Tales of the Efferdhal Lily/The Tales/The Viagran Waystation

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Tales of the Efferdhal Lily Campaign Timeline
Part 1: The Artifact Trilogy
Book 1	The Viagran Waystation
Book 2	The Sign of the Black Leaf
Book 3	The Tombstone Mission
Part 2: Beyond Oregon (the RPOL story)
Book 1	Leaving Tombstone
Book 2	The Oregon Trail
Book 3	The Salem Affair

Chapter 1 of The Artifact Trilogy

In which a routine passage through the Viagra system encounters complications.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Abridged Transcript 2.1 Approaching the slipknot 2.1.1 Planning the route 2.1.2 The Space Kraken 2.1.3 The worst crime 2.1.4 Toying with artifacts 2.1.5 Halogia 2.1.6 Big damn hero 2.1.7 Pirates 2.1.8 Plans for Areston 2.2 Experimenting with the slipknot 2.3 Stuck between systems 2.4 Jett goes EVA 2.5 Christya to the rescue 2.6 A tough decision

[edit] Synopsis

The Efferdhal Lily travels from Halogia to Viagra, en route to Areston. Jacob Ogilvy endangers the ship by getting it stuck in slipspace. Jett Miner saves the ship from being destroyed by its own heat generation, but needs to be saved himself, which Christya Desdemona Heyrdahl does. In Viagra, a brawl breaks out and the ship is forced to flee.

[edit] Abridged Transcript

The following is a transcript of the gaming session on May 30, 2010. It has been edited to omit chatter irrelevant to the game (such as discussion of food), and book-keeping conversations such as skill and equipment selection have been summarized instead of included verbatim.

Characters present:

• Jacob Ogilvy
• Derrick Phezir
• Christya Desdemona Heyrdahl
• James Trevelyan
• Jett Miner

[edit] Approaching the slipknot

GM

Alright then. So you're all aboard the Efferdhal Lily. Oh, I forgot to mention: the lead for today's episode is Jacob Ogilvy. This means that you can tag his aspects where appropriate, as though they were your own. Mainly, it means that the story will be mainly centered around his goals and stuff, but there's always place for everyone else to be involved.

[edit] Planning the route

GM

You're on your way to Areston. Where are you coming from?

Jacob

Well, we might have just narrowly escaped some Dead Star Pirates and we're coming back with a trove of unusual artifacts. They might be worth something to a museum just for their uniqueness, although no-one really knows what they do yet. So I'm going to spend a whole lot of time just zapping them a little bit to try to get them to work.

James

We're jumping out of Halogia or something?

Jacob

And we're trying not to be standing near the artifacts because we don't know what they do.

GM

One thing you do know that they probably do, thanks to your experiences with Derrick, is that they tend to make slip jumps problematic.

Christya

I mean, I'm not an archaeologist or a spaceship pilot or anything, but it seems that if you're messing around with unusual alien artifacts you shouldn't do it while we're sitting in a tin can with like three millimetres of plasteel between us and a horrible, horrible death.

Derrick

Don't you dare call The Lily a "tin can".

Christya

A lovely tin can. Of course it's lovely.

James

It's a sexy tin can.

[edit] The Space Kraken

Jacob

Come on, I'm an expert. I know what I'm doing. I mean, hell, I got interviewed for saving a ship that got stuck doing something like this once.

James

Let's not tempt the giant space monster fate that awaits us.

Jacob

The artifacts have no connection to the giant space kraken.

Christya

I thought no-one knew what the space kraken was, but you've established what's connected to it? I'd take my hat off if I were wearing one.

Jett

I think the first thing we should decide is, I guess either we're jumping to Viagra, or...

Jacob

Well, we want to head to Areston.

Christya

Why are we going to Areston?

Jett

To deliver these artifacts.

Jacob

The fastest route seems to be to go to Viagra first, and then go to Areston.

Jett

Sure, but that's also the space kraken route.

Jacob

Sure, but on the other hand you could go to Tombstone and be assaulted by the legitimate businessmen.

Derrick

The Halogia-Viagra route is where those problems happen.

Christya

I'm totally in favour of going via space kraken land, meta-speaking. I'm totally cool with getting eaten by a space kraken.

Jett

I'm less so. Because leaning out the side with a fusion gun is not, uh... I don't trust that.

Jacob

But you've done that before! You've got experience.

Jett

Yeah, against pirates, not against a space kraken!

Jacob

I would love to see what happens if you shoot a space kraken with a super-powered fusion gun.

James

Quite frankly, I don't know if it's a good idea to be leaning outside a space ship while we're in the slipstream anyways.

Jacob

Actually, what do we know about previous encounters with the space kraken? How do people know it's there?

GM

You don't actually know that it's a creature.

Jacob

So we don't actually know it's a creature, but...

Christya

I'd just like to point out that I'm currently Looking for Trouble.

GM

[compel to Christya] Well, if you can manage to get yourself into trouble by looking for it, I'll give you a FATE point.

Christya

I'll pick a fight with a space kraken. Does that count?

laughter

Christya

I'm just saying, it's worth figuring out what the deal is with the kraken. Jacob seems to know a lot about it. And think of the glory.

GM

I'm bearing in mind that you're currently Looking for Trouble and if that turns into any sort of story effect then it's totally worth a FATE point.

As far as any of you know -- except possibly Jacob -- this kraken, nobody knows if it's actually some creature there, or if it's a ship, or if it's just turbulence that people have called a creature. Also, except for your experience with Derrick, and maybe one or two other instances you've heard of, nobody has ever really had much of a concept of slipspace. It's usually just instantaneous travel from one slipknot to the other. So the idea of being caught in between is not really a popularly known thing, it's just that you found out that... well, apparently that happens.

Jett

Well, while we're waiting here, the Dead Star Pirates are probably circling. So we should, I think, go and brave the kraken.

Christya

All in favour of being tentacle... I mean, slaying the kraken... I mean, nothing going wrong?

Jacob

Well, fine, I suppose I can stop zapping the artifacts until we get to the other side.

James

Yeah, let's wait until we get planetside before messing around with that.

Jacob

We'll do that after testing this in real space.

[edit] The worst crime

Christya

I'm all for not blowing up our precious Arestonian ship, our tie to our motherland. Those of us who are from Areston.

Jett

I spent a semester there.

Christya

Yeah, of course you did. Everyone does.

laughter

Jacob

I don't think I know that part of your backstory, do I?

Jett

Totally, I am a certified university dropout. Sure, I was enrolled under a phony name. But still.

Christya

Academic fraud! The worst crime of all!

Jett

My Killing teacher said I was a natural.

Derrick

He's dead now.

laughter

[edit] Toying with artifacts

GM

So the plan is to go to Viagra, and then to Areston.

Jacob

How long is the trip likely to take?

GM

You have to get to the slipknot, then the actual transport is instantaneous. Then it'll take a while to reorient, cool the ship down, it'll take a few days to get to the other slipknot.

Jett

And all that time will be spent in Viagra, which is a little bit of a safer place than Halogia.

Jacob

Pretty much everywhere is safer than Halogia.

Christya

They try their best, the Viagrans do. I respect their efforts, despite their handicaps.

GM

So what were you most recently doing in Halogia? Why were you here?

Jett

I thought we were picking up these artifacts.

Jacob

We were looking for more.

Christya

Looting the dead?

Jacob

Well, that's kind of what we do. It's not like they're going to come back and take the stuff.

Christya

It's okay, being a ghoul is very attractive.

Jett

He doesn't eat them.

Jacob

You know what would happen if someone ate this kind of biotechnological artifact?

Christya

Did you?

Jacob

No, I've seen someone who did that, though.

Jett

Did they shoot lasers out of their eyes?

James

Hopefully. We can only hope.

Jacob

No, no, they just woke up three or four days later in a hospital with their internal organs swollen to twice their normal size.

Christya

But it's interesting that, having seen this, you don't know about the part in between. It's as though it happened and then your memory of the intervening part disappeared.

Jacob

Well, you know, I was kind of away for the time.

Christya

Maybe taking a nap.

Jacob

Ha ha, no, uh... no. No.

Jett

Organs twice the size... you're saying they made him into a super-person.

Christya

Oh, god, don't tell Viagrans about that at all!

Jacob

You know, there was an interesting side-effect.

Christya

Oh, god, you are a Viagran, aren't you?

Jacob

As a matter of fact, I am.

Christya

Oh, no. Okay, nobody is allowed to eat the artifacts while I'm on this ship!

[edit] Halogia

Jett

What else is there in Halogia, other than, I guess there's all these silicates and whatnot?

GM

There's a lot of mining.

Jacob

You can go down to the lowlands if you don't mind breathing in chlorine and getting your face eaten off. And then you just have to worry about the horrible monsters. Also the fact that if one of those things even scratches your EVA suit that's kinda bad.

Jett

Big game hunting?

GM

The most dangerous game: HUGE FUCKIN' BEARS!

Jacob

The brain's such a tiny target. I'll neuralize it! While everyone else is running away.

GM

This should kill one of its fleas!

James

Its fleas are five feet long and can suck a man dry in two seconds. Not in that way.

laughter

[edit] Big damn hero

Jett

So I have basically no space skills. So if we get in any space combat...

Jacob

So how the hell did you fight off those pirates?

Jett

I hung out the side and fired at them.

Christya

Firing his gun, in space. I don't imagine he hit anyone, given space distances here, and human reflexes.

James

Well, they were attempting boarding, right?

GM

Energy weapons have less trouble with distance.

Christya

But you still deal with light speed.

James

But if they're boarding, then they're closer. I assumed the shuttle was actually attached to the ship, and he was shooting at the shuttle.

Jett

The point was I escaped and was heroic while doing it. The details are less important.

Derrick

Yeah, that's your version.

[edit] Pirates

Jett

So what were we doing in Halogia? There's apparently evil things below the evil...

Christya

We were negotiating the release of a couple of academics who had been interested in studying the culture of self-motivated profit-driven enterprise cultures.

James

Pirates.

Christya

Yeah. So I was negotiating their release.

Jett

From the other pirates?

Christya

From the pirates they were studying. They showed up with their grant money, and the locals were like, yeah! A couple of idiotic academics decided to do a cultural study on pirates.

Jett

And I guess I was there for security.

Jacob

And I'm there to talk sciencese?

[edit] Plans for Areston

Christya

And you're from the university, right?

Jett

Well, I'm not really from the university.

Christya

I thought you could have been one of those... what are they, porters or something? The guys at university who throw out drunken students.

laughter

Jacob

Well, how famous were your exploits there? When you ran off? Are the scientists going to recognize you?

Christya

Did you just flunk out, or did you kill one of your instructors or something?

Jett

No, I didn't flunk out. I stole all the guns.

Jacob

But do they know you did this? Because if you go there some of the scientists might recognize you.

Jett

I would say that they know that the weapons are gone.

GM

But it's not like you're going to the school of Warrior Science anyway.

James

They don't run a museum. They run an armoury. But not a museum.

Jacob

Okay, I'm just making sure. One of those scientists might have been slightly smarter, he may have been one of their combat-trained guys.

Jett

I was also under a fake name at the time.

James

That's alright. Worse comes to worst we'll just sanitize the area and records.

Jett

Yeah... you can use your little magic box to help me.

James

I can also sanitize some money into my pocket!

Christya

Are you planning to rob my Alma Mater, is that what you're doing here?

James

I'm planning on robbing your planet, maybe, but we'll think about that later.

Christya

Arestonians rob Areston. You guys rob your own shitty planets.

Jett

To the slipknot!

Table

Yes.

Christya

I just assume we are almost there. I declare it.

[edit] Experimenting with the slipknot

Jacob

I want to check the radiation of the Dead Star itself to see if it's likely to replicate what happened last time.

GM

Do you know what the radiation readings were last time?

Jacob

I theorized it, so I want to check to see if my theories are accurate. Is there anything I can do about that?

Jett

I'm putting on a space suit. Just in case this ship explodes.

GM

When you say you want to check if your theories are accurate, do you mean that you want to time it so that the readings are the way you think they should be to create the error, and see if you're right?

laughter

Jacob

I think it'd be more fun to get it wrong...

Christya

Fortune favours the bold!

Jacob

...but I want to attempt to get it right. So I'm kinda hoping I screw this up.

Christya

How many times have ships gone through this and not had anything interesting happen to them? You're a scientist.

Jacob

Actually, it doesn't screw up that much, because otherwise no-one would ever do this. I mean, ususally, because jumps are instantaneous, or very close to instantaneous, regardless of which route you use chances are you'll make it safely. Most of the time. So I'm going to screw this up, but I'm going to try to do it to be safe.

[00:32:05]

GM

So you know that Jacob is working on getting the radiation levels right, and you know that there are two ways he can do this. Either verify his previous hypothesis, or support his previous hypothesis by getting evidence for the opposite result.

Jett

Hmm. I like the opposite result thing, because it doesn't have us trapped in slipspace.

GM (to Christya)

But you are more into Looking for Trouble.

Christya

I think, you know... Look, he solved the problem last time, And this is not that different.

Jett

And how did that happen exactly?

Jacob

Um... [mumbles]

Christya

In the interest of exploring the potential threat to Areston from this particular kraken, and in my role as the envoy of Areston, I think it is beholden to us to try and get there.

Jett

I told you I'm wearing a spacesuit, right?

Jacob

Alright, let's try that. So, the readings last time were just like this... So let's enter these settings... and push the button.

GM

So you've already decelerated into the area of the slipstream. Jacob, you're trying to...?

Jacob

I'm trying to screw it up. Except for this time I'm actually recording the readings.

Christya

Oh come on, Jacob, it'll be exciting!

Jacob

Exactly, that's why I'm doing it. And the fact that Christya is pressing her tits against my shoulder as she's saying this has NO effect on him whatsoever.

Christya (sweetly)

Hi Professor!

chatter

GM

You succesfully steer yourselves into danger.

Table

Yay!

GM

There is a sickening lurch.

Christya

I'm gambling that the GM's not going to kill us.

GM

You all die.

Christya

That was a sweet game.

[edit] Stuck between systems

[00:36:00]

GM

There is a sickening lurch as the ship jumps, which is not supposed to happen when you enter a slipknot.

Jacob

Did this happen last time?

GM

I think so. There was a lot more mass on the other ship, a lot more people and stuff. And a different ship, for that matter. they all handle differently. The other ship was one of these huge Viagran ships.

James

It's all about size with those people. All about size.

Jacob

It's not all about size.

Christya

Huge and suggestively designed.

Derrick

It's more aerodynamic... I mean, astrodynamic that way!

Jacob

Yeah, there's this thing called solar wind.

discussion of Viagran ship design

GM

There is a sickening lurch, and the temperature in the cabin immediately starts to rise.

Jacob

Okay, good! So now we've managed to reproduce this experiment. We just need to do this a few more times, and voilà! I'm going to get a Nobel prize...

James

Stop screwing with slipspace!

Jett

I activate the air conditioning in my spacesuit. Which I am wearing.

James

I immediately follow suit and get in my air-conditioned EVA suit as well.

Jacob

Great! Now we just need to replicate the process for escape.

Jett

Are we stuck in slipspace?

James

WHAT?

Jacob

A little bit.

James

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. You guys PURPOSEFULLY trapped us in slipspace.

Christya

It's not "trapped". This is an experiment designed to save the lives of many others.

James

By trapping us in slipspace.

Christya

Temporarily delaying us in a repeatable fashion.

Jett

That's like getting eaten by a Titan Bear in order to find out how to avoid being eaten by a Titan Bear.

Christya

Where's your sense of adventure?

Jacob

I'd like to point out that someone has already been swallowed by one of those bears before and cut their way out.

Table

What?

Christya (whispers)

He's a little nuts.

Jett

Okay, So how do we get out of this? Isn't that supposed to happen?

Jacob

Well, we just Technobabble.

Jett

No, I understand that, but what do we do now?

[00:40:26]

Jacob

We just do what I said.

Jett

So do it. Reverse the polarity on the reflector dish. Let's go.

[chatter]

Jacob

I'm laying out these artifacts, and writing up three or four complicated theories, and trying to decide which one I want to try first.

GM

Unfortunately you're having a lot of difficulty getting people to cooperate with you. The temperature keeps rising in the cabin. People are getting more and more unruly, more and more anxious, feeling more and more like they're trapped in a submarine at the bottom of the ocean.

James

Hey, does anyone want to to check what our heatsink saturation is at?

GM

(compels Jacob) Even though you're trying to calm them down and convince them everything's under control, Nobody ever listens to you.

Jacob

No, they never do!

GM

So this fate point is yours if you narrate a way in which that materially hampers you guys.

[edit] Jett goes EVA

[00:41:55]

Jacob

Okay, the heat shields are up to 70%, so I'm gonna need someone to go EVA.

James

Whoa, whoa, whoa, you want us to go EVA in SLIPSPACE?

Jett

I'm not listening to that.

Jacob

So what the hell did you put on your EVA suit for?

James

Screw that. Get us out now before we hit heat saturation.

Christya (to Jett)

We need someone to do this and fix the problem so we can get out of here. I know that you're really good at woring on the outside of things, right?

Jett

What? I... Why would I listen to you? You're the reason we're here to begin with!

Jacob

Yeah, so you're going to have to take off about 30% of the panels...

Christya

What?

Jacob

Technobabble And I think that'll be enough to keep us intact when we finally get out of here.

Jett

And what makes you think my EVA suit is going to protect me from slipspace? It's not made for that!

Christya

No-one's ever done it. You'll be the first one. Isn't this exciting?

Jett

So send the scientist. He's the one who got us into this.

Christya

He's working on getting us out of here. You're the EVA expert.

James

No, no, no, no. Get. Us. Out. Of. Here.

GM (compels Jett)

You're the Big Damn Hero here.

Jett

(accepts compel) *sigh* alright. No-one else is going to do it.

James

You're a brave hero. And write down your observations when you get back.

Jett (gestures)

Yeah, here's my observations.

laughter

Jett

My observation is you're not in charge any more. Fine, I head to the airlock.

Christya

Excellent. Our oxygen will last that much longer.

Jett

On my way I take my helmet off and breathe deeply.

GM

You put your helmet back on and there's condensation from the difference in temperatures, which appears once the airlock closes behind you.

Jacob

Extended duration in slipspace tends to drive humans a little insane.

chatter

[00:45:25]

Jacob

Sometimes subjects become more suggestible...

Christya

I'm sorry, what are you looking at?

Jacob

I'm just writing down what you were saying! And I'm looking at the pad! Mostly.

Christya

I think you should be fixing the problem before our friend out there melts, or whatever it is he does.

GM

Jett steps into the airlock. It closes behind him, and you vent it. The little window in the airlock door goes opaque when you do. When it clears up, you see that the outside of the airlock is closed.

Jacob

Shit, I should have thought to give him a video camera. Oh well, next time!

GM

At the same time, the comm link goes dead. None of you can hear him say or do anything.

Jacob

Wow, it interferes with communication technology.

Jett

Alright. Phase 1: Growing Up.

Christya

What are you doing?

Jett

Starting up a new character.

laughter

GM

He has about 22 minutes of air in his suit.

Christya

I'm not cool with him dying. He seems like a nice boy.

Jett

I'm a big damn hero, is what I am.

GM

Five minutes go by, then six, and there's still no sign from Jett.

Christya

So how is the "fixing this problem" coming there, Doc?

Jacob

Pretty good. I just need him to blow off those panels.

James

Can we even dump heat in slipspace?

Christya

Of course you can. If you have heat in the heatsinks, and you can eject them, then the heat is no longer attached.

James

This is going to cost us a lot of money when we get to the next place.

Jacob

Now I'm doing the calculations to find out: If we come back with only 70% of our plates, given how weird the situation is, are we likely to actually survive? All signs point to... I don't know.

GM

Seven minutes have passed, and still no sign of anything. The temperature inside is still rising.

Christya

I'm feeling a little stressed about this young man. Someone should really go out there and check on him.

Jett

Don't listen to her horrible siren song.

James

I'm going to see if I can activate any of the hullcams to see what the outside looks like.

GM

Are there hullcams? Sounds like a declaration to me.

James

Sure. (pays a FATE point)

GM

Roll Communications at -2.

James

Total of +4.

GM

You get some very grainy footage. It takes you a while to even get an image. The cameras are working, but at first the image is just opaque. You play around with the spectrum settings on the cams. When you tune it down into the infrared band, you get a whole shitload of noise. There's a lot of IR, which means a lot of heat. You tune it up into the violet ranges, and the noise starts to dissipate quite a bit. You see that there's a UV source which, in outline, looks vaguely human-shaped.

Christya

That sounds encouraging.

Jett

Great. I'm almost human-shaped.

Jacob (to James)

You're sure you're recording this, right?

GM

Because there's so much interference, you only get occasional glimpses of it, every few seconds.

Christya

Are there tentacles reaching for the human shape?

GM

No, the tentacles only radiate in the IR band. There's a lot of interference, but every few seconds the interference clears up a bit and you can see a residual reflection of high-frequency radiation off what looks like an EVA suit.

Jacob

Can we see any of the plates?

GM

You can't make out enough details. The plates are inside a housing, and they get ejected out the side. The cams don't point into the housings.

Jacob

So even if they had launched we wouldn't be able to see that it looks any different.

GM

If you saw it as it was launching you would probably see it, but otherwise no. By now it's been a total of 16 minutes since Jett left.

Christya

Okay, well, someone has to go out there.

GM

Right on the 16-minute mark, from one of these fuzzy images to the next, you see a difference. There is a large protrusion from the side of the ship, right where those heat vents should be.

Jacob

Does it look like a vaguely human-shaped protrusion?

GM

It looks like half a human shape.

laughter

GM

No, it's larger. It could be... (to Jett) Actually, roll your Repair, keep it secret, and show it to me and no-one else. (Jett rolls) The shape could have been the ejection of one of the heat plates. It's difficult to tell. At this point, in the ship you would have hear a *kachonk* as it got released and expelled, but the heat inside is up to nearly fifty degrees, and there's noise from the hull starting to buckle.

Jacob

I cheerfully announce that people who aren't in EVA should do that now, because right now the coolest thing in them is our lungs, so the water is going to condense there.

GM

[compel] Does anyone hear you?

Jacob

[accepts] Nope.

James

Sorry, I can't hear you through my EVA suit.

GM

You're all feeling like shit.

[edit] Christya to the rescue

[00:55:10]

Christya

I'm starting to feel a little guilty about sending that guy to die up there all alone.

Jett

And you should be!

Jacob

I'm going to put on my EVA suit now.

GM

For about a minute and a half, you don't get any fresh images off the hullcam because of the interference. After that, when the image clears back up, the shape you thought might have been Jett isn't there any more. You're at 17 and a half minutes now.

Christya

Alright, I'm gonna go EVA.

GM

You figure that at worst it should take about three minutes to get from those manifolds to the airlock. You get into your EVA suit. We're at 19 minutes now. You get into the airlock and the inner door closes behind you. As the outer door opens, again, the widnows goes totally opaque. It stays that way for another two minutes. It's 21 minutes since Jett left. The temperature is now at 52 degrees.

James

It's time to get out of here.

Jacob

No, we still have a minute before we need to...

Jett

Before I choke and die? Yeah, I noticed.

Jacob

We don't want to jump while he's still out there, if he's still alive.

Christya

He's probably not.

James

Fix it, and let us never ever do this again.

Christya

Disagree.

Jacob

Yeah, seriously. I can write a paper out of this.

GM (laughs)

You're just furiously taking notes the whole time. "This is awesome... I mean, terrible. It's very bad. Nice..."

Jett

Luckily nobody's listening to him.

Christya

I, on the other hand, have some great stories for parties.

James

I'm going to copy all the hullcam data onto my personal computer and wipe the drive on the ship.

Jacob

Then we'll just have to do it again!

[edit] A tough decision

[00:58:08]

GM

The timer you set for 22 minutes goes off. It has now been 22 minutes since Jett Miner stepped out the airlock.

Jacob

How long can a person last once the oxygen runs out? How many seconds are we talking here?

GM

Um... a minute or two?

Jett

Given the laboured breating since it's so damn hot in my suit...

GM

That's the thing, is that right now, even though you're in your EVA suits, you're still uncomfortable.

Jacob

Right now even though it's bad for us, it's really bad for him.

GM

The temperature's up to about 57 now, and as far as you're concerned it's more like 42-ish, but that's still pretty horrific. So it's just ticked over to 22 minutes.

Jacob

Can we do anything now, other than jump? No, I don't think I can actually, we really want this guy back.

Derrick

Unless we jump within the next minute, the ship's going to blow up when it exits the slipknot.

James

I'm going to try comms. "Hey, you still out there?"

Jacob

Comms aren't working. Maybe you can work on that.

GM

By the way, the link to Christya went down also. Same thing, as soon as the outer door opened.

Jacob

If we're going to automate this, or at least write a transcript of what to do, I think I'll go out next time.

Jett

Close the outer door... Close the outer door.

James

Can I look at the airlock? Is there anyone in there?

GM

The window's opaque.

James

Okay, closing the door.

Christya

Ow, my leg!

laughter

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GM

You close the airlock.

Christya

I hope there's a large "open airlock" button on the outside.

chatter