Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-5135903-20130919182126/@comment-5135903-20130922180325

 Darwol 

On closer inspection, it turns out that the approaching figure is Skrax; a horizontal, bulky, exoskeletal creature with four legs, each with four radially-pointing digits. The head, sticking out of the front of the body, is long and thin, with a completely round, toothless mouth at the end (no jaws, the mouth just stretches open and closed). There are no arms, just eight tentacles sticking out of the back.

The Skrax is dressed in a tight, grey, environment suit (including the tentacles). Through the bubble-shaped head visor, the head can be seen as black, with a few red details. On the top of the head is what looks like a large red cauliflower (a sensory organ); there are no eyes, but long nose-slits down the face.

The Skrax stands on it's hind legs, gorilla-like, and makes gestures (possibly to follow), but does not attempt to communicate via sound or radio.

 Fishmeal 

(I know it's only one person, I just don't know whether to refer to them as 'he' or 'she' or something else)

The wheel, in its low, 90-minute orbit, is quickly approaching the horizon, and doesn't appear to have noticed your appearance this time around. There does not seem to be any machinery for contact in view.

It seems that the ice cliff is highly irregular - easy to climb down if you don't slip - with plenty of caves and outcrops. The only other way off the cliffs seems to be to leave them by way of the mountains on the horizon, in the other direction to the cliff-edge.