Putting Your Ear To The Door Of The Abyss
:connectionEstablished Log: 9:38:21 (09/12/0564) “Stay focused, do not let your mind wander.” Words repeated over hold loudspeakers as Shuttle D approached the POI. 10 fireteam members aboard. Second Lieutenant Henri in command of the excursion. Goal: secure area and rescue previous fireteams.
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Log: 9:38:21 (09/12/0564) “Stay focused, do not let your mind wander.” Words repeated over hold loudspeakers as Shuttle D approached the POI. 10 fireteam members aboard. Second Lieutenant Henri in command of the excursion. Goal: secure area and rescue previous fireteams.
Log: 9:41:00 (09/12/0564) “Stay focused, do not let your mind wander.” Messages to be played over hold loudspeakers to discourage degeneration of crew sanity while approaching object. “Looks like a fuggin black hole or something” - Private Sato.
Log: 9:42:13 (09/12/0564) “Stay focused, do not let your mind wander.” Crew has dismounted from shuttle. Portable reporting computer brought along. Crew approaching object on foot.
Log: 9:42:45 (09/12/0564) “Stay focused, do not let your mind wander.” Rueben has been repeating the message to the crew over comms. Portable computer losing external reception. Crew reports nausea
Log: 11:54:16 (09/12/0564) “This is Second Lieutenant Henri entering manual log. The computer’s glitching out or something. It says we’ve been here for over 2 hours yet we only landed 5 minutes ago. This place is weird”
Log: 6:19:37 (09/13/0564) “Something’s wrong. Private Sato isn’t moving. He won’t respond to verbal or physical commands. I’m leaving two others here with him. Wait what? The computer reports tomorrow’s date.”
Log: 4:20:30 (09/17/0564) “I feel sick, the whole crew do-zzzshhh we can’t keep moving forward. I’m zzzshhh-ing us to return to the ship”
Log: 9:23:00 (11/03/0564) “I swear this was the direction we came”
Log: 3:56:59 (2/25/0567) “Emergency status. All crew me-zzzshhh have stopped responding. Repeat. We now have 7 unresponsive and 2 unreachable zzzshhh unable to return. I’m going further inwards”
Log: 7:21:33 (5/01/0568) “I’m just outside the edge of the area of operations. The pressure is almost knocking me over but my suit reads no wind. What the hell”
Log: 10:21:40 (10/13/0569) “I can see the center. Some sort of eye to this storm”
Log: 2:46:32 (6/7/0571) “Y O U W E R E F O O L S T O C O M E H E R E”
Log: NULL:NULL:NULL (NULL/NULL/NULL) “Computer, locate position” position does not exist. “where the hell am I?”
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“Hello? Anyone? I might as well log what I see. There’s a liquid floor, maybe 2 inches deep. It looks and feels like alcohol” I can see yet there’s no light source. This whole area extends for longer than my radar can read.”
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“The computer doesn’t even report a time?! I see no evidence of the crew, past or present. This place feels wrong. I don’t like it here”
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“I’ve been here for weeks. I’m going insane”
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“I didn’t think I’d die like this. Endlessly facing down the void”
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“It’s just me and the edge now.”
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“It’s quite serene”
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“There’s a noise. Some sort of wailing. It’s getting louder every year”
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“This place isn’t meant for mortals. I’m not supposed to be here I’m not supposed to be here”
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“The cosmos speaks to me. It is unhappy. It cries. I haven’t eaten in decades, but I’m not hungry. My suit registers a volume of 230db, but all I hear is soft weeping”
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“I belong to the abyss now”
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