The Wretched - Solo RPG - Recovered Log - Day 15

Recovered Log - Day 15

Audio recordings of a play-through of Chris Bissette's solo journalling roleplaying game. 

Day 15 - Beacon activated, ship failing

Dom Mooney · The Wretched - Day 15

Day 15 - 5 cards

• 3S - Describe the way the creature moves across the outside of the ship - 1 block
• 8S - you didn’t see it but you heard it, what was it like - 1 block
• AH - You activate the distress beacon - 1 block
• 7D - huge structure damage - spend a day repairing - pull from the tower
• 6C - one of the crew told you about a terrible dream they had a few days before the creature came. In hindsight it was a premonition - why did you ignore them?

Day 15, salvage ship ‘The Wretched’. Flight Engineer Dom Mooney reporting.

A good and a bad day. The good news is that I finally got the beacon working. With the antenna boosted there’s every chance someone will come and find me, even if I can’t get the engine fixed. It’s just a matter of time.

The bad news is that I’m not sure how much longer I’ve got. There are cracks appearing on the main hull bracing. It looks like it’s twisted and slowly failing. It was another day using most of what was left from the engineering spaces to patch and reinforce. I hope that the creature doesn’t damage it further. We could feel and hear it through the shuddering in the hull when it first arrived after the asteroid struck us. A vibration and then the sound of metal tearing and stressing. You wouldn’t realise the damage it can do from seeing it; outside, in Zero-G, it looks really graceful. It moves with purpose. In the ship, under the artificial gravity, it looks awkward, and its appendages scrape. I think I only got away because of the Chief and the fact it doesn’t move so well in the atmosphere of the ship. 

I can’t help but wonder if we should have all attacked it then; would it have been at a disadvantage? Would it have been quick? Would it have made no difference? Zee said that the ship was cursed; we assumed that he was talking about the fact that the Chief had it in for him, but he was yammering on about dreams of the ship being torn apart. I laughed it off as his typical bullshit, but perhaps there was truth in what he said.

This is Dom Mooney, the last survivor of the Wretched, signing off.