Twine Jam 2016 Game

You are a night janitor at the Jovian Spaceport. One night, as you are mopping the floor, you see the door to one of the landing bays is ajar. Do you: [[Keep mopping the floor and walk on by | Mop ]] [[Open the door | Open]] [[Call one of the guards | Guards]]

You keep mopping. These floors won't wash themselves. The door shuts with a firm //click// when you press on it. You work as a janitor for the next 75 years, before you retire to one of the moons of Vega. You have a small cottage on the beach, and a few dogs and cats to keep you company. It's not a bad life.

The door opens silently when you press on it. The landing bay is huge, the walls pristine. In the exact center of the bay is a brand new top of the line Proxima Starhawk cruiser, gleaming silver. The landing ramp is open. [[Go back to mopping | Mop]] [[Climb the ramp | Explore]]

You call the guard on your com. She arrives a few minutes later, walking heedlessly across the section of floor you already mopped. You sigh with irritation. You keep mopping as she goes into the landing bay. She comes out a few minutes later, securing the door behind her. You keep mopping.

You lean your mop against the wall. The faint swish-swish of your coverall and the soft hum of the air recyclers is the only sound you hear as you walk across the bay. You pause at the base of the ramp, looking up into the belly of the ship. You can't see much from down here. It turns out, when you reach the top of the ramp, that there's just nothing much to see in the ship's cargo bay. No cargo, no people, just bare walls. [[You go back to mopping| Mop ]] [[You keep walking into the ship| Ship]]

There's a hatch on the other side of the cargo bay. It opens easily when you press your hand on the palm plate. You step into the passageway, just as empty and gleaming as the cargo bay. As you explore the ship, you find that your palm print will open any door that you find. The engine room. The galley. The crew quarters. The armory. All of them just as gleaming and pristine as the rest of the ship, as if no one had ever set foot in the ship before. But that's ridiculous. The nearest shipyard orbits the rings of Saturn -- //someone// had to fly it here. [[Get a snack in the galley|Galley]] [[Leave the ship and keep mopping| Mop ]] [[Keep exploring | Bridge]]

You scroll through the menu of statis-frozen food and can't believe how good everything looks. Isn't ship food supposed to be terrible? You gorge yourself on some of the best sushi you've ever had in your life. You're tempted to take a nap. [[ But there's more to explore| Bridge]]

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The hatch at the end of the passageway hisses open before you have a chance to press your hand to the palm plate. The bridge beckons you inside. You sit down in the pilot's chair, looking out the viewport, imagining the stars zipping by as you fly far, far away from here to -- anywhere. It doesn't matter, really. "Voiceprint identification, please." You shriek, and jump up, whirling around to see -- no one. "Voiceprint identification, please," the warm, pleasant voice in your ear repeats. "Are you the ship's AI?" you ask. "Affirmative. Voiceprint confirmed. You are now in command of this vessel." "What?!" [[Leave the ship and go back to mopping | Mop]] [[Take the ship and go | End]]

The ship's AI -- Arunima -- doesn't have the codes to open the landing bay doors. But she //does// have control of the ship's weapons. Traffic control hails you frantically as you blast out of the spaceport, but you've jumped to hyperspace before anyone can get a lock on you. Years later, there's still a warrant out for your old identity, the janitor. But that's nothing compared to the bounties that have been placed on your head as the most feared pirate in the sector.