Dimly Lit
A sci-fi interrogation over a case of insulin. The player picks one of three answers, and each plays out to its own end.
Oğuzhan Açıkalın
Scene 1 · Interior · Spaceship corridor
Two ships are docked through a pressurised airlock. Beyond the plexiglass is open space. Inside, white lights flicker along a chrome corridor. Magnetic stabilisers click overhead. Forced-entry warnings flash on the wall panels. Severed cables hang above a leak of black fluid. Someone is screaming deeper in the ship.
Scene 2 · Interior · Spaceship corridor · Confrontation
Antibiotic vials lie scattered around KAIDAN. TOLGAR hauls him up by the collar and punches him in the stomach.
Where is it? You think I'd come all this way for antibiotics?
He kicks a vial down the corridor.
That's the whole shipment.
Where's the insulin?
You know what organic insulin sells for. So do I.
Tolgar hits him across the face. Kaidan drops to his knees. Tolgar draws a laser pistol and presses it to his head.
Tell me where you put it, or I'll cut the last of it out of your pancreas. Your choice.
- Bluff about the insulin's location.
- Tell him the truth.
- Stay silent.
Choice 1 · Bluff
All right. Move the gun.
Talk.
I left it with Tormir.
The organ smuggler?
Kaidan nods.
Why would you give it to him?
I needed somewhere you wouldn't look.
On the planet?
Yes.
Tolgar lowers the pistol.
If I have to come back, I'm using this.
He turns to his guards.
Take the antibiotics. You stay with him.
The guards gather the vials. Tolgar leaves through the airlock. It seals behind him.
Choice 2 · Tell the truth
Lower deck. Between the ignition relay plates. Now get that thing away from my head.
Tolgar gestures to two guards with the pistol.
Fetch it.
Their boots recede down the stairs.
Let me sell it. I know buyers who'll pay more. You take seventy, I take thir...
Tolgar punches him in the stomach.
We're waiting. Quietly.
Worth asking.
Keep talking.
Untie me, then. We could play a hand while we...
Tolgar stuffs a rag into his mouth. A crash comes from below, followed by shouting.
You two. Downstairs.
He turns back to Kaidan.
What have you done?
Laser fire from the lower deck. Running footsteps. The airlock opens.
Looking for this?
LIRIEN steps into the corridor with the insulin case in one hand and a pistol in the other.
Who are you?
Put the gun down.
Her pistol charges. Tolgar's men open fire. Kaidan tries to shout through the gag. When the shooting stops, footsteps approach him.
Choice 3 · Stay silent
Kaidan keeps his eyes on Tolgar. The pistol's charge rises in pitch.
We could have settled this, old friend.
Wait. I've got it.
Tolgar turns toward her and lowers the gun.
You left her out of the introductions, Kaidan.
Lirien, keep the case. Don't give him anything.
I'm tired of waiting for someone to come and kill us over it. Take it, Tolgar. Then leave.
Tolgar beckons his guards.
Bring it here.
Lirien tosses them the case. Tolgar opens it and checks the vial.
There it is. You should thank her, captain. She just saved your life.
He closes the case.
We're done here.
Tolgar and his men leave. The airlock seals.
Scene 2 · Interior · Spaceship corridor · Aftermath
Kaidan sags against the wall. Lirien stands over him.
That insulin belongs to Lord Tormir. What do I tell him when he comes looking for it?
Get up. We need to move.
You saw how much that case was worth. We're dead.
He took sugar water.
What?
It'll take him a while to notice. I'd like to be gone when he does.
Kaidan pulls himself up and kisses her on the cheek. She rolls her eyes.
Lirien. You kept it.
Command room. Come on.