17: The Tower of Babel

<<fr'kna irm 23>> You will need to get yourself to the top level of this deck, where an interspace transporter resides. On the way, you will find a pattern buffer and a suit recharger. Be very, very careful - I cannot disconnect the security interlocks, so until you find the override switch, a misstep will cost you your life. Do not, under any circumstances, fall between any pair of platforms. The override switch will also remove the protective toxic liquid, but I can do nothing about the dronelike machines...

The intruders seem to have rearranged the activation controls for the transporter. You will need to unravel their handiwork in order to access the transporter. Luckily, it is not possible to cloak an active switch, so you will be able to open the controls in order simply by looking for the next active switch. Unfortunately, I am still not able to communicate with the Ygn'oml, and those I can sense in the transporter room are close to panic. Tread carefully. On behalf of everyone aboard this ship, I thank you for what you have done. Get yourself to the transporter, and I will send you back to your base controller. <fr'kna close>>

<<fr'kna irm 93>> I cannot send you back to your base controller. In the time you've been on this ship, one of your warships arrived from a starbase. The transmissions have been garbled and hard to interpret, but it seems that this has been the goal of the intruders from the start. They attacked from a hidden position and overwhelmed the crew of your warship, as they did the crew of this ship. They are still there. Both your warship and the pirate vessel have landed (or crashed) near the base below. I have been requested to send you at once to the warship. Prepare to transport.

CONGRATULATIONS! So tell me... Does that PfhorSlime™ burn? The picture to your left was taken around 1:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -8), on April 27, 1996. Obviously, I've got too much time on my hands. I hope you're enjoying the M2 port of Devil in a Blue Dress as much as we enjoyed creating it! Okay, charge up as well as you can (what, did you think that rooting around in PfhorSlime™ would make you better off?), and get back to killing. Claude errera@ese.ogi.edu