diff --git a/gopher/Cilix/06_straight_down_the_line.txt b/gopher/Cilix/06_straight_down_the_line.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a12ad9e --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Cilix/06_straight_down_the_line.txt @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ + +I said I'd kill him for her. + +I was stuck with her then. My cruise ship had already left for its +next stop, and the next one wouldn't be around for months. Even +if I had any second thoughts, there wasn't anywhere for me to run. +Outer space is just a series of relay points. Once you're at one, +you're trapped there. It's like being on a train. She said that to +me once. She said we were in this together now. There was no +getting off. Straight down the line. To infinity and beyond. + +After we finished fleshing out our plan, she cut off our meetings. +She said it wasn't smart for us to be seen together. She told me it +was only temporary. It still hurt like hell. + +All that was left for me was to roam Europa's resort alone, sipping +rye and striking up the odd conversation with the locals. + +I kept replaying the plan over and over in my head. It seemed +flawless. Sometimes that's how things seem right before disaster. + +I would board the ship they were taking to IO as a passenger. Only +in the lower decks, of course. I couldn't afford anything else. + +On the second night of the return journey, right before his +spacewalk scheduled for the time the sun would be inching its way +around the colossal mass of Jupiter, she would secretly let me into +the upper decks. She said she was able to take care of the usual +security protocols. I trusted her on that front. That was +computer-stuff, she was a computer. + +I would then sneak into his room and kill him while he slept. + +We never really got into the details of how I'd kill him. I went +through a million different ways in my own head. I never wanted to +say them out loud and she didn't ask. Maybe she thought I'd done +this before. I might have let on a few times that I was a tough guy +with a shady past. + +Truth was, I'd never done anything like that. I'd lived a boring +life. Judy was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me. + +Anyway, after I'd, you know, killed him, we would stuff his body +into his space suit and throw him out an airlock at his usual time. +She said she could hack his suit to show an oxygen depletion error +5 minutes after that, as well as simulate some vital signs until +then. + +It was the clones job to maintain and prepare the suit for him. +That's where he came into it. She couldn't get him to kill for her, +but she could get him to lie for her. + +He would take the fall and say he messed up the settings. She would +get the massive payout and she'd take me somewhere pretty with it. +She promised me it would all work out just like she said. All we +had to do was stick together. + diff --git a/gopher/Escanaba/cgi-bin/environ.sh b/gopher/Escanaba/cgi-bin/environ.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..548d739 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Escanaba/cgi-bin/environ.sh @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +printenv diff --git a/gopher/listing.gophermap b/gopher/listing.gophermap index 7085ee2..91f22a8 100644 --- a/gopher/listing.gophermap +++ b/gopher/listing.gophermap @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +0Cilix - 06-Straight Down The Line /Cilix/06_straight_down_the_line.txt 0SS Beagle - Second_Entry /SS Beagle/Second_Entry.txt 0malu - 4531-09-08-04-37 The real thing /malu/malu453109080437.txt 0SS Beagle - First_Entry_Coronite_Run /SS Beagle/First_Entry.txt