By Ember
SystemDATE{00.00.0000}
>CrewNAME{KOROTI}
>{00:00}
} System information missing! Total on time UNDEFINED! Warning! Recover from a backup IMMEDIATELY! {
>{00:01}
>RecordMODE{DataLOG}
K] Where... am I?
} Brightness level: 300 lux, Temperature: UNDEFINED: Gravity: UNDEFINED: System detects multiple irregularities! {
K] Hello? Is anyone there? What happened?
} System detects a thin metal structure surrounding unit. Immediate escape is suggested {
K] I know that, visor! Hello!? Anybody!?
} System detects potential moans of pain in the distance {
K] Where is that bug? I owe it a squashing... I'll try to find the exit, at least.
} These steel bars do not move. System detects a potential locking mechanism two metres to your left, KOROTI {
K] At least sensors still work. That is absolutely a lock, but not like any I have seen before. This may take a while...
>{00:14}
I finally got the lock! It seems to be some sort of dial-based lock, but a swift whack with my blaster seems to have dislodged it. Now I just need to find my way around this place, I have no idea where I am. I need to get back to my ship.
>{00:20}
My visor's brightest setting isn't even remotely bright enough to light up more than half a metre before me! This place is impossibly dark, and the walkways are atrociously narrow. I can barely walk along like a balance beam! Any smaller and I'd have to crawl on it like a rope... This place makes no sense.
>{00:23}
I keep seeming to walk in circles despite avoiding loops. I see a light in the distance, but every time I walk towards it, I somehow manage to wander farther away! This defies all logic, and I'm getting frustrated.
>{00:30}
I finally snapped, firing three blasts at the light, and it began to glow insanely bright, before a staircase just... appeared before me. I can't even begin to comprehend what is going on here, and I don't like that. I should be able to tell exactly what is going on in here at all times, but it doesn't make any sense! I'm turning back to logging mode, just in case.
>{00:31}
>RecordMODE{DataLOG}
} System detects a large field, at least a hundred kilometres across. The sky is a solid dome, and there is a structure fifty kilometres to the North; it is in the dead center of the dome. No escape routes detected, system unable to communicate with the Fallen Starlight {
K] Great. Just a huge field and a forest... Maybe there's something near that structure.
} Possible lifeform detected! Distance: Ten kilometres at 310 degrees. {
K] Wonderful! Not that far away, either...
>{01:04}
>RecordMODE{DataLOG}
} Lifeform detected - 70m at 253 degrees {
K] I see it... Its pink. Not very easy to hide in a large hilly field if you are bright pink, what about predators? I need to attempt contact.
} System suggests care with such activities {
K] I will be! Hello!? Who are you!?
} The lifeform appears to have heard. {
K] Hello?
} The lifeform is approaching, running fast. Use caution! {
K] Wait a minute... You're -
E] Ember Moonglow! At your service!
} System detects a fall, and compression around upper torso! {
K] Its called a hug, visor. What did you do to me, insect?
E] What do you mean? I've been here for as long as I can remember!
K] Sure. Where are we, then?
E] The field! There' a hive, and woods, but I can't get to either, so I just spend all night prancing in the flowers!
} System detects an anomaly in EMBER's personality {
K] So. How long is the night on this planet? Why are we in a dome?
E] So many questions... I don't like it. Why not enjoy the flowers! They're so pretty this time of night, all moonbells! I love moonbells, they remind me of the moon princess. I saw her once, on a painting. So pretty!
K] What happened to wanting to kill me?
E] I'd never kill anything! Well, except maybe a spider... if it was between my hooves, and I was fast asleep! I'd still feel bad, though.
K] How long have you been here, Ember?
E] I don't even remember anymore, I've never seen a sunrise, either. Its so beautiful here that I don't even care! Look at the view of the hive! I wonder what it is like inside.
K] Have you never been in there?
E] Nope! I tried once, but some smokey-looking changelings grabbed me and dragged me back to the lake to the... uh... that way!
} EMBER appears to be pointing EAST {
K] Well, I can fend off some changelings, I think. We ought to head to that hive and find some answers.
E] Are you sure? It's so nice to just... frolic in flowers!
K] I have a feeling that is what those changelings want you to do, Ember.
E] Well, I certainly couldn't go against my queen's orders!
K] Weren't you a queen?
E] Only in my nightmares. They're scary, though. I don't like to think about them. I would rather smell the moonbells!
K] Well, we're going to that hive. Come on, Ember!
E] You've got it!
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