Walkin' in a Dystopian Future Wonderland
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The death-ray self-destructs. Well, it doesn't actually explode this time, but it does start engaging in risky, self-destructive behavior. You leave it to play Russian Roulette with itself and head off deeper into the bowels of the ship.
You enter a room and see a roaring fire in one corner. You've never seen an open fire on a spaceship (apparently, you've never been on any caveman spaceships), nor have you smelled chestnuts roasting thereon, so the whole thing is a little disorienting.
What's even more disorienting, and more than a little nauseating, is that there are two cyborgs canoodling in front of the fire, both wrapped (thankfully) in an oversize blanket, their black rubber outfits carelessly tossed in a heap in the corner.
"It is settled then," one of the cyborgs says. "We shall face, unafraid, the plans that we made. As soon as the human known as Parson Brown comes to town, we shall be wed."
You inch out of the room as quickly and quietly as you can, stopping only to loot the pile of discarded cyborg-wear.
 | You acquire an item: polymorphic fastening apparatus |
As you exit, the entrance hatch seals shut behind you and the entire ship powers down. Looks like it's going into power-save mode for the night.
Occurred in A Sinister Dodecahedron.
References
- The adventure title references the Christmas song "Winter Wonderland." The cyborg romance also references that song's lyrics, "In the meadow we can build a snowman / And pretend that he is Parson Brown / He'll say are you married, we'll say no man / But you can do the job when you're in town."
- The second paragraph is a reference to "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)."
- A "Dystopia" is a fictional society that is the antithesis of Utopia.
