Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-5135903-20130919182126/@comment-5135903-20131011195148

 Darwol 

The group make their way down the corridor for some time, before they eventually reach a mode of transport. It is very basic and stripped down, consisting of a flat metal pad with three wheels on either side; it looks like the system is battery powered.

"The last environmental survey of this moon was performed a mere five centuries ago (translated into Earth centuries) and showed no record of intelligent life. The survey was done by one of the FCZ corporations, what was it? The BDCC, or something? Anyway, it was far more advanced than anything that we could do.

Of course we can communicate with the tunnel dwellers. Xanez here used to spend a lot of her spare time with them; it's whether they can be bothered to take part in any serious legislation that's the issue. To use a harsher term, they're quite... anarchic. Get in."

The others step onto the machine.

 DreadVolt 

"This? It's just decontaminant nanorobots. They're in the atmosphere all the time, keeping everything clean and tidy! Alien pathogens are mighty terrible. Since they usually have a completely different biochemistry, they have no use for using an alien host to spread. It's a dead end. Then the host's immune system obviously doesn't recognise the pathogens in the slightest, and simply gets wiped out, see?

You're a bit of a special case, though. We're using some localised nanorobots just to make sure you're completely clean. You don't have any essential microorganisms in you that I don't know about, do you? I heard of this one individual who basically killed this guy's immune system!"

The Astatines finish their spraying, and the dust on and around you (which seems to be very sticky) just appears to dissolve into nothingness.

 Fishmeal 

It's not a hallway, exactly, just a connecting tube between two modules about two metres long. The next module is similarly a cylinder on its side, but is bigger with alcoves that have large empty shelves with plastic shutters (for sleeping in?). Anyway, the only other way to go after that is down a longer tunnel that sticks off of the end of this module.

 Wanraknasdan 

Presumably you are using the drone to carry you up the steep waterfall coming out of the hole, before slicing through the bars over it. You can't actually be carried down because the hole is at the bottom of the wall of a room full of all different types of creatures.

The room isn't rectangular or circular, just a random shape dug out of earth. The curved walls are irregular and seem to be made up of some sort of compacted dirt or cob, giving them a deep brown-grey colour. Illunination is provided by strange, jellyfish-like blobs which glow a bright white with a tinge of blue-green and hang from the ceiling and walls in random lines and bunches.

There are no tables or chairs, any creatures that are sitting are on the floor, around blankets or painted areas of dirt, communicating, playing games, eating, etctera. There even appears to be a mirror image made up of more insect-like or exoskeletal creatures that seem to prefer clinging to the ceiling, rather than sitting on the ground while they discuss. Most, but not all, people are talking in some variation of the CCL (Colonial Common Language).

The source of the water that is poaring down the hole you entered through is a large stream running through the middle of the room from a very narrow doorway. You notice some are openly deficting in the stream (yuck!). Luckily, in the mood of things, nobody seems to have noticed you unconventional entry yet.