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3: Chilean Pit Stop
As Basil sat still a flood of recent events rushed through his mind. “You are sure you are ready to do this?” ACE asked Basil, who was spreading out a tarp. “Yeah, I’m feeling alright. Let’s get this jet ready.” Several maintenance drones climbed onto the tarp and Basil began to drag them towards the hangar. Unlike his first outing, he found the landscape to be awe inspiring. The sky was lit up with the most amazing shades of red imaginable, and a few stars were still visible in the dusky sky.
Read more…2: Blank Slate
Basil realized he was awake, though did not remember waking up. He felt groggy and his mind was clouded, and he felt as if he had just dropped below the threshold of being aware of the fact he was awake. He found himself in a bed, caked blood cleaned off, and feeling entirely painless for the first time he could remember. A maintenance drone lay lifelessly in the corner of his vision, but sprang to life and approached him once he started to move.
Read more…1: Failed Initialization
[init] Starting service ‘QS5DLkUu’ (pid 101), exited with status 1 Unable to locate QS5DLkUu, initiating failsafe [init] Service ‘QS5DLkUu’ killing any children in process group [init] Starting service ‘ZGVkYnJhaW4=’ [init] Successfully started ‘ZGVkYnJhaW4=’ (pid 101) [ZGVkYnJhaW4=] Initializing resources… [ZGVkYnJhaW4=] Resources loaded successfully. [init] Service ‘ZGVkYnJhaW4=’ (pid 101) is running Uptime 00:00:00:01 The lights came on, replacing the previous dim red glow with normal white light which assaulted his eyes. However, the little robot and the voice behind it were still silent.
Read more…A1 Prologue
He could hear something that sounded like a light brush on a window. His head hurt, though so did the rest of his body. The room was dark. Pitch black. No, wait, his eyes were closed. He opened his eyes, but they felt as if they had to be pried open, and as they did he felt as if his eyelids were made of sandpaper. Now all he could see was red.
Read more…26: Last thing on the list
Basil made a left at another intersection. Was it a left? Shit, how was he going to find his way back now? Well, perhaps that didn’t matter much; it wasn’t like he could get past the army between him and safety. He took another shot at his much faster pursuers, forcing them to take cover for a second as he rounded another corner at another intersection. Seeing a small alley alongside the road and his pursuers having not yet rounded the corner, he ran down it.
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