Lets Play - Falcon 6: At The End of Time

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Sun Apr 15, 2018 1:58 am

Check the side door.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Sun Apr 15, 2018 4:51 am

You cautiously open the door, Bloodhound covering you from behind. It's a storeroom for explosives! The walls are lined with racks of plasplode containers, each complete with detonator and timer. Plasplode is a powerful explosive used in asteroid mining. You may take two plasplode packs if you wish. With nothing else here to interest you, you both leave the dome.

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Bloodhound is almost lame and it takes an agonising minute to cover the first thirty yards away from his prison dome. He leans heavily on you and is struggling to keep his hopping steps quiet, grimacing in pain whenever you have to step down from one pile of dark slate to another. The Gra'ak seem to be absorbed in what is happening inside the corral. A sudden keening cry curdles your blood, as though a being was suffering un- imaginable torment. You both pale. The cry was human. Will you:

Attempt to spy on the Gra'ak corral?
Hope to make good your escape without delay?

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Sun Apr 15, 2018 6:33 am

Don't bite off more than we can chew - take Bloodhound and get out of there.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Sun Apr 15, 2018 7:19 am

We got bombs, that sounds like an excuse to use them. Spy.

Edit: If no tiebreaking votes come in within a reasonable timeframe, I'll swap to run away.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 12:09 am

I'd like to spy, personally.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:49 am

Bloodhound protests but you motion him to be quiet and come with you. As you creep carefully towards the coral Blood- hound's enfeebled leg gives way without warning and you both tumble from a low table of slate into a heap on the ground. You roll aside, but even as you are considering your next action one of the Gra'ak is playing the beam of his laser rifle across you. Death is swift, but Bloodhound's will not be.

Orrrrr, the only other option takes Falcon to:

There is a strange croaking roar from the Gra'aki and another howl of agony from the poor devil they are tormenting. Thankful that their grisly attentions are directed elsewhere, you make good your escape from the domes of the Gra'ak. If you have heard of a black pyramid, or of a Time Destabiliser...

No, so:

You will have to get back to Falcon's Wing and hope that you find a way of operating the Variac Drive successfully. Do you have a compass given to you by a Lieutenant Kowalski?

Yes, so:

You follow the compass heading west, skirting all signs of habitation. Eventually you come to the crater where Falcon's Wing lies. Kowalski is waiting for you and he greets you enthusiastically, smiling broadly when you tell him of your brush with the reptilian Gra'ak. But, try as you might, neither you, Bloodhound nor CAIN is able to get Falcon's Wing to take you home. You are marooned in this lonely, inhospitable place for all eternity ...

Huh...so, have to go back somewhere and try something else.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:04 am

Well the only major deviations would be leaving bloodhound to get dicked over at the start (still think this is an instant game over), using the Flyer to zip around or trying to convince the futuremen to help. I'm leaning towards the latter personally.

Edit: I really do hate this late 80's/early 90's style "Well you didn't do this thing 6 scenes ago but we'll wait until now you fuck you over for it" gameplay. Reminds me of early Sierra games.

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:41 am

Extra inexcusable in this case, since the tag is "have you heard of" instead of "have you acquired an actual physical object". Logically in-character Falcon has as close to all eternity as he was ever getting anyway to work out what a black pyramid is and do something about it.

We never did go down the manhole when approaching the tower of future people. So I vote that.

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:20 am

We need to revisit our age-old LP tradition of "Penetrate every hole", so down the manhole Falcon goes.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:04 pm

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There is nowhere to gain an easy grip on the manhole cover and you are forced to spend a few minutes clearing away a crust of hardened sand until you can inch your fingers below its edge. As soon as the disk of metal comes up, the booming sound is twice as loud, but all you can see is a dark tunnel, with a ladder stretching vertically down into darkness. Will you:

Climb down the tunnel?
Press on to the plasteel gateway?

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:31 pm

We didn't remove the cover from the hole in order to not penetrate the hole. So penetrate the hole.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:20 pm

Into the slow mutant den.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 5:00 am

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As you descend into the darkness, unpleasant musty smells and dank clamminess conspire to make you feel claustrophobic. In the darkness you spot two pale green spots of luminous light shining from an area which you thought was a blank wall just to the right of the ladder. Will you:

Continue your climb down carefully?
Climb up and out before walking to the gateway?
Push away from the ladder to let yourself drop into the darkness?
Reach out questingly towards the lights?

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:25 am

Reach our hand into the venus flytrap.

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:30 am

My impression is that those lights are eyes, so I don't think we should touch them.

Continue down.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 5:18 pm

Climb down carefully.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 7:12 pm

Unless we want to poke them, three stooges style, nyuk nynuk nyuk.

Part of me is thinking dropping off the ladder option is presented for a reason before the glowing eyed thing tries to eat us.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:35 am

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Feeling for the rungs with your feet you climb down as quickly as you can. Once, looking up, you see two luminescent points of pale green light above. They go out, flicker, then come back on again. You look down once more and there is a high pitched screech above you. Will you;

Hurry on down?
Climb back up to where you saw the two points of light?

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Wed Apr 18, 2018 11:50 am

That only confirms my suspicions.

Down.

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Wed Apr 18, 2018 12:30 pm

DOWN DOWN DOWN

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:24 pm

Though the dull reverberation of the machinery seems to fill your mind, you have the uncomfortable feeling that something is on the ladderway above you, following you down into the subterranean depths of the tower. You climb on down the tunnel for two hundred feet or more before a glimmer of orange light filters up the vertical tunnel.

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At last you are at the bottom of the shaft. The ladder extends to the floor of a large underground complex, completely dominated by a cylindrical structure which is as large as a towering building in Alpolis. The dull booming noise which hurts your eardrums comes from this cylinder. Inside its transparent skin, you can see a colossal piston pumping steadily away. It appears to be an air pump which must supply the windowless tower with fresh air. On a platform nearby is a set of dials monitoring the huge pump. Beyond is a lift shaft where there is a lift waiting.
Will you:
Step up to the platform?
Enter the lift?

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:43 pm

Platform.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Wed Apr 18, 2018 7:14 pm

Platform

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:57 am

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The platform turns out to be a moving gantry. When you set foot on it a hydraulic arm moves the platform towards a bank of controls. The dials show the pressure in each of four impulse chambers which drive the great piston. Each dial is divided into three parts. Marked LOW DANGER - IMPLOSIVE, NORMAL OPERATIONAL and HIGH DANGER - EXPLOSIVE. The
needles on dials one, three and four are well into the red band marked HIGH DANGER - EXPLOSIVE. Above each dial on the control panel is a lever marked Impulse Power Control. Each has three optional settings all currently at the high setting. Will you:

Climb down from the platform and go to the lift?
Reduce the Impulse Power setting a notch for the number two chamber?
Reduce the setting a notch for the number four channel?

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:52 am

Reduce the setting for the number four channel.