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What were you just babbling about?

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What WAS I babbling about? Good question.

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```
I'm not too sure. But I DO know why I stopped.

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```
Un... apparently, what happened was, I got punched in the jaw. HARD.

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```
By a member of the rescue team.

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```
Because I was spouting some kind of gibberish that, honestly, I don't remember saying AT ALL.

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```
Something about... capturing host bodies from throughout space and time?

```

```
(I have no idea.)

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```
And so I'm now on board the rescue ship, and... I'm afraid to say this because I might jinx it...

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```
...but I think we're going to be okay.

```

## If you saved Aya

```
In a lucid moment, I managed to tell them about Captain Aya, in her stasis pod back at the Varia.

```

```
They obligingly stopped by and grabbed her, and even now the ship´s medic is working on her.

```

```
He said the measures I took to keep the Captain alive were the best anyone could have possibly done in the circumstances...
...and because of me, the odds are really good that she´s going to make a full (if slow) recovery. Thank God.

```

```
So, I´ll count that as a "win."

```

## end difference

```
Now the ramp door is safely sealed, and a full-vessel scan turned up no extraterrestrial stowaways...

```

```
...so all the aliens and their glowing green eyes are beck on the moon, while we are rocketing away as fast as we possibly can.

```

```
There's talk of calling in some sort of nuclear strike on the whole damn rock.

```

```
I'm sure that's above my pay grade, but if for some reason I DO get a vote...

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```
...that's one in favor of blowing it to hell and tap-dancing on the ashes.

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```
So. Yeah. They've brought me some food and some Gatorade, and told me to take it slow on both...

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```
...and they're saying I'm due for a long rest, and probably a lifetime of trauma counseling.

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```
But I'm alive.

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```
I made it.

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```
And I couldn't have done it without you.

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```
So... thank you. I mean it.

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```
And here's to a brighter future.

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```
This is Cadet Taylor, formally of the Varia, signing off.

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```
[connection terminated]

```

Taylor has reached the end of this path, but the story is not over!

Find out what happens next by paying a sneak peek of the next Taylor Lifeline adventure.

You may also activate Fast Mode in the main menu or rewind the story.

This is the "win" ending, the only ending where Taylor is successfully saved from the moon. Continue the story: (sneak peak link)

## Previous Options

* What happened?
* What were you just babbling about?
Tau Ceti IV

Tau Ceti is the name of the second-closest star to the Sun (after Alpha Centari A).

In Lifeline, Taylor visits a moon circling this star system. Tau Ceti IV (or 4 in Roman numerals) is named as the planet the Varia was on course for after strange signals.

Though unconfirmed, this name may be a reference to Tau Ceti IV as mentioned in *Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan* (1982), a named star invented for the Kobayashi Maru test for character in command-track cadets of Starfleet Academy.
Honor the dead.

## Dialogue

```
Yeah. You're right. I should... bury them, or something, huh?

```

```
There's got to be, like, a spade or some kind of... something to dig with.

```

```
Man, this is gonna take some work. Maybe I should keep exploring the rest of the ship, see if I can find some rations first.

```

```
I'm pretty much running on fumes, here.

```

## Options

* Makes sense. Keep exploring.
* Dig now, explore later.

## Previous Options

* Just keep moving.
* Keep it together!
* Look for the crew.
Lookslikewhat

## Dialogue

```
Okay. Keep in mind that I know how crazy this sounds. Keep in mind that I don't believe it, myself.

```

```
But it looks almost like... a person.

```

```
I mean, it's all shadows. It's almost impossible to make anything out on this monitor screen, at this distance.

```

```
And the human mind has a tendency to spot human-like shapes in random things. I just learned the word for it recently: "pareidolia."

```

```
Like when people see the Virgin Mary in water stains, or smiley faces in car grilles and headlights.

```

```
I'm probably more prone to it than anyone right now, being the only living person out here, desperately seeking the familiar.

```

```
So even though this looks like a person EVERY SINGLE TIME that I rewind it, I know that, of course, it ISN'T a person.

```

```
Deep breaths. Not freaking out.

```

### Options

* Go get some breakfast.
* Keep studying the footage.

### Previous Options

* Check out the alarm.
* Grab some breakfast.
Alex Esposito

Alex is the main protagonist in Lifeline: Crisis Line. He lives in Austin, where he works as a police detective at the Austin Police Department.

## Trivia

* If Alex asks for your name and you respond with Taylor, Alex mentions how he knew a to-be astronaut with that name.
* As part of Crisis Line, Mr. Esposito has the option to stumble upon a house supposedly under Regina Virdi. In her house, Arika Lanphear is labeled as murderer in capital letters on a picture with her.
Don't celebrate yet.

## Dialogue

```
Yeah. Yeah, of course not. "Stable" doesn't mean "better."

```

```
Plus, I've still got to figure out how to get us rescued, and get her some real medical attention.

```

```
In the meantime... what? I guess I should go see to the rest of the crew, right?

```

```
I mean, they're just... lying there.

```

```
I'm heading back to the other half of the ship, bringing the Captain in her stasis pod and the ginny with me.

```

```
I'll message you once I'm there.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
So after a depressing trudge across a barren wasteland, we arrive once more at a crewless crew quarters.

```

```
My life has become bad middle-school poetry.

```

```
So I guess my options over here are either grave-digging, or else exploring the ship further.

```

## Options

* Dig those graves.
* Keep exploring.

## Previous Options

* You've earned a rest.
* Move the stasis pod.
Go out and meet them. (2)

I'm a little wary of that idea, honestly.

```
I feel like, if this is a rescue team, then I can wait an extra few minutes to get rescued. I made it this long already.

```

```
If it's stragglers from another downed ship... they might be crazed from wandering through the desert for days, or weeks.

```

```
(I mean, I've only been wandering since day before yesterday, and I think I'm about half-crazed, myself.)

```

```
Maybe it'd be better to wait and see how they react to this place, and make sure they know I'm a stranger here too.

```

```
And... if they're not rescuers OR survivors... if they're something worse...

```

```
...then I sure as hell don't want to deliver myself into their arms.

```

## Options

* Seriously, go meet them.
* Something worse"?
PWG Testing Facility

The lab in which most of *Lifeline: Flatline* took place.

The Permanent Working Group Testing Facility was a lab for the experimentation and development of the Green Inhibitor. At one point, a Green-infected ape named Samson escaped its cage, freeing other Green animals and killing many humans in the process. The PWG gassed and bombed the entire facility after extracting Wynn, killing anyone else that could have survived.
Okay, head for the crash site.

```
Yeah, cool, that makes sense. There might be other survivors... fingers crossed.

```

```
(It's not actually possible to cross your fingers in an IEVA suit, but just take my word on it.)

```

```
Or at the very least, there should be some supplies I can use.

```

```
Okay, I'm headed south now. Looks like the smoke is at least an hour away. Or whatever the metric equivalent of an hour is.

```

```
I'll let you know once I'm there.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Holy crap. It's a lot further than it looked. My legs feel like Jell-O, and I'm maybe halfway there.

```

```
Great. And now all I can think about is how much I want Jell-O.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Okay. At long last, I'm in sight of the Varia. Or what's left of it, at any rate.

```

```
It seems to have cracked hard once it hit the atmosphere.

```

```
Like I figured. it came down in two major chunks...

```

```
...with a ton of scattered debris thrown around just to make the whole scene look terrifying and post-apocalyptic.

```

```
(In case anyone asks, it's working; I'm appropriately terrified.)

```

```
Looks like the flight deck came down pretty far from the crew quarters. Where do you figure I should go first?

```

## Options

* Look for the crew.
* Check the flight deck.

## Previous Options

* Better get moving, then.
* Head for the peak.
Coffeesoundsgood

```

```
Speaking of which. I'm gonna want to find something to eat and drink before long.

```

```
I have this theory that if I just built an
intersection here, competing Starbucks would
magically appear on at least two of the corners.

```

```
But I'd hate to do all that work just to be proven wrong.

```

## Options

* Save your energy.
* Describe your surroundings

## Previous Options

* Thanks for sharing that.
* Describe where you are now
Thanksforsharingthat

## Dialogue

```
Hey, no, thanks for listening to me blather.

```

```
That actually felt normal. Like I was telling my
new friend about my old friend.

```

```
Hey, if this all turns out for the best, maybe we
can all go get coffee sometime. I'm buyin'.

```

```
Or, hell, if I make it out of this alive, I'll have

```

```
learned something a lot stronger than coffee!

```

## Options

* Sounds good!
* Describe where you are now.
Wayaround

## Dialogue

```
Okay. I'll give it a shot. This is pretty rough terrain, though.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

*delay: 40 mins*

```
Listen, there's just no way around this thing

```

```
Not enough footholds to get even a few feet up it. Or "meters" up it, whatever.

```

```
These canyon walls look like nothing but loose rock, too.

```

```
And -- surprise, surprise -- as a science fair champ, I'm pretty much the definition of an "indoor kid."

```

```
I don't think I'm cut out for rock climbing.

```

### Options

* Might as well head back.
* Give climbing a try.

### Previous Options

* Find a way around.
* Head back to the crash.
Nausea

Throughout the Lifeline Series, three protagonists that of nausea may have a related origin. One explanation may be that there is an artificial shift in time and space.

[SPOILERS] In Lifeline, Taylor wakes up one night after staying by a radiator to be warm enough during one night on a desert moon. Taylor, although not exposed to much radiation, gets nauseas the morning after. Green saliva is in Taylor's mouth, and a relationship is not clearly explained. The moon also contains tunguskite.

[SPOILERS] In Lifeline 2: Bloodline, Arika gets nauseas multiple times after engaging in Dark Magic to teleport.

[SPOILERS] In Lifeline: Crisis Line, Alex gets nauseas after teleporting back to his home from Regina Virdi's house and is sent 8 hours into the future. The Glackle bird that summons Alex to his home after Alex requested seems to mention that its method is warp and weft.
Just keep pushing ahead.

Choosing this option will result in Taylor freezing to death.

## Dialogue

```
This is a terrible idea.

```

```
All I'm doing is putting one foot in front of the other, over and over. I'm not actually getting anywhere.

```

```
Just keep going. North. Or where I think north is.

```

```
This moon has stolen everything from me. Even the cardinal directions.

```

```
One foot. The other.

```

```
Over and over.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Hey, the star is setting soon. It's starset.

```

```
I'm all alone on the moon at starset.

```

```
I'm nowhere near the peak. Or the Varia. Or even the wreck of the carvel.

```

```
I'm out here under the stars. Which is beautiful...but also cold.

```

```
I don't have a reactor to cuddle up against tonight.

```

```
It's gonna get cold, and then colder, and then...

```

```
...there's a pretty good chance I'm going to die out here, under all these beautiful, beautiful stars.

```

```
Dammit. I'm not even hydrated enough to cry.

```

```
This misbegotten rock has even stolen my tears.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Um. Listen. I'm just... I just feel exhausted right now. I just want to lie down.

```

```
Maybe I'm being, you know, melodramatic. Maybe I'll be just fine out here.

```

```
Wake up refreshed, like I just took a brisk, cold, eight-hour shower.

```

```
But, uh... in case I don't...

```

```
...I just want to say thanks. For sticking with me, for being a voice in the darkness.

```

```
Because this is about as dark as it possibly could've gotten for me, so... I appreciate it.

```

```
It really is beautiful, out here under all these stars. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of them. I wish you could see this.

```

```
I'm... just gonna close my eyes for a little while.

```

```
[connection lost]

```

```
[Taylor has died]

```

## Previous Options

* Turn around and head back.
* Keep going for the peak.
Stay in the ship.

Choosing this option will cause Taylor to freeze to death.

## Dialogue

```
Yeah, you know. I think that's the safest bet. I'd rather be a little chilly than a little, I don't know, mutated.

```

```
Or a little dead from radiation.

```

```
All right. I'm turning in for the night. It's been... well, I won't sugarcoat it. It's been the worst day of my life.

```

```
But I appreciate everything you've done to help me through it.

```

```
Here's to a better tomorrow.

```

```
Good night.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

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c c cant

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feel

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hands

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frzzng clld

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```
[connection lost]

```

```
[Taylor has died]

```
Tell me!

```
Okay. I'm standing in a room. In the interior of a mountain, let's not forget.

```

```
It's... I guess you would have to call it a "control room."

```

```
I don't know what, exactly, it's controlling... but there's really no answer to that question that'll ease my mind.

```

```
The room itself isn't very large -- large enough to stand up in, and move around a little, and that's about it.

```

```
But in banks on the walls... there are computer systems.

```

```
Functioning computer systems.

```

```
There are brand names I recognize, a sort of mix-and-match patchwork of monitors and CPUs. There are even a couple of chairs in front of the computers...

```

```
...clearly taken from some old starship flight deck and repurposed here, to build a freaking workstation.

```

```
On the moon. This all must be salvaged parts from ships. The computers, the chained generators, the wiring...

```

```
Oh. Yeah. That's the other thing. The wiring.

```

```
There's TONS of it. Bunched and bundled. And it all leads out of the computer banks and up, into a hole in the room's ceiling.

```

```
And from there, who knows where?

```

## Options

* Explore the computers.
* Explore the wiring.
Mari Lee

Description:

Mari Lee is one of the crewmates of the White Star in Lifeline: Silent Night. She is generally given the role of navigation on the ship in the Lifeline Series.

[SPOILERS]: Mari Lee reveals to Taylor that she is pregnant, but does not reveal who the father is. It could either be one of the mining starship's miners or medical specialist. In any case, Mari places trust that Taylor will help the ship when the Viridian loads three Green-infected crewmates, including Melanie Choir, onto their ship. In the optimal ending, Lee escapes on one of the emergency vessels.

[SPOILERS]: In Lifeline: Halfway to Infinity, Mari Lee is revealed to be approaching the black hole Taylor is also nearby, but is heading straight into the black hole. In the optimal ending, Mari Lee is told by Taylor, who soon after sacrifices himself and T2 (along with the green T2 intends to infect Taylor) get sucked into the black hole, that through the assistance of the player, a new ending can allow Mari Lee to escape the tragic fate of the infected Taylors. Her vessel is merged with the Viridian thanks to Taylor with a wire, and as Taylor gets sucked into the black hole, Taylor wishes the best for her as she is to be rotating and not falling into the black hole and wishes her luck. It is likely that the other two infected soldiers are still conscious on the Viridian.
Hold off for now.

## Dialogue

```
Yeah, all right, maybe that's smart. I'll hang onto the pills for the time being.

```

```
If the last couple of hours have taught me anything, it's that, no matter how bad things seem at the moment, they could always get worse later.

```

```
Crap -- my headlamp is really flickering badly. I think I should get out of here before it fails me completely.

```

## Options

* Okay, get out of there.
* Risk it; keep exploring.

## Previous Options

* Take one now.
* Keep moving. Faster.
Hook up the alarm.

## Dialogue

```
Woof.  I can't help but feel like this is probably a waste of time, effort and light. All of which are in short supply around here.

```

```
All right.  Another glow rod cracked.  Only 1 left.

```

```
Fortunately (?), the wires to this thing are mostly exposed, so maybe it won't be that hard to get it patched in to the ginny.

```

```
Gimme a few minutes to mess with this.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
In what I'm calling nothing short of a miracle, I've got the alarm hooked up, and the monitor powered.

```

```
Whatever detection grid this thing projects, it actually appears to be projecting most of it.

```

```
(The section that covers the rear of the ship says "No Readings," but that's probably because there IS no rear of the ship anymore.)

```

```
All right, then, I guess no one's going to steal my hubcaps while I catch some ZZZs.

```

```
The ship really must've been designed for a small crew.  Only a single mission specialist seat up here, half-uprooted.

```

```
Which, in fact, seems to be my most comfortable option as far as sleeping arrangements go around here.

```

```
I figure it's time to call it a night.  Only got 1 glow rod left; no sense in cracking another one now.

```

```
I sealed over the airlock door, and I've got enough blankets to swaddle myself and hopefully beat the cold.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Huh? Whuzzat noise? You say something?

```

```
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?

```

```
Oh God.  Okay.  Oh God.  I'm awake.  I'm awake.

```

```
Uh, there was this... I don't know, this, like, scuttling type noise.  Coming from behind me, out in the corridor.

```

```
And I turned around.  And, and... I saw something.  Something moving.

```

```
Something GLOWING. Glowing green.

```

```
Lots of little somthings, actually. Close to the ground.  Glowing, and moving, and scuttling.

```

```
Which are three things that are way, way high on my list of stuff I was NOT EXPECTING TO SEE tonight, if I'm being honest.

```

```
That's just... I mean, I didn't ACTUALLY hear anything.  Or see anything.  Right?

```

```
It's just my exhausted, terrified mind playing tricks on me. "Space Madness," like in that old Ren & Stimpy cartoon.  Remember that?

```

```
I should just... go back to sleep, yeah?

```

## Options

* Right. Back to sleep.
* See what that noise is.

## Previous Options

* Try one of the hallways.
* Check out the flight deck.
Whereareyou

The previous options on this page are wrong. Please fix it and remove this notice when you are done. If you don't know what "correct" is, please visit Guidelines:Format.

*or Okay. Where are you? or Any idea where you are? or Okay. So where are you now? or Cope. Where are you now? all of these lead to this dialogue*

## Dialogue

```
The only way I can answer that with any confidence
is to say "stranded."

```

```
If you know where nowhere is, just look right in
the middle of it, and you'll spot me.

```

*if Taylor hasn't told you their name yet*

```
My name's Taylor, by the way. Probably should've
started with that.

```

```
The Varia was on a gentle elliptical path toward Tau Ceti IV.

```

```
I don't know whether we went off course, or by how
much.

```

```
I was nowhere near the bridge when it all went
down.

```

```
Colby, she... she shoved me into an escape pod and
then went to see how she could help the others.
That's just who she was.

```

```
I guess I blacked out in the pod, from shock or
fear or something -- I don't know how long --

```

```
...and when I came to, I was here.

```

## Options

* Describe "here."
* Want to talk about Colby?

## Previous Options

* Oooh. Smart kid.
* Okay. So where are you now?
* Who are you?
* What happened?
Climb back up now.

## Dialogue

```
Ugh. With a little effort -- okay, MORE than a little effort -- I can make my way back up, at a more solid pat of the crater wall.

```

```
I just feel dumb for having tried to take a shortcut. This is the price I pay, I guess.

```

```
Let that be a lesson: Anything worth doing, is worth doing in the most tedious, mind-numbing fashion imaginable.

```

```
Let me concentrate on making it back up to the top, then I'll get back to you.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
All right. You know, this is probably the safest call. All flat surfaces here.

```

```
Flat... dull... plain... planes. Wheeee.

```

```
Look, the most exciting decision I'm anticipating next in the next couple of hours is whether I should take off walking left or right.

```

```
And since I don't have a coin on me (because there are very few laundromats or video arcades up here)...

```

```
...I'm leaving this one up to you.

```

```
Should I walk around this stupid hole in the ground clockwise? Or counterclockwise?

```

```
THIS COULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION YOU MAKE ALL DAY!

```

```
(It won't be.)

```

## Options

* Clockwise!
* Counter!

## Previous Options

* Keep moving ahead.
* Head straight across.
Lifeline (1) Win Scenario

A lot of the links here are not working because the titles are missing punctuation at the end. Please add those in!

If you wish to win Lifeline 1, this is the path to follow. It is not the most efficient path to the end (164 choices made), and many of the decisions made would result in identical outcomes if the other choice were made. The columns preserve the format of the iPhone version (i.e., the left option or the right option). The apple watch version is the same, except the left column represents the upper options, and the right column represents the lower options.
Never had the pleasure.

## Dialogue

```
Well, try to imagine being a single grain of rice on the rim of the
universe biggest wok. That's about the scale of things here.

```

```
Some part of me is terrified that a gigantic sugar snap pea is going
to come plummeting out of the sky and crush me.

```

```
(Not a very rational fear, I know... but then, two days ago, I wouldn't
have thought "spaceship crash" was a very rational fear.)

```

```
Anyhow. The crater's opposite side is in sight. I'm gonna buckle down,
grit my teeth, and keep truckin' my way on over there.

```

```
Thanks for the pep talk. I'll message you in a bit.

```

```
[Taylor is busy]

```

```
Well, it actually didn't take as long to trek around the edge of
the crater as I thought it might.

```

```
Here's the strange thing, though: Maybe fifty yards back, I tripped
over something while I was walking.

```

```
(Yeah, I know. I've been so graceful so far, it must be hard for
you to believe.)

```

```
Anyway, it was pretty well buried in the sand, but when I looked
down at it... it glinted at me in the sun.

```

```
Because it was METAL.

```

```
It took me a minute to dig it up, and I've been examining it ever since,
but I'm still not sure what it is, exactly.

```

```
I mean, I guess it's GOT to be a panel from the Varia... it's just weird
that it came down so far from the rest of the ship, huh?

```

```
Anyhow. I'm pretty much directly opposite the point where I started
circling this crates, so I guess it's time to keep heading north.

```

```
What a long, strange, clockwise trip it's been.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Um. So. Here's something.

```

```
On this side of the crater, there's a little ridge.

```

```
And on that little ridge, there are more little pieces of metal.

```

```
Like, SEVERAL more.

```

```
And then, just on the other side of that little ridge -- where
you can't see it until you've crested the little ridge --

```

```
There's, um...

```

```
...there's a spaceship.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
So... yeah. It's a good thing that the air here is okay to breathe,
because I've been hyperventilating it for the last minute or so.

```

```
What the hell? I mean... I mean, what the hell? Seriously,
just, what the hell?

```

```
(I was a science student, not an English student. Forgive me.)

```

```
From up here, I can tell it's a much smaller ship than the Varia
-- it's what I think they call a caravel class vessel.

```

```
It would've had half a dozen crew, tops, making quick runs
with minimal armament.

```

```
Minimal defenses.

```

```
What is it doing here? How long has it been here?

```

```
The engine looks like it was just... SHEARED from the rest of the ship.
Did they collide with space debris, maybe?

```

```
God. I have about a million questions.

```

```
Should I go down there and explore the wreckage, do you think?

```

```
Or do I keep to higher ground, and stay the hell away from that
ship and whatever brought it out of the sky?

```

## Options

* Explore the wreckage.
* Stay clear of it.

## Previous Options

* No worries. Wanna chat?
* Sorry. No time to chat.
Try chewing them off.

```

```
...I think it's probably still a bit too early to resort to autocaniballism.

```

```
Give me another couple hours, ask me again.

```

```
Now I've got a long, slow slog ahead of me --

```

```
I really can't overstate how bit a bowl this crater is, especially now that I'm down inside of it --

```

```
but the peak is in view. It's not going anywhere. I'm going to get there if I
just keep walking that direction.

```

```
My rattletrap compass still tells me I'm pointed north, so I guess I get my
merit badge for that.

```

```
I'm not in love with the idea of putting weight on my ankle at the moment...
but I guess I've got no choice.

```

```
I'll check in with you when I'm closer to my goal. Until then...

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Things are... a little weird. Mind if I unload?

```

## Options

* Lay it on me.
* I preferred silence.

## Previous Options

* Good luck climbing.
* Break a leg.
Makes sense. Keep exploring.

*note, this dialogue is the same as keep exploring.*

## Dialogue

```
Okay, so... past the bunks, there's a corridor that branches.

```

```
The way to the galley looks pretty scorched. The other option is the lab.

```

```
I'm afraid of what I'll find if I check on my rats. If the humans didn't make it, what chance do those little guys stand?

```

## Options

* Try the galley.
* Try the lab.

## Previous Options

* Dig now, explore later.
* Honor the dead.
Dr. W. Sibellius

Dr. Sibellius is a mysterious character featured in Lifeline: Whiteout.

## Profile

### Appearance

He is described by Adams on a card of Sibellius as Biomedical Research and Development, ALT International.

[SPOILER] Dr. Sibellius is the creator of the Adams series of robots, including V. Adams.

[SPOILERS] Sibellius created the Adams series in his image. Because of this, the robots look like him, but younger. Sibellius is in a wheelchair when V. Adams meets him, and is "hooked up to a breathing apparatus."

[SPOILER] Sibellius is responsible for most of the events of Lifeline: Whiteout and is the primary antagonist of the plot. Sibellius was diagnosed with a terminal illness two months prior to the plot of Lifeline: Whiteout and given two weeks to live.

[SPOILER] After his diagnosis, Sibellius began to build robots after being unable to find a biological cure for his (unnamed) condition. Sibellius believes fully that the Adams series (particularly the only one capable of undergoing this procedure, V. Adams) will benefit humanity by allowing him to transfer his consciousness into them. He runs extensive tests on the Adams series, particularly environmental ones on V. Adams, including Adams' contact with the player (a twist on the robotics concept of the Turing test.) Sibellius is angered if Adams refuses to cooperate with the procedure, and claims he wishes he had never built Adams in the most optimal ending of the game.

## References

1. ↑ This is how Sibellius describes himself.[1]
2. ↑ Another statement in Sibellius' own words.[2]
Defensesandbeacon

## Dialogue

```
Hot damn! We're in business!

```

```
(Well, I mean, if you keep in mind that most businesses fail before they ever really get off the ground.)

```

```
So, let's play a round of Good News/Bad News.

```

```
Good news: I found the ship's distress beacon, and from what I can tell, it's totally intact!

```

```
Which means, hey, maybe I won't be stuck here forever.

```

```
More good news: One of the defense turrets is still operational.

```

```
Yes, that means that three of them AREN'T, but there's only one of me to operate a turret, so in this case the math works out great.

```

```
So that means if the little green men DO come poking around, I'll have more than a smarmy pop-culture reference to defend myself with.

```

```
But now for the bad news: I've got no power for either the beacon or the guns. The reactor came down with the back half of the ship.

```

```
I'm quite certain we didn't pack any extension cords long enough to bridge that distance...

```

```
...and even if the reactor were right here, I seriously doubt it's in good enough shape to power much of anything at the moment.

```

```
So... I'm going to keep hunting in this end of the Varia and see if I can dig up some kind of alternate power source.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

*Delay: 10 minutes*

Click here to continue dialogue
Move the stasis pod.

## Dialogue

```
Right. That's the safer plan, so long as I can figure out some way to get this pod over there quickly.

```

```
You know what would come in handy on one of these things is --

```

```
nope, nope, nope

```

```
A-ha! YES! A hover mode!

```

```
Well, this is gonna suck some extra power from the ginny, but I'm not gonna look a gift hover-horse in the mouth.

```

```
(That's exactly how the old saying goes, right?)

```

```
Okay, I'm headed back to the captain. I'll message you once she's safe and sound.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
She's in, and the pod says she's stabilized!

```

```
Blood loss is dangerous, but not at critical levels yet, and this will keep the lung perforation from getting any worse.

```

```
Oh. Man. I'm not alone on this stupid rock.

```

```
This feels like a miracle.

```

## Options

* Don't celebrate yet.
* You've earned a rest.

## Previous Options

* I am so sorry.
* Just keep moving.
Smartkid

## Dialogue

```
Yeah, right. Smart kid with a stubbed toe.

```

## Options

*sorry about your toe*

*click here if Taylor told you their name already*
* Sorry about the toe, Einstein.

*click here if Taylor had not told you their name yet*
* Sorry about the toe, Einstein.

* Cope. Where are you now?

## Previous Options

* Okay. So where are you now?
* "Least prepared"?
Check out the alarm.

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## Dialogue

```
The generator's plugged back in and running the alarm system. Now I can scan back through its memory and try to figure out what broke the grid and set this thing off last night. Best guess? Strong winds whipped up a dust cloud, or even some small rocks. I mean, the wind gusted strong enough to roll my escape pod something like ten feet, night before last. I'll bet you anything that's all that happened here. I mean, it w--

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
This is so weird. I've watched it a couple times now. I keep rewinding and playing it over again. If you're watching really, REALLY carefully in Quadrant 2 (of the three that are functional), at the very outskirts of the grid... ...something moves by and breaks the perimeter just for a second. Something that looks like... ...No. Never mind. It can't be. I'm just going loopy, out here alone.

```

### Options

* "Looks like" what?
* Yeah, you probably are.

### Previous Options

* Previous Option 1
* Previous Option 2
Neeghan Fincastle

### Relatives

Celia Fincastle (sister), Adelle Fincastle (mother), Jacob Fincastle (father), Charles Trowbridge (uncle), Amelia Trowbridge (cousin), Shay Trowbridge (cousin)

## Physical description

### Gender

Female

Neeghan is the main character of the series *Neeghan’s Journey*, and a side character in the *Celia’s Journey* series. She is the sister of Celia Fincaslte, who is the Princep. She and the rest of her family live in Villandrie castle when not at school. Neeghan attends Renasci Academy where she is in Aqulegia.

## Gifts

Neeghan is gifted to an extreme in Sight, Mind, and Touch. She has some Speech gifts not to the same extent as her other gifts. She has absolutely no body gifts, none whatsoever, and its a running joke with her sister. According to Book in the Basement, her ALPHA scores were a 400 in Sight gifts, a 350 in Mind, and a 310 in Touch.  Secrets Hidden adds that she got a 3 in Body. However, Secrets also changes her scores, placing her sight at about 450. Sight is her strongest gift, which places her in Aquilegia.

## Appearance

Neeghan has blue eyes, and likely looks a good bit like her sister.

## Personality

Neeghan is an introverted and highly anxious person. Due to her time in imprisonment, she lacks social skills and does very badly in crowded, loud places. She experiences physical reactions when stressed, such as sweaty hands and heightened heart rate. These are probably undiagnosed anxiety attacks.

## History

### Time at Huperpetra

Neeghan and the rest of her family — with the exception of Celia and Higby — were kept in the basement of Huperpetra for the majority of her and her cousin's lifetimes. They were allowed out once a day, but Neeghan didn't have any true interactions with people outside her family. There was not much to do at Huperpetra, and Neeghan used to make flowers out of paper as a way to pass the time and to bring color to their stone cell. She eventually became quite adept at it, making intricately folded facsimiles. She also mastered the three board games they had, and beat Audra at Backgammon due to this.

## References

1. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *The Book in the Basement*, Neeghan's Journey 2 (Colorado Springs, CO: Hayes-Allan, 2019), [317].
2. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *Secrets Hidden*, Neeghan's Journey 3 (n.p.: Hayes-Allan, 2022), [76].
3. ↑ Gunther, *Secrets Hidden*, [395].
4. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *New Beginnings* (Colorado Springs, CO: Hayes-Allen, 2017), [4].
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gunther, *New Beginnings*, [6-8].
6. ↑ Gunther, *New Beginnings*, [227].
7. ↑ Gunther, *New Beginnings*, [331-2].
8. ↑ Gunther, *New Beginnings*, [230].
Lifeline: Whiteout - Walkthrough (Start)

## Dialogue

```
Incoming communication request.

```

```
Connecting.

```

```
Speech to text protocol initiated.

```

```
Link activated.

```

```
(static)

```

```
...ello? ...nybody there?

```

```
(static)

```

```
... think... had... accident.

```

```
Ple... help.

```

```
(static)

```

```
(static)

```

```
... an... you... me?

```

```
(static)

```

```
I repeat: ...an you ...ead me?

```

```
Start each new line with a space

```

```
do this to make a new box

```

### Options

* Not really.
* Yes, but there's a ton of static.

Why aren't the answers linked
Now I want some coffee.

## Dialogue

```
You know what? That's totally fair.

```

```
Go on and get yourself a cup. Maybe pour a little out for your ol' pal Taylor, stranded at the cosmic crossroads.

```

```
As for me, the crater's opposite wall is in sight. I'm gonna buckle down, grit my teeth, and hobble my way on over there.

```

```
Thanks for the pep talk. I'll message you in a bit.

```

```
[Taylor is busy]

```

```
Well, it actually didn't take as long to cross the crater floor as I thought it might.

```

```
Putting pressure on the ankle doesn't feel great, but I can handle it.

```

```
Here's the strange thing, though: Maybe fifty yards back, I tripped over something while I was walking.

```

```
(Yeah, I know, I've been so graceful so far, it must be hard for you to believe.)

```

```
Anyway, it was pretty well buried in the sand, but when I looked down at it... it glinted at me in the sun.

```

```
Because it was METAL.

```

```
It took me a minute to dig it up, and I've been examining it ever since, but I'm still not sure what it is, exactly.

```

```
I mean, I guess it's GOT to be a panel from the Varia... it's just weird that it came down so far from the rest of the ship, huh?

```

```
Anyhow. I've found a gentle grade to try and climb out of here, but I want to give it my full concentration.

```

```
So I'll message you once I'm back up top, cool?

```

```
[Taylor is busy]

```

```
Um. So. Here's something.

```

```
On this side of the crater, there's a little ridge.

```

```
And on that little ridge, there are more little pieces of metal.

```

```
Like, SEVERAL more.

```

```
And then, just on the other side of that little ridge -- where you can't see it until you've crested the little ridge --

```

```
There's, um...

```

```
...there's a spaceship.

```

```
[Taylor is busy]

```

```
So... yeah. It's a good thing that the air here is okay to breathe, because I've been hyperventilating it for the last minute or so.

```

```
What the hell? I mean... I mean, what the hell? Seriously, just, what the hell?

```

```
(I was a science student, not an English student. Forgive me.)

```

```
From up here, I can tell it's a much smaller ship than the Varia -- it's what I think they call a caravel-class vessel.

```

```
It would've had half a dozen crew, tops, making quick runs with minimal armament.

```

```
Minimal defenses.

```

```
What is it doing here? How long has it been here?

```

```
The engine looks like it was just... SHEARED from the rest of the ship. Did they collide with space debris, maybe?

```

```
God. I have about a million questions.

```

```
Should I go down there and explore the wreckage, do you think?

```

```
Or do I keep to higher ground, and stay the hell away from that ship and whatever brought it out of the sky?

```

## Options

* Explore the wreckage.
* Stay clear of it.

## Previous Options

* Sure. All the time.
* Never had the pleasure.
Arriveatcrash

*or "Might as well head back. cont."*

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## Dialogue

```
Okay. At long last, I'm in sight of the Varia. Or what's left of it, at any rate.

```

```
It seems to have cracked hard once it hit atmosphere

```

```
Like I figured, it came down in two major chunks...

```

```
...with a ton of scattered debris thrown around just to make the whole scene look terrifying and post-apocalyptic.

```

```
(In case anyone asks, it's working; I'm appropriately terrified.)

```

```
Looks like the flight deck came down pretty far from the crew quarters. Where do you figure I should go first?

```

## Options

* Look for the crew.
* Check the flight deck.

## Previous Options

* Option 1
* Option 2
Sure. Honor the dead.

## Dialogue

```
Yeah, you're right. I should... bury then, or something, huh?

```

```
There's got to be, like, a spade or some kind of... something to dig with.

```

```
Wait, what am I thinking?

```

```
I don't have time for sentimentality right now, and I certainly don't have time for grave-digging.

```

```
Captain Aya is waiting on me!

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Okay! Good News/Bad News time again.

```

```
Bad news: No medkit that I could find. I could get into the cabinet just fine, but the kit was gone.

```

```
Someone must have taken it for something, and not put it back before the crash. So it's probably still around, somewhere.

```

```
But! Good news: The Varia had two medical stasis pods on board.

```

```
One is so much scrap metal now (bad news), but the other is still intact, and all functions have a green light!

```

```
How do I know, you might ask?

```

```
Because I also found a portable generator!

```

```
(And then I did a little portable generator dance.)

```

```
It's small, but it'll keep the stasis pod running for days.

```

```
And the pod might not be able to heal the Captain, but it'll keep her wounds in check and keep that lung from getting any worse.

```

```
It's gonna be a pain in the ass to  haul the pod and the ginny all the way back to the Captain, though.

```

```
You think I should bring her here, or try to rig this thing up to move it to her?

```

## Options

* Move the Captain.
* Move the stasis pod.

## Previous Options

* Later. Meds come first.
* I am so sorry.
Slow down

## Dialogue

```
Oh. Sorry. I guess I was getting a little ahead of myself.

```

```
My name's Taylor.

```

```
Student astronaut, formerly of the Varia. Which was formerly a ship.

```

```
Now it's two twisted, useless pieces of metal, crashed on a desert moon in the Tau Ceti system.

```

### Options

* Yikes. Sounds rough.
* Nice to meet you, Taylor.

### Previous Options

* I don't think that was it.
* Now... how did that old poem go, again?
Sure. All the time.

## Dialogue

```
Oh, yeah? First time, for me.

```

```
Maybe you can give me some travel tips.

```

```
Any idea where to score a quality mocha latte around here? I'm absolutely USELESS before that first cup of coffee.

```

```
Other situations in which I'm absolutely useless: wandering around a giant moon crater.

```

```
Sigh.

```

## Options

* Just keep at it.
* Now I want some coffee.

## Previous Options

* No worries. Wanna chat?
* Sorry. No time to chat.
What? What is it?

```
There's another bright green block.

```

```
Southwest of the Varia site.

```

```
And... oh, no.

```

```
There's another one.

```

```
Pull back. Pull back as far as it'll go.

```

```
Sweet mother of...

```

```
There are DOZENS.

```

```
Dozens of shipwrecks, on this moon.

```

```
How... HOW?

```

```
This is... impossible.

```

## Options

* How many, total?
* Get out of there.
Give climbing a try.

Choosing this option will cause Taylor to break a leg and die.

## Dialogue

```
I really...aw, screw it.

```

```
Okay, I've come this far, no sense in giving up now. Here goes nothing!

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
ah no i broke i broke my leg

```

```
oh god its a compound its the bone is sticking right through the ieva suit

```

```
ive never broken a bone in my life and now this

```

```
oh my god shouldnt i go into shock at some point cause the pain is freaking overwhelming

```

```
hey no offense but your advice? sucks

```

```
[connection lost]

```

```
[Taylor has died]

```

## Storyline A: Radiation sickness, maybe?/Like normal spit, weirdo.

If you came here from Radiation sickness, maybe? or Like normal spit, weirdo.

### Previous options

* Back out of the canyon.
* Find a way around.

## Storyline B: Better get moving, then.

If you came here from Better get moving, then.

### Previous Options

* Might as well head back.
* Find a way around.
Deadcrewfirst

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## Dialogue

```
Behind the sealed door to the rear quarters, though, I... I found the rest of the crew.

```

```
Antoine, Trotter, Colby, Adair. All dead. All of them, just... dead.

```

```
I don't see Captain Aya anywhere. I don't know...

```

```
I... I don't think I can do this. Knowing that all of them, every one of them... I just...

```

### Options

* Honor the dead.
* Just keep moving.

### Previous Options

* Previous Option 1
* Previous Option 2
Colby

## Info

Taylor describes Colby as being the nicest and smartest of the Varia crew, and a maternal figure to them. Taylor's survival of the Varia crash is attributed to the swift actions of Colby who pushed Taylor into an escape pod and went to assist the other crew moments before the crash. Unfortunately, Colby dies in the crash of the Varia.
Lay it on me. (2)

```
Okay. I'm not exactly sure what to make of this.

```

```
Best case scenario, I'm about to get really, REALLY rescued.

```

```
Because where there used to be one human-shaped human approaching my location...

```

Optional:

```
...now there are four.

```

Optional:

```
...now there are five.

```

## Options

* Go out and meet them. (2)
* Stay where you are.
Head straight across.

## Dialogue

```
You got it. I'm gonna scout for the gentlest gradient.

```

```
I'll get back to you momentarily.

```

```
[Taylor is busy]

```

```
Okay. So. That did not work very well.

```

```
Everything was going fine, and then suddenly the ground just gave out from under me.

```

```
(Which, now that I think about it, describes most of my relationships back home.)

```

```
What looked like a solid piece of crater wall was nothing but sand.

```

```
My foot went through, I pitched forward, and... yeah.

```

```
Good news: I made it to the bottom of the canyon!

```

```
Bad news: Twisted the living crap out of my ankle. I can feel it swelling already.

```

```
So for anyone keeping track at home...

```

```
...that's one (1) banged up shoulder, one (1) screwed-up ankle.

```

```
So it's either keep pushing forward to the other side of the crater...

```

```
...or climb back up now and THEN walk the perimeter.

```

## Storyline B

*If you didn't force open the galley.*

```
You got it. I'm gonna scout for the gentlest gradient.

```

```
I'll get back to you momentarily.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Okay. So. That did not work very well.

```

```
Everything was going fine, and then suddenly the ground just gave out from under me.

```

```
(Which, now that I think about it, describes most of my relationships back home.)

```

```
What looked like a solid piece of crater wall was nothing but sand.

```

```
My foot went through, I pitched forward, and... yeah.

```

```
Good news: I made it to the bottom of the canyon!

```

```
Bad news: Twisted the living crap out of my ankle. I can feel it swelling already.

```

```
Good news (?): If there ARE any aliens watching, it's a sure bet I'm a finalist on their Desolate Moon's Funniest Videos show.

```

```
Bad news: Any time I was saving by moving in a straight line, I just lost to injury.

```

```
So it's either keep pushing forward to the other side of the crater...

```

```
...or climb back up now and THEN walk the perimeter.

```

## Options

* Keep moving ahead.
* Climb back up now.

## Previous Options

* Find a way around.
* Back out of the canyon.
Go through the door.

## Dialogue

```
Here goes nothing.

```

```
Through the doorway. It opens into a sort of nondescript hallway, rock walls on all sides.

```

```
"Nondescript" other than that it, too, is at human scale, which does actually seem like something worth mentioning.

```

```
Once the light from outdoors tapers off, it's dark as pitch in here, which is not helping my nerves at all...

```

```
...but there's light ahead. Distantly.

```

```
In the meantime, I guess I can spark up a glow rod and--

```

```
OH HOLY CRAP!

```

### Options

* What happened?
* Are you okay?

### Previous Options

* Scout the perimeter.
* Check out the opening.
Trotter

## Info

Trotter died in the Varia crash (Look for the crew.). Trotter's name, among the other crew members' names, has been revealed to be derived from the TV series Upright Citizens Brigade.

## Trivia

According to Taylor, Trotter is described as "the slowest of the bunch".

In the raw data, the choice is listed as

 `<<choice [[What happened?|trotterhappened]]`. Hilarious.