TMUK Text Adventures #1: Chapter 1 - You awake in a room...

[Pinwig]

The control panel has several status read outs, indicator lights and controls. Most of which accompanied by symbols you can't possibly decipher. Some do stand out however; there are two rotary dials side by side under the heading
p+. Each dial currently set in the 12 o'clock position, each with a line running to its own red button. In another section, under a box symbol with a double headed horizontal arrow, two illuminated buttons, one green, the other red.

Stom! is this what we're looking at?



We pressed the red illuminated button BY ACCIDENT and got an error sound.

[Pinwig]

I foresee us dying from cold being naked again.

[blueshift]

Nov 26, 2018 20:13:38 GMT Pinwig said:

I foresee us dying from cold being naked again.

No Pinwig, because once we kill the Borg will will wear it's clothes

[Stomski]

Nov 26, 2018 20:07:34 GMT Grand Moff Muffin said:

How does one go about bribing a software developer?

Normally with doughnuts, but I'm trying to cut back.

Nov 26, 2018 20:12:45 GMT Pinwig said:

Stom! is this what we're looking at?

I'd be cheating myself and you if I told you, but yes.

Nov 26, 2018 20:12:45 GMT Pinwig said:

We pressed the red illuminated button BY ACCIDENT and got an error sound.

This is meant to be fun... Let's get back to frivolous wang swinging please.

[Pinwig]

It is fun!

[Pinwig]

LOOK up collapsed stairs.

[Pinwig]

Then do Blueshift's plan.

[Stomski]

Nov 26, 2018 21:35:06 GMT Pinwig said:

LOOK up collapsed stairs.

Nov 26, 2018 20:09:49 GMT blueshift said:

ENTER first room again
REMOVE clothes
USE bedding and clothes to create DECOY DUMMY
THROW decoy dummy out of window
MAKE NOISE
USE bed frame as a weapon to PUNT borg out of window

You look up the stairs, there's not much to see. They would have turned back on themselves up to the 1st floor were they still intact, the remnants of the stairs and ceiling is just that, debris of no use. There's a hole in the ceiling and roof above where it has collapsed in, doesn't appear to be anything that caused it, must just be the age of the place. Doesn't make a lot of sense given the state of the foyer, but everything about this place seems to make you ask yourself questions. For a moment you almost feel like you know the explanation yourself, as if there's a closed door in the way of you accessing the memories that would answer these things, if only you could reach out and open it... but no, the hope you felt in finding answers is all too fleeting.

You return to the Small room, undress and turn to the camp bed. There is no bedding however, it was just a weak frame with canvas stitched tight across it. Still, you continue with your plan. Hanging your uniform over the window and letting out some great shouts, bangs on the wall, anything to draw the attention of the thing that patrols the corridor.

Item Removed From Inventory: Green uniform

Unfortunately, nothing happens. Perhaps in it's recharge state or whatever it does on the platform, it is not awoken by such things. You continue in vain for some time and ignore the coldness for too long. You feel faint, collapse and let the cold take you.

GAME OVER

Final Score: 17/250

RELOADING FROM SAVE POINT

LOADING COMPLETE

You're standing at the base of some collapsed stairs, in front of you a half humanoid, half robot stands before you upon some kind of platform, not moving.

Inventory:	Transformers pants (wearing), green uniform (wearing)
Location:	Corridor
Connected Locations:	Foyer, Small room

Current Score: 17/250

[Shockprowl]

You see, Blueshift?! No good can come of taking our clothes off!



Ya flamin' exhibitionist...

[Stomski]

If he was flamin, you'd be warm enough to not die from hypothermia.

[Grand Moff Muffin]

So, did we make the hole in the ceiling and destroy the stairs when we fell out of the sky?

If so, how did we survive the fall?

Bruce Banner doesn't wear Transformers underpants, does he?

Martin

[Shockprowl]

Hey, yeah, good lateral thinking that!

[Pinwig]

Nov 26, 2018 20:13:38 GMT Pinwig said:

I foresee us dying from cold being naked again.

What a premonition!

If only I could figure these dials. Come on chaps, look at the diagram I drew, we need to work out how to fiddle these knobs. 

[Pinwig]

Looking at my own arrow, I reckon the green button might open the front door. The red one gave us an error noise because the door is already shut.

Sooo... we may not need to secure the booth door against the borg. If we rush in and press the green button, the dogs might arrive and occupy him, then if we hide under the counter the dogs might not realise we're there, unless they smell us.

[Pinwig]

GO corridor
EXAMINE Security Gate

[Stomski]

Nov 27, 2018 22:36:06 GMT Pinwig said:

GO corridor
EXAMINE Security Gate

Taking further oportunity to assess your situation safely, you walk back towards the foyer to examine the security gate to the corridor.

It's robust and strong, could certainly hold most things in or out of the corridor at least for a time. It closes via a sliding motion, but it's fixed in place by some kind of automated closing mechanism and lock. Looking at the lock itself, you spot some kind of sensor apparatus with a small green light on it.

Inventory:	Transformers pants (wearing), green uniform (wearing)
Location:	Corridor
Connected Locations:	Foyer, Small room

Current Score: 17/250

[Pinwig]

Okay, so you'd think if the sensor was automatic and the green light means it's on, it would have shut the gate when we approached/passed it. Which might mean it's controlled from the panel. Which might mean the right control on the panel is for the security gate and the left dials for the front door?

The description of the stairs seems to imply we aren't going to get up there or find anything of use up there, so in the absence of any other thinking, let's keep on with the control panel experiments:

GO Stairs area
EXAMINE Sentry
TAKE Keycard
RUN to foyer
OPEN side door to booth with keycard
ENTER Booth
CLOSE door
PRESS illuminated green button

[Shockprowl]

I, SHOCKPROWL, SUPPORT THIS PLAN.

[Stomski]

Nov 28, 2018 7:26:11 GMT Shockprowl said:

I, SHOCKPROWL, SUPPORT THIS PLAN.

Well, since it's you...

[Stomski]

Nov 27, 2018 22:56:22 GMT Pinwig said:

GO Stairs area
EXAMINE Sentry
TAKE Keycard
RUN to foyer
OPEN side door to booth with keycard
ENTER Booth
CLOSE door
PRESS illuminated green button

'What an abomination against science and nature' you think to yourself as you try to make a better assessment. Under the exo suit you can now make out some kind of uniform. It's tattered, but you can see some details. Black across the shoulders and red on the main torso, some kind of arrow insignia remains on the left breast. Was this thing once human before his body was mutated... No, more like infected, with these grotesque robotic parts? Studying further for anything that may be of use, you see a keycard protruding from the exosuit at the waist.

Suspecting the worst as to what this creature is, you gingerly reach around its waist as carefully as possible and ease the key card out so as to not to disturb it from its rest.

Inventry Item Added: Key card (+1 point)

You take a few steps back and breath a sigh of relief. Unfortunately you may not have been quite as deft of hand as you though. The head turns in your direction, the red beam of light from its head implants pointing straight at you, its one revealed eye full of focus and resolve and yet somehow expressionless at the same time. Its not angry, but certainly has purpose. It begins to take a step down from the platform...

Leaving your assumed assailant in your wake, you run back down the corridor to the foyer. As you enter you take a glance back down the corridor. Indeed, the cyborg is coming on a determined path, at a faster pace than you've observed previously.

Placing the key card in the slot to the booth, you hope it unlocks... Success! There's a beep and a click, you try the handle and the door opens. You pull the key card from the slot, there's a fizzing sound and a pop followed by a crunching sound. Entering the booth you try to close the door, but the lock has seized stopping it from closing properly.

Item Used: Key card (+1 Point)

Without many other options to try and an immediate threat closing in on you, you try the green button on the console. The security gate to the corridor slides shut. The light on the sensor turns red and so does the button you pressed. Your would be assailant reaches the gate. Its one human eye locked on you with sinister purpose. Attempting to get through with force, the gate holds. A device at the end of its robotic arm starts to spin and emit a bright light as it tries to use tools to get through to you. You are at least safe for now, but for how long?

Inventory:	Transformers pants (wearing), green uniform (wearing), key card
Location:	Foyer
Connected Locations:	Corridor

Current Score: 19/250
AUTO-SAVED

[Pinwig]

Success!

Right, lots of lights changing.

I'm wondering if the two illuminated buttons control the two doors, but only one can be open at a time, so when we previously pressed the red button we got an error noise. Now we've shut the security gate the front door might open to let the dogs in.

But if the exchange is that quick I don't know why we'd need to halt the Borg. Anyway, we've autosaved, so time to experiment again.

PRESS illuminated red button, that being the button we didn't press in the last command.

[Stomski]

Nov 28, 2018 21:44:18 GMT Pinwig said:

PRESS illuminated red button, that being the button we didn't press in the last command.

You press the second illuminated button. The light on the button turns green and the main door opens revealing the way to the courtyard you once accessed from the window of your small room.

The creatures outside the door turn to take notice!

Inventory:	Transformers pants (wearing), green uniform (wearing), key card
Location:	Foyer
Connected Locations:	Corridor

Current Score: 19/250

[Pinwig]

The plan is working!

So, they come in, we shut the outer door and open the inner one, then duck.

DUCK below counter
LISTEN for dogs

[Stomski]

Nov 28, 2018 22:13:29 GMT Pinwig said:

DUCK below counter
LISTEN for dogs

Instinct kicks in as you decide to try to conceal yourself and perhaps pit your adversaries against each other. Ducking beneath the counter so as to hide yourself from view, you listen carefully for what happens next. The beasts prowl into the foyer, you can't see but, there's definitely some kind of clawing against the security gate from one of the creatures. It doesn't take long for the keen sense of smell of one of the others to find you cowering in the corner of the small booth. You put up a valiant fight, but there's no way you can win this one.

GAME OVER

Final Score: 19/250

RELOADING FROM SAVE POINT

LOADING COMPLETE

You're standing in a booth in a foyer of a mysterious building. Behind a security gate, some thing is trying to find a way in!

Inventory:	Transformers pants (wearing), green uniform (wearing), key card
Location:	Foyer
Connected Locations:	Corridor

Current Score: 19/250

[Pinwig]

Hmm. I thought perhaps hiding wouldn't work. Well, we've figured out the right hand side of that console. So we've got the dials on the left to solve and how to shut the booth door.

FORCE door shut

[Stomski]

Nov 28, 2018 22:53:29 GMT Pinwig said:

FORCE door shut

That doesn't work.

Inventory:	Transformers pants (wearing), green uniform (wearing), key card
Location:	Foyer
Connected Locations:	Corridor

Current Score: 19/250

[Pinwig]

OPEN cabinet.

Just to check it's locked.


TURN left dial to six o'clock position
PRESS red button beneath dial

I just want to see what this does.

[Shockprowl]

I, SHOCKPROWL, APPROVE THIS PLAN.

[Stomski]

Nov 29, 2018 7:20:08 GMT Shockprowl said:

I, SHOCKPROWL, APPROVE THIS PLAN.

It's like other people are in control of you.

[Shockprowl]

Nov 29, 2018 7:23:46 GMT Stomski said:

Nov 29, 2018 7:20:08 GMT Shockprowl said:

I, SHOCKPROWL, APPROVE THIS PLAN.

It's like other people are in control of you.

Yeah....



Have we EXAMINED this green uniform yet? Markings and the like?