2023 Quest Calendar 9: Spacesuits and Anxiety

Today I am Feeling: Afraid

Thornsday, Nebulis 26

I'm a bit worried about this one. The way the experience goes, apparently I'm supposed to go outside the ship, to the comet, with Brokvar, to place some equipment on the comet. This has to be a joke, right? There's no way any sort of self-respecting cruise company is going to risk putting their customers on a space walk. There's way too much that could go wrong with that.

Plus, there's not really a comet, right? They wouldn't have been able to plan an immersive experience around the idea of a comet that may or may not be there when the plans are made. Alright, so, two possibilities. The first and more risky possibility is that the "comet" was already on board the ship and that they just let it out for this part of the adventure. But that still involves customers like me going out into space. The second, hopefully more likely situation is

2023 Quest Calendar 6: The Cooking?

Moonsday, Nebulis 23

Today, I met Ascel, a Husqel man (identifiable by his blue-grey skin and the ridges on the top of his head.) It sounds like Ascel tries to a little of everything on board the ship. He does things that have no one else to fill the roll, like cooking and finances, but he also helps the others as a 2ndary on their positions as well.

It sounds like Ascel and SD-113 don't exactly get along. SD-113 doesn't like

2023 Quest Calendar 5: Engineering

Starday, Nebulis 21/Sunsday, Nebulis 22

Today, I met the ship's engineer, SD-113, a robot. SD-113 acted (no doubt was programmed to act) frustrated that Captain Cayliss had sent me to aid him. I wonder if, in his programming, he has awareness that he is an actor playing a role, or if they programmed him to believe this is all real.

SD-113 was working to repair a terminal. He said that if the captain wished it, he would let me try to help, starting with the wiring. I looked at the wiring and had no idea what to do with any of it. I was hoping that, as part of the experience, there was no real right or wrong way to do it and that I would just get a pat on the back for getting it right no matter what I did.

Man, was I wrong about that! I put one wire in the wrong place and was shocked BAD. I imagine it's just supposed to be a mild buzz to let the person going through the experience know that they solved the puzzle incorrectly, but it just HURT so much. I can't imagine how