Collins Does Solo RPG 'The Wretched'

Music (The Wretched – Chris Bissette)

Day 10, entry 3, salvage ship The Wretched, Flight Engineer Collins Reporting

Ok today was officially a 2 poop day… as in a shat myself twice… once when I had to go outside and I saw the creature and once when everything died right in the middle of a log entry!

I don’t know what caused the power loss but what I do know is that one component of the primary generator is fried and the backup power generator did not work… why is it that the only thing that works on this God forsaken ship is the antenna array?

The fried component unfortunately is quite a critical one and not one that is catered for in the spares locker. It took me 4 hours of scratching around in the dark to figure this out.

How did I see in the dark? Well… remember when I said I was considering stashing loads of supplies in various places just in case? Boy am I glad I did and I’m thrilled at my foresight in not being able to see. I had a few chemical lights and a handheld illuminator in each kit. That put me on until I could find the small work batteries and inspection lamps in the workshop to jury-rig my own semi-permanent light source for the big repairs job.

The next question I hear you asking is ‘so how did you fix it when you don’t have a spare in the locker?’ easy… I cannibalised the shitty good for nothing backup generator. They’re basically the same specs, now I have one that sort of works and one that definitely does not. Still on the bright side I now have a lot of spare parts should I need more.

I then spent the most part of the evening booting everything up and running diagnostic checks on it. Usually, things need power to work and a lack of power can be bad for computer equipment, hard shutdowns can kill stuff dead. Thankfully the ship’s main computer sensed the power loss and the micro uninterruptable power supply (aka fucking big batteries) did its job admirably, leaving enough time for the system to power down safely and then ensure that the life support was kept operating at one tenth it’s capacity. The ship may be wretched but she’s a good kind of wretched.

I’m going to bed now, I’m tired, hungry and mentally exhausted from today’s roller coaster ride. Let’s hope my rescue comes tomorrow.