Space Opera - The Drip Chronicles

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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>Look around, attempting to get a bearing on your surroundings.

You seem to be in a filthy alleyway of the PRIMITIVE SETTLEMENT.

You can see a HIDEOUS SPACE BUG on the ground and what looks like a PRIMITIVE ALTAR overflowing with filth against one wall. A CRUDE BARRIER separates you from a primitive trail on the other end of the alleyway.

> Scrutinise the fruit carefully, then bite into it.

Now that you are sure your surroundings bear no immediate threat, you examine the UNIDENTIFIED FRUIT with your XENOBOTANY skill.

SUCCESS! The fruit appears to be a hybrid derivative of the Terran ORANGE, though obviously modified to somehow survive on this wretched, hostile world. How that FRUIT-MONGERING SAVAGE obtained access to Terran fruit is a mystery. Perhaps he salvaged it from the wreckage of a space freighter... there could be other CIVILIZED PEOPLE surviving on this world! You hope that the SAVAGES have not eaten them.

...then bite into it.

You are a Drip, and, unlike the famous Kirby, you have no mouth. You obtain nourishment only through mild aero-static friction generation and other techno-babble that would take a scientist to explain.

> Enter a motherly state and panic in worrying about Nigel's wellbeing.

You are mildly concerned about your friend Nigel.

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No longer within the FRIENDSHIP BLOSSOM's Empathy Radius, Nigel has become a FERAL NIGEL and been disbanded from the party.

> Put on SPACE SUIT, knowing that if you activate ROCKET BOOTS, you won't gain the BLINDED Action Trait.

You have a novel idea: wearing the SPACE SUIT. For the first time since crashing on this hostile planet, you don your trusty and familiar protective SPACE SUIT.

Your SKINCLENCH FACTOR is reduced by 0.5 due to the layer of FLEXIKEVLAR FABRIC for an effective rating of 2.