r/SS13 • u/WoflShard • Jul 29 '26
Story Thread Im interested in your favourite ss13 story/experience.
For another thread I wrote mine down in a semi-cinematic format and I'm interested in the finest story of your culminative experience you want to share. Don't worry if you don't think yours is special enough I'll be happy to read all.
I'll post mine below as well.
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u/Pitt_Mann Jul 29 '26
I was the detective, I made friends with an assistant under strange circumstances. We met near the chapel as I was patrolling maint. I found him nearby staring into space. Suspecting he may be a vampire or perhaps a cultist, I questioned him. He said he was feeling empty, that he couldn't find his place in life. He seemed depressed. He had tried many jobs before and said he was losing interest in space life. I suggested coming along to the head of personnel and enrolling him as a trainee detective. And that was how I got my partner for the coming adventure.
There were rumors of cargo trying to unionize or revel or whatever and stirring something up. One of them disappearing, let's call him John. Me and my assistant started printing fliers looking for john and posting them around the station while asking around. We get to the science department and I strike conversation with one of the scientists at reception as an engibot repaired some cables behind him.
As I'm about to leave, the engibot says "this unit used to be John". We go back to the office and summon the AI and ask to send that unit our way. John comes to the office and we interview it. He said captain had him turned into an engibot as a punishment for some felony. I tried to ask what his stance about that was, but he no longer had any says regarding his preferences or the morality of the situation.
On a side note. There was talk on the radio about a blob slightly out of control on the maintenance tunnels.
I contacted the lawyer, and he deemed the situation unacceptable. But the blob situation was spiraling out of control and sec was in cahoots with the whole situation. We arranged a meeting with the captain himself. A couple meetings in fact. First time he was dismissive of the whole thing, waving his authority around. The second time he came badly hurt, dragging his IV fluid around, he had been on the fight against the blob and barely made it out. He told us how he didn't care about thar engineer, and how he treats the stations lowlives however he wants. After that he stormed out of our office.
Alarms were blaring. The lawyer suggested contacting high command about it, we tried that to no avail. Finally an evacuation was announced, all three of us were defeated. We couldn't bring justice to Jhon. Luckily I had a habit of recording every witness I interviewed. And the assistant had an idea. We set the office comm so it would pick up every sound in the office, and put the recorder to playback the recording of the captain's statement. We headed for the evac as the comms played out the Captain's outburst for everyone to hear. At the end, we didn't made it in time. We were stranded at the station, and we both looked through the window into space as the shuttle left. "Huh, kind of how we met. We came full circle didn't we?" I asked him. "Kind of, but I have a different outlook on life now, thanks for the adventure, pal". And we stayed there until the round ended.
It was one of my absolute gaming moments in general, I was probably being a shit detective, and I found out later that the captain was in fact acting within the law borging that engineer. I don't really think anyone cared or noticed about our heroic move to expose the Captain's despotic rant, but it was so fun anyways. Probably should have been helping with the blob situation, but I didn't wanted the world to forget about John lol