Collins Does Solo RPG 'The Wretched'

Music (What is it – Chris Bissette)

Day 10, entry 2, salvage ship The Wretched, Flight Engineer Collins Reporting.

Well, I made it. I am pleased to announce that I have been outside into the creature’s domain and I lived to tell the tale! I’m on cloud nine right now, I’m so pleased with myself that I can barely sit still!

The diversionary decoys worked brilliantly. They weren’t all that complex but they could have failed at any point. Thankfully they didn’t stop early, break or become too obvious that they were a decoy so happy days!

I got the cable of death all laid out. It’s not overly secure but that doesn’t matter, I can’t see it moving anytime soon. I powered it on as soon as I finished unspooling it. It flickered silently an inviting blue/yellow flicker and the high voltage current surged though it. It would be mesmerising to watch if I had the time and didn’t know just how dangerous it was.

Once the cable of death was done I got straight to work on the antenna. It was just like the manual said, release the clamps and then use the gear system to move the array and then relock with the clamps. It is good to know that when kit isn’t broken it works just as it says it should in the book. So right now the antenna is pointed directly at my point of origin, Exocron. Hopefully with this boost someone will hear my distress call and come looking for me. I certainly think my chances have improved dramatically now. Hence my buzzing excitement, well that and I am still alive after staring death in the face.

At one point on my trip around the circumference of the ship I think I saw the tail of the creature waving at the stern of the ship. Ok so I didn’t stare him in the face so much as spy him from a great distance but it was shit scary and comforting nonetheless. Scary because, you know, he’s trying to kill me but comforting to know that my diversions were working perfectly. However I couldn’t help but keep the pistol pointed in that direction for whatever good it would do. Thankfully he was too preoccupied to notice me… Clearly he isn’t as smart as I have been giving him credit for… I bet that stupid bastard is still

• <Power loss detected>
• <MicroUPS activated>
• <Writing log to file…>
• <Write successful>
• <Terminating non-essential connections>
• <Activating back-up generator – fail>
• <Back-up power generator check – non-functional>
• <Life support systems check – nominal>
• <Basic critical systems check – nominal>
• <Safe to shutdown>
• <Quit system>
• <Shutting down…>
• <Thank you for using Seegson-Kraft Systems. Goodbye>