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PORT-1
PORT-2
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About
SPACE
Running
Emergency
Awake
Oxygen
Hunger
Thirst
Bowels
Libido
Stability
Yes
None
Yes
Fine
45%
33%
Fine
High
Fine
Heart Rate
Blood Pressure
Blood Oxygen
Brain Activity
Digestion
Wounds
Muscles
Disease
Infection
90 BPM
125/82
94%
Active
Fine
None
Fine
None
None
Exausted
Disenchanted
Mildly hopeful, if only by habit
Cramped
Stressed
Cordial, but stretched thin
Profession
Level
Clearance
Research Assistant
Level 8
Tier 3
Professional
Personal
Heavy Lifting
Delicacy
Endurance
Conflict Resolution
Creativity
Efficiency
Initiative
10
12
10
15
17
12
8
Compassion
Resolve
Endurance
Humor
Erotics
Charisma
Luck
18/10
8
10
10
14
12
8
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
Level 7
Level 8
Casual Observation
Take A Break
Check Your HUD
Googling
Ask For Help
0 MP
0 MP
0 MP
1 MP
2 MP
Critical Observation
Read Research Papers
Find An Expert
3 MP
4 MP
4 MP
Run Tests
Record Observations
Draw Conclusions
5 MP
6 MP
6 MP
Write A Research Paper
Devise A New Experiment
8 MP
10 MP
Mechanical Suit
Space Training
35 MP
55 MP
Leave Orbit
310 MP
Check Vitals
Self Maintenance
Check Suit
Suit Maintenance
Check Research
Check Sanity
45 MP
55 MP
45 MP
75 MP
50 MP
20 MP
Find Your Place
5 MP
Level 0
Level 3
Level 6
Enhanced Compassion
Wanderlust Level 1: Uprooted
Looking Inward Level 1: Self Doubt
Asleep
Daydreams
Aspirations
You don't remember your dream from last night.
Two nights ago, you dreamed that you were late for school.
Three nights ago, you dreamed that you were cooking at home.
Four nights ago, you dreamed that this mission was already over.
You wish that you had some time to daydream.
You wish that you had a room to yourself.
Am I supposed to know how to operate that panel?
Does the oxygen level feel a bit low today?
I've alwats wanted to go to space, and here I am.
So what now? What's left?
All I really want right now is to be alone.
Running
Emergency
Damage
CPU
APU
LCT
Oil
Leaks
Yes
None
2%
60%
80%
10%
High
No
Hardware: Main
Hardware: Aux
Software
T.151.35.1072
AUX-B.14.125
XT-5.334.5546.8
MAIN: 82%
3 Cells Active
Internal
External
Stored
30.0%
1.20%
57 Days
CORE
EXT
Helmet
Appendages
Ports
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK
TASKS__COMPLETE
Run Lab A-35
Run Lab A-36
Run Lab B-12
Run Lab B-13
Run Lab B-14
Run Lab B-15 both with and without the new particle set
Check O2 Supply
Check Oil Supply
Run Maintenance scan on Suit
Locate Spare Parts for Appendage L-2 in the Lab bay
Give Lab Report LB-75 to Lab Technician Stevens
TASKS__INCOMPLETE
Run Lab B-16 both with and without the new particle set
Run Lab B-17 both with and without the new particle set
Run Lab B-18 both with and without the new particle set
Run Lab B-19 both with and without the new particle set
Write lab report for set A-30 through A-36
Write lab report for set B-12 through B-19
Run Lab C-24
Run Lab C-25
Run Lab C-26
Place trash in the trash receptacle
Clean the Lab bay
TASKS__URGENT
Install the Auxilliary Finder Port into your Suit
Speak with Navigator Williams
Find all new bulbs in the Lab bay and place them in Tray D-35
You are in the Laboratory Bay of the ship.
You are in the Navigation Bay of the ship.
You climb through the tiny door into the only other room on the ship: the Navigation Bay.
You climb back through the tiny door into the Laboratory Bay.
The laboratory bay is the place where you, as Researcher, spend the vast majority of your time. It is getting rather messy in here. You'll need to spend some time cleaning up today. Though it could probably wait until tomorrow.

A tiny door leads out to the Navigation bay, the only other inhabitable room in the ship. Though even these two small rooms are devoid of air and gravity. Only the interior of the space suits are supplied with air.

Stevens is also in here, occupied by his own research.
The navigation bay is the second of only two rooms in this tiny space-vessel. You don't spend much time in here, mostly because Williams, the navigator, needs space to move around. There are several dozen control panels in here that you are not supposed to touch, though you have been fully trained to use them.

You like to come in here to look out the porthole into the depths of space. You can't see the Earth from this angle.
Your research station takes up two of the walls of the Laboratory Bay. You are mostly on track with your research, but there is much, much more left to do.
You look out the porthole into the depths of space. For a moment you feel like you are alone, until Navigator Williams asks you to move out of the way.
Williams is the Navigator on the ship. He's young - we all are - but he's been doing this for years and he can run the ship like it was his first language.

You hate to admit it, but you've had a pretty serious crush on Williams for quite a while now. You know that this is not the time or the place to try to act on it, so you try to put it out of your mind.

You need to speak with Williams about an Aux-Port, but you have to do that through the Comms interface. Damn this outdated technology.
You look under Sample Tray B and, sure enough, the FINDER auxiliary plug-in is right there.

You probably have an empty port in your suit that you can plug it into.
You plug the FINDER auxiliary unit into Aux-Port-1 on your suit. The Auto-Installer seems to run properly.

This should help you find all of those light bulbs that you need to sort.
The FINDER port points you towards every single missing bulb, and even color-codes them by size for you. Funny how so many things can get lost in a space this small. You place the bulbs in their proper trays in the storage shelf.

Just one more thing to cross off the to-do list.
Your FINDER informs you of another object that is out of place in the Lab Bay. It looks like another Auxiliary Port. The label on the port reads "SPACE".

You pick up the SPACE Aux-Port.
You have another empty port in your suit, so you insert the SPACE Auxiliary Port into the Aux-Port-2 slot in your suit. The Auto-Installer seems to run without any problems.
Location: Laboratory Bay
Location: Navigation Bay
Go to the NAV BAY
Examine the LAB BAY
Examine your research
Pick up the FINDER Auxilliary Port
Install the FINDER Auxilliary Port
Pick up the scattered bulbs
Pick up the SPACE Auxilliary Port
Install up the SPACE Auxilliary Port
Go to the LAB BAY
Examine the NAV BAY
Look out the porthole
Look at Navigator Williams
Hey, did you run Lab Set C yet?
Do you need something?
We'll know for sure in a few hours, but likely the same as all the other B-type labs.
I dunno, they're all over the place. Did Williams tell you which ones he needs?
We just started work, give it a few hours.
Yeah, we should consolidate our working light bulbs into one or two drawers. They're all over the place right now.
Try installing the FINDER port - I left it under one of the trays in the Lab Bay. It should help you find all of the bulbs.
A whole lot of space. I guess that's nothing new, though. What about you, find anything new in the lab?
Connection Established: Williams
Connection Established: Stevens
How's the test going?
Spare light bulbs?
Time to break for lunch?
Spare light bulbs?
Help locating bulbs?
See anything new out there?
Run SPACE Recreational Program?
Yes
No
Closing the HUD...
Running SPACE.EXE
Loading Environment...
Animating Environment...
Calibrating Scent-Matching...
So this is it.
Finally I have some space to think.
It's the middle of the fucking ocean, but I can work with it.
Heh...
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where;
Nor any drop to drink.


The End.
We've been out here for two full weeks now.
I'm getting so tired...
There are only two tiny rooms on this ship, and three astronauts.
All I need is to get away for a few minutes.
We're in the middle of outer space and all I want is some space to stop and think.
Heh...
Not a drop to drink, etc, etc.
Anyway, back to work.