CHOICES
(This is an inter-active B7 adventure: choose and click)
Your name is Kerr Avon. You are tired,
hungry, thirsty, and more than a little depressed. You are
a man who desires the security of wealth, and your possessions
have been reduced to the clothes you stand up in, the contents
of your pockets, and a gun which you have just used to shoot (three
times) the man who was arguably the best friend you had in the universe.
All the other people who you might still call friends (well, as close
as you can come to the term) have been shot and are lying on the floor,
unconscious or dead.
You are standing above Blake's body in
a futile attempt to protect him (he might still be alive, but
not for long) knowing that he didn't betray you and that, as
usual, you have made the wrong choice. It's a bad habit you have.
You have a choice to make now. The Federation
troopers encircling you have their guns aiming at you. There
must be a dozen of them. Why haven't they shot you already? You
lift your gun slowly, and they still don't shoot. You have an idea.
You:
A) shoot the trooper in front of you and fling
yourself to the floor (click here
)
B) tell the troopers you are an undercover agent
of the Federation (click here
)
C) give a maniacal laugh and aim your gun at your
own head (click here
)
D) drop the gun and surrender (click
here
)
section 1
You pick up Orac's key and explain that it controls
the most powerful computer in the galaxy, one worth millions of
credits. You offer to prove it, if one of them will go with you to
fetch the computer. Naturally, they refuse to allow any one of them
to chance getting the prize, so you exit Blake's base, with your hands
tied behind you, and more than a dozen troopers panting on your heels.
When you get to the place you've hidden Orac, you:
A) yell out to Orac to alert any rebels it can find
that Blake's base is under attack (click here
)
B) tell them you can't demonstrate Orac's abilities
with your hands tied (click here
)
section 2
The boy stares at the fluid running on the floor, and
returns to his chair, giving you such cringing looks that it drives
you crazy. You finally leap to your feet and aim your gun at him,
not really intending to shoot. There is a shout behind you, and
you look back to see Blake, heavily bandaged, and leaning on Vila
and Tarrant. You start to smile, but stop, driven back and slammed
into a wall as Blake shoots you to protect the young man. You never
even discover that he was Blake's nephew.
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section 3
As you run through the corridors of Blake's base, gun
dangling from one hand, clothes liberally smeared with blood, you
encounter a huge man clad in rough clothing similar to Blake's.
You:
A) say 'Thank goodness, I really could use some help.
There's been a terrible accident.' (click here
)
B) shoot him. (click here
)
C) hold the gun on him and demand information from him.
(click here
)
Or you can return to the previous section (click
here
)
section 4
Orac tells them they will get promotions. You kick Orac,
but it's too late. You are turned in, and Servalan waltzes into your
interrogation cell every day for weeks, until you have finally completely
broken. She intended to have you turned into a mutoid, but your blood
type was unsuitable. After a while, she decides on a use for you,
and you spend the rest of your life designing gowns for her and taking
antihistamines to keep down your allergic reactions to feathers.
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section 5
There was something in the drink, a powerful
sedative. You awaken aboard a spaceship, strapped down in a cramped
medical unit. Tarrant is there, recovering from burns and a badly
damaged knee. Dayna is there, grumbling over the body cast that immobilizes
her. Orac is chuckling to itself on a tabletop.
Vila and Soolin and Blake are conspicuous by their absence.
Eventually, they appear, and there is a lovely six sided argument
(for once Orac stays out of it) which concludes with everyone having
been called an idiot (and made to admit it) at least once.
Then Blake unstraps you, and tells you to bring Orac
to the flight deck. He leaves, and you follow. As ever. You find
yourself smiling for no particular reason.
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section 6
'All right, don't get your knickers in a twist,' the
big man says. 'The medical unit is down that corridor to the right,
it's the one with the red door.' You run all the way, and slam in
through the red door, yelling for a doctor. There's no one there,
except for one young, cringing, secretarial type. You collar him and
shake once. He is quick to tell you that the doctors have all gone
to the tracking gallery, having seen what happened over the security
monitor linked to the tracking gallery.
You sink into a chair, and let the gun muzzle sink to
the floor. They all know, but at least Blake and the others will have
their chance. The boy approaches you hesitantly, and holds out a glass.
You:
A) snarl, 'Poison!' and dash the glass to the floor.
(click here
)
B) murmur, 'Poison?', take it gratefully and drink it.
(click here
)
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)
section 7
As you bend over Vila, who you discover is only stunned,
there is a noise behind you, and you turn, but entangled with Vila,
you drop your gun, and are pushed onto your back by a very large,
dirty man, who looks extremely angry.
You:
A) say 'who the hell are you?' (click
here
)
B) try to get your gun (click here
)
C) look behind the man, widen your eyes and yell 'look
out!' (click here
)
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here
)
section 8
The troopers think about it for five minutes, then take
off like wild men for their ship, racing to go buy tickets. You
think about it for a half minute longer, then get Orac to buy a ticket
for you, and monitor the system so that no one else will be able
to purchase those numbers. Then you pick up Orac, and return to the
base, calmly help the medical personnel evacuate the wounded, put up
with Blake's noble forgiveness until after the drawing, and abscond with
the 500 million credits to your own world, which you have posted with
'no rebels allowed' signs throughout the surrounding space.
You get bored in a few months, though.
So you invent a new computer game, Rebs and Feds. You
make even more money through the sales of the game. After a while,
you buy the Federation and give it to Blake.
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section 9
Apparently, the troopers really didn't like Servalan,
and gladly take the opportunity to shoot right through her to get
you. At least you have the satisfaction of her companionship in your
death.
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section 10
As you bend down for the gun, Vila awakens, and in a
panic pulls you to one side, so the shot meant for your head misses,
and you whirl and kill the big man. You shake the rest of your crew
awake, unwilling to admit how grateful you are that they are alive.
There are more troopers on the way and Tarrant isn't exactly fighting
fit, so Dayna and Soolin help him along as all of you flee. You hesitate
over Blake, but carrying him will certainly kill him, if he's not already
dead.
Soolin's local knowledge helps, as does Vila's larcenous
talents. You manage to get to the spaceport and steal a half-way
decent ship. Through some miracle- or perhaps the fact that the blockade
was meant to keep space vessels from landing on Gauda Prime,
not from leaving the planet, you escape.
You are hours away before you realize you have left Orac
behind. No one wants to go back for it, not even you. What little
group spirit you had seems to have gone as well. Within a month each
of your former companions has struck out on their own. You don't expect
to hear from any of them ever again.
But you are wrong.
Over a year later, as you sit with your back to the wall
and nurse a drink and a sore head in one of the grimy little bars
that you have come to frequent more and more often, you hear a familiar
voice.
It's Blake. He looks down at you, shakes his head, picks
you up, tosses you over his shoulder and takes you to a clinic where
you are painfully reintroduced to sobriety. Then he takes you to his
base, installs you in a computer section working with Orac under the
direction of a red-headed innocent named Deva and proceeds to ignore
you.
You would resent it if you had the energy. Instead you
turn in a good day's work, retire at night to the barracks, and when
you pass them in the corridors, you try not to cast envious glances
at the men and women who are now close to Blake- the ones he trusts.
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section 11
They untie you, but hold a gun to your throat as you
insert the key. After you prove Orac's abilities you:
A) get Orac to give them a prediction of what number
will win the galactic lottery (click here
)
B) get Orac to give them a prediction of what will happen
if they don't release you (click here
)
Or you can Return to the previous section (click
here
)
section 12
The troopers aren't quick enough to stop you. Unfortunately,
your aim isn't all that great. You survive, minus an eye, and are
patched up (literally), mind-washed, renamed Travis, and assigned as
sub-altern to Commissioner Sleer, who takes a personal interest
in your career. You never do find out what happened to your previous
companions. Actually, you don't remember them, except sometimes at night,
when Sleer wakes you from your nightmares.
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section 13
As you pull Orac out from under the tree where you'd
hidden it, Blake's base suddenly erupts into a tremendous explosion.
The impact flings you headfirst into the tree. You awaken in a primitive
hospital, totally amnesiac and having had plastic surgery, which gives
you a good-looking face, but not one you recognize. Your nude, full-length
photo is circulated as the hospital searches for a relative who is
willing to pay your bill. After a while your wife, Irma, shows up, identifies
you by your appendectomy scar, pays for you and takes you home to your
farm where you spend the rest of your life raising rutabagas and prize
Berkshire hogs. Sometimes when Irma gets drunk she gives you a peculiar
smirk, but you can never quite figure out why.
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section 14
He replies, 'I'm Eber, Roj's brother, I saw what you
did!' You are startled. You thought Blake's brother was dead years
ago. You get up and step forward, searching that broad face, seeing
points of resemblance, right down to the righteous anger in those
clear, honey-colored eyes. You feel compelled to explain, and you spread
your hands as you begin. In that moment, Eber steps forward, and you
think that he is so like his brother, he is going to envelop you in
one of those all encompassing, all forgiving hugs that Blake was famous
for with his crew.
Instead, you feel what you think is a punch, below your
ribs, followed by a cold, burning sensation. You look down in time
to see the knife pull out of your body, and the blood spurt after
it. As your eyes shut for the last time, you think you see Cally coming
for you.
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section 15
The troopers pause and the group parts to allow
their leader to come to the fore. You are not particularly surprised
to find that it is Servalan. She knows better, of course, but when
you offer to turncoat in return for medical treatment for Blake
and the others, she is tempted. She wants a kiss to seal the deal.
You:
A) kiss her, grab her by the neck and throw her to the
ground. You've changed your mind about dealing with her, you say
(click here
)
B) kiss her, and decide you can put up with this for
quite a while, as she is the sexiest enemy you've ever
had (click here
)
C) pull her in close with one arm, and use her body as
a shield while you shoot the troopers (click here
)
Or you can Return to the previous section (click
here
).
section 16
Several troopers fall with you, and you savagely mangle
them, snatching guns and blazing away with one in each hand. When
the guns are empty, you reverse one of them and crush skulls with
the stock. When you are bare-handed, you use your lethal karate chops
and savate kicks. The bodies are mounded up around you before the rebels
get there and mop up the few remaining cringing troopers.
The rebels are tremendously impressed by your heroics,
and tell Blake all about it, in detail. Blake stares at you, and
says nothing about you having shot him. Since Vila had the remarkable
presence of mind to nip off to the security room while all the mayhem
was still going on and erased the record of the events in the tracking
gallery, and the rest of the people who knew what had happened were
keeping their mouths shut (Dayna seduced Klyn, and Tarrant seduced Deva-
also before all the mayhem had finished - they are both quick
workers) you are safe.
But Blake would keep looking at you. Finally you
can't stand the suspense any longer, take Blake aside, shove a gun
in his hands, rip open your shirt to reveal your manly chest and say,
'Shoot'.
Blake frowns, puts the gun down, and tells you not to
be such an ass. He admits he'd been staring at you but says it was
because the shock of having been shot had finally broken through the
last of his memory blocks, and he remembered that he and you had been
lovers, back when you worked on the Aquatar project. Apparently, you
had also been mind-wiped at the time.
You are stunned, gape like a fish, and collapse onto
Blake's bed, while he holds you and strokes you, and eventually
you decide this really is a good idea. Later, you are awakened as the
bed shifts, and you hear Blake pad over to Orac, insert the key, and
instruct the computer to go along with Blake's lies about your status
as old loves and non-existent mind-wipes.
You think about being annoyed, but instead you file the
information away as personal blackmail material, the next time Blake
has a suicidal mission in mind. You mutter as if you are waking up,
and Blake hurries back to your side .
You decide that's the kind of rebel-rousing he's best
at, and tell him he ought to stick to it in future. He laughs, and
you laugh with him.
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section 17
You pick up the moondisk. You kept it not out of sentiment,
but on the grounds that it might someday come in useful. You've
experimented with it and found a method of using it as a mood-generator,
testing it out on your unwitting crew, until you thought you had it
perfected. It's now or never. You pet it, the way Cally used to do, and
you think of her. The moondisk vibrates gently in your hand, purring.
The telepathic effect passes in a wave over the troopers. They take off
their helmets and look at you, with huge, puppy dog eyes, totally zonked
out.
You smile and feel a surge of smug satisfaction at your
own astounding cleverness.
This is a mistake. The moondisk recognizes you now,
and remembers how Cally felt about you, but never told you. The
purr changes.
The troopers' eyes glaze over, and their tongues hang
out. They begin babbling about how gorgeous and sexy you are, and
how much they want you, and how long they've waited for you.
Without actually thinking about it, you throw the moondisk
at the nearest man, and turn to run. You are pulled down before you
get five feet away.
Most of the troopers kill each other fighting over you,
so there is still something left of you when the rebels finally
arrive to salvage the situation, but you will never again be comfortable
with Blake, or any other man, at your back.
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section 18
When Blake recovers and sees the security monitor vid
which concludes with you landing next to him and cradling him against
your chest in order to protect him from stray shots, he takes you
to one side and gives you a lengthy lecture on morality, and the appearance
thereof, being vital to his role as leader of the rebellion, and to your
role as his loyal second-in-command. You are puzzled and finally as
he is going over the speech for the third time, you admit that you don't
get it. Blake sighs, and tells you that's it, you aren't getting any.
You realize what he's implying, at last.
You don't have a gun. For some reason, you were never
issued one. So you can't shoot Blake again. You settle for kneeing
him in the groin, and you leave the room hastily, going back to your
own quarters where you sulk until your lover Tarrant shows up and consoles
you.
After that, Blake keeps his distance, and the rebellion
continues pretty much as per usual.
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section 19
The big man falls down dead, revealing a little man
behind him who shoots you right between the eyes. And it isn't
a stun-gun. Blake recovers and gives you a nice eulogy, which doesn't
really matter to you at this point.
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section 20
Something cold hits the back of your neck and you are
paralyzed, falling to the floor helpless. Servalan smiles down at
you as everything goes dim. Unfortunately, you were worth more alive
than dead to her. After her team of mind-warpers finishes with you,
you are sent to trial, convicted of everything you ever did and a great
many things you never got around to trying. You are sentenced to execution,
but in fact, Servalan has you replaced with a very realistic android
double of you she just happened to have lying around her bedroom. You
spend the rest of your life in a computer lab, creating inventions to order
for Servalan. You grow accustomed to life in a gilded cage, but often look
back wistfully on the days when you could kick butt with the best of them.
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section 21
The rebels rush in and clear away the troopers. Unfortunately,
in your black outfit, you resemble a trooper, a particularly eager
young rebel thinks. You don't die, but you do lose your right leg above
the knee. Blake, irrationally, feels very guilty about that, and tries
to make it up to you. The two of you dance around competing guilts for
months, until you both get fed up with it, and go to bed together.
After that things get fairly back to normal for the
two of you, bar the occasional bitch-fight, which amuses Vila no
end.
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section 22
He laughs, and says 'I'm not falling for that old trick',
and the two of you are blasted by the squad of troopers coming
up behind him.
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section 23
The troopers tackle you, and you are struggling with
them (rather a stupid thing to do if you wanted to survive, considering
the odds against you, but you are too angry to care about that) when
explosions and gunfire in the background signal the arrival of other
combatants. They aren't in uniform, so you assume they are Blake's rabble,
come belatedly to the rescue.
You:
A) call out to them to help you save Blake (click
here
)
B) bite, kick, and claw your way free and stand over
Blake (click here
)
C) pretend to pass out (click here
)
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section 24
The big man grins. 'I'll take care of you, sweetie,'
he says. You are about to shoot him when there is a loud noise and
he falls forward, dead. The little man behind him says 'I told you
what I'd do if you ever betrayed me!' and stands over the corpse,
grinning maniacally. You walk around them cautiously, and continue
looking for the medical unit. You get hopelessly lost in Blake's warren
of a base, and when the troopers find you hours later, you are too dazed
to put up a fight. They play with you for quite a while before turning
you in for the reward. Broken in body, mind, and soul, you are sent to
Cygnus Alpha, where the new God takes you under his wing. At least you
have a roof over your head.
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section 25
The troopers frisk you and take you into custody. They
are puzzled over the contents of your pockets. Why would an infamous
terrorist carry a perspex rectangle, a lumpy rock, and a shiny
half-round lump of what appears to be glass?
You offer to explain and pick up:
A) the perspex rectangle (click here
)
B) the lumpy rock (click here
)
C) the half-round lump of 'glass' (click
here
)
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here
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section 26
The troopers knock you unconscious. You wake up, and
they've gone, along with Orac. You curse, manage to get your hands
free, and return to Blake's base where you:
A) go check on Blake and your crew (click
here
)
B) try to find the medical unit (click
here
)
Or you can Return to the previous section (click
here
)
section 27
You pick up the sopron 'rock', which you have trained
to pick up emissions and send them out at a particular mental signal.
You think the signal, 'Afghanistan banana-stand' and the sopron picks
up your natural sense of authority, pride, arrogance, pragmatism,
sexual charisma, cold-bloodedness, fashion sense, etc., multiplies
it manifold and sends it back to the troopers.
They stagger back, and yell, almost as one man, 'Servalan!'
This might have worked out well, but Servalan was also listed as
an enemy of the state with a very large reward for her corpse.
They are very confused later, when they try to turn in
your body for Servalan's reward.
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section 28
The dying trooper shoots a man across from him, who
shoots another, who... well, it's very loud and confusing for
a few minutes. From your vantage point on the floor, you shoot the
surviving troopers. After your ears stop ringing you notice that
the alarms are turned off, and it's quiet. Quiet enough to hear that
Blake is still breathing. But it doesn't sound at all good.
You:
A) immediately search Blake's base for medical help
(click here
).
B) stop to check on the condition of your other friends
(click here
).
C) get Orac from his hiding place and ask his advice
(click here
).
Or you can return to the previous section (click
here
).