>>5833022>>5833045>>5833101>>5833210>>5833434>"Actually I have a better idea. You go down there, and I go east. That way we can cover more ground!">"B-But uhhehe... A-Are you going to be fiiine by y-yourself... haha... Wh-Wha-What if you get l-lost...?">"Oh I'll be fine. I've been on multiple galaxy-spanning missions, I can take an itty bitty forest like this one easily!">"Ohh hehehe... Impressive... I think...? Heheh-">"Alright, see ya! Bye!"You dash out of there at max velocity towards the east. Thank god that's over for now, you really hope this is one of those horror movie scenarios where one of the people that splits up gets horrifically injured while the other one's fine.
You start to notice an obvious change in the terrain and vegetation, the ground goes from grassy plains to a slightly muddy marsh, and the trees are slowly replaced by gigantic mushrooms. The fog gets thicker and the entire area darkens around you, you must be there already.
You finally see signs of life, a mammalian creature weakly crawling across the floor, like it is sick. Mushrooms and other types of fungi cover its back completely, definitely infected. As you get closer, you notice dark magenta "drool" dripping from its mouth, and a slight glow of the same color on the creature's dead, beady eyes. Gross, gross, gross!
You pass by a couple dozen different creatures on the way, all in the same state. You wonder if this shitty ass mask you're wearing is REALLY that effective, you'd rather die than become a mindless roaming zombie thing...
*crunch crunch clang* You hear the sounds of metal being torn apart. You approach it and see the CC-DA, your partner's ship, being torn to pieces by a trio of fungi zombies! Well, just its outer shell for now, but who knows what'll happen if they reach one of its many delicate and super important inner parts?! You also realise the pilot of said ship is nowhere to be found.
>"That dumbass! If I saw MY ship getting destroyed by zombies, I'd defend it with my LIFE! Ooh, I'm DEFINITELY reporting this behavior to command after we get outta here...">[Told ya "Captain goes down with the ship" was an outdated rule.]>"Alright then, NEXT TIME my ship's defense systems "mysteriously" fail and it turns into a ball of flaming metal, I WON'T inspect a compartment that just so happens to still have a functional plugsuit connection, and WON'T save my AI from fiery robo-death!!">[Wack delivery, but I see your point.]You COULD just punch the zombies like you've been doing so far, but you have no idea how this mushroom infection stuff even works, maybe it can lay its spore eggs on your suit or something, that would be gross! You'd rather avoid that. But then again, EVERYTHING around here is mushrooms, you can't even grab a stick to use as a weapon! What will you do?
>PUNCH them anyways>Shoot one of them to see if it scares them off>Shoot all of them>Abandon the ship and try to find the pilot>Write in 