[VR] Space Colony V2

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THE SETTING:
The Colony Ship Morpheus is on year 139 of it’s 450 year journey from Earth to Terra Prime, a colony world intended to be the first of the Galactic Empire of Mankind. You are the lucky colonists, chosen because you have unique skills and training that will be useful on the fledgeling colony. You have been placed in cryostasis for the duration of the journey. You are to awaken on the last year of the journey to begin preparations for landing on Terra Prime, your new home.

However something has gone wrong. For an unknown reason, the ship's systems have woken up the occupants of a single statis bloc: You. Now it's a race against time, with no weapons, limited food and medical supplies, and a constant ticking clock to figure out what woke you up and get back to your pods before something terrible happens.

THE STORY SO FAR:

• There was a chorus of air filling vacuum chambers as cryo pods in pod room C-31 began opening
• The open pods blinked with an error code. ERROR 997C
• Several pods near the door appeared to be completely missing.The cables remained.
• The group headed out into the hall to check on other other pod rooms, finding three room’s pods intact while the other pod room, the one to their right, appeared to be completely empty.
• After checking out the other pod rooms the group made their way down the hallway to what appeared to be an elevator.Inside the elevator there were several options to choose from, including the Command Bridge, Storage, Lounge, and Staff Quarters. Attempting to choose the COmmand Bridge returned an error that indicated that option was locked.
• Most of the group took the Elevator to the Lounge, with a few remaining in the hallway on C-level.
• Once inside the Lounge they found a fully stocked kitchen, except a single paring knife appeared to be missing.
  
• Investigating one of the private rooms off of the Lounge area revealed a single loose bolt, with tool marks indicating it was not removed using the proper tools. A closer inspection showed that it likely came from a vent in the ceiling
• With a little assistance from the others Nicci was boosted up to look in the vent, seeing unknown dark spots
• The group gathered in the Lounge to discuss their priorities and determine who had high enough clearances to possibly access other portions of the ship. Jude, being a governor’s son, and Francis, a councilman, seemed to have the highest level of clearance in the group
• Francis’ clearance allowed access to the Command Bridge via the elevator
• It was discovered that each person had a color indicating their clearance level on the back of their badge. Red was the lowest and Violet was the highest, using the rainbow as the scale
• In some of the manuals on the bridge Nicci found the description of what their error code means: Error 997c: Failed Individual Pod Isolation. Pod Room Isolation Initiated. Apparently someone attempted to disconnect an individual pod and because it was improperly done, the whole room was opened up. Timestamps on the monitors indicated it was 14 hours prior to the group waking.

• A large portion of the group split off to check the Staff Quarters with Jude, finding it divided into three main areas. Security, Engineering, and High Security Personnel.
  
  
• Meanwhile those still on the bridge noticed that a fire alarm had started going off in the Lounge. An area they believed everyone had left. The automated sprinkler system appeared to be offline.
  
  
• The group in the Staff Quarters split up, with Oliver and Theo going to the Lounge to check on the fire. They found a couch set ablaze. The fire extinguisher was missing.
  
  
• While dealing with the fire in the Lounge Oliver disappeared. Theo heard scratching noises in one of the private rooms and found the vent cover torn off and on the floor. Theo left to head back to the elevator.
  
  
• Back on the bridge Shiro discovered that the vent system is connected throughout the ship
  
  
• The group checking the High Security Personnel area in the Staff Quarters found all the crew pods empty
  
  
• Theo and Scottie went back to the Lounge to investigate Oliver’s disappearance
  
  
• Jude found out that the crew pods were opened about 150 years previous for routine crew duties.
  
  
• Another alert appeared, this time in the storage area. Meanwhile Honua managed to have the vents closed off
  
  
• Then the lights all went off
  
  
• The staff quarters group huddled together to make their way to the engineering section
  
  
• Theo and Scottie began hearing noises and something broke it’s way in from the ceiling and then Theo was pulled, screaming, into a vent. Scottie was grabbed and jumped at by an unknown assailant. It backed off as Theo pulled himself out of the vents, injured on his arms and legs.
  
  
• Nicci was able to restore emergency power.
  
  
• Francis and Shiro were unable to initiate a lockdown and Jude asked Francis and one ofther person to head down to meet them in engineering. Honua went with him and Shiro and Vina remained on the bridge
  
  
• Back in the Lounge Scottie’s throat was slashed and Theo escaped into the elevator to get to the Bridge. Theo told the people on the bridge that Scottie was killed
  
  
• Over the radio they heard an unknown voice speak: "Everybody stay calm. We are experiencing technical difficulties.” "Please stay in designated colonist areas. The lounge has snacks."
  
  
• Jude and Francis headed towards the Captain’s door to try to wake them
  
  
• Rory and Travis woke from their pods and began trying to use the elevator to get around the ship but were having trouble with clearance. An alert on the bridge allowed Vina to let them access the command bridge via the elevator
  
  
• The commander of the ship was roused and the group in the staff quarters headed back to the elevator. Jude called out on the radio that they were going to the lounge but he was lying to try tricking whomever might be listening in
  
  
• The group from the staff quarters were on the elevator when it stopped before getting back to command and the strange voice and music on the radio began taunting them
  
  
• The radio voice offered everyone a choice. Get back in their pods and go to sleep so it wouldn’t be messy
  
  
• The voice on the radio claimed it had applied to work on the crew
  
  
• As the people in the elevator pushed the button to go down to the pod room the creature seemed to have jumped off the top of it. Then the elevator began falling, only stopping when the emergency stop button was hit
  
  
• The group with the commander ended up on the Storage level. They began searching the storage area for useful items
  
  
• Meanwhile the creature was scritching at the Command Bridge and Vina tried, unsuccessfully, to convince the voice on the radio that she was still in the lounge all alone
  
  
• Francis tried to talk to the voice on the radio and learn why they were killing people. They claimed that they wanted to turn the colony into a “farm” and that they would be unkillable by the time they arrived
  
  
• Then the radio voice offered a new deal. Get back in the pods and they could survive to be part of their farm on the new colony
  
  
• The storage found what appeared to be some sort of cocoon in the storage area and then destroyed it, finding an open vent behind it

• The voice from the radio apparently fixed the elevators and told everyone to go back to their pods
  
  
• For some unknown reason Francis began trying to distract the voice on the radio by trying to get it to talk about its sexual preferences. Turns out the murdering murderer just likes to murder
  
  
• While the unusual conversation on the radio was taking place the rest of the people in Storage discussed options for luring the murderer to the airlock and having them somehow be jettisoned from the ship
  
  
• The group in Storage took too long to make a plan and the murderous creature that may or may not be a vampire came in to chill on the ceiling and motivate them to hurry along
  
  
• Finally the group in storage got back in the elevator and headed up towards Command. Except Francis planned to get off at the Staff Quarters

• Francis told the others that when he says “mamma said knock you out” they should close the airlock. Then he and the commander left the elevator
  
  
• The rest of the group gathered back in the Command Bridge to get the others who had remained there and Francis began trying to lure the vampire to the airlock over the radio
  
  
• The voice on the radio claimed to be in the room right next to Francis so he turned and unloaded his gun into the wall in that direction
  
  
• Meanwhile on the bridge Jude hopped into the captain’s chair and started to try to work with Nicci to gain access to some of the systems
  
  
• Francis saw the door to the security rom open and booked it into the airlock. The vampire chased him inside. After a few more taunts Francis finally said the signal phrase and the people in command hit the button to close the airlock and then vented it to space
  
  
• The vampire was sent out into space and took Francis with it
  
  
• Jude decided to take Travis and Rory down to check with the captain

• Nicci was to remain in command at the controls and Vina decided to stay there with Honua and Issy who seemed to be in fragile emotional states
  
  
• The captain relayed to Jude that she was going to have to stay awake for quite a while to figure out which people to wake to replace the crew members lost
  
  
• Back on the bridge Vina tried to comfort Issy and Honua
  
  
• The records for the airlock indicated that it had been used around the same time every 5 years
  
  
• Jude then lead his group back to Command, as the Captain had advised him to do that and then have everyone get back in their pods
  
  
• Theo was roused and the group was told to put him in his pod and med staff would wake him for treatment once they were prepared to deal with his injuries
  
  
• As everyone got into their pods, they closed and locked into place. Slowly, the temperature dropped as chemicals in the pods put them into stasis
  
  
• The captain and a few other crew members were seen cleaning up the mess all over the ship and repairing what they could. An outside view of the ship showed it floating through space. The camera zoomed in and we saw claw marks next to an external vent.