Note: this takes place in a Warframe derelict tileset
-log starts-
[Jumper system online]
[Vital signs: stable]
[Weapons operative]
[Remote transporter connected to facility’s storage]
[System ready to engage jumping]
-armor speaker- this is the jump supervisor Mary, if you can hear me nod and reply.
-Jumper- Jumper Carlos reporting, you’re loud and clear chief, looks like we’re ready to start exploration.
{Log: from now on the -Jumper- will be refered as -Carlos-}
-Mary- alright Carlos, today you’re jumping towards a derelict recently discovered, now it’s drifting through deep space but it was once boarded by a lost civilian ship in search of refuge, the ship is still intact and attached.
-Carlos- what about the passengers?
-Mary- they didn’t make it, the derelict was heavily infested inside, but we have detected other life forms apart from infested and kavats, you will go in and investigate what life form has survived there.
-Carlos- all right then, investigate the new life form within the derelict and the scavenging of components as always, right?
-Mary- yeah, explore as much as you can, if you get spotted don’t try to fight, hide out of sight until things calm down, if you’re in danger book it through your armor’s warp system.
-Carlos- ok, any specific loot we need?
-Mary- no, at least by now, remember to take your weapon and supplies, you will receive more as needed through your remote transporter, remember to look for a zone where to stay safe if you need to rest, godspeed jumper.
[Jumping protocol engaged] ••• [jump successfully completed]
From here I’ll do it from Carlos’ POV until there’s something to report to the jump supervisor but his actions still are on the log.
Your vision is all white with some grey squares here and there, you’re lost until you can see your surroundings and you recognize where you are, you landed on a chamber rooted by overgrown infestation mass with green water up to your ankles, that’s no problem since you have your armor on.
You start your scavenging mission on this chamber, breking containers, opening lockers and searching for hidden stashes, the speaker on your armor returned to life again.
-armor speaker- remember, ignore the spore formations, take only synthetic materials and non infested parts.
After this short reminder, you kept searching for the hidden treasures, once everything was scavenged and looted, you had two choices to continue, a set of stairs leading to an upper zone, or a cylindrical door almost as tall as the room.
You get close enough to the big door to open, you’re greeted with a big room with infested inside, you weren’t capable of fighting the hordes of infested a derelict can hold, once a group is alerted they’ll start swarming towards the fight, it’s hard to get away from them but not impossible, you turn around and head for the stairs, you follow them and you find another door, this one looking more normal than the big cylindrical one, you head in and find yourself standing at one of three other doors, one ahead of you looks like the one you just crossed, by experience you know it leads to another unknown room of the derelict, another one that seems to be locked and unresponsive to your side of the sensor, only to your side, if anything was to come out of there the door would open like any other open door.
You head for the door to your right, it leads to what looks like a former locker room by the set of seats in the middle of the tiny room, you proceed to your routine of scavenging until something startles you, a container had fallen from a fairly hidden place but that wasn’t your main concern, something moved up there, you climbed the roots that broke the walls apart long time ago, many lifetimes ago.
As you reached the top expecting to find infested there you found something “better” a nest of feral fluffies were living here, when they saw you they only could hear a little scream “munsta” and they just pressed themselves as far as they could into a corner of the compartment, it was high enough for you to stand, you looked down at them and they were the typical feral family, they conserved the “poopie babbehs” wich was rare, but definitely not caused by the infestation, the mare still had a favorite baby, wich was protected on her back while the rest where in the floor in front of her.
-Carlos- ok, we got our first encounter with the other life forms and it’s not a pleasant life form, but not dangerous to justify killing it, they’re fluffies.
-Mary- I see, are they infested or changed in some way?
-Carlos- uhhh, well they got something on their backs, it doesn’t look like they were born with it, looks more like it was born from them, they don’t seem to care.
-Mary- what does it look like?
-Carlos- like some kind of plant, but looks grey and appears to be some flexible metal.
-Mary- where are they located?
-Carlos- they’re where a pegasus’ wings should be.
-Mary- any other visible change?
-Carlos- their hooves are bioluminescent, they glow with a lapis lazuli color, and they’re no longer leathery, they’re solid now most likely adapted to the derelict life.
-Mary- ok, keep searching, by the way now that we’ve confirmed fluffy presence and we’ve seen changes you have new objectives, scavenging is no longer your priority, we will pick them up for analisis.
-Carlos- all right, I’ll keep searching now.
Focused on your priority you continue to explore the derelict, you go through golden passages that were untouched by the infestation overgrowth, you’re about to go into another room connected by this passage, you stop when you notice something, a door of the big room opens, and a fluffy herd enters, upon noticing an infested crawler the herd stops and a pink fluffy with white mane, looks like it’s the smarty, it says “Dis am smawty wand nao, munsta go ‘way ow get sowwy poopies an’ foweba sweepies” and it takes the typical smarty threatening pose, the infested despite of its aggressive nature just doesn’t give a single shit, until the smarty charges with it’s leathery hooves at the infested, the infested counter attacked with an acid bath and the smarty starts screaming like a banshee, calling the other infested’s attention from other rooms the smarty is now reduced to melted flesh and the herd gets mauled by chargers and runners.