From bd2f5daeaffa279a5230c5e77fbee97816f19053 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: BodgeMaster <> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:01:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Work on Emily story line --- notes/people and organizations.md | 4 ++- notes/story.md | 9 ++++--- wx Who Died Today? (Emily intro).md | 8 ++++-- yx (Emily lab incident).md | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 yx (Emily lab incident).md diff --git a/notes/people and organizations.md b/notes/people and organizations.md index a6572ad..541cfe6 100644 --- a/notes/people and organizations.md +++ b/notes/people and organizations.md @@ -46,11 +46,13 @@ * dead * from moon base * scientist that almost managed to come up with a cure for the disease - * Lena + * Lena * Emily’s adult sister - 20 to 25yo * from moon base (duh) * Her spouse died just before Emily’s intro * dies like everyone else on the moon except Emily + * unnamed male crew member + * about to die in the lab incident chapter * Karl * Annie’s Grandpa * from underground city diff --git a/notes/story.md b/notes/story.md index c62aa16..e5dbdb1 100644 --- a/notes/story.md +++ b/notes/story.md @@ -133,10 +133,11 @@ * Annie, in her search for an alternative to whatever the underground city has as "coffee", obtains some drug from the electronics tinkerer. She proceeds to get high as the sky and gets herself into a dangerous situation before the others catch on to what’s happening. Jack will end up more or less forcing her back to the base and sit there watching her so she doesn’t do anything stupid. * Emily wakes up. A relative is waiting in her room, silently crying. Emily, catching on to what’s going on (and having experienced the bad news of the past how ever many weeks, months, or years), asks who died this time. Some other person, Idk. That leaves 5 alive ppl in the moon base. * Followed by a moon funeral? Idk. -* Emily gets it into her head to try the left over chemicals from Tony’s lab on herself ("Might as well, I’m gonna die anyway..."). She runs into the lab carrying a hammer, followed by the other still alive person/people. As she runs through the door, she smashes its control panel causing the door to close and lock. Then she looks around and proceeds to drink whatever is left of Tony’s experiments - to the protest of the other person/people. This is followed by pain rushing through her body and her collapsing on the ground. She still registers that the door gets broken open before drifting out of consciousness. - * She will drift in and out of consciousness a couple times. +* Emily gets it into her head to try the left over chemicals from Tony’s lab on herself ("Might as well, I’m gonna die anyway..."). She runs into the lab carrying a hammer, followed by the other still alive person/people. As she runs through the door, she smashes its control panel causing the door to close and lock. Then she looks around and proceeds to drink whatever is left of Tony’s experiments - to the protest of the other person/people. This is followed by pain rushing through her body and her collapsing on the ground. She still registers that the door gets broken open before drifting out of consciousness. + * She will drift in and out of consciousness a couple times. * getting carried through the base * vomiting in her bed * When she recovers (in a different chapter), the other alive person says something to the effect of "that should have killed you". -* The last remaining adult on the moon dies. I’m not sure if I want her to follow the procedure of properly disposing of the body in a robot-like fashion or if she just decides to close the airlock of that room (in that case, there should be some precedent for that). After that, she lies down on the floor in a central room looking out though the ceiling for who knows how long (not eating or drinking for a 6h or so). - * Something should happen that gets her to get up and realize how incredibly hungry she is - possibly an incoming call / terminal beep from Earth \ No newline at end of file +* Lena dies sitting against a boulder next to the grave of her spouse. Emily sits there with her, periodically exchanging oxygen canisters until she dies. They talk over the radio. Lena tells her that she was ultimately right to use what Tony had left behind but it is too late for her now. After she dies, Emily returns to the base and lies down on the floor in a central room looking out though the ceiling for who knows how long (not eating or drinking for like 6h or so). + * Something should happen that gets her to get up and realize how incredibly hungry she is - possibly an incoming call / terminal beep from Earth +* Emily is alone, preparing for her descent to Earth. As part of the preparations, she releases the remaining lab mice into the biosphere module (they came from there originally). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/wx Who Died Today? (Emily intro).md b/wx Who Died Today? (Emily intro).md index fa894d8..bc0767a 100644 --- a/wx Who Died Today? (Emily intro).md +++ b/wx Who Died Today? (Emily intro).md @@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ If you are just here for reading, skip past the outline. Emily wakes up. She is laying in bed, facing the large panorama window. Her eyes wander across the familiar gray moonscape outside before fixating on the half-visible Earth ball for a moment. A noise - someone is in her module. -Emily turns around to find her older sister Lena sitting against the wall with tears running down her face. After a moment to fully wake up and grasp the situation, she asks: +Emily turns around to find her older sister Lena sitting against the wall - tears running down her face. After a moment to fully wake up and grasp the situation, she asks: "Who?" Lena snivels and points to the ring on her finger. *Dictionary to the rescue! Is that the right word? ...* -A grim but not uncommon way for days to begin lately. That leaves five of them, and since Tony is gone there is no more hope for a cure. \ No newline at end of file +A grim but not uncommon way for days to begin lately. That leaves five of them, and since Tony is gone there is no more hope for a cure. + +*missing section* + +The air hisses in the lines as the door closes behind them. The noise of the vacuum pump kicks in and begins to slowly fade. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/yx (Emily lab incident).md b/yx (Emily lab incident).md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb594c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/yx (Emily lab incident).md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +If you are here for reading, skip past the outline. + +*Outline:* + +* *At this point, there are three survivors on the moon base:* + * *Emily* + * *Lena* + * *other crew member* +* *The other crew member is close to dying* +* *Begin with dialog* +* *Emily grabs a hammer and runs through the base followed by Lena* +* *She reaches the lab and smashes the control panel for the dorr while running inside causing the door to close and lock* +* *She drinks some left over chemical concoction* + * *possibly after messing with it following some instructions she finds* +* *Lena starts to break the door open, the other person just arrives there* +* *Emily’s body is filled with pain and she falls to the floor* +* *the door gets broken open just before she drifts out of consciousness* +* *she drifts in and out of consciousness* + * *getting carried down the hallway* + * *in her bed vomiting* + +"Why not?" Emily looks back and forth between them. "Tony said he had some success with his mice, why shouldn’t we try it?" +"Tony also died after..." - he is interrupted by coughing - "...after trying it on himself." +Emily thinks for a moment while looking at him on his death bed. +"Not like anything else is gonna happen to us..." +Lena shakes her head. "I don’t want to live my remaining days alone. Just don’t do it, please." +Emily gets up and wanders around the module. Her eyes fall on the drawers in the adjacent maintenance module. She has an idea... +"Emily, where are you going?" +She steps inside and rummages through a bunch of drawers, leaving them open as she opens the next one. +"What are you doing with that hammer?" +She storms off into the hallway; Lena follows her. + +As she runs into the lab, she smashes the hammer into the control panel of the door. Arcing noises, the hissing of air pressure getting released, the broken equipment alarm beeps. The door comes falling down behind her, slamming into the floor and latching with a loud click. She looks around for a moment as she catches her breath. The walls are lined with work benches and cupboards above them. In the center is an additional large workbench where Tony’s lab mice are still running around in their cage, oblivious to the situation. Emily had kept them as pets after he died. + +Banging on the door - Lena is outside. Emily walks over to the Erlenmeyer flask that’s sitting next to the sink in one of the workbenches that line the walls. She lifts it up and looks through the clear, blue liquid. Tony had written some science-y words on the flask along with "cure 5x concentrated", and closed it off with a glass stopper. Emily removes the stopper and grabs a small beaker from the drying rack on the wall above the sink. She pours some of the liquid into the beaker, sets the flask aside, and tops it off with water from the tap. Holding the beaker in her hands, she hesitates. + +Buzzing noises and clicking from the door. The latching mechanism opens. Emily’s hesitation is over, she lifts the beaker to her mouth and drinks the liquid. It has a pungent smell and burns in her throat but she downs it in two gulps. The door moves up a bit. Through the opening, she hears Lena struggling on the other side. A foot appears in the door, followed by Lena’s hands. Emily begins to feel dizzy, she sets the beaker onto the center workbench and holds on to the edge of the work surface. Lena slowly lifts the door and pushes it back into the ceiling, holding a screwdriver in her mouth. The panel covering the latching mechanism has been removed and is leaning against the wall. Emily starts to move towards the door but feels too dizzy to walk. She still sees Lena jam the screwdriver in the side of the door before her knees give out and she falls. A burning sensation spreads throughout her body as she lays on the floor. Lena starts to yell at her but she drifts out of consciousness before she can process any of the words. + +She wakes up briefly while getting carried down the hallway. The pain is unbearable. In an attempt to scream, she sighs before everything goes black again. The next time she regains consciousness is while throwing up in her bed. She gasps for air, then she drifts away again. \ No newline at end of file