After I got myself under control, I reached over and picked up the device. Suffice it to say, I was wigged out, but I pushed past it. I won't describe all the agnsty thoughts I had, sitting there while contemplating my mortality. For a thin, underweight nerd like me? Yeah. The Starbound Universe could be incredibly dangerous when you were a tireless warrior, capable of bouncing around like a rabbit on a pogo stick. It is the primary tool in the survival / exploration game Starbound, and it was the survival part that was fueling my freak-out.
It has two parrallel yellow bars on the top and bottom, with a handle in between them in the middle, and a small section with a large crystal lens in between them on the front. That was confusing, wasn't it? Whatever, my stomach started to churn with panic, and I curled up a bit as I tried to process what was going on, staring down at the Matter Manipulator sitting next to me.įor those of you who somehow found this recording without finding the device I am recording it on, the Matter Manipulator is a yellow handheld device that kind of looks like a cross between a power drill and a flashlight.
Waking up in a damaged metal room, next to a fictional device that I had seen in a video game, with a character waking up in a damaged metal room next to it?. I mean, waking up somewhere I don't recognize? Scary, but maybe explainable. The device immediately caught my eye, and, I will admit, raised my fear several notches. The only breaks in the monotony of metal was me, a gap in the ceiling that revealed the sparking wires, and a yellow device laying by my left knee. Metal walls, metal ceiling, and, yes, metal floor. I immediately sat up, and stared at the room I was in. It wasn't until I heard a loud crackling sound overhead that the fact that I wasn't, in fact, laying on the carpet in my room actually made it through my head. Only, instead of waking up in my bed, I woke up, and immediately fell about three inches to a solid metal deck.Īs you might imagine, I spent the next minute or so laying on the ground, moaning in pain. A hotel, I think? Anyway, I had that feeling you get when the bottom seems to drop out of your stomach, and you wake up with a jolt and you aren't sure where you are. But seriously, that is all there is to my story so far. I was kidnapped, woke up alone, and inherited a device of awe-inspiring versatility. Hello, anyone who is listening! You have found the log of the journies of Zachary Vance! Prepare for a spellbinding tale of kidnapping, waking up alone, and inheriting a device of awe-inspiring versatility. Hello? Is this thing running? Test, one, two, three.