Choose Your Own Adventure - Space Trouble

You are flying through deep space in your Class-8 delivery cruiser. Your current shipment is on a tight schedule, but you are making good time.

A distress beacon begins to sound over your communication console, indicating someone nearby is requesting assistance.

Do you:

Change course for the distress beacon – you’re feeling adventurous (7) or continue onwards towards your delivery destination. There’s no sense trying to be a hero (3)

1: >!The millipede explodes in a shower of fluorescent green acid. It bathes you and burns quickly through your skin, sizzling and exposing the bone beneath as you scream, dying!<

2: >!You hear movement from up ahead in the darkness. As you step forward, something drips from above. You look and see a black millipede crawling along the ceiling, huge and hairy. The drip that fell on your hand begins to feel warm and burn your skin like acid. It starts to smoke and you scream in pain. Do you attack the millipede with your laser pistol (1) or run away, deeper into the ship (9)!<

3: >!A chunk of space debris comes flying out of nowhere and pierces your ship’s hull. The warning lights and alarms sound urgently and you realize a critical failure has occurred. The ship’s pressure is compromised and it explodes.!<

4: >!The lights are dimmer this way. As you proceed forward your flashlight suddenly flickers and goes out. Drenched in darkness, you hear a soft rattling noise from up ahead. Your flashlight comes back on just in time to reveal the form of a huge alien monster which lunges at you. Its massive teeth are the last thing you see as its jaw snaps shut on your face and you choke on your own blood.!<

5: >!You board the ship and it looks abandoned. It is silent and mostly dark inside with a few flickering lights here and there. A noise in the distance sounds like movement, but you can’t be sure. A corridor branches off up ahead. Do you go left (2) or right (4)?!<

6: >!Racing back to your ship, you get back on and escape – you make your shipment deadline, just barely.!<

7: >!You change course and find yourself very soon face-to-face with another ship. It is abandoned and floating silently in space. Do you dock your vessel and board the ship (5) or go back to your delivery, this is looking way too spooky (3).!<

8: >!The book is a journal. The final entry is one word – RUN! Do you escape (6) or continue (10)!<

9: >!As you proceed deeper into the ship’s living quarters, you still see no crew members. Is this a ghost ship? And if so what happened to everyone? There’s a book on the floor up ahead. Pick it up (8) keep moving (10)!<

10: >!You find yourself in the ship’s bridge. It is dark and empty, abandoned. Maybe you’ve found yourself a new delivery cruiser. But it’s a real fixer-upper.!<