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The game is a sequel to Planetfall, one of Infocom's most popular titles.
What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you
risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all.
Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First Class, but this only meant that your dull
life of cleaning grotch cages was replaced by an equally dull life of paperwork. Now
you've got another assignment tailor- made for a grotchbrain: pilot a spacetruck to a
nearby station to pick up a load of trivial forms. Trot and double trot! But all is
not lost. By a happy twist of fate, your companion for the journey is your old pal
Floyd. That's right, it's the same mischievous little robot, crayons and paddleball
at the ready, who was your helpful buddy in Planetfall. Getting to the space station
is easy. But once there, you find it strangely deserted. Even the seedy space village
surrounding the station is missing its ragtag tenants. A spooky alien ship carrying
only an empty pedestal rests in a docking bay. An ostrich and an Arcturian balloon
creature are found, abandoned but in perfect health. The commander's log describes
the mysterious breakdown of machinery, demonstrated by a roving hull-welder who seems
bent on your destruction. And finally even Floyd begins acting oddly. |