text: [Themes: spaceship, pirates, spaceship setting, space, zombies, aliens, science fiction]
  
  The OKAY button is blinking again.
  
  Its ridiculously bright yellow light makes everyone in the room appear to be suffering from inttermittent jaundice. Fortunately you're the only one in the room, because there's no room in here for anyone else. The OKAY button is also buzzing, with the patented Elevated Responsiveness Tone guaranteed to remain irritating no matter how often one is forced to hear it. Somehow the most annoying part, though, is that the blinking and the buzzing are slightly out of sync.
  
  HELP is available.
  
  Your "station" is a solid metal enclosure just barely large enough to accommodate your chair and yourself. On the wall in front of you are the many brightly-colored controls of the security console and a black-and-white monitor.
  
  On the monitor you can see Engineer Ghee performing calisthenics in the engine room. Presumably the machinery is operating normally.
  
  > look
  Your "station" is a solid metal enclosure just barely large enough to accommodate your chair and yourself. On the wall in front of you are the many brightly-colored controls of the security console and a black-and-white monitor.
  
  On the monitor you can see Engineer Ghee performing calisthenics in the engine room. Presumably the machinery is operating normally.
  
  The OKAY button continues its blinking and buzzing efforts to attract your attention.
  
  > look at the okay button
  The lid protects the Destruct button from your application of pressure.
  
  The OKAY button continues its blinking and buzzing efforts to attract your attention.
  
  The OKAY button's harsh yellow light is a very effective reminder to do whatever it is that will make it stop doing that.
  
  The OKAY button continues its blinking and buzzing efforts to attract your attention.
  
  > eat the nutricube
  With a great deal of effort, you chew and swallow the nutricube. You hadn't thought that it was possible for those things to go stale, but if anything it was worse than you remembered.
  
  The OKAY button continues its blinking and buzzing efforts to attract your attention.
  
  > Examine
  (the uniform)
  The uniform is emblazoned with the logo of Transport High Command and a tiny black pip indicating your rank of Security Officer.
  
  The OKAY button continues its blinking and buzzing efforts to attract your attention.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a uniform (being worn)
  
  The OKAY button continues its blinking and buzzing efforts to attract your attention.
  
  > look at the orevore
  The orevore is so remarkable an animal as to strain credulity. It's a 100-pound gelatinous lump with a convoluted surface, very much resembling a grotesquely oversized cerebrum. It eats almost anything, including solid rock, and it excretes chemically-pure nodules of any element it ingests with an atomic number greater than 77. For this reason it is the most prized possession of every mining colony that can manage to acquire one. The orevore goes dormant at temperatures below 23 degrees, which is why the freezer room is so important.
  
  The OKAY button continues its blinking and buzzing efforts to attract your attention.
  
  > examine sharl
  Pilot Sharl continues to stare assiduously at his instruments.
  
  The OKAY button continues its blinking and buzzing efforts to attract your attention.
  
  > wear suit
  (first taking the pressure suit)
  You lean over the side of your chair and drag the pressure suit into your lap.
  
  It's easily as heavy as it looks, with its recirculating air filters, automated thermal regulators, waste handling units, and integrated speakers. If there's a lightweight version of all this paraphernalia, it must be more expensive than the heavy stuff.
  
  You put on the pressure suit despite your misgivings about its comfort.
  
  A satisfied voice says "Air pressure on the bridge has stabilized at zero point three atmospheres."
  
  On the monitor you can see Ghee struggling to get into his pressure suit. It looks like he's putting it on backwards.
  
  > look at Ghee
  His surprisingly uncoordinated efforts at dressing himself scarcely detract from his character.
  
  On the monitor you can see Ghee continuing to wrestle with his pressure suit. He trips into the machinery with one leg in the suit and one leg out.
  
  > Laugh
  You manage a forced-sounding chuckle.
  
  On the monitor you can see Ghee disentangling himself from the machinery and stumbling backwards.
  
  You can hear something just outside your door.
  
  > Laugh
  You manage a forced-sounding chuckle.
  
  On the monitor you can see Ghee working his hands into his gloves. You're fairly certain that he has only the usual number of fingers.
  
  You can hear something just outside your door.
  
  > Sing
  You begin to sing "The Orevore Sonnet":
  
  On the monitor you can see Ghee finally sealing up his pressure suit. He uses some colorful metaphors as he works the latches on his helmet.
  
  You can hear something just outside your door.
  
  > examine the pirate
  Which do you mean, the nervous-looking pirate or the bearded pirate?
  
  > examine the bearded pirate
  His bushy beard and anachronistic eyeglasses look just as out-of-place as a peg leg or a parrot would be. He seems to be completely serious about his profession, however.
  
  On the monitor you can see the bearded pirate sizing up the freezer room door. He sagaciously determines that the adjacent wall is not as formidably reinforced, and starts sawing into the wall with his cutmore. "Keep a sharp lookout, Puppet", he adds as an afterthought. "Aye, Captain", the nervous-looking pirate replies. Almost immediately, a plume of vapor erupts from the area being perforated.
  
  An insistent voice says "Alert! The freezer room cooling systems are no longer functional. This is a critical repair item which supersedes all non-critical priorities."
  
  > examine nervous
  Always in motion, the fellow is. His arms, legs, and face twitch constantly as he looks all around for potential dangers.
  
  On the monitor you can see the pirate captain slicing through the wall to the freezer room. His cutmore spits sparks as he makes progress with his work.
  
  A quick glance at the Chiller Thermostat shows the temperature of the freezer room to be about 40 degrees and rising.
  
  > talk to nervous
  You are separated from the docking bay by no fewer than two walls that you have no means of breaching. The image on the monitor is just that, an image.
  
  On the monitor you can see the pirate captain opening a hole in the wall with his cutmore. As he peers into the freezer room, he says "Arr! We've found the beastie! Puppet, fetch the hoversled!"
  Through the hatch, Puppet exits the ship.
  
  > wait for a while
  Time passes.
  
  On the monitor you can see Puppet frantically firing his dissolver, but this does not prevent Meat and Filthy from knocking him to the ground and fighting over his corpse.
  
  > wait for a while
  Time passes.
  
  On the monitor you can see Puppet acquiring the same creepy characteristics as Meat and Filthy. The three cadaverous creatures march into the freezer room searching for more "brains!"
  
  > wait
  Time passes.
  
  On the monitor you can see the once-pristine docking bay, now a scene of carnage.
  
  > Wait
  Time passes.