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Right. Head for the peak.

## Dialogue

```
It looks live I've got a long hike north, in a northward direction, before I get to that peak up north.

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```
From here, I can see a couple more craters in my direct path -- small ones, though, nothing like the one I navigated earlier.

```

```
This probably wouldn't be the worst time to pause for a little food and drink to refuel before I start off again.

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```
Shoulder hurts pretty bad.

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```
I guess there's no point doing much more thinking about it.

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```
I'm just burning daylight, and I don't really know how much of it I have to burn.

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```
So. . . off I go.

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```
It's gonna be a long march. If it's all the same to you, I'm gonna switch off the comm for a while and just concentrate on hiking.

```

```
Talk to you in a bit.

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```
[Taylor is Busy]

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```
Something strange to report. I've been keeping close tabs on it, because I didn't want to say anything until I was absolutely sure.

```

```
My IEVA suit's compass is 100% useless.

```

```
I got to the rim of a small crater, a little ways back, and elected just to walk its perimeter.

```

```
But the compass didn't alter itself in concert with my orientation.

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```
It just spun at random, or not at all -- it had nothing to do with which way I was facing.

```

```
In fact, I'm not sure it's been working properly ever since I was back at the caravel wreckage.

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```
I wasn't really watching it closely back then, but looking back, I'm more and more certain of it.

```

```
Could whatever brought the ship down have played havoc with its polarity somehow, too?

```

```
And more importantly, why wouldn't it have gone back to normal once I got away from the crash site?

```

```
I could still keep moving toward the peak, just navigating by sight, obviously. . .

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```
. . . but this is a little bit troubling, in consideration of the return trip.

```

```
The winds have been really calm for the last hour or so.

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```
If I wanted to trace my footsteps back the way I just came, this would be the time to make that decision.

```

## Options

* Keep heading for the peak.
* Turn back while you can.

## Previous Options

* Explore the wreckage.
* Stay clear of it.
Nocaravelgalley

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## Dialogue

```
Well, yeah, maybe that's the smart plan. Minimal reward, but minimal effort. Save my energy for hiking today.

```

```
Which might also be minimal reward. It's hard to know until I do a hell of a lot of it.

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```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

*Delay 5 minutes*

 click here to continue dialogue

### Previous Options

* Previous Option 1
* Previous Option 2
Sure, you've earned it.

### Dialogue

```
All right! I'm just gonna go with the first MRE I grab out of my pack.

```

```
And the winner is... chili with beans!

```

```
(In space, no one can hear you fart.)

```

```
Some would argue that chili with beans isn't proper chili at all.

```

```
Which side of this all-important debate you YOU land on?

```

## Options

* I prefer it with beans.
* No beans, ever.

## Previous Options

* Yes, keep going.
* Forget it. Turn back.
Keep moving straight ahead.

## Dialogue

```
If I were a character in a horror movie I was watching, I would be SO PISSED watching myself keep walking further into this wreck.

```

```
I can practically hear myself yelling at myself for proceeding down the hall.

```

```
"You've got a faulty compass," I'm shouting at myself. "You can barely see where you're going!"

```

```
"Your headlamp is starting to flicker, because you're a character in a bad horror movie!"

```

```
Oh. Crap. My headlamp is starting to flicker.

```

## Options

* Okay, turn back.
* Keep moving. Faster.

## Previous Options

* Try the east hall.
* Take the west hall.
Green Inhibitor

## Description

[SPOILER] The Green Inhibitor is a chip manufactured by the PWG to suppress the Green infection. If the host's heart rate exceeds 200 bpm, the inhibitor fails and the Green takes over the host's body (namely, Wynn). It can be seen in *Lifeline: Flatline*. The Pearson Corporation is also in wanting of it, once they were informed, leading to competition between PWG and Pearson.

[SPOILER] Delilah gives Pearson the information of the device at the PWG facility as a spy, thinking it was for the greater good due to a lack of trusting PWG.

[SPOILER] The properties are still not completely understood. According To Wynn, who is at the PWG facility, the inhibitor cannot tolerate some kind of LED lights, because they emit some type of sound, at least the ones found at the PWG facility facility. The device also has a Q-Comm device. The inhibitor can be blocked until the person who has it panics to the point that his or her heart's beats per minute surpasses somewhere beyond 200. However, the parasite can return back under the inhibitor, and can act on a person like that of the Incredible Hulk. This parasite now seems to be mutual with its host, working to the host's behalf by being able to have the Green's super strength ability, although it takes over the host entirely for a bit. The device is an ansible and is replicable. Varieties were created on animals and one human (namely Wynn), but some like on the chimps, such as Samson, failed. Green tendrils are able to bypass the metal wire varieties on animals and can be seen moving freely, even when the animal that the Green is making host is sleeping. When Wynn escapes, Wynn's new hospital is part of PWG and its leader, Einar Blom, decides to experiment on Wynn, especially after a CAT Scan showing the parasite gradually taking more control of Wynn's body over a short time. Also, if Wynn dies before reaching the true ending by cooperating with Einar Blom, and Wynn dies or is dying, the host has the ability to "initiate parasite destruction, note: this will incinerate host brain tissue." If the player chooses not to approve of destruction, it says that "Parasite now has unrestricted access to host. Goodbye. And Good Luck."
Timeless Monks

A depiction of the Timeless Monks

The Timeless Monks are a magic-using Order of twelve (what are referred to as) monks encountered by *Arika Lanphear* in *Lifeline 2: Bloodline*.

## Appearance

The monks wear robes with hoods over their heads, obscuring their faces.

Once *Arika Lanphear* sees their faces, she describes them as a "pretty normal looking guy", like "a realtor or a bank clerk" who's just shaved his head. The exception to this is they all have fully pitch-black eyes, which *Arika* describes as "unholy", "dead" and "creeptastic", and says they terrify her in "a way that's extremely difficult to describe." *Arika* dubs the monks as "boring, scary bank clerk dudes probably named Brian."

Underneath their robes, the monks are made up of bare machinery amalgamated with organs harvested from mutilated humans.

## Description

The Timeless Monks are a magic-using Order of monks, living and working in the monastery. There are exactly twelve monks, supposedly one for each hour of a common clock. They are encountered by *Arika Lanphear* in *Lifeline 2: Bloodline* inside the medieval Gothic abbey, hidden under a spell Not much is commonly known of the Timeless Monks aside from the fact that they are able to control time using magic. According to the Green-eyed Woman they have possible relations to *The Green*. Their leader was named Clepsydra, who was mutilated, his organs being made part of the monks machinery.

## History

The Timeless Monks' origin before Oregon is somewhere in Europe (perhaps in Sweden?), but have the ability to make their home in Oregon to age hundreds of years old. They want to experiment Arika for unknown purposes, but Arika manages to escape with their key they have in their grandfather clock.

The Timeless Monks talk about warp and weft as a means to travel. They also say that magic is useless word.

In Lifeline: Crisis Line, the Green-eyed Woman mentions that the Timeless Monks were well aware of the Green-eyed woman's mind powers, but instead turned into a bunch of cyborgs in a lunatic religion.

## Trivia

* During their introduction, Arika Lanphear riffs off the Timeless Monks name, Ordo Fratrum Artificis Temporis, calling them "order the frat boys some artificial tempura."
* Their leader, Clepsydra is named after water clocks.
New Tenacity

## Description

A small, secret community of mages and wizardry in the Lifeline Series.

## Location

The woods near in Washington, probably near the Washington-Oregon border.

## Reasons it Matters

* Home of Arika Lanphear and a town full of magical mages
* Lanphear needs to go there to retrieve her younger brother, Rand
* Location of final showdown appears *Lifeline 2: Bloodlines*

[SPOILERS] New Tenacity is mentioned by Mary Jo in Lifeline: Crisis Line and by Abela in Lifeline: Flatline. Headline news seems to have reported the incident with Arika killing all of the Green area in New Tenacity as a massive fire, but nothing more.

[SPOILERS] The concept of the Green taking of the the town can be similar to the description of a "rat king" by Wynn in Lifeline: Flatline as well as the town is the foundation of HelpBot in Lifeline: Beside You In Time.
Keep heading for the peak.

## Dialogue

```
You're right. I've come this far. There's really no choice but to keep moving forward.

```

```
All right. Ever northward.

```

```
Despite what the compass says.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
You're gonna think I sound crazy. . . and, hell, maybe by this point I am.

```

```
But I honestly don't think the peak has gotten any closer since the last time I checked in with you.

```

```
I've been marching relentlessly in that direction -- nose to the grindstone, full steam ahead, other similar expressions --

```

```
but just eyeballing it? I haven't gained any ground at all.

```

```
I'm sure it's just an optical illusion.

```

```
I'm tired as hell, but I'm just gonna keep at it. Unless. . . you think maybe I shouldn't?

```

## Options

* Keep going for the peak.
* Head back to the Varia.

## Previous Options

* Take the ginny with you.
* Right. Head for the peak.
* Maybe check the ship.
Run for the rescue ship.

```
I don't... I don't think I'd make it. It's a hundred yards away, over increasingly uneven terrain.

```

```
And these THINGS have broken me. I don't have the spirit to run.

```

```
To hell with it.

```

```
To hell with ME.

```

## Options

* So that's it? You're quitting?
* Do NOT give up right now!

## Previous Options

* Run for the rescue ship.
* Run back inside the peak.
Keep going for the peak.

## Dialogue

```
Right. Of course. No stopping now.

```

```
There is, however, pausing now, because I'm so thirsty I can barely think straight.

```

```
I'm gonna hydrate and then get back to hiking.

```

```
I'll check in after a while, when I'm closer to the peak.

```

```
Which I OBVIOUSLY will be. Because you can't keep moving toward something and never reach it. OBVIOUSLY.

```

```
(Obviously?)

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Still...don't think I'm any closer to the peak.

```

```
Tau Ceti is on its way down. And the peak looks--I know how weird this is going to sound--but it looks sort of...shimmery.

```

```
Shimmery and green. Like it's putting out a real low level glow...kind of.

```

```
Unfortunately, I can't seem to get any closer to that stupid peak to figure out what's making that stupid glow.

```

```
I think... I think I have to turn back. I don't feel like I can get there before it starts to turn dark.

```

```
Hell, I don't know if I can get back to the Varia before it turns dark. I might be lucky to make it back to the caravel wreck.

```

```
And that's about the most tenuous definition of "lucky" I can imagine.

```

## Options

* Turn around and head back.
* Just keep pushing ahead.

## Previous Options

* Head back to the Varia.
* Keep heading for the peak.
Power the beacon.

## Dialogue

```
I... God, I guess I really have to consider that, don't I?

```

```
I mean, if I don't signal someone that I'm here, then the Captain's dead when the ginny runs dry...

```

```
...and I'm dead when I'm out of rations.

```

```
(And before you even THINK of suggesting cannibalism, just know that the idea is off the table. Figuratively and literally.)

```

```
Captain Aya was always about using hard logic to make her decision. I guess that's what we've come down to.

```

```
Am I really willing to let her die, just for the chance to save myself?

```

## Options

* No. Power the pod.
* You need that beacon.

## Previous Options

* Keep powering the pod.
* Try the lab.
* Try the galley.
* Get some shut-eye.
Branchingcorridor

*or "Explore this end." or "Just keep moving." cont or "Makes sense. Keep exploring." or "Don't celebrate yet." cont. there are many, many other ways (12 I think) you could arrive at the dialogue but I don't wanna look them all up. add them if you like.*

## 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 those graves.
* Don't celebrate yet.
* You've earned a rest.
* Just keep moving.
Rhitrus Cube

The Rhitrus Cube is an object created to go alongside the Book of Nawanc. It is used by princeps to make the reading of this book easier. It is currently in the possession of Celia Fincastle, but was previously owned by Violet Hilleman.

## Appearance

The Rhitrus Cube is, as the name may suggest, a cube that is covered with rune-like characters. It has a dome on its topmost side, and a lever and latch on the sides. When laying flat, it makes a rectangle the same size and shape of a page in the Book of Nawanc, with the dome becoming lens-like and see-through.

## Use

The Rhitrus Cube was made for princeps without the benefit of sight gifts that would make reading the book easier. It engages with touch gifts and can also interact with mind gifts. One touches the dome in a specific way and this changes it so that it sits flat. Dials and levers are used to focus the lens as one would a microscope.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Melissa Gunther, *The Final Word* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2015), [718].
2. ↑ Gunther, *The Final*, [719].
Build yourself a compass.

```

```
(Maybe I should put "fun" in quotes. It's a pretty nerdy version of "fun," if we're being honest.)

```

```
The medkit has a couple of needles in it, so that's easy enough.

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```
I've done this before with a bowl of water, but it's not like I'm going to balance one of those while I'm hiking all day...

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```
...but really, the important thing is just that the compass face is able to float, frictionless, while it spins.

```

```
So instead I'm gonna do a variation, where the compass face is balanced on, like, a pushpin or a brad. Something like that.

```

```
Of course, the most important part of making any compass is finding a magnet -- preferably, a rare earth magnet --

```

```
but fortunately, up in the flight deck there's whole bank of computers that aren't using their hard drives right now!

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```
A little bit of gentle disassembly (by which I mean, I'm gonna smash the living crap out of 'em with whatever's handy)...

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```
...and I'll have the magnets out of those drives and rubbed on these needles in no time!

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```
[Taylor is Busy]

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```
And voila! I magnetized the needles, attached 'em to a featherweight disc of plastic MRE wrapper...

```

```
...mounted it all on a bent paper clip, and couched the whole assembly in a piece of PVC tubing.

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```
It may not be pretty, but it seems to actually work.

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```
By which I mean, it points toward the peak and tells me that's north -- which is better than my suit compass can do.

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```
Score one for the indoor kid!

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```
All right. My compass and I are heading north. Weird-ass peak or bust. I'll message you after a while.

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```
[Taylor is Busy]

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```
Okay. I reached this point yesterday, having detoured around the rim of a little crater.

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```
This was where I was realizing that my IEVA suit compass was all screwy, even though I was probably five miles from the wreck.

```

```
(That's... like... eight kilometers? I'm trying. I really am.)

```

```
And that's still the case today. The suit compass is nuttier than two squirrels in a winter food hoarding competition.

```

```
My homemade compass, on the other hand, seems to be working perfectly.

```

```
Maybe they should've had me scratch-build the Varia, too. It might've stayed in one piece that way.

```

```
...Ugh. That joke went a little dark right in the middle of me telling it. Sorry about that.

```

```
Once again, I don't feel like I'm any closer to the peak. Once again, I'm questioning whether to keep going.

```

## Options

* Yes, keep going.
* Forget it. Turn back.

## Previous Options

* Yes, go for it!
* I sincerely doubt it.
Melanie (Mel) Chior

Melanie (Mel) Choir is said to be wing commander of the ninth battalion in multiple episodes of the Lifeline Series.

[SPOILER] Mel is introduced in the post-ending of Lifeline, approaching the moon Taylor described as so dangerous that it ought to be nuked. She is ultimately the tragic protagonist of the post-ending of Lifeline, where she will get infected by the Green one way or another. She described herself as always wanting to be the best in the military because she had a hard upbringing, and that she had only felt scared one other time before her inevitable death, having broken her bones by the Green altering the ground below her. In one ending, Captain Aya suggests that Melanie Choir's mentality and will might be suitable enough for a queen. After being infected, it is revealed that the Green-infected Choir tells her military division that no nukes are necessary and that Taylor was lying.

[SPOILER] Choir is one of the three protagonists in Lifeline: Silent Night, where she and her two other infected crewmates intend to take over the White Star, the ship Taylor is stranded on. In Lifeline: Halfway to Infinity, Taylor has access to the Viridian's database and gives human-esque analysis that Choir and the others soldiers previously were, and has the option to listen to Choir's space-themed music playlist.

[SPOILER] Melanie, Balthazar, and Casper are references to the Three Wise Men (Melchior, Balthazar, and Gaspar) that travel towards Bethlehem after following a star that leads them there to witness the birth of Jesus, and who give baby Jesus gifts.
Justbreathe

## Dialogue

```
Right. You're right. The atmosphere is breathable, might as well breathe it.

```

```
I mean, it's like Colby said, more than once:

```

```
Don't waste time worrying about "what if," just concentrate on "what is."

```

```
So. Let's do that.

```

## Options

* Okay. Where are you?
* Are you hurt?

## Previous Options

* Whoa. Take it easy.
* Okay. Calm down.
Morecracks

*Or "What is the problem?"*

## Dialogue

```
The surface of the moon. All the rock inside this crater, it's... it's cracking.

```

```
With the peak at its center, the rock is just... splitting. Just opening up. Little cracks feeding into bigger ones.

```

```
And there's light coming through those cracks.

```

```
Three guesses what unnatural color it is.

```

```
No. This is a nightmare.

```

```
I thought... I thought I had nine little green aliens to worry about.

```

```
But no.

```

```
I've got THOUSANDS.

```

## Options

* Run for the rescue ship.
* Run back inside the peak.
Take the ginny with you.

Yeah. Fair enough. I mean. It will slow me down a little. But it might be worth it in the long run.

I mean, there's a chance I could need it for something when I get to the peek...

...or--and I'm trying not to think about this--there's a chance that if I left it here with the caravel...

...I might make it back here, only to find the genaretor missing. In that case, I'd suddenly have MUCH bigger worries.

I guess there's not point doing much more thinking about it.

I'm just burning daylight, and I really don't know how much I've burned.

So...of I go.

Its going to be a long March. If it's all the same to you,I'm gona swith off the comm for a while and just concentrate on hiking.

Talk to you in a bit.

[Taylor is busy]
Go out and meet them.

```
Yeah. I can do that, I guess. I mean, they're still a little ways out. The walk will give me a while to mentally prepare for this.

```

```
(As if there were any way to mentally prepare for this.)

```

```
Because there's no doubt, they're heading right for where I am.

```

```
And then... what?

```

```
Am I rescued?

```

Optional:

```
Did the Varia's beacon actually bring somebody to save me?

```

```
Or is this a survivor from one of the other crashes? Someone in worse shape than I am?

```

```
Okay, I'm gonna go intercept them. Whoever they are.

```

```
I just--

```

Continued: Disappearance
Keep digging.

## Dialogue

```
Seriously? Are you trying to kill me?

```

```
I´m all about paying respects, but I´m not looking for the next grave I dig to be my own.

```

```
This is hard work, and I´m burning calories I haven´t eaten yet, and maybe never will.

```

### Options

* Fine. Rest a while.
* Go check the flight deck.

### Previous Options

*These choices are wrong*

* Check the flight deck.
* Keep digging.
Step back from there.

```
Yes. Good plan. No sense in actively hunting whatever creepy alien creature is scampering around in the wiring, is there?

```

```
I mentioned before, I've seen an awful lot of sci-fi/horror movies.

```

```
Over the last couple days, it's become pretty evident that I've seen TOO MANY. More than was good for me.

```

```
But I know, this scenario NEVER ends well for the person wearing the "Hello, My Name Is TAYLOR" nametag.

```

```
It's... it's louder over here. Behind the pulse countdown computer.

```

```
This is me, stepping away from the pulse countdown computer, not rushing headlong into

```

```
OH MY GOD

```

## Options

* What happened? (1)
* Are you all right?
Sorrytoe

## Dialogue

```
Ha. Yeah, well. I've been told I use sarcasm as a weapon, and right now, I'm not armed with anything else.

```

```
So let's hope that if there's any sort of little green men waiting to jump out and attack me...

```

```
...they're vulnerable to ironic comments and eye-rolling.

```

```
Anyway. Why don't I tell you what I can see from here, maybe you can advise me on where to go.

```

```
All right, so, my escape pod came down in some kind of desert.

```

```
The ground is all cracked white rock. There's a huge white peak a few miles away.

```

```
Or, uh, kilometers, I guess. (They tried to get me to think metric for the trip, but some things are just hardwired.

```

```
It's weirdly symmetrical, like it might not be a natural formation.

```

```
My IEVA suit's compass places the peak northeast, and then, in the opposite direction -- south and southwest, to be precise --

```

```
...are two funnels of black smoke from what I have to assume are two pieces of the Varia.

```

```
Best case scenario, it's ONLY in two pieces.

```

```
The crash sites look closer than the peak. What do you think I should do?

```

## Options

* Check the crash.
* Head for the peak.

## Previous Options

* Cope. Where are you now?
* Oooh. Smart kid.
Keep moving ahead.

## Dialogue

```
Only logical move, really.

```

```
So, there's gonna be a long, flat march of nothing but me swearing about my ankle.

```

```
I'll switch if the comm and spare you that, if it's all the same to you.

```

```
If anything amazing happens, though, I promise, I'll let you know.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
OH MY GOD! You'll never believe it!

```

```
I'm still stuck in a moon crater and my ankle still hurts!

```

```
...Sorry. I was just going a little bonkers, with nothing but the sound of my own thoughts.

```

## Options

* No worries. Wanna chat?
* Sorry. No time to chat.

## Previous Options

* Head straight across.
* Walk the perimeter.
Leastprepared

*only shows up if Taylor had not told you that they were a student yet*

# Dialogue

```
Because... I'm a student, okay?

```

```
Not an astronaut. My number came up in a lottery of science students, and I got to join this mission.

```

```
I was on board the Varia running zero-G experiments on rats and
lichens and stuff.

```

```
I was never, ever meant to be without a trained supervisor by my side at any time.

```

```
So it's safe to say that this crash landing wasn't covered anywhere in my student handbook.

```

*this part shows up regardless of whether Taylor has told you they are a student or not*

```
I mean, this definitely wasn't on the exam in science class.
And I was in Advanced Placement!

```

## Options

* Oooh. Smart kid.
* Okay. So where are you now?
It definitely is not.

## Dialogue

```
That's what I'm saying. But still... it's freaking me right the hell out.

```

```
They're exactly my size, exactly the same tread pattern.

```

```
I don't know. I'm not sure how I could be walking in a straight line, and
walking in circles at the same time.

```

```
I don't want to think about it any more. I'm just gonna put my head down and
keep walking forward.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
I'm here. I'm finally here. I sort of can't believe it.

```

```
I know, a lot of times, people talk about how they "never" thought they were
going to achieve some goal...

```

```
...but I think it's usually hyperbole. Not in this case, though. I literally
never thought I'd make it here.

```

```
It's big, bigger than I would have thought. Not just taller, but bigger around
at the base.

```

```
There's a recessed area, maybe fifty yards to my left.

```

```
Should I check that out, or scout around the perimeter first?

```

## Options

* Scout the perimeter.
* Check out the opening.

## Previous Options

* Okay, that IS weird.
* That MUST be an illusion.
Whatsitsay

## Dialogue

```
I have no idea what it says.

```

```
It's... I'm 99% sure it's Chinese characters.

```

```
The caravel looked to be a Chinese-origin ship. Does that mean... someone survived that wreck? Someone made it to this peak?

```

```
How did we never hear about a Chinese ship being scuttled on this moon --
ESPECIALLY if there was a survivor?

```

```
Could their National Space Administration really have covered this up? And WHY? What...

```

```
...what went wrong?

```

```
I don't know that there's much for me to do other than keep walking around this thing.

```

```
I forgot to pack my Chinese-to-English dictionary. You never have one when you really need it.

```

```
Okay. Back to exploring.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

delay: 10 min

*if you had Taylor make a homemade compass*
click here to continue dialogue

*if you did not have Taylor make a compass*
 click here to continue dialogue
Okay, turn back.

```
Yeah. Yes This is the safe plan. The smart plan.

```

```
Nobody ever got space-murdered by NOT walking into the space-murderer's lair.

```

```
At least not in any space-murder movie I'VE ever seen. And I've seen more than a few. (Remember, I'm terrible at sports.)

```

```
So let's leave this creepy wreck in the rearview and keep heading for the creepy peak instead.

```

```
(...It sounda worse when I say it out loud. )

```

```
It looks like I've got a long hike north, in a northward direction, before I get to that peak up north.

```

```
From here, I can see a couple more craters in my direct path  - -  small ones, though, nothing like the one I navigated earlier.

```

```
This probably wouldn't be the worst time to pause for a snack before I start off again . . .

```

```
...if you can call rat pellets and Habitrail water a "snack."

```

```
I guess there's no point doing much more thinking about it.

```

```
I'm just burning daylight, and I don't really know how much of it I have to burn.

```

```
So...off I go.

```

```
It's gonna be a long march. If it's all the same to you. I'm gonna switch off the comm for a while and just concentrate on hiking.

```

```
Talk to you in a bit.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Something strange to report. I've been keeping close tabs on it, because I didn't want to say anything until I was absolutely sure.

```

```
My IEVA suit's compass is 100% useless.

```

```
I got to the rim of a small crater, a little ways back, and elected just to walk its perimeter.

```

```
But the compass didn't alter itself in concert with my orientation.

```

```
It just spun at random, or not at all -- it had nothing to do with which way I was facing.

```

```
In fact, I'm not sure it's been working properly ever since I was back at the caravel wreckage.

```

```
I wasn't really watching it closely back then, but looking back, I'm more and more certain of it.

```

```
Could whatever brought the ship down have played havoc with its polarity somehow, too?

```

```
And more importantly, why wouldn't it have gone back to normal once I got away from the crash site?

```

```
I could still keep moving toward the peak, just navigating by sight, obviously...

```

```
...but this is a little bit troubling, in consideration of the return trip.

```

```
The winds have been really calm for the last hour or so.

```

```
If I wanted to trace my footsteps back the way I came, this would be the time to make that decision.

```

## Options

* Keep heading for the peak.
* Turn back while you can.

## Previous Options

* No, you should explore it.
* Explore the wreckage.
Push on to the Varia.

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```
I'm at a point where I can no longer differentiate between stubbornness and lunacy.

```

```
Ha. "Lunacy." Because it's a moon.

```

```
I hope you're laughing, wherever you are. That might be the last joke I ever tell.

```

[Taylor is busy]

## Previous Options

* Go back to the caravel.
* Push on to the Varia.
T2

Description:

T2 is a future self of Taylor orbiting a black hole in Lifeline: Halfway to Infinity and is also featured in Lifeline: Beside You In Time.

[SPOILER] In Lifeline: Halfway to Infinity, T2 is revealed to be a Green-infected future self. T2 got a scar across T2's face before T2 got infected by the Green.

[SPOILER] T2 taunts Taylor, but ends up being sucked up, along with Taylor and the Green intended to infect Taylor into a black hole.

[SPOILER] In Lifeline: Beside You In Time, T2's affects of the Green becomes lost when T2 enters another universe, and essentially earns enough free will to just do what the Green commands. T2 finds it optimal to work with Taylor to get off a station named the Celadon Ace, controlled by HelpBot QTC. Somewhat-Green-controlled T2 suspects that HelpBot is something not to be trusted, and such predictions turn out to be right. T2 describes the Green's influence as something honorable to do and is something an infected organism would die fighting for. Gradually, T2 turns from an antagonist to a tragic protagonist who dies one way or another by Halliday, an infected crewmate aboard the station, and sacrifices one's own self to destroy the HelpBot QTC system.
Turn around and head back.

## Dialogue

```
Yeah... maybe this is the best plan. I mean, given Tau Ceti's position in the sky, I've got less day ahead of me than behind.

```

```
As long as I can see my boot prints in the sand, I'll have no problem.

```

```
If and when those disappear, I'll have to navigate by landmarks like the caravel site and, past that, the enormous crater.

```

```
If my luck holds, I'll make it back to the Varia before sunset.

```

```
Maybe once I'm there, I can build a compass out of spare parts. I think I still remember how to do that.

```

```
Anyway. Enough talkin'. No time for chattin'. Not even enough time for puttin' the "g" at the end of words.

```

```
That's how you know I'm really running' short on time.

```

```
All right. Back to hikin'.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
I'm back in sight of the caravel wreckage. I never though I'd be grateful to see this haunted house of a starship again.

```

```
I'm feeling weak as anything.

```

```
The rations from the Varia will keep body and soul together nominally...

```

```
...but I don't think they were designed for the active, outdoors lifestyle I've been living ever since I got marooned.

```

```
From here, if memory serves, it's better than four hours' walk back to the Varia.

```

```
At least, that's how long it took me to get from there to here earlier. And that was WITH a working compass.

```

```
My suit's headlamp is totally dead at this point.

```

```
Once Tau Ceti sets, I'll be completely blind.

```

```
I guess my options are to forge ahead toward the Varia, and pray I get there before I run out of light...

```

```
...or else make camp here, despite how scary that sounds, and get busy figuring out how to stay warm for the night.

```

## Options

* Keep going to the Varia.
* Make Camp.
Keepwanderingcrater

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## Dialogue

```
Yup. That's the plan. The 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]

```

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### Previous Options

* Previous Option 1
* Previous Option 2
Whos this

## Dialogue

```
Oh, hey, that was rude of me. Sorry.

```

```
My name's Taylor.

```

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

```

```
Until it got yanked out of the void and smashed to flinders on a desert moon in the Tau Ceti system.

```

```
So I scuttled around like a hermit crab whose shell had been hammered open...

```

```
...until this mining ship, the White Star, was kind enough to swoop in to my rescue.

```

### Options

* Well, that was lucky.
* Oh, yeah! Taylor! I know you!

### Previous Options

* Now... how did that old poem go, again?
Backoutofcanyondaytwo

## Dialogue

```
Yeah, I'm with you. I think that's the right call.

```

```
That whole boulder situation looked like a deathtrap waiting to spring.

```

```
There's a gentle slope up the canyon wall, a few hundred yards back.

```

```
(No, I can't rattle that off in metric. A hecto-bunch? A picobuttload?)

```

```
I hate to lose time from doubling back...

```

```
...but it's preferable to the whole "breaking a leg 5,000 picobuttloads from the nearest hospital" scenario.

```

```
Anyway. Off I go.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

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## Previous Options

* Ugh. Thanks for sharing.
* Radiation sickness, maybe?
Areyouallright

## Dialogue

```
Let's see. My ship just crashed in the middle of nowhere.

```

```
No one is hailing on this frequency, and I don't see any survivors other than me...

```

```
...the least prepared person in existence for this sort of emergency!

```

```
But I got out of the whole mess with nothing more than a stubbed toe, so things are looking just peachy.

```

```
Thanks for asking.

```

## Options

* Sorry about the toe. Smartass.
* "Least prepared"?

## Previous Options

* Who are you?
* What happened?
Pull it out!

```
Okay, Okay. Good deal, I'll just

```

```
OH MAN now there's way more blood than before! How do I you know, stanch the bleeding?

```

```
Stanch? Staunch? I don't even know the right word!

```

```
OH man, please stop bleeding Captain Aya, please, I'm gonna. I'm gonna look for a gauze or something.

```

```
I don't know. Oh man. Oh man.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
She... she didn't make it.

```

```
Captain Aya is dead.

```

## Options

* I am so sorry.
* Keep it together!

## Previous Options

* Leave it in.
* Check the flight deck.
Crewbodies

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## Dialogue

```
Okay. Okay. Well, this wasn't unexpected, but still.

```

```
I, uh... I found some of the crew.

```

```
It's... oh, man. Hang on.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

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### Previous Options

* Previous Option 1
* Previous Option 2
Variainfo

## Dialogue

```
The Varia was a transport ship. Nothing fancy. Crew of less than a dozen.

```

```
We were en route to Tau Ceti IV and, as far as I knew, everything was going fine!

```

```
We were set to dock in six more days.

```

```
But then... I don't know what happened. We crashed on some moon.

```

```
I don't know where.

```

## Options

* How do you not know?
* Try using a map.

## Previous Options

* Who are you?
* "Was?" What happened?
Take the west hall.

## Dialogue

```
Turning left, we head down the lovely (not lovely) and spacious (definitely not spacious) west hallway.

```

```
On either side of me is a sealed door.

```

```
Without any power to get behind the pneumatics, I don't stand a chance in hell at getting these open, so I guess it's...

```

```
Huh. That' strange.

```

```
I just noticed that the compass on my IEVA suit still claims I'm headed north, even though I took a hard left turn down this  hall.

```

```
That's... kinda messed up.

```

## Options

* Keep moving straight ahead.
* Turn back around

## Previous Options

* Try the east hall.
* You have to keep exploring.
Usemap

```
Yeah, that'd be a fantastic plan, if it weren't for the tiny problem
that I, and my escape pod, are right here...

```

```
...whereas the astromap room is still in the Varia.

```

```
Which, given the two separate plumes of black smoke to the south, is in AT LEAST two
pieces, nowhere near me.

```

```
So you'll forgive me if "use a map" isn't at the very top of my "to do" list.

```

## Options

* You seriously have no idea?
* Sorry. Are you all right?

## Previous Options

* The Varia?
* "Was?" What happened?
Just keep moving forward.

## Dialogue

```
Yeah. You're right. There's nothing for it but to just keep pushing ahead.

```

```
Find things to do, keep body and mind active.

```

```
So... I've got a beacon, got a turret, and a generator that should power one or the other.

```

```
Now all I need to survive is food and water. Sounds easy enough, right? Sure.

```

```
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

* Never forget her.
* Move the Captain.
No. Power the pod.

## Dialogue

```
Right.  Of course.  There's no way I'd let the Captain die now, not after everything she's been through already.

```

```
Maybe in the daylight tomorrow, I'll be able to figure out some way to get the beacon working.

```

```
Some part of me thinks they picked the wrong science student for this trip.  Or that I picked the wrong trip.

```

```
Either way, this has gotta be worth some bonus points on my final grade.

```

```
Tau Ceti is down now, and I don't mind telling you, it's darker than a goth kid's journal, and colder than the prom queen's shoulder.

```

```
So, uh, here are my options, as I see 'em.

```

```
I can stay here in the wreckage -- although without power to the ship, I can't reseal any door I've opened.

```

```
So I'll have a roof over my head, sure, but I'll be exposed to the elements.

```

```
Or, I can head around to the rear of the ship and pitch a tent near the reactor engine...

```

```
...which is nice and toasty warm -- I can tell from the squiggly heat lines it's sending off into the night.

```

```
(You like that science-speak?  "Squiggly heat lines?"  That's some advanced-level terminology, right there.)

```

```
Only problem there is, there's radiation involved in that engine, and I'm not precisely sure whether it's enough to roast me overnight.

```

```
So, would you mind doing a little research for me?

```

```
If I get about 150 rads overnight, will that kill me?  My IEVA suit sensor tells me that's about what it's giving off.

```

```
Can you look that up and let me know whether it'd toast my marshmallows?  Thanks.

```

```
So, uh, hopefully you had a chance to look that up, because it's getting really, just stupidly cold here.

```

```
What's the verdict?  Should I just layer up under whatever cover I can find and spend a night shivering in the Varia?

```

```
Or risk radiation poisoning by cuddling up to a faulty fusion reactor?

```

## Options

* Stay in the ship.
* Camp out by the reactor.

## Previous Options

* You need that beacon.
* Power the beacon.
Right. Back to sleep.

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## Dialogue

```
Let's just pretend this chair is comfortable (it isn't) and that I'm going to go right back to sleep (not likely)... ...and that when I wake up in the morning there'll be a rescue ship waiting with a whole breakfast buffet on board (seems probable). G'night again.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

### Storyline A: Alarm.

*if you bothered to wire the proximity alarm*

```
Crap! The alarm is going off! So this is what it feels like to go into cardiac arrest in deep space! There's... there's nothing on the monitor screen. I mean, OBVIOUSLY, there's nothing on the screen. What WOULD be there? I'm the only living thing for who knows how many light-years. Screw this. I'm unplugging this stupid device. I'm regretting ever hooking it up in the first place. Gonna go ahead and say, tonight is NOT angling for a shot in my "Best Sleep Ever" Hall of Fame. Back to bed. Such as it is.

```

## General Dialogue

*regardless of what you have done*

```
Morning, which means it's time to rise and shine. So I'm rising. And I'm definitely shining. By which I mean, I'm feeling like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining. Intensely cold and more than a little crazy. And -- again, not trying to be gross here -- I've got the absolute WORST taste in my mouth, and my saliva is green. Last night I slept indoors rather than out, and nowhere near a radiation source... ...this has GOT to be something atmospheric, a by-product of whatever I'm exhaling. I wish I knew what.

```

### Storyline A: Check alarm.

*if you bothered to wire the alarm*

```
I guess I should go try to figure out what the hell went wrong with the proximity alarm last night, huh? Although I'm pretty sure it was just a malfunction. And I'm pretty sure I'd rather eat breakfast instead.

```

### Options

* Check out the alarm.
* Grab some breakfast.

### Storyline B: Breakfast.

*if you didn't wire the alarm, it goes right to Grab some breakfast.*

```
Anyhow. Given that it's morning and I'm hungry, I suppose some breakfast is in order.

```

### Previous Options

* Previous Option 1
* Previous Option 2
Keep it together!

## Dialogue

```
"Keep it together"?! Really?

```

```
I'm coated in the blood of a woman who, for all intents and purposes, I just killed -- on YOUR advice, by the way --

```

```
and the most comforting thing you can offer is "keep it together"?

```

```
How about maybe you go screw yourself, that's MY advice.

```

```
[Taylor is Busy]

```

```
Hey. Uh... sorry about that.

```

```
Emotions are running a little high on this end.

```

```
The truth is, you're right. I DO need to keep it together if I have a prayer of getting rescued.

```

```
The, uh... it's awful that the Captain died, but it happens. All the blood she'd lost, it may have been a mercy.

```

```
So. Me, I'm alive, let's figure out where to go from here.

```

## Options

* Just keep moving forward.
* Never forget her.

## Previous Options

* I am so sorry.
* Pull it out!
What just went on?

```
I had enough time for me to get the pulse weapon targeted to the precise location of the peak.

```

```
Confirmed it against the topographical map. Latitude, longitude, we're good to go.

```

```
But the crew from the Varia... they seemed to understand the plan, and they did NOT like it!

```

```
I don't know how they know. They don't seem to be sensate. They're not speaking, they're just... freaking... SCREAMING.

```

```
And they're all coming at me!

```

```
I'm trapped. If I back away from the computer, I'm afraid they'll shut down the sequence.

```

```
But if I stay here, I'm afraid they'll rip me apart, or shove that green thing down my throat!

```

## Options

* Guard the computer.
* Guard your throat.

## Previous Options

* What just went on?
* How much time just passed?
Whathappened

# Dialogue

```
Our ship crashed on some moon.  I have no idea where.

```

```
I managed to get to an escape pod, but I couldn't tell if
anyone else made it into one.

```

```
My IEVA suit sensor tells me that the air here is
breathable, at least, so that's nothing short of a
miracle.

```

```
But I've got no food or water rations on me.  The toolkit
on the pod is about as basic as they come.

```

```
I managed to get the pod's mobile transmitter working,
but -- lucky you -- you seem to be the only one in range
of the signal.

```

```
Whoever and wherever you might be.

```

## Options

* Are you all right?
* Where are you?

## Previous Options

* Who is this?
* The Varia?
Scuttling rats

```
That scuttling sound again!

```

```
Oh. Man. This is the first time I've heard it when there've been lights on.

```

```
I might actually be able to see whatever the hell it is that's making the noise.

```

```
Whatever it was that brushed by my leg. Whatever it is that has glowing green eyes.

```

```
(Do I even WANT to see whatever this thing turns out to be?)

```

```
The sound's coming from... wait... I think it's behind the monitor bank. Running around in the wiring.

```

## Options

* Go looking for it.
* Step back from there.
TalkColby

## Dialogue

```
Oh. Yeah, maybe that'd help.

```

```
Colby was... she was like the "mom" around the Varia.

```

```
The nicest, but also, I think, the smartest.

```

```
Not in a showy way, but in  that way of, you know, if something broke,
she'd know how to fix it.

```

```
(And yes, even on a multi-billion-dollar starship, half the time the
answer is "duct tape.")

```

```
But Colby was sweet enough that her smarts never made anyone else feel
stupid. I really appreciated that.

```

```
I know I'm hoping against hope, but I really hope that Colby made it
through this nightmare alive.

```

```
I mean, I hope EVERYONE did, obviously. But maybe I hope a little extra
hard for her.

```

## Options

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

## Previous Options

* Are you all right?
* Where are you?
Keep heading to the Varia.

## Dialogue

```
This feels useless.

```

```
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. South. Or where I think south is.

```

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

```

```
One foot. The other.

```

```
Over and over.

```

```
No. This is stupid. I should really go back to the caravel, before it's too late to make that call.

```

### Options

* Go back to the caravel.
* Push on to the Varia.

### Previous Options

* Keep going to the Varia.
* Make Camp.