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<h1> Wake Up! </h1>
<p>
<span class="speech">Ahh fuck!</span> Jack exclaims in pain as he wakes
up. He has a terrible headache. As he moves his hands up to hold his
head, he realizes that his entire body hurts.<br />
<span class="speech">Owwowwowwowwoww... Ouch!</span><br />
<span class="speech">Emergency defrost complete. Entering low power
mode.</span>
announces an automated voice. <br />
He thinks to himself: <span class="thought">Get it together, Jack! You
knew this was gonna happen. You have trained for this. Where are the
meds again? ...</span>
</p>
<p>
Waiting for the painkillers to kick in, Jack stays in his preservation
chamber until he is fully awake. As he stands there, he looks out of the
small window in the door. The bunker looks different from yesterday -
not yesterday! That was how ever many years ago... Besides the point.
It looks different. Not just &quot;things have moved around&quot;
different, it looks almost like a lost place. Unexpected but
whatever...
</p>
<p>
The pressurized air hisses in the lines as the door of the preservation
chamber swings aside. Jack steps out into the bunker, breathes the musty
air, and looks around. The light shining out of his chamber reveals the
dirty floor. The table and chairs in front of him, as well as the kitchen
across the room, are covered in dust and all exposed bits of metal have
rust. The red night lights on the ceiling are dimly illuminating the rest
of the bunker. He looks to the left: The wall is lined with other
preservation chambers, all except one of them being powered down. In
front of the back wall are desks holding a radio, a terminal, and some
boxes. To the left of the desks in the corner is a minicomputer in a
half-height rack and a teleprinter, and above it a phone on the wall
&ndash; the usual Neotek equipment. He looks to the right: More
preservation chambers. Instead of a wall, there&apos;s the bunker door
&ndash; door is a bit of an understatement, it&apos;s a massive gate.
A small slither of light passes under it. <span class="thought">These
fucking idiots... They didn&apos;t reseal it properly.</span>
<span class="comment">not sure if this is speech or a thought or both
</span>
</p>
<p>
He walks over to the door&apos;s control panel. The paint is flaking off
revealing the rust underneath. Jack attempts to press a couple buttons
but they get stuck and nothing happens. <span class="speech">Fuck.</span>
He turns back to the inside of the bunker looking for tools,
contemplating the tradeoff between waking up a couple years too soon and
getting slowly poisoned by the air, and being locked inside a bunker due
to a bunch of apparent troglodytes who are unable to close a door
properly... Doesn&apos;t matter, too late now.
</p>
<p>
As he passes each of the presevation chambers, he looks into them. Empty,
empty, empty - nothing unexpected here. His own chamber... He presses a
few buttons to fully shut it down. The lamp in the ceiling turns off,
the door closes, the status lights turn off. After passing two other
empty preservaton chambers, he reaches the one that remains active.<br />
<span class="speech">Hello Michelle.</span><br />
He checks the status lights of her chamber.<br />
<span class="speech">I think I&apos;m gonna leave you in there until I
find a way out of here. Should be fine...</span><br />
He continues past the remaining empty chambers to the back of the bunker.
</p>
<p class="comment">
Jack opens the boxes on the desks looking for tools. He also rummages
through the cabinets and drawers in the kitchen area.
After finding some object that he could use as a screwdriver, he returns
to the door, taking off the control panel. He realizes that he has no
idea what he's doing so he attempts (and fails) to get the manual from
the computer.
</p>
<p>
The phone lifts off the wall with a quiet click and Jack begins to dial.
He holds the receiver to his ear - silence. Welp, another thing that
isn&apos;t working. He puts it back on the wall while turning to the
terminal.
</p>
<p>
Bonk! At least this seems to work. While waiting for the picture tube to
warm up, he opens the lid on the teleprinter - only to find that
something has eaten most of the paper. He removes what remains and opens
one of the cabinets under the desks. By some miracle, the animal that ate
the paper on the printer didn&apos;t find the rest. He takes a piece of
the stack and tears it off. Then, he sets it on top of the desk with a
thump. <span class="comment">need translation for &quot;Staub
aufwirbeln&quot;</span>
</p>
<p>
The terminal screen reaches full brightness as Jack feeds the paper into
the printer. He makes sure the holes on the feed ribbons line up with the
mechanism, then he turns back to the terminal and begins to type.
</p>
<pre class="terminal">
Tue, 2106-06-01, 15:21
EARTH-53 Login: jack
Password:
Welcome to INUX!
$ ls
$ pwd
/home/jack
$ cd /var/log
$ ls -F
cron/ outpost/ dmesg.log wtmp
$ cd outpost
$ ls -F
comms comms_diag/ event logbook
$ cat logbook &gt; /dev/ttyS1
$ &#9608;
</pre>
<p>
The printer comes to life and starts printing.
</p>
<pre class="paper">
2000-01-01 Automated Announcement:
Happy New Year 2000!
//TODO: ASCII art of above line with fireworks
The outpost diagnostics suite reports no critical problems at any of
our outposts. The Lunar Biosphere has, so far, not needed assistance
from any of the outposts.
Good work, everyone!
The Future Is Bright.
2002-08-15 Lunar Biosphere:
Crew wakeup command
Message:
//TODO
//TODO: more log messages left by people
</pre>
<p class="comment">
Outline of missing section:
</p>
<ul>
<li class="comment">
Jack goes to the back taking a look at the printer
<ul>
<li class="comment">
the printer shows a log with contents along the lines of this:
<ul>
<li class="comment">
2000 - Happy new year Y2K
</li>
<li class="comment">
2002 - incoming ground crew wake up command
<ul>
<li class="comment">
5 personnel got woken up
</li>
<li class="comment">
message warning of the still very contaminated atmosphere
</li>
<li class="comment">
they all die within the year
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="comment">
2033 - incoming ground crew wake up command
<ul>
<li class="comment">
3 personnel got woken up, one died in an accident, 2 more
got woken up
</li>
<li class="comment">
another message warning of the atmosphere
</li>
<li class="comment">
they all die within 5 to 10 years
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="comment">
2059 - critical failure: link to moon lost
<ul>
<li class="comment">
maybe some automatic diagnostics
</li>
<li class="comment">
the computer concludes it&apos;s a problem on their end,
no need to wake up anyone, just wait until the link is
established again
</li>
</ul>
<li class="comment">
2100 - Happy new year 2100
</li>
<li class="comment">
Tue, 2106-06-01 10:27 AM - critical failure imminent in
Jack&apos;s preservation chamber
<ul>
<li class="comment">
emergency wakeup
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="comment">
Jack checks on the food and clothes and that the kitchen and bathroom
are in working order and that he really has no tools and manuals
<ul>
<li class="comment">
he could find things that he could turn into tools but that ofc
doesn&apos;t solve his problem if he doesn&apos;t have a manual
for fixing the door
</li>
<ul>
</li>
<li class="comment">
phone is broken
</li>
<li class="comment">
computer and terminal work still
<ul>
<li class="comment">
maybe need explanation as to why - at least something like
&quot;Jack is surprised&quot;
</li>
<li class="comment">
when trying to power on the additional hard drive that&apos;s
supposed to contain all sorts of data - including manuals - he
finds it corrupted or damaged
</li>
</ul>
<li class="comment">
Jack tries to dial into a bunch of known modems, finally succeeding
when reaching AgriWorks
<ul>
<li class="comment">
&quot;They changed the host name... I wonder if this is still the
same computer. Lemme try my login... Yup, it is.&quot;
</li>
<li class="comment">
Neotek Dynamics, and more specifically Jack himself, was somehow
involved in setting that up
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="comment">
Annie conversation (duh)
</li>
<li class="comment">
something? Idk
</li>
</ul>
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