Ascii Sector 1.2

Making my way to the ship I take off (and forget to take a screenshot) and fumble extensively with the controls until slowly some understanding of nav-points, autopilot and jump gates is gained.

First, to the wrong nav-point, and then since the destination for this mission was no longer showing on the map like it had been last ( Read more... )

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Level 21: This Place Seems Reasonably Safe
 
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The Bobby-Soxer by Jonathan Craig

Originally published 1953 in Manhunt (short story collection); this edition 1995

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)

R18+

(V, L, S)

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Level 20: This Place Looks Uninteresting

A lot of uruks to the south, not much else. By the map she has conjured, they don't look able to reach her. She could try and kill them for anything of use they might hold, but that would mean fighting them.

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Three-Ten to Yuma by Elmore Leonard

Originally published March 1953 in Dime Western; this edition 1995

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)

M

(V, D, L)

Some violence {M}
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Dock Walloper by Benjamin Appel

Originally published 1953 in Dock Walloper (short story collection); this edition 1995

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)

PG

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Level 17: "This place looks uninteresting"

But the magic mushroom patch makes it look a whole lot more interesting. Once the hallucinations fade she returns and shoots it.


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Nor Iron Bars by John D. Macdonald

Originally published March-April 1947 in the Doc Savage; this edition 1995

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)

PG

(D)

Drug Use {PG} { ( Read more... )

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Level 15: "This place looks uninteresting"

A corridor, a door. At least she is momentarily safe. Her first actions are detections.

The evil she finds lies down an open path behind her. Most easy, except am illusionist she has not yet defeated. She chooses to move ( Read more... )

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Who Said I Was Dead? by Norbert Davis

Originally published 1942 in the Dime Detective Magazine; this edition 1995

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)

M

(L, V, D)

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