Creatures Caves

Eon, Eric, and Eleanor left the norn terrarium at dawn. Eric left quickly for the front of the bridge, and Eon and Eleanor rode the elevator down.

“How easy do you think this will be?” Eleanor asked Eon.

“Most likely not very, but you never know.”

The elevator first stopped at the medical bay. Eon was about to push the elevator button again, but Eleanor stopped him.

“Wait a sec,” Eleanor said, and ran over to the medicine dispenser and started cycling through the potions.

“What now?” Eon said.

“My little sister developed a bad cough last night, I just want to get some medicine for her, as long as we’re here. Ah, here it is.” Eleanor stopped when the sign read ‘Cough Medicine’, and she activated the machine to generate a couple bottles of cough medicine. “I’ll grab it on our way out.”

“Ok, now let’s GO,” Eon said, and grabbed her arm and pulled her back into the elevator, then sent the elevator to the bottom floor.

Eon walked over to the teleporter.

“So, let’s see how we can undock this ship….”

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Eric was working his way around the bridge. His duty was to find a way to control the ship after the capillata was undocked. There didn’t seem much here: cameras of the four terrariums, a map that showed where all the creatures were, a few gadgets that weren’t useful to him. There were metal, circular pans with glowing runes that had looked promising at first, but he had already tried them. They didn’t seem to do anything.

“How does the hand control this ship? She doesn’t just let it float around in space, does she?!”

After a few more moments of searching, he hit the center of one of the pans in frustration. Suddenly it opened up from the top and smacked him on the head. Eric rubbed his head and crawled out from under the thing, then peeked over the edge.

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Eon and Eleanor were examining the gate in hopes of finding a way to undock the Capillata.

“I think I’ve got it,” Eleanor finally said.

“Oh yeah?”

“Well, at least a step in the right direction. See this bulge around the edge of the platform? That’s from the Capillata. When it docks it basically shoves a giant pillar into the port on the Ark. Aside from this bulge of tissue there doesn’t seem to be anything that really latches on to the ship.”

“So…we just need to cut off that bulge?”

“Not exactly. When the Capillata dockes, the port isn’t just an opening in the shell of the ship. It’s a tube. So, even if we cut off the bulge, it’s not like we could just shove the Capillata away from the ship.”

“Well that’s no help.” Eon sat down beside the portal.

“Hey it’s a start…”