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The Resonance
One thousand one hundred and seventy-six hours of oxygen, forty-nine days of relief, and the one thing she never asked the alien keeping them all alive.
- ~115 min (estimated)
- 25447 words
- 54 scenes
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
44 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Eight humans keep it: a commander who counts, a physician who measures, a comms officer who listens, an engineer who holds the loop, a botanist who weighs the trays, a liaison who writes the figures down, a pilot who flies the lander, and Dr Ines Marsh, thirty-three, xenobiologist, nine months on the ice and the only one on the station who can read a Haal. The Haal are the moon's own people, eight feet at the shoulder, older than the station by a great deal, and they talk to each other in a low bioluminescent rhythm that Dr Marsh has spent her whole career learning to read. Varuk is two hundred and ten, which is young for a Haal, and he is the reason the station's heat exchanger still runs. The loop was rated for ten years and has run thirteen. When it drifts, Varuk puts his palm on the coolant line and the gauges settle. The commander has written that down as an arrangement, because a w
Content notice5 topics · tap to review
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a hard survival deadline: a finite oxygen reserve, a ration shortfall, and a nine day gap before relief
- a bounty placed on a sentient species by a human colony
- isolation, confinement, and a body mark that does not fade
- a scientist falsifying a research record
Cast
- D Dr Ines Marsh protagonist no portrait yet
- V Varuk love interest no portrait yet
- C Commander Alice Fenwick supporting no portrait yet
- D Dr Pavel Hora supporting no portrait yet
- M Moses Adeyemi supporting no portrait yet
- Y Yuki Tanabe supporting no portrait yet
- B Bex Carmichael supporting no portrait yet
- S Sona Reyes minor no portrait yet
- P Priya Sandhu antagonist-adjacent no portrait yet
- O Ossek supporting no portrait yet