The year is 2568, give or take a few to relativity. The place is aboard starship Eternal Hope. Following an unexpected collision, the ship was forced to make an emergency stop around a nearby star. Now adrift; the surviving crew has to repair their ship enough to return home to safety. That and not get eaten by the evil shape shifting alien.
Go for the helmet, quickly. Also I can think of a reason why the alien would empty the air in here. It is likely it is headed here to escape the chemicals and save its own bacon. Think you can set up a trap after you prevent yourself from, you know death from lack of oxygen?
>>666180 Does this hardsuit have magnetic boots? If so, activate them so you don't go flying. Grab that helmet, put it on, hold onto something until the air current stops, then grab some air canisters. Use the air canisters for reaction mass if you have to spacewalk. Contemplate possible methods of survival now that there are holes in the ship. Is it even possible to repair this damage anymore?
Looks like we just opened a can full of nope. The alien survives in space so no point trying to throw it out of the ship. The way i see her best options are to get to the Captain so they can take it down together. The alien is weak ti toxic chemicals and by the sound of it the captain is 50% booze so that should work. Her options right now are to either somehow get around the alien or go to the outside of the ship and get back in from another airlock.
>>666190 Well, if we get it off the ship, it's out of our hair...
>>666188 It's using the doors to control the strength and direction of the vacuum. It has eaten the captain already. It poked holes in its suit, so it's no longer protected from chems, but unless there's somewhere VERY close by where we can get some and use it, this is it. Alternatively, if there's anything explosive or sharp nearby we can chuck that at it. Ooor if we can poke a hole in a window or something near it so that it gets sucked out like spaghetti ALA Alien 3...
>>666200 Well fuck. Look around for another airlock. Do you know the overall layout of the outside/inside of the ship? Again, does the suit have magnetic boots? Or any sort of thrusters? If not you're gonna have to look for a path that has handholds, or find something with the reaction mass you need to maneuver. ...optimally we'd be looking for an airlock near the armory. Also, I thought of a potential trap we can set. Get another hardsuit, fill it with caustic chemicals, put it somewhere that the alien is likely to find.
Well, what's useful and near an airlock? Your suit has come sort of radio, right? Get in touch with the captain if he's still there.
Please tell me the suit includes some cold-gas maneuvering thrusters or a grapple gun or SOMETHING so you're not super-slow-mo boned if you lose your grip. No cook and no medic means odds of long-term survival are looking bad. Time to think of the larger strategic situation. Make your way to the ship's long range comm system, or better yet a weapons-grade laser, and set it up to send a signal back to Earth. This is not horror movie monster-victim ominous-journal-making behavior. You are simply an engineer, doing your job correctly. You found a mission-critical bug, you looked for ways to fix it, and now you're going to report your findings to the manufacturer so they can improve the next version.
Waddle around the ship to life support.
Get to the Captain and hope the thing didnt follow you out
What the..? Is that the Captain sticking his head out the window? Did the alien(s) forget humans can't do that? Keep your distance.
Alien behind you, possible help ahead of you. Nothing for it but to run forward. Hope the captain has some drunk brilliance, here.
>>666452 What? Is that another survivor? Oh hey there's a planet in the background, neat. If you have a radio in the suit, warn them about the predatory alien chasing you. Phrase it so that the alien can't tell you're actually seeing anyone, and are just broadcasting blindly to anyone that might hear you. The more information we deny the alien the better. Although at this point it has almost all the information, having eaten six people. (I'm actually wondering why it hasn't just left yet. Is it pissed off because Sparrow injured it three times? There's no way it didn't eat the medic. No way. Unless...) Sparrow how much WD-40 got on the medic when the canister exploded? If a lot of it got on him then the alien didn't eat him.
Of course, this is assuming that is someone wearing a hardsuit (someone that survived the original collision and got trapped outside the ship, but had a hardsuit), and not the alien somehow reaching across the entire station to make a doppleganger of the suitless captain to lure you into a trap. I can't tell actually. If it's the latter stay away obviously, veer right or something.
"iiiIIIIIii-i-i-I s-s--ss-see yyyyoooou-u-U-u."
Could we have this conversation later? Inside, perhaps?
ahhhhhhhhh!!
>>666459 HOW IS IT TALKING
"I know you now. Your fears control you, and you fight them with poison."
"You will die, Sparrow. If not by my hand, then by the toxin flowing through your veins.
>>666470 GET IN THERE. Also if you ever get into a pressurized section of the ship again, consider inducing vomiting so that you get some of those pills out of your stomach.
"Enough of this."
>>666481 Alcohol pls.
Time to act Captain, you have been training your whole life for this moment. Listen to Vice-Admiral Morgan and fight the weapon with the only weapon you know, booze.
"Game over, Sparrow."
"I wi-"
>>666485 GET DRUNKED Sparrow try to flail at the captain so he can grab you before you float off.
Grab Sparrow, get back inside!
I second the points made, but you need to see if you have a firearm immediately within access. If you do not dispatch him here, he will just retreat into the ship, and wait until you are forced to fix the air supply due to the suits running out.
>toxins Force feed him your remaining pills! Avenge Crow!
>>666547 Feed it the kill pills.
Hurry Captain, throw all the booze at it! Make it as drunk as you are!
"ggrgrrrrAAAA-Aaaa-a-a-a-aaAAAAGAAAGAHHAG"
"AAaau-g-g-g-gggugughghg--gggAAAAAAAAAAAAA."
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>up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, Start, Select NEW GAME+
>>666694 i thought the captain would have thrown up just as much as sparrow. poor crow :<