First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse [An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter.  On board, they discover a service android named Maia who offers to accompany them to the bridge – but first they must make a  detour to avoid a potentially compromised section of the ship.] The away team waits as Rommie checks the forward compartment. Moments later she returns and confirms Maia was telling the  truth.  Had they unsealed it, they’d have been hit with a wave of hard radiation that would have shut her down, fried their comms and sensors, and slightly irradiated their testes. Maia says nothing.  She merely turns and continues on her way. You follow, taking the detour around the compromised section, and finally reach the bridge.  Its doors slide open on Maia’s neural command, giving the team full access.  Maia and Rommie immediately get to work, isolating the damaged decks, restoring life support, and killing the emergency beacon before it draws any unwanted company. Rommie notes that the ship’s database has been corrupted by whatever it encountered out there, but she has turned up something very interesting. When the atemporal entity entered this reality, knocking the Waldorf Astoria out of FTL, the freighter’s sensors recorded and analyzed the event as it happened.  According to this analysis, the rift it passed through carries the same harmonics as the residual traces of their own crossings into this universe.  This could well be their key to getting home.  But the data is fragmentary and  corrupted, and it will take some time to decipher. Daniel, at that point, reminds them of the lone life sign a few sections over, still flickering but now growing fainter.  He wants it made the priority.  Maia informs them that the Waldorf Astoria was on an unmanned long haul run, and warns this life sign is likely the entity she warned them about.  She wants to accompany them but there is a much more pressing issue that demands her attention. One of the consoles reveals the anomaly’s pulses have fried the core’s automated containment and regulation, and the reactor is climbing towards a breach, maybe less than an hour from critical.  It can’t be stopped from the bridge.  Someone has to head to engineering and vent the drive by hand. What do you do? A) Wait for Rommie to decipher the corrupted database and retrieve a potential clue to the way home. B) Investigate the life sign.  Reach it before it fades, whatever it turns out to be. C) Go to engineering and vent the drive.  Save the ship. D) Split the team.  O’Neill’s call.  He and Daniel will investigate the life sign, McKay accompanies Maia to engineering, while Rommie stays on the bridge to decipher the corrupted data.  Everything gets done, but it does spread them thin. CHOOSE! [END OF ACT THREE] Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.

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First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse [An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter.  On board, they discover a service android named Maia who requests their assistance in ridding the ship of an intruder in exchange for her cooperation.] You agree to help track down and deal with the intruder.  Satisfied, Maia leads them off down a dimly lit corridor towards the bridge.  They walk in silence, only the hiss of venting steam and the ringing of their boots on the metal grating. Finally, McKay: “Y’know, there’s a Waldorf Astoria on my planet.” “Does it also possess Dual Kessler-Vann X-440 fusion torches, cold-gas plus eight monopropellant cluster thrusters, and twin Mark-18 closed-cycle fission reactors?”asks Maia. “Uh, no,”McKay reluctantly admits.  “But it serves a pretty popular salad.” Suddenly, something skitters overhead, mechanical and spider-quick.  McKay flinches.  “What the – “ “Where are we going?”asks O’Neill. Indeed, the team is headed off course.  Rommie points out that if they’re going to the bridge, they’re headed in the wrong direction.  Maia agrees.  Her neural link to the ship, she explains, has flagged a containment leak from the back-up reactor that’s flooded the compartment ahead.  “I carry manufacturer-installed radiation shielding,”she informs them.  “You do not, and the exposure could be lethal.”  So she’s routing them the long way around. She walks on a few steps, stops, and looks back.  “Coming?”she asks. What do you do? A) Push straight through. B) Follow her detour. C) Hold, and send Rommie to confirm the leak. CHOOSE! [Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.]

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First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse [An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter.  On board, they discover a service android named Maia who requests permission to interface with Rommie in order to confirm the team’s peaceful intent.] The team is split on Maia’s request, but leaning toward allowing it. But, in the end, the decision isn’t theirs to make as a group. O’Neill turns: “Rommie, it’s your call.” Rommie holds Maia’s gaze and doesn’t hesitate. “Let’s do it.” Maia steps forward and the two androids lock eyes. Rommie compartmentalizes and walls off her memory stores, then lowers the rest of her defenses. A beat, and she feels the scan: a delicate pass over the open data, read-only. It lasts only seconds before the connection breaks. Maia blinks, then smiles. “Thank you.” She turns to the others. She tells them that she was in the middle of a scheduled charge cycle when the ship suddenly dropped out of FTL. Given that she has only now come back online, her time off-line has left her memory stores incomplete. What she does know she has assembled in the last few moments, through her neural link to the ship and a perusal of the automated incident report. The report tells her this much. The Waldorf Astoria suffered sudden and catastrophic failures throughout the ship after contact with an atemporal force during FTL transit. Sometime after, an entity of unknown origin gained access to the freighter. Maia offers a trade. She will lead them to the bridge and give them access to ship-wide systems, enough to restore the freighter to full structural and operational integrity. In return, she asks for their help in purging the ship of the intruder.   As you consider her offer, she produces a weapon, charges it, and heads for the exit. Do you agree to the deal? Yes No CHOOSE! [Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.]