>55 - SUCCESS>An uneasy flight.WRECK OF THE WORLD: (Nine Inch Nails - Quake - Damnation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gVOZnNRcJMYou enter a place darker than the void between stars. Chaos and destruction for light-years all around. Vast chunks of jagged land and inexplicable concrete structures float through the Nowhere, buoyed up by unreality or chained to the very top of the sky. The cacophonous noise and hum of tirelessly working machines is heard from far above, all around, inside your own head, somewhere just out of sight, anywhere, everywhere. Nowhere.
<span class="mu-i">You feel so far away from home...</span>
You grip the armrests of your chair as you divert more power to the thrusters and focus on navigating the ship through the stray debris.
[ASTROGATION SKILL] As a Captain of the INTERSYSTEM, you have been additionally trained to withstand contact with the Nowhere and to avoid mental contamination by dissonant reality.
[PARANOIA] But there is no training in this world that can prepare you for exposure to the truly unnatural.
[ASTROGATION] You must keep moving forward. You cannot stay long in the distorted spacetime.
[PARANOIA] Mind your wandering eyes.
[MOTH] Yet your senses betray you. Come and <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">see.</span></span>
An impossible landscape lays below - an featureless plain of sand stretches from end of the horizon to the other, illuminated by no apparent source, casting no shadows. Humanoid figures stagger across the endless desert as if in a daze. Desperate hands cling to daggers and severed limbs. These wretches tear each other apart as they come across each other. Blood stains the white sands and the earth slakes its thirst.
There is seemingly no reason or purpose to the destruction. It just seems to go on and on.
[PARANOIA] <span class="mu-r">RETRACT. RELEASE. RECALL AND RISE.</span>
[ASTROGATION] Your training draws you from the brink of the madness you already have.
You need to leave.
The Navigator continues to guide you forward to the exit point.
[INDRA-PHI] You pray to your god for protection and for her to hold the OBFUSCATION. Hide the world, so only the true path remains. Hide us from eyes which so viciously seek...
>Indra-phi, guide us to safety within darkness. Illuminate the path before us. Reveal that which is hidden and which we seek. Turn off the lights. We won't need them here....
You can hear nothing but your own deep breathing...
