#alien:isolation

Fandom: Star Trek/Alien Title: The Unknown Kind Rating: Explicit (NC-17) Length: 18 chapters, Part I complete!!!! Link: The Unknown Kind Chapters 1 - 11 Chappie Preview!

Elevator after elevator after elevator it’s just insane. How did they accomplish anything on this station, it’s nothing but transit! Once again, Jim wonders just who designed this fucking place. He’s never seen so much verticality in fucking space in his life. 

The subtle pressure of deceleration overtakes Jim, who straightens and opens his eyes. The lift comes to a halt, and opens its doors. Jim stares at the dark and quiet corridor before them. It’s Spock who steps forward and triggers the loud activation of the side-mounted lights, but it’s still Jim who jumps. Every time. 

The station creaks and groans around them, metal and struts grinding, and Jim can feel the deck vibrating through his boots. The distress eases after a moment, and silence and stillness return. Dust settles on the floor from where it was shaken loose from the walls and ceiling.

Jim swallows, wincing at the dull ache that remains in his throat. 

“Those vibrations were external in nature and stress-based,” Spock says quietly, his hand sliding off from where he’d placed it against the bulkhead. Jim does not like the sound of that. “Given that it was a lateral stabilizer that exploded and detached from the station during our EVA, and taking into account the overall structural integrity of the station, I calculate a 77.85% probability that the station’s orbit is decaying.” Another wave of vibrations and groaning passes through. “Rapidly.”

“How rapidly?” Jim presses him.

“Captain, I do not possess the relevant data in order to calculate the ultimate deadline of planetfall.”

“Spock,” Jim says patiently. “How long?”

Highlights from last night’s stream of Alien: Isolation

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Alien: Isolation (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Amanda Ripley/Christopher Samuels Characters: Amanda Ripley, Christopher Samuels, Working Joes Additional Tags: five times fic, Because every fandom needs them, Robot Feels, inspired by real-life overly polite British people Summary:

"'Your list of personnel is approved, except for one. Amanda Ripley.'

Behind his back, Samuels’ hands clenched until they creaked."

Dear whoever wrote this tip:

So you know the mechanic of multiplayer in Portal 2? Puzzles that require two people to manipulate the environment together in the right way?

This is what the sequel to Alien:Isolation should be. Alien:Isolation meets Portal 2 meets Left4Dead.

A 1-4 player cooperative story-mode (with challenge-mode DLCs) where you and your friends (or AI helpers if you want to play alone) have to do all the ridiculous “pull lever, hack system, cut wall panel” tasks just as in the original game.

But many of the tasks require multiple people to coordinate their actions a la Portal 2, just like the two-person lock that you and Axel had to open. You have to access-tuner-hack to boot the transit system. Within 5 seconds of your success, your friend has to mash "B" and hold "Down" to interrupt the boot so you can enter supervisor mode. If they fail, you BOTH have to start over. All while hoping the alien doesn't see you.

Also... no one player ever has ALL the equipment. She has the cutting torch and grabbed the noisemaker blueprint. You have the hacking tool and you got the molotov blueprint. Here’s some scrap and a blasting cap: do you take it to make a molotov, or do you give it to your other friend so he can make an EMP?

“You’ll have to cooperate. You’ll have to communicate. You’ll have to work together if you want to survive.

Because the ALIENS on the station are working together to see that you don’t.”