Whiteout at Kestrel Station

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#mystery#thriller#scifi#arctic#game#survival

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A scientist vanished from a polar station four hours ago. Her parka was found at the edge of the ice. She didn't wear it there.

Story

Kestrel Station sits on a floating ice shelf at the bottom of the world: six researchers, one runway and a storm rolling in that will cut it off from everything by morning. At ten past nine tonight, glaciologist Dr. Anika Lund disappeared. Her parka was found folded at the flag line by the shelf edge.

Everyone says she walked out into the dark. You landed the last supply plane before the whiteout, and you used to do search and rescue. Now you sit in the mess with a tablet on the station network: the search log, the station's mail and files, and a messenger channel to five people who all say they want her found. Something about that parka is wrong.

How to play

  • Read the station's mail, logs and photos on your tablet, and question the crew by message
  • Ask the people inside the station to go and look at things for you
  • Show the right evidence to the right person to make them talk
  • Find Anika before the storm closes in, then use Accuse to name who is responsible and where she was
  • You have 45 moves before the whiteout cuts the station off

In this story you are The supply pilot grounded at Kestrel Station, a former search-and-rescue officer

Prologue

Hal BrennanYou're set up in the mess, friend. Tomas got your tablet on our network.

Hal BrennanWe go again in twenty minutes, further out toward the weather mast.

Hal BrennanShe's out on that ice somewhere. Keep the teams moving.

Characters

Hal BrennanStation chief. Organized the search. Very sure she walked out onto the ice.

Dr. Hal Brennan, 56, chief of Kestrel Station for eleven years. Respected, fatherly, exhausted, and fiercely devoted to keeping the station funded.

Hal Brennan - Ailism
Ingrid SolbergGlaciologist. Had a loud argument with Anika at dinner.

Ingrid Solberg, 38, glaciologist and Anika's closest colleague for five years. Brilliant, prickly, and visibly coming apart.

Ingrid Solberg - Ailism
Tomas ReyesStation engineer. Found the parka. His keycard opened the vault.

Tomas Reyes, 33, the station's engineer and mechanic. Keeps the generators, vehicles and doors working. Funny, helpful, and suddenly very nervous.

Tomas Reyes - Ailism
Dr. Wen LiangData scientist. Anika's assistant. Terrified of something.

Dr. Wen Liang, 29, data scientist working on Anika's ice-core project. Quiet, meticulous, and frightened.

Dr. Wen Liang - Ailism
Maya AchterbergStation medic and cook. Keeps everyone fed, warm and talking.

Maya Achterberg, 41, the station's medic and cook. Warm, unflappable, the person everyone confides in.

Maya Achterberg - Ailism

Endings

Reach an ending to add its card to your collection.

SRNot reached yet

Everyone searched outward. Try looking in.

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NNot reached yet

A keycard tells you whose card it was, not whose hand held it.

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RNot reached yet

The storm will not wait for you to make up your mind.

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