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***Interlude***
~Alterra Imail~
CLEARANCE: INTERNAL ONLY
To: All_Dept
From: 1st Class Engineer Zarkowsky
Regarding: Manual overrides
Dear everyone -
I regret to inform you that I will… -
I was just passing a field of the skyscraper-tall seaweed when I first saw it in the distance. A sinuous shape, barely visible through the murky tan waters. Immediately I wanted to disbelieve my own eyes as the monstrosity vanished out of sight. But…
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A/N: Lesson learned - don't try to write for your own convenience. Binned an entire chapter after I realized I was trying to 'cherry pick' choice scavenging sites from the map.
Ahead the seafloor drops much farther down, easily t… -
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Morning.
My first morning on this murderous landless blue hell.
I don't even have the luxury of addressing all the things I'm missing. My friends, my own bed, the 4D movie system that totally fell off… -
We're screwed.
I can't believe I never tested this. I'm a damn computer nerd, I test everything and trust nothing. But at the same time...why would I have ever needed to? All my life I've been surrounded by a surplus of tools. Mor… -
Little comfort did I get when I managed to crawl up the side of the lifepod in an emotional state resembling a 10-car wreck. As if nearly being torn limb from limb wasn't enough fun, Kate had ventured too close to a "water fountain" that had turned …
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My return trip to the dropoff point went as smoothly as could be hoped for, given my terrified state. Along with the last of the pods I decided to make like a lumberjack and hack off a section of the vines itself. The wisdom of doing this from the <…
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"Copper is an essential component of all powered equipment. Your probability of survival has just increased to: unlikely, but plausible."
Well thank you. Just who wrote this crap, and who approved it to be on company-iss… -
I was still fuming as I floated by the lifepod, debating where to go next. On a random impulse I simply dove straight down instead of heading back out for more "Glowpods". We'd need more than just rubber and a few scraps to save our sorry backsides.…
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Up close the pods looked like orange grapes slightly smaller than my fist. The stringy connecting stems tore easily enough in my desperate hands - once I figured out how to get a grip on them. A couple got loose, tumbling slowly toward the bottom of…
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I've made many ventures into "occupied territory" since that day, but none were as scary as my first time robbing from the den of sharks. The creeping nameless dread of trespassing on forbidden ground came back to haunt me a hundredfold. This was fo…
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I don't remember what exactly I told Kate that night, if anything, and neither does she. It's probably just as well. Besides heights I'm also terrified as all hell of radioactivity for several reasons. One of them is the unofficial accident r…
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Seven minutes.
That was how long it had been since I last checked the time. I needed to rest for a half hour at least before trying to go out again. I had to go out again. We needed more food, more water, more materials than the single s… -
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I briefly looked at that. The thing is everything except the last tier of airtanks has such a low capacity compared to real-life dive equipment I think it won't be that much of a stretch to say that the EPSI suit is running a very … -
As twilight fell, so did my aspirations of stockpiling food. An endless bounty of fish whirled before my very eyes - hundreds of potential meals that were as out of reach as the planet's moon. The goggle-eyed orange fish fled before I could even get…
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AN: Deliberately overthinking it - weighty matters
One problem I've run into is just how hefty are the chunks of ore. Ryley Robinson, like Steve in Minecraft, blithely hauls around enough cubic volume's worth of rock to build a da… -
(AN: if it weren't the middle of winter in Nebraska, I'd conduct some firsthand research into how long an untrained person could swim more or less continuously.)
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I plunged headfirst into a sea of disembodied eyes swirling all about me. A split second of shock gave way to a rising horror that seemed to crawl its way into my soul. In every conceivable direction I was surrounded by dozens of faceless orange orb…
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Interesting. Looks like an unfinished item allright.
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A/N: It's been far too long. I've toyed with the idea of abandoning this entirely, frankly. Real life interrupted in a very rude way with permanent consequences. I may post more details later. For now suffice it to say that of all the ways to…
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I ran too low on oxygen and patience before the monster below me was completely out of sight. A hunk of the pods came loose in my white-knucked grasp as I fled in the opposite direction of the lifepod, trailing along behind me like party streamers. …
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Why can't you teach an Ampeel anything? Because it's already currant.
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The pile of wreckage was even smaller than I'd thought after a couple trips. Besides a chunk of hull plating and a few odd bits scattered around there just wasn't anything useful. Enough salvageable Titanium to make a bathtub out of, sure. But nothi…
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Interlude
Author's notes: an upgrade and a challenge.
Hello my budding fanbase. My story just got a massive boost in the form of an 8-core, 16GB ram, dual-video-card MONSTER of a PC… -
"What goes up always comes down. What goes down doesn't always come up." - Anonymous.
My first reaction was to come very close to throwing up.
The ocean kingdom below me resembled nothing so muc… -
"You miss all of the shots you don't take." - old Earth folk wisdom.
I unceremoniously dumped the meager collection back in the storage unit as Kate stared back at me with a blank, tear-streaked expression … -
Crying. Someone was crying. Was it me? My head hurt enough. It felt like a squad of impact hammers were pounding on my skull in unison. And that smell, what the hell WAS that? Like some Einstein had gone and microwaved their PDA times a hundr…
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Prologue
Supposedly, hindsight is 20/20 with rose-tinted glasses. I've found that it is more akin to a dim mirror clouded by self-doubt, inflated ego and misremembered facts all meshing together like the de… -
Is it possible for any further optimization in future updates, or have you done all you can reasonably do?
I only ask because my decade-old PC can barely play this wonderful game at minimal settings and I'm too poor to upgrade. -
Giant Coral Tubes are invaluable for material storage. You can 'block off' one end with a few things that are less-rolly like the salvage pieces and drop more rolly things like titanium blobs in the top. It all bottles up into a very convenient "hor…