2765: Escape Speed/Transcript

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[An interactive comic featuring a large space with many planets and objects, navigable by a small spaceship. The ship is affected by the gravity of the planets and objects, and controllable by arrow keys. The up arrow activates the main engine, adding forward speed; the down arrow activates reverse (bow) trusters. Left and right arrows activate trusters which rotate the spaceship. The playing field features collectible items (small gray circles) and powerups (grey star-shaped items)]

[Starting planet]

[A small, grassy, planet with a few trees and bushes. Cueball and Megan are standing together. Beret Guy points his arm up.]

Beret Guy: WOW!

[Origin planet]

[The planet has vegetation and features several people, landscape objects and collectibles, and it has a tunnel through the center. The planet is hard to leave without any powerups, unless one uses the tunnel to gain more momentum by thrusting while moving through the center. The features of the planet include (clockwise):]

[A billboard]

Welcome to Origin! You can never leave™

[A rollercoaster with a duck sitting on it. At the middle of it there's a (hidden) entrance to the tunnel. There's a collectible item above and a billboard to the right.]

Caution: Long vertical drop

[When the ceollectible is picked a message appears:]

Be careful; this roller coaster can be disorienting!

[A spider figure; going straight up from there you can reach the Spider planet]

[A radiotelescope; going up you can reach Voyager 1(?)]

Receiving transmission

[Cueball and White Hat]

White Hat: I bet the voyager spacecraft could teach you a thing or two about speed. Of course, you'd have to catch up to them first...

[A cell tower with 5G antennas and 1992: Safety sat on top, and a collectible next to it]

You've found a 5G seagull!

[A tyrannosaurus, Ponytail and Cueball standing next to a St. Louis Arch-shaped hole in the ground]

[A strange object]

[A pyramid with a football on top; (leads to the Football planet?)]

[Ponytail sitting on top of a pyramid, Megan standing at the base of it]

Ponytail: If you want a better spaceship, you need to visit another planet.

Megan: But if I want to visit another planet, I need a better spaceship!

[A pyramid with Saturn on top; (leads to the Saturn-shaped planet?)]

[Cueball and White Hat]

Cueball: I can't believe the Air and Space Museum's new exhibit has a real black hole!

White Hat: Is that... safe?

Cueball: It's OK, they've got a protective case around it.

[A few clouds]

[A recess in the ground with a monument shaped as Earth continents in a hyperelliptical projection. Hairy is standing next to it.]

Hairy: Even if you did find a crack in the crystal sphere, there's no way you'd be able to escape its gravitational pull. You'd need some kind of a hyperdrive for that.

[A fancy spaceship]

[St. Louis Arch. There's a hidden entrance to the tunnel under it. An intelligible sign is posted next to it. To the right Ponytail stands with three kids looking like Hairy, Megan and Cueball.]

Ponytail: The St. Louis Arch is also known as the gateway to space.

[A strange object]

[A small building and a strange tower with a spiked orb on top and two collectibles next to it, one at the base, one high up]

You've found an orb wren!

You've found 11 squares packed into a larger square!

[Hairbun and another person]

Hairbun: Boston? That's in North America, on the Subway plant. It's straight up from the secret glade, you can't miss it.

[A grassy area with two collectibles]

You've found a tumbleweed!

You've found a marsh wren!

[A quintet of hairy and bearded people playing and singing]

It's more than a feeling

More than a feeling

[A collectible high off the surface right to the band]

You've found a tiny meteorite!

[A spiral on a pedestal; going straight up from there leads you to the Spiral planet]

[A radiotelescope; going up you can reach Voyager 2(?)]

Receiving transmission

[Cueball and Megan]

Megan: it's like my astronomy teacher always said: "Shoot for the Moon -- even if you miss, you might make a crack in the crystal sphere that imprisons us all in this universe."

[A collectible right next to Megan]

You've found a holographic Charizard business card!

[A patch of trees and bushes]

A bush: SHHH.

[A collectible between two lower trees next to the talking bush]

You've found a secret glade!

[In the center of the planet there's a round hollow with a collictible in the exact middle]

Welcome to liminal space!

[Next to the hollow there's a ceve with another collectible]

You've found a DVD of The Core (2003)!

[In the cave there's Megan, her hair flying around her head in the microgravity]

Megan: The Oberth effect states that firing thrusters deeper in a gravity well adds more kinetic energy.