whispers_observe: 'No life' conspiracy_observe: 'No life' thunder_observe: 'No life' underwater_observe: 'No life' distress_observe: 'No life' whispers_suggest: 'Re-observe' conspiracy_suggest: 'Re-observe' thunder_suggest: 'Re-observe' underwater_suggest: 'Re-observe' distress_suggest: 'Re-observe' visited_whispers: false visited_conspiracy: false visited_underwater: false visited_distress: false underwater_observe: 'Intelligent life' conspiracy_observe: 'Unintelligent life' distress_observe: 'Intelligent life' whispers_observe: 'Intelligent life' config.style.page.theme.enableSwitching: false config.style.backdrop: 'cerulean-6' config.style.page.color: 'cinnamon-3' config.style.googleFont: '<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oxanium" rel="stylesheet">' config.style.page.font: 'Oxanium' config.style.page.link.active.color: "lime-3 on lime-2" config.style.page.link.font: "underline" config.style.page.link.color: "cerulean-1" config.style.page.link.lineColor: "lime-1" config.style.link.active.font: "underline" config.style.link.active.lineColor: "lime-5" config.style.page.footer.link.color: "cerulean-1" config.style.page.footer.link.active.color: "lime-3 on lime-2" config.style.page.footer.link.font: "small caps underline" config.style.page.footer.link.lineColor: "lime-1" config.style.page.footer.link.active.lineColor: "lime-5" config.style.page.header.font: 'Oxanium 36 bold small caps' sound.effect.buttonClick1.url: 'media/buttonClick1.mp3' sound.effect.explosion.description: 'The click of a button on a radio kit' sound.effect.buttonClick2.url: 'media/buttonClick2.wav' sound.effect.explosion.description: 'The click of a button on a radio kit' sound.effect.buttonClick3.url: 'media/buttonClick3.wav' sound.effect.explosion.description: 'The click of a button on a radio kit' listenedToSiren: false config.header.center: "Briefing" config.body.transition.name: 'crossfade' -- [align center] **Welcome, Operator, to the Bureau of Observation.** [continue] {reveal link: 'Remember:', passage: 'Beginning2'}config.style.backdrop: 'cerulean-6' config.style.page.color: 'cerulean-1' config.style.googleFont: '<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oxanium" rel="stylesheet">' config.style.page.font: 'Oxanium' config.style.page.link.active.color: "lime-3 on lime-2" config.style.page.link.font: "underline" config.style.page.link.color: "cerulean-1" config.style.page.link.lineColor: "lime-1" config.style.link.active.font: "underline" config.style.link.active.lineColor: "lime-5" config.style.page.footer.link.color: "cerulean-1" config.style.page.footer.link.active.color: "lime-3 on lime-2" config.style.page.footer.link.font: "small caps underline" config.style.page.footer.link.lineColor: "lime-1" config.style.page.footer.link.active.lineColor: "lime-5" config.style.page.header.font: 'Oxanium 36 bold small caps' sound.ambient.thunder.url: 'media/thunder.mp3' sound.ambient.thunder.description: 'A thunderstorm, as if heard through a broken and poorly tuned radio.' thunder_observe: 'Intelligent life' thunder_suggest: 'Investigate' config.header.center: "Flood-planet 97" -- [continue] {sound effect: 'buttonClick1'} {ambient sound: 'thunder'} Low thunder. Time between suggests the lightning is {reveal link: '...', text: 'three miles from microphone.'} Something {reveal link: 'croaking?', text: 'croaking? You adjust your set, but it’s gone.'} And something {reveal link: 'creaking.', text: 'creaking. Like trees, when they used to grow.'} Perhaps the rain can {reveal link: 'abate?', text: 'abate? You listen, hard. The patter holds.'} **Observe:** {dropdown menu for: 'thunder_observe', choices: ['Intelligent life', 'Unintelligent life', 'No life']} **Suggest:** {dropdown menu for: 'thunder_suggest', choices: ['Investigate', 'Abandon', 'Re-observe']} *** [if random.coinFlip] Switch [[frequency->underwater]]. [else; append] Switch [[frequency->whispers]].sound.ambient.underwater.url: 'media/underwater.mp3' sound.ambient.underwater.description: 'Underwater ambience.' visited_underwater: true underwater_observe: 'Intelligent life' underwater_suggest: 'Investigate' config.header.center: "Asmer 31" config.body.transition.name: 'none' -- {no ambient sound} {sound effect: 'buttonClick2'} {ambient sound: 'underwater'} A Re-observe case. The previous Observer scribbled *Something in depths?* You don’t recognise their name. Muffled water crackles through the static. But something low hums [[beneath->underwater1]]. **Observe:** {dropdown menu for: 'underwater_observe', choices: ['Intelligent life', 'Unintelligent life', 'No life']} **Suggest:** {dropdown menu for: 'underwater_suggest', choices: ['Investigate', 'Abandon', 'Re-observe']} *** [if random.coinFlip] [[Move on.->distress]] [else] [[Move on.->conspiracy]]sound.ambient.distress.url: 'media/distress.mp3' sound.ambient.distress.description: 'Desert ambience.' visited_distress: true distress_observe: 'Intelligent life' distress_suggest: 'Investigate' config.header.center: "Settlement 7" -- {no ambient sound} {sound effect: 'buttonClick3'} {ambient sound: 'distress'} A snatch of a voice. Drowned by howling winds, and layers of cosmic interference. ‘{cycling link for: 'distressCall', choices: ['-more tha-', '-Bureau lef-', '-bandon-', 'Mayday, ma-']}’ **Observe:** {dropdown menu for: 'distress_observe', choices: ['Intelligent life', 'Unintelligent life', 'No life']} **Suggest:** {dropdown menu for: 'distress_suggest', choices: ['Investigate', 'Abandon', 'Re-observe']} *** [[Finish for today.->final]]You are the first line of defence against wasted resources. Every observed frequency saves a manned mission; every planet could be our new home. Work through assigned frequencies on the {reveal link: 'radio.', passage: 'Beginning4'} config.style.page.theme.enableSwitching: false config.style.backdrop: 'cerulean-6' config.style.page.color: 'cinnamon-3' config.style.googleFont: '<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oxanium" rel="stylesheet">' config.style.page.font: 'Oxanium' config.style.page.link.active.color: "lime-3 on lime-2" config.style.page.link.font: "underline" config.style.page.link.color: "cerulean-1" config.style.page.link.lineColor: "lime-1" config.style.link.active.font: "underline" config.style.link.active.lineColor: "lime-5" config.style.page.footer.link.color: "cerulean-1" config.style.page.footer.link.active.color: "lime-3 on lime-2" config.style.page.footer.link.font: "small caps underline" config.style.page.footer.link.lineColor: "lime-1" config.style.page.footer.link.active.lineColor: "lime-5" config.style.page.header.font: 'Oxanium 36 bold small caps' -- Remember: *You Listen, So We Can Learn*. {reveal link: 'You.', passage: 'Beginning3'}listenedToSiren: true config.body.transition.name: 'crossfade' -- A Re-observe case. The previous Observer scribbled *Something in depths?* You don’t recognise their name. Muffled water sounds crackle over the radio. The thought comes unprovoked: *remember {reveal link: 'the sun', text: 'sun’s rays cut glasslike sharp through'}, {reveal link: 'sea skin', text: 'see skin so paleshimmer'}, your {reveal link: 'breath held underneath.', text: 'world breathed.'}* You touch your nose: a drop of blood. **Observe:** {dropdown menu for: 'underwater_observe', choices: ['No life']} **Suggest:** {dropdown menu for: 'underwater_suggest', choices: ['Abandon']} *** [if random.coinFlip] [[Move on.->distress]] [else] [[Move on.->conspiracy]]*~~{reveal link: '–WAIT–', passage: 'whispers2'}~~* [if random.coinFlip; append] [[change frequencies->distress]] [else; append] [[change frequencies->conspiracy]] _isOptimistic: false _isOptimistic: thunder_suggest === 'Investigate' _isOptimistic: thunder_suggest === 'Re-observe' _defectorssettlementSent: conspiracy_suggest === 'Investigate' && visited_conspiracy _monsterEatsColonists: whispers_suggest === 'Investigate' && visited_whispers _reportedMonster: whispers_suggest === 'Abandon' && visited_whispers _reportedDistress: distress_suggest === 'Investigate' && visited_distress _abandonedDistress: false _abandonedDistress: distress_suggest === 'Abandon' && visited_distress _markedDistressAsUnintelligent: false _markedDistressAsUnintelligent: distress_observe === 'Unintelligent Life' && visited_distress _markedDistressAsUnintelligent: distress_observe === 'No Life' && visited_distress _fullMarks: thunder_observe === 'No life' && underwater_observe === 'Intelligent life' && conspiracy_observe === 'Unintelligent life' && distress_observe === 'Intelligent life' && whispers_observe === 'Intelligent life' -- {no ambient sound} [if _isOptimistic] * Sometimes unnecessarily optimistic. Flag for {thunder_suggest} only when certain life present. [if listenedToSiren] * System scans indicate Observer’s report on Asmer 31 inaccurate: life signs detected. Observer hostile to this report. Psych eval requested. [if _monsterEatsColonists] * Suggested new settlement location in dark sector. Nearby mission rerouted to investigate. [if _reportedMonster] * Discovered hostiles in dark sector. Nearby mission rerouted. [if _defectorssettlementSent] * Reported unauthorised, abandoned settlement. Will be repurposed to priority 1 settlement. Reward: evac wait reduced from 6 years, 3 months, to 6 years, 1 month. [if _reportedDistress] * Noted mission distress signal. Rescue pending, awaiting resources. ETA: two months. [if _markedDistressAsUnintelligent] * Concern over cognition: marked distress signal as {distress_observe}. Team now deceased. [if _fullMarks] * 100% accuracy in observation reports. [if !_fullMarks] * Errors in observation reports. Ensure this does not happen again. [continue] Meeting concluded {now.timestamp}. {restart link, label: 'Start again.'}*listen. not all dead, not all, not yet, so suck marrow and make anew, bring here, to us, with us, together. then *radio. You must: * **Observe.** * **Record** whether there is life, intelligent or unintelligent, or none. * **Suggest** if Bureau should investigate, abandon, or re-observe later. Then, switch frequencies. Be thorough, but swift. Our evac time window grows short. [[Tune in.]]visited_whispers: true sound.ambient.whispers.url: 'media/whispers.mp3' sound.ambient.whispers.description: 'Underwater ambience.' whispers_observe: 'Intelligent life' whispers_suggest: 'Investigate' config.header.center: "Wasteland 433" -- {no ambient sound} {sound effect: 'buttonClick2'} {ambient sound: 'whispers'} Whispers. You adjust the static filters, increase volume. ~~*{cycling link for: 'whispersCall1', choices: ['–smell fear', '–seeks haven']}, {cycling link for: 'whispersCall2', choices: ['cannot run', 'all crumble']}, {cycling link for: 'whispersCall3', choices: ['churn in skins–', 'outrun the light–']}*~~ **Observe:** {dropdown menu for: 'whispers_observe', choices: ['Intelligent life', 'Unintelligent life', 'No life']} **Suggest:** {dropdown menu for: 'whispers_suggest', choices: ['Investigate', 'Abandon', 'Re-observe']} *** It’s a dark sector. You should {reveal link: 'change frequencies', passage: 'whispers1'}.sound.ambient.conspiracy.url: 'media/desert.mp3' sound.ambient.conspiracy.description: 'The sound of bird song audible through teeth-grinding radio static.' visited_conspiracy: true conspiracy_observe: 'Intelligent life' conspiracy_suggest: 'Investigate' config.header.center: "Unidentified 8763" -- {no ambient sound} {sound effect: 'buttonClick3'} {ambient sound: 'conspiracy'} You first think it’s cosmic static, but then you realise it’s birdsong. A tinny autocast cuts through it. ‘If you’re hearing this, we didn’t make it.’ {reveal link: 'A hacking cough.', text: '‘Pandemic. But sure beats slow heat death.’ You can hear the smirk.'} {reveal link: 'Then reminiscences.', text: 'Memories of children, born and passed.'} {reveal link: 'And then a lull.', text: 'And then a lull. ‘Hope some Bureau scum finds this. Hope they know we escaped, found one. We got there *first*.’'} **Observe:** {dropdown menu for: 'conspiracy_observe', choices: ['Intelligent life', 'Unintelligent life', 'No life']} **Suggest:** {dropdown menu for: 'conspiracy_suggest', choices: ['Investigate', 'Abandon', 'Re-observe']} *** [[Finish for today.->final]]config.header.center: "Probation Review" config.style.page.color: 'cinnamon-3' -- {no ambient sound} Your probation meeting is due. Accuracy of latest reports will be double-checked. [[Attend probation.->probation]]config.style.page.theme.enableSwitching: false config.style.backdrop: 'cerulean-6' config.style.page.color: 'cerulean-1' config.style.googleFont: '<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oxanium" rel="stylesheet">' config.style.page.font: 'Oxanium' config.style.page.link.active.color: "lime-3 on lime-2" config.style.page.link.font: "underline" config.style.page.link.color: "cerulean-1" config.style.page.link.lineColor: "lime-1" config.style.link.active.font: "underline" config.style.link.active.lineColor: "lime-5" config.style.page.footer.link.color: "cerulean-1" config.style.page.footer.link.active.color: "lime-3 on lime-2" config.style.page.footer.link.font: "small caps underline" config.style.page.footer.link.lineColor: "lime-1" config.style.page.footer.link.active.lineColor: "lime-5" config.style.page.header.font: 'Oxanium 36 bold small caps' -- [align center] *Note: this game plays audio in various places.* *Font not displaying as Oxanium? Try pressing 'Restart' on the menu below.* [[Begin->Beginning]] [[Credits]][[Back to menu->Menu]] ~~**Images**~~ - Radio #1 – [[Pixabay->https://www.pexels.com/photo/turned-on-am-radio-302871/]] - Radio #2 – [[Hülya Ermiş Belek->https://www.pexels.com/photo/vintage-radio-being-used-at-home-interior-29306694/]] - Night sky – [[Umkreisel->https://www.pexels.com/photo/blue-universe-956981/]] - TV Static – [[Ron Lach->https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-inserting-a-videotape-into-the-video-player-...]] ~~**Audio files**~~ **Desert** - [[desert_aviary02.wav by soundbytez->https://freesound.org/s/104483/]] -- License: Attribution 3.0 - [[Shortwave radio FX001 by knasterask1->https://freesound.org/s/717474/]] -- License: Creative Commons 0 - [[Radio Windy Noise.aif by beskhu->https://freesound.org/s/70616/]] License: Attribution 4.0 - [[AMBDsrt_a calm desert morning part 1_TK_SASSMKH820 by tim.kahn->https://freesound.org/s/689235/]] -- License: Attribution 4.0 **Underwater:** - [[Life underwater at Mamori.wav by laurent->https://freesound.org/s/164070/]] -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 - [[underwater wailing by CuddleNucks->https://freesound.org/s/417134/]] -- License: Attribution 3.0 - [[bizarre-radio-noise.AIF by alienistcog->https://freesound.org/s/123708/]] -- License: Creative Commons 0 - [[radio band.wav by Paper Jam->https://freesound.org/s/78391/]] -- License: Attribution 3.0 **Whispers:** - [[Radio Chatter Soundscape by Speedenza->https://freesound.org/s/208436/]] -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 - [[tube_radio_shortwave_longwave_noise_interference_sideband_chatter.wav by Maestro_Himself->https://freesound.org/s/581266/]] -- License: Creative Commons 0 - [[Kitchen_Tuning AM Radio.mp3 by CGEffex->https://freesound.org/s/89594/]] -- License: Attribution 4.0 - [[SR001MS-Hazardous-Weather-Forecast-Today by audiomirage->https://freesound.org/s/790829/]] -- License: Attribution 4.0 **Thunder:** - [[Thunder Storm Ambience.wav by Rehanjo->https://freesound.org/s/593620/]] -- License: Creative Commons 0 - [[Oberon_Radio_MW_LW_UKW_Noises.wav by videofueralle->https://freesound.org/s/609750/]] -- License: Creative Commons 0 - [[SR001MS-Hazardous-Weather-Forecast-Today by audiomirage->https://freesound.org/s/790829/]] -- License: Attribution 4.0 **Distress:** - [[18163.00 kHz USB HAM.flac by Trebblofang->https://freesound.org/s/241633/]] -- License: Creative Commons 0 - [[smul 61 moon storm.wav by ERH->https://freesound.org/s/46878/]] -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 - [[Storm Beep Fantasy Wind 200731_0025_01.wav by szegvari->https://freesound.org/s/529429/]] -- License: Creative Commons 0 ~~**Font**~~ [[Oxanium (Google Fonts)->https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oxanium]] Made using Chapbook in Twine 2. 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