Chapter One: Maru Mari
Note: Here is where you start the actual game.
I turned on my light, illuminating a passageway, with several pillars, each bearing bush-like growths. I had just fallen through the ceiling, and was faced with which direction to pick. The map showed something close towards my right, so I headed that way. When I turned to it, however, something caught my eye on the pillar in front of me. One of the growths had just moved, and was now looking at me with beady eyes.
"Computer: Analysis."
-Crawler, an insectoid. Very low intelligence, to the point of almost nonexistant. Just don't get in its way.-
I ducked under it and headed to end, a wall with a small hole in it. The map showed the something beyond the wall, but I could not fit through the one-foot hole. Looking up, I noticed a set of ledges, almost as if they were artificial steps. I leapt onto one, and climbed over the wall.
The following room was illuminated by a strange, glowing orb in the center. Crawlers were going about their business in the room, totally ignoring my or the orb's presence.
-Analysis: Maru Mari. Function: A form of a teleportation device.-
"Teleportation?"
-Teleportation: The movement between areas...-
"Thank you, computer."
The ball seemed to resonate as I picked it up off its pedestal. The computer analyzed it further, then created a remote-control link between my suit and the ball. I put that in my suit's inventory and continued.
The room ended a short distance later in a wall that was solid, from the floor to the ceiling. Turning back, I noticed that I could not reach my entrance, even jumping. Thinking for a moment, I pulled out the Maru Mari, and set it in the hole I noticed earlier. An external camera showed the ball's vision area in my helmet. I maneuvered it through the hole with my controls, then pressed the 'return' button, expecting it to return to me. Instead, I felt a jerking sensation, and the ball was in my hand. However, I was on the opposite side of the wall. That was when I got my first real appreciation of the Chozo technology.
I continued past the rubble where I fell through, and on to a blue hatchway. The computer's analysis showed it to be responsive to energy bursts.
"The only way I have of creating energy bursts is by shooting it..."
I took aim and fired. Instead of bouncing off, as I expected, the hatchway absorbed the blast and opened. This surprised me, but I was used to surprises with this place, and I had just gotten here. I headed through.
The next room was small, with only a bridge with a crawler on it. The bridge itself looked fragile, but it wasn't particularly bridging OVER anything. The most I could see underneath the bridge was a different type of rock that wasn't harmful at all. I shrugged, then continued on my way, through the opposite hatch.
This hatch opened into a tunnel, with crawlers and something new: Giant two-meter bats.
-Analysis: Scree. Attacks its prey by falling at high speed from the ceiling. Known for its suicidal tendency to explode when threatened. Your beam cannon should be effective.-
As I watched, one of the 'Scree' shot from the ceiling and impaled a crawler with its legs. It flapped up to the ceiling and finished its meal. The only problem with using the beam cannon was the fact that I had no range. The energy blasts were only good for about three meters, and the nearest one was about twenty meters away. I sighed, and decided to trust my luck. And speed.
I took a deep breath, then took off running. Thumps behind me told me that the Scree were missing me by less than a centimeter, and getting closer. I looked up, and saw the one that had dive-bombed the crawler ready to attack. I raised my arm cannon, waited a split second, then let loose with a series of blasts from the pulse laser. The first shot wounded it, the second completely vaporized it.
I continued running, dodging crawlers and Scree, until I reached the wall. This one also had a hole in the bottom, in which I placed the Maru Mari. Quickly, I maneuvered it around the tunnel, while dodging Scree in the main area. When it reached the end, I quickly hit RECALL, and put the Maru Mari back in the inventory.
I looked around. This was a small room with a hatch on one end, and crawlers almost covering the floor. They seemed to be sleeping, but I couldn't step anywhere without stabbing my foot with their spines. So what do I do? I shoot them.
My pulse cannon tore through their bodies like a hot knife through butter, but it also awaked something I DIDN'T want awoken. A large insect swooped down from the ceiling and knocked me over. Quickly, I threw the Maru Mari and hit Recall almost simultaneously. I was teleported out from under the bug, so I put the ball back in the bag and opened fire. It took four pulses of energy to kill it. I shot the hatchway and went through.
The next room was very small, having only the two hatchways and a statue of a Chozo. I couldn't even fit the Maru Mari through the space between the Chozo Statue and the wall, so I sat down, wondering what to do. I happened to be looking at the hands when it dawned on me that perhaps I should put something IN its outstretched hands. I looked at the Maru Mari in my hands, and decided it was worth a go.
The statue's fingers closed over it, and started uploading information into my suit. Namely, a map. Apparently, this place was called 'Brinstar,' and I was to go to the top of the next shaft. The statue released the Maru Mari, then sat down so I could pass over it. I picked up the ball, gave the statue a nod, then continued through the opposite hatch.
Note: Here is where you start the actual game.
I turned on my light, illuminating a passageway, with several pillars, each bearing bush-like growths. I had just fallen through the ceiling, and was faced with which direction to pick. The map showed something close towards my right, so I headed that way. When I turned to it, however, something caught my eye on the pillar in front of me. One of the growths had just moved, and was now looking at me with beady eyes.
"Computer: Analysis."
-Crawler, an insectoid. Very low intelligence, to the point of almost nonexistant. Just don't get in its way.-
I ducked under it and headed to end, a wall with a small hole in it. The map showed the something beyond the wall, but I could not fit through the one-foot hole. Looking up, I noticed a set of ledges, almost as if they were artificial steps. I leapt onto one, and climbed over the wall.
The following room was illuminated by a strange, glowing orb in the center. Crawlers were going about their business in the room, totally ignoring my or the orb's presence.
-Analysis: Maru Mari. Function: A form of a teleportation device.-
"Teleportation?"
-Teleportation: The movement between areas...-
"Thank you, computer."
The ball seemed to resonate as I picked it up off its pedestal. The computer analyzed it further, then created a remote-control link between my suit and the ball. I put that in my suit's inventory and continued.
The room ended a short distance later in a wall that was solid, from the floor to the ceiling. Turning back, I noticed that I could not reach my entrance, even jumping. Thinking for a moment, I pulled out the Maru Mari, and set it in the hole I noticed earlier. An external camera showed the ball's vision area in my helmet. I maneuvered it through the hole with my controls, then pressed the 'return' button, expecting it to return to me. Instead, I felt a jerking sensation, and the ball was in my hand. However, I was on the opposite side of the wall. That was when I got my first real appreciation of the Chozo technology.
I continued past the rubble where I fell through, and on to a blue hatchway. The computer's analysis showed it to be responsive to energy bursts.
"The only way I have of creating energy bursts is by shooting it..."
I took aim and fired. Instead of bouncing off, as I expected, the hatchway absorbed the blast and opened. This surprised me, but I was used to surprises with this place, and I had just gotten here. I headed through.
The next room was small, with only a bridge with a crawler on it. The bridge itself looked fragile, but it wasn't particularly bridging OVER anything. The most I could see underneath the bridge was a different type of rock that wasn't harmful at all. I shrugged, then continued on my way, through the opposite hatch.
This hatch opened into a tunnel, with crawlers and something new: Giant two-meter bats.
-Analysis: Scree. Attacks its prey by falling at high speed from the ceiling. Known for its suicidal tendency to explode when threatened. Your beam cannon should be effective.-
As I watched, one of the 'Scree' shot from the ceiling and impaled a crawler with its legs. It flapped up to the ceiling and finished its meal. The only problem with using the beam cannon was the fact that I had no range. The energy blasts were only good for about three meters, and the nearest one was about twenty meters away. I sighed, and decided to trust my luck. And speed.
I took a deep breath, then took off running. Thumps behind me told me that the Scree were missing me by less than a centimeter, and getting closer. I looked up, and saw the one that had dive-bombed the crawler ready to attack. I raised my arm cannon, waited a split second, then let loose with a series of blasts from the pulse laser. The first shot wounded it, the second completely vaporized it.
I continued running, dodging crawlers and Scree, until I reached the wall. This one also had a hole in the bottom, in which I placed the Maru Mari. Quickly, I maneuvered it around the tunnel, while dodging Scree in the main area. When it reached the end, I quickly hit RECALL, and put the Maru Mari back in the inventory.
I looked around. This was a small room with a hatch on one end, and crawlers almost covering the floor. They seemed to be sleeping, but I couldn't step anywhere without stabbing my foot with their spines. So what do I do? I shoot them.
My pulse cannon tore through their bodies like a hot knife through butter, but it also awaked something I DIDN'T want awoken. A large insect swooped down from the ceiling and knocked me over. Quickly, I threw the Maru Mari and hit Recall almost simultaneously. I was teleported out from under the bug, so I put the ball back in the bag and opened fire. It took four pulses of energy to kill it. I shot the hatchway and went through.
The next room was very small, having only the two hatchways and a statue of a Chozo. I couldn't even fit the Maru Mari through the space between the Chozo Statue and the wall, so I sat down, wondering what to do. I happened to be looking at the hands when it dawned on me that perhaps I should put something IN its outstretched hands. I looked at the Maru Mari in my hands, and decided it was worth a go.
The statue's fingers closed over it, and started uploading information into my suit. Namely, a map. Apparently, this place was called 'Brinstar,' and I was to go to the top of the next shaft. The statue released the Maru Mari, then sat down so I could pass over it. I picked up the ball, gave the statue a nod, then continued through the opposite hatch.