vehicles to a planet's surface. They're not designed for prolonged space travel so I'm guessing this one has been heavily refitted to include a jump drive, fusion core etc... The Pan Galactic Space Army has been selling off it's surplus equipment dirt cheap since even before the economy collapsed so I'm not surprised that our new boss is using a ship like this.]
The simplicity of the malfunction makes you suspect something. You activate your EM vision and trace the power lines leading to the inertial dampeners. After some searching you realise that some of the ship's modifications were installed haphazardly which caused the dampeners to malfunction before and will likely cause them to malfunction again.
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