diff --git a/gopher/Cilix/13_return.txt b/gopher/Cilix/13_return.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d0834e --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Cilix/13_return.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ + +I was wrong about a lot of things. + +IO was nothing like Europa. Europa was probably built as a getaway +for all the fancy exec-types on IO. It was all skyscrapers and +fancy suits. I stuck out like a sore thumb. I found a nice +dive-bar down an alley on the first night and pretty much holed up +there for the three days. I wasn't much in the mood for +sight-seeing, as you can probably imagine. + +I boarded the return ship in disguise, using a counterfeit identity +chip. Judy had programmed it for me in advance. + +I didn't run into them at all when boarding, they must've checked +in early. Good girl, Judy. It didn't really matter if they saw me +- the only witness that counted would soon be gone and the ship's +log would only show Mr. Mitty, my alias - but, I really didn't +want to bump into Walsh. If all went to plan, I would never see +his waking face again. + +The details from the night itself are still foggy. They come back +to me in bits and pieces. A cabin door sliding open easily, /too/ +easily. My soft footsteps on his bedroom floor. A pillow with my +hand across it. + +I don't want to talk about it much, but all you need to know is +that when it came down to it, I /could/ perform after all. The +next morning, a huge, lifeless corpse was stuffed into a space suit +by an equally huge and identical living body. It was sent out to +enjoy the Jupiter sunrise one last time, and the rest is history - +or insurance company history at least. + +For the last day of the journey, there were rumours on the lower +decks that a big-shot had died on the ship. I tried to keep my +head down as best I could, but couldn't help listening in now and +then. "Killed through clone negligence" I heard someone say. The +story was sticking after all. I had to give it to you Judy, you +knew how to spin a web. + +I just prayed that the insurance companies would buy it too. All +the way behind Jupiter there isn't much in the way of law +enforcement, so the insurance investigators were the only thing +standing between us and happiness now. + +And stand in the way they did. + diff --git a/gopher/listing.gophermap b/gopher/listing.gophermap index 57dc785..e9c9f27 100644 --- a/gopher/listing.gophermap +++ b/gopher/listing.gophermap @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +0Cilix - 13-Return /Cilix/13_return.txt 0Cilix - 12-Blast-Off /Cilix/12_blast_off.txt 0gaudium - Martian Storm /gaudium/martianStorm.txt 0Excelsior - Systems Admin Report - Epsilon Zeta 20 Epsilon /Excelsior/010.txt diff --git a/gopher/ships/Akonia/gophermap b/gopher/ships/Akonia/gophermap new file mode 120000 index 0000000..640624a --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/ships/Akonia/gophermap @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +/var/gopher/ships/ship/gophermap \ No newline at end of file