Collins Does Solo RPG 'The Wretched'

Music (Empty Space – Chris Bissette)

Day 12, salvage ship The Wretched, Flight Engineer Collins Reporting.

I found the diary of the good doctor today. It turns out that she kept a pretty good log of her time on the ship. There weren’t many injuries on the ship that needed tending too until the creature visited but then to be fair that didn’t really change the injuries as dead people don’t need bandaging up. There was a lot of commentary about medical papers, notes from pre-recorded lectures and so on. I skipped over most of it as I simply couldn’t understand it. Why they don’t use regular words for things in medicine I will never know. I understand they’re smarter than the average person but there is no need to use ancient dead languages for things now or needlessly long names for drugs like Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin. Apparently it has some pretty alarming side effects!

There was some personal stuff in there too which gave an insight into the doctor as a person. Turns out they have a pet Labrador, a playful thing by all accounts who apparently has the ability to be overwhelmingly cute by coming and resting her head on your knee when she wants something like to go to the bathroom, have food or be played with. The doctor is clearly fond of this animal, there were a lot of photographs too. It’s sad to know that the dog will never see its owner again and that the doctor saw the waggly tail for the last time when we left port.

In other news the proximity alarm has been blaring out for most of the afternoon. At first I was excited! Raced to the bridge to have a look half expecting myself to be greeted with another ship coming to my aid and bringing ice cream too! Sadly, the scanners didn’t show me anything different than the last few days. A blip off the starboard bow but it wasn’t close enough to be triggering the proximity alarm, that alarm indicates imminent collision with objects or something directly in path of travel. On the scopes there is nothing to indicate why that would be.

I elected to open the blast shield to see what was occurring with the Mk1 ocular observation apparatus… my eyes. I saw the same clusters as a few days ago, the same planetoid spinning in and out of view but nothing that could trip the alarm. I can’t see what would be doing this so I added it to the list of problems and then deactivated the audio alarm. It’s still active but I simply can’t hear it. Problem solved. I broke out a nice cup of tea and stared out into space for a while, looking at the stars and basking in their wonder. It was relaxing.