text: Dreaming... Ice cream. Rivers of chocolate. Sweet smelling candy.
  
  It was so long ago when you entered the space ship. Or wait, was it just yesterday? How long had you been dreaming? This was insanity! You needed to wake up! Or did you? No, perhaps you could just drift off to sleep and dream about sunny days...would you ever see the sun again? No, probably not. But you should see A sun someday, right? Why? ...
  
  No, wait, it all was starting to come back to you. You had volunteered. You were one of the very first real space pioneers! "The Program," as everyone started calling it, was to take you and 249 other people to a distant planet. The astronomers kept calling it MR-2413B, but everyone else called it "New Earth." It was many hundreds of light-years away from earth, but you were going there. The scientists had assured everyone that the planet had an environment just like earth and that you would be able to settle there. Sure, that solar system had two suns, but New Earth was supposed to be warm and have plenty of oxygen. And you were going there!
  
  It was going to take decades for the ship to arrive at New Earth, so all the people going there (except the ship's crew) were in cryogenic tubes, frozen to keep them alive, but still young enough to settle when you arrived. When you stepped into the tube, you felt a momentary pain, but then nothing. It has been dark and you have been dreaming, but you have no idea how long it has been. But now you started to feel some pain again! That wasn't right. You were supposed to remain completely frozen until the ship landed on New Earth. Maybe you were actually there! Perhaps now it was time to start your new life on a truly new planet!
  
  The last thing you remember seeing before your "sleep" was a scientist who was monitoring your vital signs in the tube. He smiled at you as the door to the tube shut and he turned on the cryo-freeze. They told you that when the ship arrived at the new planet that the tubes would be opened and everyone could walk right out of the ship and into the new world. As you started to wake up, you felt some pain from your blood flow expanding across your body.
  
  As you open your eyes, the first thing you notice is that it is not as light as you expected. In fact, things are almost dark. You blink a couple times and try and focus. You can see that you are still inside the ship. That doesn't seem right, somehow. There is some light, but it is the dim lighting of the ship, and nothing else. You can hear a low hum, something running in the ship, but that is all. You see no other people. You hear nothing else going on. This is not what you expected at all!
  
  You feel pins and needles all over your body, but you force yourself to start using your muscles. With an effort, you reach a hand forward and contact the glass door of the tube. Strangely, the glass moves. You push a little harder and realize that the door of your tube is open. It swings on it's hinges without a sound and stands open. You take a step forward and your leg holds your weight precariously. Looking around, you can see that you are in the main tube setup room -- the room where people went to get placed in their tubes. There is machinery here to move the tubes around. Yours is the only tube here for some reason. You remember that the other tubes were placed in containers to fit as many as possible in the space of the small ship.
  
  There are no windows in the room. You pause and listen carefully, but still cannot hear anyone or anything else. Something is definitely wrong. There should be others here. There should be medical people here to check on you. You should be on the surface of New Earth! But instead you are somewhere in the ship, apparently all alone. At least the crew should be here to check on you -- but no, no one and nothing. You have to decide what to do first. Should you head up the ladder and try and find out why the crew isn't here with you? Off to the right is the long storage area for cryogenic containers. Should you go check to see what happened to all the other people? When you arrived, you really didn't see much of the ship. Maybe things are really okay now, and you should just take a look around the ship to see what you can find...
  
  > search the other cryogenic containers...
  As you head around the corner from "your" tube, you are amazed at the size and length of the large area. You can see a very long line of tubes, much like yours, stacked two-high along the length of this very long room. They are all vertical, and they all appear green. Each tube is held in place with some sort of clamp around the tube at about the halfway point of each tube.
  
  Looking closer, you can see that each tube is filled with some sort of opaque green liquid with a person floating inside. You can not see much detail on each person, just a glimpse of some long hair floating in the tube, or a forehead. Occasionally a bubble slow slides up through the tube through the thick liquid.
  
  Above each tube is another tube, suspended in the air in much the same way as the lower tube. You can see various other lines running to top of the tubes, and you can see these lines run for what looks like miles as they lead from one tube to the next down the line. On the ceiling and the wall you can see various arms and girders that appear to be for the equipment that was used to move your own tube from its place and to the unloading area where you first arrived.
  
  > continue walking through the cryogenic chamber room...
  Heading further into the main cryogenics room, you now find yourself in about the middle of the huge space. The large green tubes continue to fill the space, but you see a couple places with some green fluid on the floor: it looks like some of the tubes may have started leaking!
  
  You look at the tubes closer, and do notice that there are a few tubes that look like they are not completely full, like the tubes at the end of the hall. There are none that are empty, or even low enough on fluid that you can see the people inside them, but you can certainly tell that they are not full.
  
  There are still tubes, wires, pipes, and steel lines that appear all around the place. You think you hear a skittering sound, but looking around you don't see anything moving at all, and the place is still completely quiet except for your own footsteps.
  
  > continue walking through the cryogenic chamber room...
  You have reached the far end of the cyrogenic tube area. At the end of the room there is a large steel wall with a small door. You can hear some sort of light humming coming from the door or the wall, you're not quite sure of the source. The door does not have a handle like you would expect, but it has some sort of lever that looks like it might open the door.
  
  As you look at the wall, you notice that the floor has suddenly gotten sticky: your shoes are sticking to the ground. Looking down, you see that the floor is covered with some green, sticky substance. It does not pull your shoes off, but as you look around, you see the entire area is really covered with this green goo.
  
  When you look over to the massive cyro-tubes, you see that there is one tube that is not completely full of green fluid. It looks like there might be something else in the tube, but you cannot really tell for sure. The other tubes all appear to be completely full of green liquid, like most of the tubes in the room.
  
  > examine the tube...
  Heading over to the cryogenic tube, you see that indeed it is cracked. The tube sits at a different angle than all the others, and the top appears to be leaning up against the wall a little. The crack starts at the top of the tube and you can see a line continuing all the way to the bottom.
  
  At the bottom of the tube, the crack leads to a small hole. You get a whiff of a strange smell as you notice that the green liquid in the tube is currently leaking out the bottom of the tube. It is a very slow leak, just a tiny bit of dripping, but you obviously have no idea how long it has been leaking.
  
  As you look closer into the tube itself, you can see that the green liquid that fills every other tube only fills this tube 3/4 of the way. There you can start to see the outline of something round near the top of the green liquid. Looking even closer, it appears to be the top of someone's head! There is a bit of what looks like blonde hair floating in the goo. It doesn't move, but the liquid is clearly still continuing to drain.
  
  You think back and try to remember what they told you about the tubes and the green goop before you were sealed in your own tube, but you really can't remember if they told you anything about it. Along a conduit attached to the tube, there is a blinking yellow light that also looks like it is a button. Glancing over at the other tubes, you see that other tubes have the same button/light, but those are all dark green.
  
  > press the blinking yellow button...
  You press the yellow button and the button turns solid red. Then there is a screech as metal grinds against metal. The sound of machinery and gears echoes across the room. You take a step back and can see large gears turning near the ceiling and large cables start moving and whining.
  
  It takes a moment or two, and then you see a large claw coming down the hallway on the ceiling. The wires stop when they get to you and the tube, then start moving sideways. The claw lowers from the ceiling and heads for you! You take another step back and see the claw stop when it gets to the point where the tube would have been if it were not tilted. A bright yellow light starts flashing on the claw and laser lights start scanning the area.
  
  In a moment, the flashing yellow light stops and the claw starts moving again. The gears kick in again and move the claw sideways and it slowly lowers to reach the top of the tube. The claw closes around the tube and bars appear, stabilizing the tube. The claw slowly raises and the tube straightens and lifts off the ground. The cables move as the tube is lifted and moved to the center of the area.
  
  With a whirring noise, the tube starts moving away from you very quickly, back towards where you started. You head after it, but you cannot keep up with the fast-moving tube. You break into a run to see where the tube is going and dodge the few drops of green goo that drop as it moves. The tube disappears out of your sight as you try to keep up with it.
  
  You run back around the corner to the place where you exited your own tube. You can see the cracked tube on the same equipment as your tube. The tube is completely empty and open. You step around the machinery and see a person on their knees on the ground, looking around in confusion. It is a young woman, maybe 20 years old, with long blonde hair. She looks around and then spots you. She gets to her feet and says, "Who are you? Does this mean that we are here?"
  
  > tell her that you just woke up and don't know what is going on...
  The woman looks around and says, "oh. Well, my name is Julie. If you didn't release me from the cryo state, what is going on? These tubes were not supposed to release us until we were on the planet."
  
  You explain that you saw a crack in her tube, and you pressed the button to release her.
  
  "Oh. Well I suppose that makes sense. I guess I should thank you. Thank you." She looks around and then walks over to the machinery. She looks at a dial and flips a switch.
  
  "They told me some of the basics here. Since my tube was broken," she presses a button and the machinery starts to move. A new tube drops into place as she continues, "I suppose I'll just get another one."
  
  "Now, we have just a moment or two from the time I press the 'Start' button until the tube closes, so you can join me, and we can get back in the tube to wait until we arrive at the planet. It will be a little cramped, but I know these tubes have the capability to handle two people."
  
  She presses a button and quickly steps into the tube. She leans back as far as she can in the tube and says, "Well, come on!"
  
  > climb in the tube with her...
  You move quickly and jump towards Julie. She slides to the side and you manage to get your feet in the tube with her. Since you don't know her, you are trying to keep at least a little distance between you. All that ends when you feel the pressure of the tube on your shoulders -- the tube pushes shut with a hiss, and you find yourself completely pressed up against Julie, from head to toe.
  
  You try to speak, but before you can get a word out, Julie says, "It's okay. We only have a moment before this thing freezes us. We'll be fine, I assure you. I'll see you when we wake up."
  
  You feel a bit of the goo starting to pile up around your legs and then suddenly there is goo everywhere. There is some kind of beeping noise you can hear, even with goo starting to fill your ears. You open your mouth, to speak or to scream, you're not sure, and your mouth fills up with the green goo. There is goo everywhere. Then there is a zap and everything goes dark.
  
  It was so long ago when you entered the space ship. Or wait, was it just yesterday? How long had you been dreaming? This was insanity! You needed to wake up! Or did you? No, perhaps you could just drift off to sleep and dream about sunny days...would you ever see the sun again? No, probably not. But you should see A sun someday, right? Why? ...
  
  Wait. There was another person. What was her name? Was it a her? Was it all a dream? Oh look, there's another chocolate river...