Board the Atalanta

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/c5941e47d8c21a9.gif"width="800" height="450"> The research vessle Atalanta coasts through space. At the moment all seems peaceful aboard. [[Deep in the belly of the ship]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/818df26692950c0.png"width="500" height="250"> I guess you can keep reading a bit more. This section has something to do with golden apples and foot races. While interesting, this is not really effecting your situation. [[Read some more]] [[Continue waiting]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/816a4d40d4ac896.png"width="700" height="350"> You are currently deep in the belly of the ship, proforming routine maintenance on one of the control pannels. Suddenly, a loud noise interupts your thought process! What the heck is that? [[Beep Beep Beep]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/8aa928463c9bca4.gif"width="250" height="250"> Beep! Beep! Beep! Well, thats definitely an alarm going off but for the life of you, you can't exactly remember what this particular one means. You probably should have been paying closer attention when you were reading the ships manual. It feels important though... [[You should try to figure out whats going on]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/816a4d40d4ac896.png"width="700" height="350"> Well, off the top of your head you can think of a couple different ways to approch this. You could go find the Captain to notify her of this new development, you could go see if someone in the library can help, or you could go to your room and see if you can find your old manual. [[Go find the Captain]] [[Go to the library]] [[Go to your room]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/67713a79d2c7db0.png"width="700" height="350"> You quickly make your way up to the bridge, thats usually where the Captain can be found at short notice. [[Captain?]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/89b630671e8365d.png"width="700" height="350"> You quickly make your way to your room [[Hello?]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/31faa53588bb713.png"width="700" height="350"> You quickly make your way to your room. Honestly, it's not much to look at, ships like this typically have pretty thorough rules on room decoration. [[Check bookshelf for the manual]] [[Admire your room]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/uamzq2a.png"width="700" height="350"> Oh, it's just Steve in here right now. Not that you have anything against Steve, it's just he has a tendency to be of absolutly no help. [["Have you seen the Captain?"]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/7b3574581d6c144.png"width="150" height="200"> Oh! There it is! You're lucky you don't keep too many books in here. [[Open it]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/31faa53588bb713.png"width="700" height="350"> Oh my! Aren't you easily distracted! There really isn't that much to look at. Your only real decorations are your picture of your friend, Mags, on your bookshelf and your poster for the mathematical band, The Statistical Anomalies. Shall we get back to the task at hand? [[Check bookshelf for the manual]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/ah6ux3x.png"width="700" height="350"> Oh good, it's Clark. They're always helpful whenever you come to them with questions. [["Clark, somethings wrong! I was downstairs and these giant red lights started flashing and an alarm is going off! I'm not sure what it means or what to do!]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/ah6ux3x.png"width="700" height="350"> Clark nods once, gestures for you to wait right there, and moves deeper into the library, clearly looking for something. Clark is never much for talking [[Wait]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/89b630671e8365d.png"width="700" height="350"> Huh... it seems like Clark might be a minute. Care to look around? [[Continue waiting]] [[Pick up a book]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/89b630671e8365d.png"width="700" height="350"> Oh, ok then. I guess you'll just stand here and wait [[Wait some more]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/694de0b732f17f1.png"width="500" height="250"> You open the book thats next to you. After scanning a pages you learn a bit about the myth of Atalanta, a greek heroine, who was know for her fighting skills. As interesting as the myth is I don't know how useful it will be. [[Keep reading]] [[Continue waiting]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/818df26692950c0.png"width="500" height="250"> Well alrighty then, this section is about Atalanta and the Argonauts and the differecnes between versions of the myth where she journied with them and the ones where she wasn't allowed on the boat because she was woman. Oh look, Clark is back [["Hey"]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/ah6ux3x.png"width="700" height="350"> Clark gives you a huge stack of papers with a post-it note on top that says "Give to Lampy" Oh, ok. I guess Lampy can fix whatever the issue is. [["Do you know where Lampy is?"]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/89b630671e8365d.png"width="700" height="350"> Waiting makes you nervous, you have no way of knowing how time sensative the alarm was. Oh look, Clark is back. [["Hey"]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/7b3574581d6c144.png"width="150" height="200"> Well now you're presented with the issue of trying to find where in this huge manual you should be looking. A couple options from the table of contents catch your eye. [[Internal Gas Compositions and Regulations- 94]] [[Wired Workings and Maintaining a Functional Ship- 186]] [[Joke in Case of Emergency- 229]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/818df26692950c0.png"width="500" height="250"> What luck! You just so happened to find the exact right passage. Technically, you don't understand most of what it says, because chemistry has never been your strongest subject, but you know who to ask for help. Justine is the ship's resident chemist and you can probably find her in the library, doing some research. [[To the Library]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/818df26692950c0.png"width="500" height="250"> What luck! You picked the perfect passage for this. It contains detailed instructions on how what is going on (some science stuff you don't fully understand) and more importantly how to fix it. Apparently there's a specific pannel for this type of thing. [[Well, let's go!]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/694de0b732f17f1.png"width="500" height="250"> "Why didn’t the Dog Star laugh at the joke? It was too Sirius..." Well that definitely helped make you less stressed. Now you can focus more on finding a solution [[Internal Gas Compositions and Regulations- 94]] [[Wired Workings and Maintaining a Functional Ship- 186]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/ah6ux3x.png"width="700" height="350"> You quickly spot Clark upon entering the library. [["Have you seen Justine?"]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/ah6ux3x.png"width="700" height="350"> Clark nodds in a direction and you take off again. [["Thanks"]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/JEKseOj.png"width="700" height="350"> Justine looks up at you as you approach, at least you think she looks up. You two have never quite gotten along and you've never quite figured out where her eyes are. She quickly covers up whatever she was researching. That's kinda weird... [[Show the manual and explain the situation]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/JEKseOj.png"width="700" height="350"> Justine makes a face you can't understand but motions for you to follow her. [[Oh... okay]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/3ymnrrd.png"width="700" height="350"> Justine leads you down a whole bunch of hallways, moving so quickly that you nearly have to jog to keep up. She stops in front of a airlock, and motions for you to wait while she does something. You keep skimming through the manual, trying to figure out what she might be doing here. [[Wait a second...]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/7cbb864e3201207.png"width="300" height="300"> You might not be able to fully understand the passage, but you're pretty sure that the things that it is describing don't happen by accident and that it would take someone with a good knowledge of chemistry to make it happen. [["Justine...?"]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/7cbb864e3201207.png"width="300" height="300"> Opps... it might be a little late to run as Justine shoves you through the inner door of the air lock and closes the door behind you. [[Pound on the door]] [[Beg]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/7cbb864e3201207.png"width="300" height="300"> You hear a soft humming noise from the other side of the door as you bang on it as hard as you can. Followed by a few short beeps and the sound of the outer door of the airlock opening behind you. [[Guess you're going to foat off into space now]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/7cbb864e3201207.png"width="300" height="300"> You hear a soft humming noise from the other side of the door as you plead with Justine to let you out. Followed by a few short beeps and the sound of the outer door of the airlock opening behind you. [[Guess you're going to foat off into space now]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/971c5f119402218.gif"width="800" height="450"> Well... there isn't much you can do about that

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/816a4d40d4ac896.png"width="700" height="350"> It's honestly less hard than you thought it would be to find the specific pannel. The manual contains a rather helpful diagram. [[Here you are!]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/458008ea27d80a4.png"width="150" height="200"> Ok, so now might be the time to mention that you got this manual second hand and while it tells to cut a wire, the previous owner kinda skribbled over the section that tells you which one. Well, you've always been a lucky person, might as well pick one. [[Red]] [[Blue]] [[Green]] [[Yellow]]

Wait! I was joking! Opps... too late I guess your weren't that lucky afterall. The ship explodes with everyone on it.

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/af510388495af6f.png"width="150" height="200"> Well, nothing happens when you cut it. You can only assume that is a good thing and the disaster has been prevented. Good job!

Wait! I was joking! Opps... too late I guess your weren't that lucky afterall. The ship explodes with everyone on it.

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/ah6ux3x.png"width="700" height="350"> Clark points in the general direction of the bridge. [[Better make your way up there]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/67713a79d2c7db0.png"width="700" height="350"> You arrive at the bridge at look around. It's a little busy and you don't immediately see Lampy. [["Lampy?"]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/qBfkrj7.png"width="700" height="350"> Oh, there's Lampy. Of course. Lampy hovers in front of you and you think they're looking at you expectantly."What's up?" They spell out the question through morse code by turning on and off again repeatedly. [[Explain the Situation]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/qBfkrj7.png"width="700" height="350"> A series of long and short flashes communicate that Lampy understands and they take the stack of papers from you. Wait, how did they do that? They don't have hands. Anyway, you're pretty sure they have it handled and you make your way back downstairs. [[Alrightly then]]

<img src="https://art.pixilart.com/816a4d40d4ac896.png"width="700" height="350"> By the time you get back downstairs, the alarm is off and you can get back to work.

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/uamzq2a.png"width="700" height="350"> "Huh? Oh yeah, she should be back in a few minutes. Lampy isn't here either, so I was left in charge." Oh, that's might explain why things are falling apart. [["You wouldn't happen to know what it means when the red alarm downstairs starts going off?"]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/uamzq2a.png"width="700" height="350"> "No? Should I? Is it going off?" Your assessment of him being absolutly no help was entirely accurate. Well, there are options. You can either wait for the Captain to come back or you and Steve can try to figure out what went wrong. [[Wait for Captain]] [[Try to figure it out]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/uamzq2a.png"width="700" height="350"> Honestly, your experiance with being in control of the ship is next to nothing but you should give it a shot anyway. You start by examining some of the displays, asking Steve for confirmations on what certain this mean as you go. It doesn't take you too long before you find the issue in one of the maps. The loaming absences that indicate a black hole. [[Well, turn the ship]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/uamzq2a.png"width="700" height="350"> You don't know much about being in charge of the ship, so it's probably better you don't go messing around with things you don't understand. The best thing you could do at the moment is keep Steve calm. [["You wanna here a joke?"]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/uamzq2a.png"width="700" height="350"> "How do space cowboys wrangle their cattle? A tractor beam." Steve laughs a little more than he probably should, but he does seem calmer [[Oh, here's the Captain]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/uamzq2a.png"width="700" height="350"> She raises an eyebrow at the both of you. You explain the situation to her and she blanches slightly. "The red one?" [["Yes?"]]

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/bVBgPYW.png"width="700" height="350"> The Captain sets to work immediately, muttering something about steering us right into a black hole and planning on never leaving the bridge again, before giving you a small nod of dismissal. I guess the crisis is averted.

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/uamzq2a.png"width="700" height="350"> You and Steve manage to plot a new course that will keep you away from the black hole, which is easier than you thought it would be. It is definatly a good thing you noticed however, because Steve hadn't been paying enough attention and a couple more minutes and it may have been too late. Good job!