Apoikian Ridge

The Scylla is a submarine shifting through the depths of Europa's oceans. The crew aboard have just returned from a long //Voyage// into the unknown regions of Europa's sea in order to map it. Human exploration led us here a century ago. Human colonies and a thriving society of sub-surface outposts. A thriving cyst of human activity in the stars. Fifty years ago, Europa suffered a Tidal Flex, ever since no one has been able to contact with Earth. No messages, no messengers. No person on Europa has seen the sun in fifty years. The outposts one-by-one are dying, falling to internal discontent and external pressures. The crew of the Scylla knows most stations are dead, but their last hope is for one station to remain. Are we the last of humanity? [[Wake up |cartiers quarter - closed]]

You open your eyes to see the metallic hull around you. The buzz of a fluorescent light humming into your ears. Sitting up in your chair your desk is littered with different memories, a faintly glowing [[Computer]], and a [[Map of Locations]] around Europa.

Turning on the computer a faint wheeze is heard from the fans as they wind up. The screen fades in for a moment with a phosphor green glow. On its screen it shows the date, 22/2/2125. And a small image of a triangle moving across the ‘Apoikian Ridge’ our local sector of Europa. [[Turn the computer off | cartiers quarter - open]]

The map shows a rough topographical map of the local region. The Apoikian Ridge. Five outposts are labeled with small notes next to them: - Oceanus - Decayed (Last message from station 'flooded') - Cronus - Decayed (Last message from station 'meltdown') - Atlas - Decayed (Last message from station 'rebellion') - Hyperion - Decayed (Last messae from station 'implosion') - Prometheus - Scylla to arrive 22/2/2125 (Most recent message from station 'No power') [[Look away | cartiers quarter - open]]

Moving your head back a metallic thunk is heard, the bulk-head to your quarter is being opened. Turning around to meet with your coworker standing at the door. Her name tag reads: ‘(text-colour:#dc87dc)[A. Koster]’. (text-colour:#dc87dc)["(text-colour:yellow)[Cartier], you’re needed on the deck, we’re approaching Prometheus station. I don't want to be kicked in the ass just because you're oversleeping. Get dressed and meet me out there"] [[Get Dressed and Follow Koster | main deck]] (set: $maindecktalk to "false")

Wandering through the steel hull of this metallic vessel your flanked by (text-colour:#dc87dc)[Koster]. She looks over to you. (text-colour:#dc87dc)["Do you think Promethieus will be around still? Last time I was there, it was nice. But we've been on excursion for so long"] (if: $maindecktalk is "false")[ How do I respond? (text-colour:yellow)[ (link-reveal-goto: "I've been there before. But it was never really a place I wanted to stay, the people we're always a bit strange. Always had a fondness for not being from 'Earth', it wasn't helpful for us who wanted to try and get a connection back home.", " main deck")[(set: $KosterOpinion to "negative") (set: $CartierPromethius to "familiar") (set:$maindecktalk to "true")] (link-reveal-goto: "A few times. The people we're nice, but I never really got to know anyone from there too well, I was always dragged off to another job.", " main deck")[(set: $KosterOpinion to "positive") (set: $CartierPromethius to "familiar") (set:$maindecktalk to "true")] (link-reveal-goto: "I've only ever been there on lay overs, y'know before we set out on our //voyage//", " main deck")[(set: $KosterOpinion to "neutral") (set: $CartierPromethius to "unfamiliar") (set:$maindecktalk to "true")] ]] (if: $maindecktalk is "true")[ (if: $KosterOpinion is "negative") [ (text-colour:#dc87dc)[ "Hey. The people we're nice people, they fought for independence from Earth before we lost contact. They were always considered lesser anyways."] ] (if: $KosterOpinion is "positive") [ (text-colour:#dc87dc)[ "Thats cool. Yeah I was born there. Mum and dad both worked in the medical facilities there, and on the Independant Council haha. I love it there, but like I wanted to see the Apokian Ridge so I freelanced a bit, well before our //Voyage//."] ] (if: $KosterOpinion is "neutral") [ (text-colour:#dc87dc)[ "I was born on Prometheus. I was a wonderful place. The one thing they always had over other outposts was that people actually being cared for."] ] [[Continue following Koster|OperationDeck]] ]

As (text-colour:#dc87dc)[Koster] and (text-colour:yellow)[you] continue walking through the steel halls of the Scylla, small leaks drizzle down the walls forming puddles at your feet. A large metallic door opens ahead of you, revealing a large operations room. Two individuals flank a large central console, one a tall man in a navy blue synthetic suit is your captain '(text-colour:lime)[V. Auclair]', a large cuban cigar sticking from his mouth. Standing next to him is a young man with a round and stubbly chin, a set of once orange overalls covering his body, the onboard mechanic '(text-colour:red)[R. Thabis]' [[Approach the console with Koster | OperationDeckConsole]]

Climbing down the ladder into the Dive Room you find (text-colour:#dc87dc)[Koster] already dressed in her Pressure Suit, the mechanical couplings hiding her skin and clothes, the large blacked out helmet blotting her face from view. All that emanates from her in an occasional- if rhythmic regulator wheeze. Without your suit on, and your radio on, you cannot hear her, only her wheezes. Your suit sits in its bay, waiting for you to step into it and couple it up. [[Enter your suit|DiveRoomEnterSuit]]

As (text-colour:#dc87dc)[Koster] moves down the hatch you decide to stick around for a moment. (text-colour:red)[Thabis] is leaning over the topographic console. [[Approach Thabis|OperationDeckThabis]]

As you approach, Thabis looks towards you as he pushes himself from the console, and notes some technical details to you. (text-colour:red)[ It looks like there's a good chance of a Jovian rad belt coming over us soon. If comms cut out don't be worried."] He looks at you for a moment before shifting. (text-colour:red)["(text-colour:yellow)[Cartier] when was the last time you were at Prometheus?"] He asks as his hands lean onto the console. (text-colour:yellow)[ [[Why do you ask?|ThabisODExplain]] ]

Walking towards the console, it displays a topographical map of the surrounding ocean. Everything the sonar onboard the Scylla could pick up, a few hundred meters being a man-made metallic structure chained to a cliff. (text-colour:lime)[Auclair] looks towards you (text-colour:lime)["We're only a few minutes away (text-colour:yellow)[Cartier], you and (text-colour:#dc87dc)[Koster] will board and check on the state of the facility. Reports from the stations emergency loop state it has no- or a least little power and is under a lockdown. You should be able to release that easily and make your way to the generator."] He taps away for a moment on a panel causing a small hatch in the room to release a hiss as it opens. (text-colour:lime)["Head down to the Dive Room. Suit yourself up, I'll release the hatch when we're docked. I'll seal it behind you incase theres any breaches. When powers back on, or at least partially i'll release it"] Koster moves ahead of you, climbing down the hatch. [[Follow Her|DiveRoom]] [[Stay for a moment|OperationDeckExplore]] (set: $ODThabisTalk to "false") (set: $ThabisOpinion to "neutral") (set: $ODAuclairTalk to "false") (set: $AuclairOpinion to "neutral") (set: $ThabisQuest to "false")

He shifts a bit (text-colour:red)["I lived here for a bit. Part of the Separatists, heh."] He stops for a moment before swallowing his pride (text-colour:red)["(text-colour:yellow)[Cartier] I have a favour to ask... I had a partner who lived onboard an (text-colour:blue)[Emmeline], if you find her, or anything of her's please let me know."] [[`*Nod* and continue down to the Dive Room` |DiveRoom]] (set: $ThabisQuest to "true")

As you step into your suit it automatically couples around your ankles, hips, chest and arms, allowing you to move your fingers through the thick pressure resistant fabric. As you press a panel, your helmet lowers onto your head trapping you. ^^//wheeze... wheeze... wheeze//^^ After a moment the claustrophobia fades as your regulator begins to wheeze with you after each breath. You stand up and feel the bulky suit weighing you down. [[Switch on your radio|DiveRoomSuitOn]] (set: $item to "none") (set: $diveroomselection to "false")

As your hand reaches for a switch on the side of your helmet, your heavy fingers fumble for a moment before you hear a switch and then a quiet static before you hear (text-colour:#dc87dc)["Cartier, you can hear me alright? Perfect. Make sure you grab what you need."] Her sentences are short, heavy yet controlled breathes between each. Your suit has a spare compartment where you can store something of need. (if: $diveroomselection is "false")[ (link-reveal-goto: "A Flashlight. Although Koster has one too, might be useful", "DiveRoomSuitOn")[(set: $item to "flashlight") (set:$diveroomselection to "true")] (link-reveal-goto: "A Triage Kit. Incase the station is dangerous.", "DiveRoomSuitOn")[(set: $item to "triagekit") (set:$diveroomselection to "true")] (link-reveal-goto: "A spare Battery. Might be useful incase the entire station or sections are unpowered.", "DiveRoomSuitOn")[(set: $item to "battery") (set:$diveroomselection to "true")] ] (if: $diveroomselection is "true")[ You slot the item into your suits spare compartment, sealing it from any water or dangers. (text-colour:#dc87dc)[Koster] nods at you before inviting you towards her at the main hatch. As you approach the hatch (text-colour:green)[Auclair] radios in to you (text-colour:green)["Alright. We're docked. You two are good to head in. It seems the station has some sort of Emergency lockdown on. Try to get that shut off first."] [[Open the external hatch|EnteringPrometheus]] ]

You place your hands on the large metal wheel leading outside the Scylla. You struggle for a moment as you push the wheel. The rough, and rusted metallic locks begin to crunch and crack as water begins to seep slowly into the Dive Room. As you finish opening the door, you see the rusted internals of Prometheus Stations airlock, barnacles growing on the formerly half-flooded floor. The airlock is dark, aside from a red emergency light dimly glowing from above a manual release lever for the internal door. Koster stands next to you. Her body is stiff. (if: $KosterOpinion is "positive") [ She lets out a heavy and difficult breath, her suit wheezing in response. (text-colour:#dc87dc)["It... doesn't look..."] she stops herself halfway through her sentence. (text-colour:#dc87dc)["Let's just keep moving then"] ] [[Push the Manual Release lever|PrometheusLobby]] (set: $Kosterwith to "true") (set: $Lockdown to "true") (set: $Firstenterlobby to "true") (set: $Kosteralive to "true") (set: $failedpry to "false") (set: $EmmelineMet to "false") (set: $EmmelineSaved to "false") (set: $EmmelineAlive to "true") (set: $Kosterquesting to "false")

(if: $Firstenterlobby is "false")[ (if: $Kosterwith is "true")[ Koster and you stand in the lobby for a moment. (if: ($CartierPromethius is "familiar") or ($item is "flashlight"))[ [[Towards the Medical Wing|MedicalWingHall]] [[Towards the Dormitory Wing|DormitoryWingHall]] [[Towards the Command Wing|CommandWingHall]] ] (if: ($CartierPromethius is not "familiar") or ($item is not "flashlight"))[ [[Koster leads you towards the Command Wing|CommandWingHall]] ] ] (if: $Kosterwith is "false")[ You stand in the lobby alone. Your suits wheezing filling your ears. ^^//wheeze... wheeze... wheeze//^^ (if: ($CartierPromethius is "familiar") or ($item is "flashlight"))[ [[Towards the Medical Wing|MedicalWingHall]] [[Towards the Dormitory Wing|DormitoryWingHall]] (if: $Lockdown is "false")[[[Towards the Command Wing|CommandWingHall]]] ] (if: ($CartierPromethius is not "familiar") or ($item is not "flashlight"))[ (if: $Firstenterlobby is not "true")[ [[Koster was going towards the Command Wing. I know where that is. even in the dark|CommandWingHall]] ] ] ] ] (if: $Firstenterlobby is "true")[ You grab the steel lever and pull it down, causing a sharp hiss to eminate from behind the door as it unseals. (if: $item is "flashlight")[ Using your flashlight, you look into a large and half rusted lobby. Different pieces of welcoming furniture in ruin. Your light illuminates a few different halls to go through, wih signs above them. Where should we go? [[Towards the Medical Wing|MedicalWingHall]] [[Towards the Command Wing|CommandWingHall]] [[Towards the Dormitory Wing|DormitoryWingHall]] ] (if: $item is not "flashlight")[ Kosters light illuminates the half rusted lobby. A couch sits rotting in the half-flooded room. She looks up towards a few different paths before continuing down towards one labeled 'Command Wing'. [[Follow Koster|CommandWingHall]]] (if: $CartierPromethius is "familiar")[ You remember this place well enough to understand that Koster is making her way towards the Command Wing. But there are two other wings here which you can flag her to go towards if you'd so choose. [[Towards the Medical Wing|MedicalWingHall]] [[Towards the Dormitory Wing|DormitoryWingHall]] ] ]

(if: $Kosterwith is "true")[ Walking with Koster, you both pass several dark rooms. The steel halls of the station creaking under the immense pressure of the ocean. Dim red lights are the only guiding light down the halls of this station.] The only sound other than the station is your own suits wheezing. ^^//wheeze... wheeze... wheeze//^^ (if: $Kosterwith is "true")[ The two of you find yourself at the end of the Command Wing. A small office sits just out of the way with a small terminal dimly shining a screen. (text-colour:#dc87dc)["We can work with this. I'll get on the terminal and try to shut off the Lockdown."] [[Watch as she shuts off the lockdown|CommandWingOfficeLockdownOff]] ] (if: $Kosterwith is "false")[ You find yourself at the end of the Command Wing. A small office sits just out of the way. Entering into the room you find a small terminal. Placing your thick gloved hands onto the keyboard you type away for a few seconds. Moving through the locked computer you find a few files, skimming over them you find security notes detailing a 'Calyx' as reason for the lockdown. [[Release the Lockdown|CommandWingOfficeLockdownOff]] [[Don't release the Lockdown|ReturntoTheShip]] ] (set: $Firstenterlobby to "false")

(if: $Kosterwith is "true")[ Walking with Koster, you both pass several dark rooms. The steel halls of the station creaking under the immense pressure of the ocean. Dim red lights are the only guiding light down the halls of this station.] The only sound other than the station is your own suits wheezing. ^^//wheeze... wheeze... wheeze//^^ (if: $Kosterwith is "true")[ At one point in the hall Koster stops and stares at a hall labelled 'D-3'. She stops and sighs before saying (text-colour:#dc87dc)["This was where my family lived. In this section. Me too I guess. I'm going to check through. See if I can find them. Or where they went. You can go ahead. I'll meet back with you soon. I'll keep in touch."] (set: $Kosterwith to "false") (set: $Kosterquesting to "true") ] ^^//wheeze... wheeze... wheeze//^^ You're alone with your thoughts. (if: $Lockdown is "true")[ The hall is a dead end, at the end of it is only a sealed emergency door. ] (if: $Lockdown is "false")[ The door at the end of the hall is open, leading to the dormitory. (if: $Kosterquesting is "true")[ Koster isn't here, she must have continued onwards... ] [[Continue towards the Dormitory|Outsidedormitory]] ] [[Return back to the Lobby|PrometheusLobby]] (set: $Firstenterlobby to "false")

Shutting off the lockdown you hear a large hiss eminate throughout the station as several doors unlock. (if: $Kosterwith is "true")[ You both stand back for a moment before the terminal unlocks fully. It shows a layout of the facility and a series of dots. Two in the Command Office, where you both stand, although one is blinking between rooms just past the Dormitory Wing. Whatever this dot is. its moving. ] (if: $Kosterwith is "false")[ You stand back for a moment before the terminal unlocks fully. It shows a layout of the facility and a series of dots. One in the Command Office, where you stand, and one at a previously sealed door in the Dormitory Wing, although one is blinking between rooms just past the Dormitory Wing. Whatever this dot is. its moving. and its moving towards the near stationary dot. ] As the facility fully unlocks (text-colour:green)[Auclair's] voice comes in over radio. (text-colour:green)["Beautiful, the facility is mostly unlocked. But I'm having some trouble, it seems like the stations power is off-"] the radio begins becoming static filled (text-colour:green)["-Dormi- through- battery-"] the transmissions turns into nothing but static. (if: $Kosterwith is "true")[ Koster stands back for a moment and continues trying to radio in Auclair. She struggles for a moment before turning to you. (text-colour:#dc87dc)["Cartier, you go turn on the power, ill stay here and try to use the stations radio"] [[Return to the Lobby without Koster|PrometheusLobbyReturnFromCommand]] ] (if: $Kosterwith is "false")[ [[Return back to the Lobby|PrometheusLobby]] ] (set: $Lockdown to "false") (set: $CartierPromethius to "familiar")

Your hand hovers over the button to release the lockdown, but you hesitate to push the button. You radio in to Koster. (text-colour:yellow)["This place gives me the creeps. I think we can declare it a lost cause... we can get back to the Scylla"] (if: $KosterOpinion is "positive")[ Koster seems a bit confused for a moment over radio, before she softly replies back. (text-colour:#dc87dc)["I understand. I couldn't get back to my families unit anyways. I'll return back with you. I'll see you at the lobby in a minute"] [[Return back to the Scylla|ReturnwithKoster]] ] (if: $KosterOpinion is not "positive")[ Koster seems a bit confused for a moment over radio. (text-colour:#dc87dc)["It's our job to search this entire place Cartier. I can't get back to my families unit unless you release that lockdown. Ugh. Fine, you return back. I'll do this myself"] [[Return back to the Scylla alone|ReturnwithoutKoster]] ]

You and Koster return back to the lobby and seal the Promethius. In talks with Auclair, and Thabis you describe the state of the station. Lost. Like all the others. Your ship can probably mill around the sea for another few years, but you don't have a way to refuel, or get more food... you're stranded. You'll die down here, one by one. [[Continue|Ending1-WimpWithKoster]]

You return alone. Koster never returned to the Scylla, the last words from her were wailing and breathing. Out of fear everyone onboard agreed to leave her. Your ship can probably mill around the sea for another few years, but you don't have a way to refuel, or get more food... you're stranded. You'll die down here, one by one. [[Continue|Ending2-WimpWithoutKoster]]

The Scylla was a sub-surface vessel shifting through the depths of Europa's oceans. Human colonies all died here. Fifty years after a Tidal Flex, everyone on Europa was dead. No person on Europa saw the sun for fifty years. The crew of the Scylla are dying. Are we the last of humanity?

Standing in the hall outside the infirmary you hear laboured breathing from behind the door. (if: $item is "battery")[ The door is sealed and unpowered, you could place the battery in the emergency panel in order to give it a few minutes of power. Although this would drain your battery. [[Use the battery|OpenDoorToInfirmary]] ] (if: ($item is not "battery")and($failedpry is not "true"))[ The door is sealed and unpowered, you could try to pry it open, but this might not work. (link: "Pry open the door")[ (goto: (either: "OpenDoorToInfirmary", "FailedToOpenInfirmary")) ]] [[Return back to the Lobby|PrometheusLobby]]

(if: $Kosterquesting is "true")[ As you enter the dormitory you find Koster on the ground, wheezing through her suit. She's been impaled with some kind of metallic beam. All she can say is (text-color:#dc87dc))["It... went... towards... the... power..."] [[Head towards the power room|PowerRoom]] (if: $item is "triagekit")[ Koster is hurt... badly. Lucky you have a Triage kit. [[Patch up Koster|KosterHealed]] ] ] (if: $Kosterquesting is "false")[ As you enter the dormitory you find it strangely empty. The beds pushed over and dried blood stained on the walls. (if: $item is "flashlight")[ Lighting up one of the walls, blood is scrawled into a message (text-colour:orange)["CALYX WILL RULE"] ] In the next room you can hear heavy metallic foot steps plodding around. [[Head towards the power room|PowerRoom]] ]

(if: $item is "battery")[ You place the battery into the emergency panel of the door, allowing it to light up. With the few minutes of power you have left you press the doors controls, allowing the door to slowly slide open revealing the infirmary. [[Enter|Infirmary]](set: $item to "none")) ] (if: $item is not "battery")[ The door is opened, allowing you to enter into the infirmary. [[Enter|Infirmary]] ] [[Return back to the Lobby|PrometheusLobby]]

You pick up a nearby piece of debris and attempt to pry open the door. Although you try, the makeshift tool shatters, leaving the door unopened. [[Return back to the Lobby|PrometheusLobby]]

As you step into the room you can see the raided remains of the infirmary. On the ground remain empty syringes and broken glass phials. Blood stains the medical beds, although no bodies are found. (if: $EmmelineMet is "false")[ From behind a small cabinet you can hear laboured breathing. [[Move the cabinet|EmmelineHurt]] ] (if: $EmmelineMet is not "false")[ [[Return to Lobby|PrometheusLobby]] ]

Behind the cabinet is a young woman on the ground, her back pressed against the wall. She's tired and barely concious, her name tag reads '(text-colour:blue)[Emmeline]'. Her hand is pressed up against her lower ribs. Blood can be seen staining her shirt around this area. (if: $item is "triagekit")[ Although she's hurt you can use your Triage Kit in order to help her. [[Use your triage kit|EmmelineSaved]] ] (if: ($item is not "triagekit")and($EmmelineAlive is "true"))[ Although she's hurt you can try to make use of the bare surroundings in order to try and help her.. (link: "Use what you can to help her")[ (goto: (either: "EmmelineSaved", "EmmelineDies")) ]]

(if: $item is "triagekit")[ You make use of bandages and some morphine you have within the kit. Dressing her wound and administering her the pain killer her breathing remains stable. Although she's in no state to make it back to the Scylla herself, you can escort her back. [[Escort Emmeline |EscortEmmeline]] ] (if: $item is not "triagekit")[ You make use of some bedding to dress her wound, as well you find a nearly empty bottle of pain killers. Dressing her wound and administering her the pain killers her breathing remains stable. Although she's in no state to make it back to the Scylla herself, you can escort her back. [[Escort Emmeline |EscortEmmeline]] ] (set: $EmmelineSaved to "true")

Your surroundings are bare, and the best you can find is a set of bedsheets to try and stem her bleeding. You wrap it around her waist, but as you finish her breathing slows. She eventually stops breathing altogether. You tried. [[Return to the Lobby|PrometheusLobby]]

Helping up Emmeline you lead her back to the Lobby and sit her inside the airlock of the Scylla. Even though you can't get her back inside to safety right this moment, at least she's safe. Now we just have to get the power back up. [[Return to the Lobby|PrometheusLobby]] (if: $item is "triagekit")[ (set: $item to "none") ]

Entering the Power Room to find a set of large copper coils exposed and dimly glowing, a small terminal between them dimly shows the text "ACTIVATE EMERGENCY REACTOR?". As you approach a sudden and heavy thuds are heard, something is running towards you... ''You have seconds to react...'' [[Duck|Ducked]] [[Stay Still|Still]] (live: 10s)[ (go-to: "Still")) ] (if: $Kosterwith is "false")[ (set: $Kosteralive to "false") ]

You spend a few minutes healing up Koster, making use of your bandages and morphine in order to triage her. Her wounds aren't fatal, but she'll struggle to move quickly. (if: $KosterOpinion is "negative")[ "Thank you... Cartier... watch out for the crazy thing..." she says struggling through each wheezing breath "I will... return to the ship... try to get the door open" ] (if: $KosterOpinion is not "negative")[ "Thank you... Cartier... I'll help you... two against one... is better..." (set: $Kosterwith to "true") ] [[Head towards the Power Room|PowerRoom]]

You duck quickly in reaction to the fast and heavy foot steps. A large metal beam is swung above your head from a figure in a suit similar to your own. They yell as they miss (text-colour:orange)["CALYX CAN'T MISS"] (if: $item is "flashlight")[ [[Smash your flashlight into the back of the figures helmet|FlashlightBash]] ] (link: "Try and subdue the figure")[ (goto: (either: "Subdue", "Die"))

(if: $Kosterwith is "true")[ You lock up as you hear the thuds grow closer. Quicky a tall human figure draped in a rusty suit similar to yours appears from the dark wielding a metal beam in one hand. Without time to react you can simply look at the individual as they go to swing. (live: 3s)[ Koster bashes into the figure, knocking them to the grounda and giving you a moment to react. (if: $item is "flashlight")[ [[Smash your flashlight into the back of the figures helmet|FlashlightBash]] ] [[Attempt to subdue the figure|Subdue]] ]] (if: $Kosterwith is "false")[ You lock up as you hear the thuds grow closer. Quicky a tall human figure draped in a rusty suit similar to yours appears from the dark wielding a metal beam in one hand. Without time to react you can simply look at the individual as they go to swing. (live: 3s)[ You're smashed over the torso with a metal beam, causing you to fall to the ground. The figure sits atop you, their barely functoning respirator hissing after each breath. They speak... (text-colour:orange)["Calyx will rule... Europa... its mine... mine..."] (link: "While pinned try to subdue the figure")[ (goto: (either: "Subdue", "Die")) ]]]

You take the moment to get out your flashlight and smash it over the figures helmet. Their visor smashes. Their head bleeds for a moment. They go limp. [[Activate the power|PowerOn]]

You struggle for a moment but manage to get control over the figure. You grab their arms and twist them back and manage to get your arm around their suits neck. You strangle them. (live: 3s)[ They struggle... ] (live: 5s)[ They fall limp... [[Take the spare moment to activate the power|PowerOn]] ]

As you attempt to get the upper hand in the struggle, the figure notices and quickly over powers you before smashing the beam over your head causing you to collapse. Your eyes are barely open... (live: 3s)[ [[Close your eyes|Ending3-Death]] ] (live: 30s)[ [[Struggle again with your remaining strength|Subdue]] ]

Approaching the terminal you activate the emergency power. The two coils flanking you flicker with electrical might for a moment before they light up like a flaming match. The entire facility buzzes for a moment before large clunking can be heard as lights throughout the station come online. The terminal reads "PROMETHEUS ALIGHT" You sigh... before your radio comes to life. (text-colour:green)["Cariter? Koster?" "Are you two alright? The Jovian radiation swept the ridge, cut out comms. They're still patchy. I'm using the docking line, it should work. I'll open the hatch. Come back we can regroup"] [[Return to the Scylla]]

(if: ($Kosterquesting is "true") and ($Kosteralive is "true"))[ Koster and you return to the Scylla. Koster is quickly taken by Thabis to the medical bay to be checked while you brief Auclair. ] (if: ($Kosterquesting is "true") and ($Kosteralive is "false"))[ On your way to return to the Scylla you find Koster has bled out on the ground. Taking her remains with you back to the Scylla you hand her body to Thabis while you brief Auclair. ] (if: ($Kosterquesting is "false"))[ Koster and you return to the Scylla. The two of you brief Auclair and Thabis on the state of the station. ] [[Brief the crew]]

Sitting down you recount what happened... (if: $Kosteralive is "false")[ Koster unfortunately was struck and killed by a crazed madman on the station. ] (if: $EmmelineSaved is "true")[ You found Emmeline, and patched her up. ] (if: $EmmelineAlive is "false")[ You found Emmeline, but failed to treat her wounds. She passed away. ] You found the station was in disrepair with bodies gone, and the place half flooded. (if: $failedpry is "true")[ You attempted to gain access to the infirmary but failed. ] You explored as far as you could, only to find the station abandoned aside from a crazed madman. (if: $Kosteralive is "false")[ [[And more without Koster...|Ending4-KosterDeath]] ] (if: $Kosteralive is "alive")[ [[And more with Koster...|Ending5-Neutral]] ]

The Scylla is a sub-surface vessel shifting through the depths of Europa's oceans. Human colonies all died here. Fifty years after a Tidal Flex, everyone on Europa was dead. No person on Europa saw the sun for fifty years. The crew of the Scylla will die. But. We survived the stations and our voyage. (if: $EmmelineSaved is "true")[ We saved one. Lost one. (if: ($ThabisQuest is "true") and ($EmmelineSaved is "true"))[ Thabis was giddy at my work. I'm glad I could help my friend... at least one of them. ]] I wonder if we're the last of humanity?

The Scylla is a sub-surface vessel shifting through the depths of Europa's oceans. Human colonies all died here. Fifty years after a Tidal Flex, everyone on Europa was dead. No person on Europa saw the sun for fifty years. The crew of the Scylla will die. But. We survived the stations and our voyage. (if: $EmmelineSaved is "true")[ We managed to save Emmeline and bring her safe here. (if: ($ThabisQuest is "true") and ($EmmelineSaved is "true"))[ Thabis was giddy at my work. I'm glad I could help my friend... ]] We'll live. I'm sure of it. I wonder if we're the last of humanity?

As you leave the office you see the red emergency lights still on throughout the facility. Your heavy metal boots thud against the ground as you continue to return to the lobby. [[Enter the lobby|PrometheusLobby]] (set: $Kosterwith to "false")