text: [Themes: sci-fi, serious]
  
  You slam the button by Karl's quarters' door with your fist, and the door slides open. On the other side of the doorway, there is no floor, no walls - no room! Just an endless expanse of pale white light... The twisting, stretching, blurring phenomena is almost upon you!
  
  > dive through the doorway to Karl's quarters! Maybe you will enter a different time period - one where his room exists?
  You steel yourself for whatever may come, close your eyes, and thrust yourself through the doorway at the whiteness beyond!
  
  You stumble forwards, and trip onto something soft and flat, about knee height. Tumbling onto it, you open your eyes again, and find yourself on top of Karl's bed. With a sigh of relief, you find yourself in Karl's quarters, though you have yet to determine if it is in the present, the past, or the future...
  
  Turning to look out the door, you can see the passageway fine. Opposite Karl's open doorway, you can see the door hatch to your own sleeping quarters, and it is closed shut.
  
  > head back into the hallway, and hope the blurring phenomena has passed.
  You take a deep breath, and step through the doorway, back into the passageway. To your relief, there is no blurring, twisting of physical matter, anywhere to be seen. The passageway appears normal - however, you are surprised to note that you are no longer at the forward end of the central passageway, instead, you have stepped into the rear end of the passageway. Looking behind you, you don't see the room you were in. Now, you see the door to the ship's galley, and beside you, at the rear end of the passageway, the large hatch that leads into the cargo bay area at the rear of the ship!
  
  Then, to your dismay, you see the strange warping phenomena bulge out from the middle of the passageway, between where you stand now, and where the doors to your quarters and Karl's are located at the other end of the passageway. The walls there twist and shear, blurring out into the air of the passageway, in coloured lines of light.
  
  For a fearful moment, you watch it to see if the phenomena would move toward you, but the walls just swirl and shift through the air ten metres up the passageway.
  
  > open the door to the ship's galley.
  You wonder what is behind the door to the ship's galley, since you got here by stepping out of sleeping quarters. Pressing the button beside the door, you watch the galley door swoosh open...
  
  The galley is a large kitchen/storage area for the crew, with cupboards, dish cleaner, fridge, a table with two chairs, etc. However, the room is currently being pulled apart by two rugged, laughing men. The thick, muscular men look quite dangerous, as they open cupboards, pulling stuff out and tossing things about the room as they ransack the galley. Occassionally they stuff things into bags lying on the floor.
  
  Space pirates! They're looting the ship! You can also hear the ship's Intruder Alarm blaring. That room must be in the future, in your granddaughter's era! You hope that the two pirates don't turn around and see you, as they are both holding large guns in one hand...
  
  > quietly step into the room, behind them. Perhaps you can subdue them somehow?
  If you could grab a heavy object, and smash it over their heads, or something... You aren't completely sure what you will do, but you slowly, softly, walk into the galley behind the looting pirates. As you step through the doorway, you feel yourself passing through an invisible wall, and into their time - your granddaughter's time era, somewhere years into the future.
  
  However, seconds after stepping into the room, you hear a gasp behind you, and you spin around. Standing on the other side of the doorway, in the passageway (a copy of the passageway that exists in the future, in your granddaughter's time) you see another pirate! He is holding a rifle, and is pointing it at your chest.
  
  > leap towards him, back through the doorway, and hope you step back into your own time...
  You leap toward him, and he instinctively takes a step backward, but as you pass through the doorway, he vanishes from in front of you. You are standing in an empty passageway again, back in your own time. However, through the open galley door, you hear the pirate, in that future era, cursing.
  
  Turning and looking back into the galley, you see a disgusting sight - the pirate steps through the doorway (in his own time era) into the galley, and as he passes through the doorway, you see him come into sight one layer at a time. You see his insides, his bones, as the front half of him passes through the doorway. Then he is fully through, and you see his back. He stands there, just a few steps in front of you, and you know that if he turns around, he won't see you. You don't exist in his time frame, this copy of the passageway you are standing in is in a different time!
  
  > thrust your fist through the doorway, through the invisible wall and into his time, and smash him in the back of the head, hoping to knock him out!
  You pull your arm back, then thrust it forwards as hard as you can, smashing him in the back of the head. He stumbles forward, falling to the floor. His rifle slips from his hands to lay beside him. The pirate is unconscious on the floor just over a meter away from you, and the other two pirates have not noticed a thing - they still have their backs to you as they loot the galley!
  
  > slowly step through the doorway, into their time era, and take the rifle the pirate dropped.
  Hoping the noise of the Intruder Alarm will hide your footsteps, you slip through the doorway. You feel the strange sensation of passing through an invisible wall of water, then you are in their time era. You quickly reach down and grab the rifle!
  
  (Click on the rifle to pick it up)
  
  If you could grab a heavy object, and smash it over their heads, or something... You aren't completely sure what you will do, but you slowly, softly, walk into the galley behind the looting pirates. As you step through the doorway, you feel yourself passing through an invisible wall, and into their time - your granddaughter's time era, somewhere years into the future.
  
  However, seconds after stepping into the room, you hear a gasp behind you, and you spin around. Standing on the other side of the doorway, in the passageway (a copy of the passageway that exists in the future, in your granddaughter's time) you see another pirate! He is holding a rifle, and is pointing it at your chest.
  
  > raise your hands and surrender to the pirate.
  You raise your hands, but he pulls the trigger. A hail of bullets blasts through your chest, sending your body flying backwards, twisting and jerking to the floor.
  
  "One crewman down," the pirate laughs, as you gasp for breath, choking on blood. Then, as you die, you see something strange happening. The pirate and the ship around him begin to go transparent. You see him looking confused, and panicking, but then your eyes close, and everything goes dark.