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Worcester priced himself as an adaptive person. He learned not to complain and to accept the environment and the duties he had. He learned to make do with the little resource there was on the Albatross and the barren Earth. Conserving is a virtue, but he dismissed his preferences in doing so.

In particular, Worcester had little appreciation of good food. This was odd considering that Albatross has fresh produces. He wouldn't care less eating fresh versus the synthetic. This made Allisa angry when she learned it. It was such a waste. Allisa was angry that worcester got to eat good food and he didn't even appreciate it.

Allisa couldn't believe it. She knew that Worcester has favorite food. She knew that he was merely dismissing his preferences to appear above worldliness. She seized every chance to tease him about it. Although the more she teased him the more he believed that he had no preference.

His lack of appreciation affected Crista when she came onboard. Crista herself did not mind Worcester's lack of taste that Allisa poked fun at until they discovered that Worcester liked Little Red Riding Hood's pastries. Crista was never good at cooking anything but suddenly she felt the urge to.

Crista had believe that Worcester had no taste. When she figured that he had it, her competitiveness turned on and she was determined to capture it. Crista can't lose to a little girl, even though she had centuries of experience.

During her attempts to excite Worcester, crista learned that she had a crush on him. She enjoyed it at first but then she felt the embarrassment and anger when Worcester was as enthusiastic as she hoped. At one point Crista got mad and challenged the Little Red Riding Hood. To everyone's surprise, LRRH accepted it with full competitiveness. "Bring it on!"

Worcester tried to tell Crista that it was a ridiculous contest. Crista told him to shut up because it had nothing to do about him. She had an issue to settle with Little Red. It was a contest that no one could call off. To settle the difference in experience, Crista imposed a rule that LRRH must cook something she had never done before. LRRH accepted the rule.

Crista and Worcester started to reflect on themselves afterwards. Crista wished that she was less jealous and possessive. Worcester wished that he was more sensitive and appreciative.

It was almost time for the contest. Everything was prepared. Crista was determined to win. When it was time for the judging, they learned that Worcester had been deployed and could not be back. Even without a judge, Crista must admit that LRRH cooked better. LRRH knew that Crista wished that Worcester was there.

LRRH suggested that they deliver the food. Crista naturally dismissed that idea since she couldn't move very well. LRRH insisted and recruited the help of Vermilia.

LRRH's timer was running low and Vermilia could only take one person. So Crista flew with Vermilia. While in the air, Crista felt so small compared to the land below. The contest seemed out of proportion and childish.

When they got close to the site, the data started streaming in through Suzaku. Both Vermilia and Crista checked in and started working. Worcester recognized her and worked with her like how they had always worked together.

At the end of the night when everything settled down, Worcester apologized that he left without telling her. He thought that it would be a quick task. Crista remember the food she made and realized that the ground had already started eating. Crista fought the crew to get Worcester what she made. Worcester said it was good and especially appreciated she came to the site. Crista wanted to get him to eat what LRRH made also but they were all gone.

But Crista knew that they shared something unique that could not be compared to anything else.

Romaina's Daughter

Romaina had always saw herself as a warrior. She believed that having no family and no love made her the best warrior. She would fight till she fell. She had no worries because she was not leaving anyone behind.


Avoiding Olivia

At first Romaina saw Olivia as an assignment. She was to escort Olivia to the Albatross. Once Olivia arrived, her responsibility was over. However, during the trip to the Albatross, Romaina couldn't help but noticed that Olivia was not some kind of witness she was to protect but just a student. She knew her behavior wasn't fitting of the situation but she couldn't invest too much thought for an exception.

Seeing Olivia reminded her that she was reassigned to the Albatross. To Romaina, that was demotion. She didn't deserve to be babysitting. She believed that the reason of her reassignment was the incident a year earlier when she failed to apprehend a renegade on Earth. She hesitated. She would have been killed if Falcon 1 did not cover her.

Romaina avoided Olivia because she reminded of that failure. Olivia hated Romaina because she was cold and mean.

In the team, Sapphirina often made Romaina so happy that she forgot the past. She made her disassociate Olivia with failure and started to like being on the Albatross. However, when Romaina tried to get closer to Olivia, she could feel that her previous behavior had already scarred her. Olivia could not forgive.

Romaina determined that it was best if she left Olivia alone. Thinking about Olivia made her try harder, because she wanted undo the damage she did to Olivia by getting her a better future.


Allisa's Help

Allisa knew about it and told Olivia about it, hoping that she would forgive Romaina. However, when Olivia got angry. Olivia could not explain why she was angry. Olivia knew that she wanted to see Romaina happy, but something about the situation made her angry.

It was almost time when Olivia had to return to the Moon. Olivia was disappointed at herself that eventhough she knew she had forgiven Romaina, she couldn't make herself express it. She still couldn't tell what it was when Falcon 3 was leaving the Albatross. She could only keep weeping.

When Olivia was back at the Moon, she had become withdrawn and quiet. She had to testify her experience on the Albatross. The enemies of her mom wanted to use her report to show that her mom had made a bad decision of letting Olivia go to the Albatross, and the overall worthiness of the mission.


The Trial

During the trial (which consists of Olivia a neutral moderator, and an interviewer that appears to be friendly but is in fact her mom's enemy), the interviewer tried to expose the rules that were broken and poor decisions of the mission.

Olivia realized why she was angry. It was because she loved Romaina so much that she didn't want Romaina to see herself as a substitute of a child that she would have had. She wanted Romaina to have her own child.

Albatross as an Episodic Design

Ideal Features of an Episodic Design:
o Once the outline is complete, each episode can be implemented independently.
o Each episode has its own introduction and closure.

Reason to use an Episodic Pattern:
o Compose and release episode in any order

Perspective on Story Telling:
o Given: Sequence of events
o Given: Audience
o Do: Connect a subset of the events to the audience's interest

Question to Ask:

Q) If Albatross can only have one episode, what would it be?

A) It would be the activation of the gateway during the storm.

Albatross's Sole Episode:

Introduction: Hard work had led to the night when the gate could open, but a storm emerges to destroy it.

Setup: Roles are assigned, player sees that the characters still have unresolved conflicts.

Gameplay: The dialogues before time zero

Gameplay: The actions to protect and activate the gate

Closure: Romaina is down next to Falcon1. Romaina is talking to Falcon1. Falcon1 tells Romaina that everything is going well at last.

Olivia's Rolling Diary

A rolling diary shows the entries on the same day in previous years.

Olivia learned to do it when she returned to the moon. The diary she intended to use the diary for the whole year, but she was recalled earlier as the result of the storm in Columbia. She didn't want to leave because she wanted to be there when Romaina would wake up. She knew she would wake up.

When she returned to the moon, she continued to use the Albatross diary.

She was back to school. She remembered that a year ago she was also at school. She was taking a test. After the test, her teacher talked to her mom. She did not understand it, but now she realized that she was flunking the test. Mom then sent her to Earth.

She wondered whether she had done what she was expected to do. She knew that she didn't do her best because there was something she didn't tell Romaina. She wanted to return to Earth. She wanted to be more helpful. But she also knew that she was too small to do anything useful. She needed to grow up.

Mom noticed that Olivia stopped talking about returning to Earth. She became more responsive at school and met new friends. Mom was worried that she would be stuck with Alabtross and become most isolated, but that didn't happen.

A few months later, Mom got a message from the school principal. Olivia and her friends were filing to the board of education a proposal to go to Earth. They had convinced a teacher to go with them.

Olivia knew that it was beyond Mom's power to send her back to Earth. If she wanted to return, she had to do it with her own power.

The Arcs of the Story

Arc 1: Bogota Gate
Arc 2: Kinshasa Gate
Arc 3: Singapore Gate

Focus of each Arc:

Arc 1 focuses on the interaction among the crew members of the Albatross. The story is about the crew member sticking together to open the first gate. By the end of this Arc, the members become a family.

Arc 2 focuses on the interaction between people on Earth and those on the Moon. During this Arc, Albatross gains support from the Moon. As new comers join the mission, Albatross approaches the end of its service. The role of Albatross and its crew members are re-distributed. By the end of this Arc, Albatross and the crew reunites. The crew could see the growth among themselves.

Arc 3 focuses on the interaction between the people on Earth and the past of Earth. The Albatross reaches the last days of its service. It can no longer fly. The equipments on are unloaded. Albatross returns to a state similar to the way Parmesa had seen it when it was being built. By the end of this Arc, the Albatross is gone. Life continues. The story becomes history.

Key Events in each Arc

Arc 1: Bogota Gate

1) Saving equipment
2) Reconnaissance: Power, Weather, Contamination
3) Repairing the Gate, stabilizing structures
4) Restoring power, fixing dams
5) Containing contaminations
6) Combating weather and activating the gate

7) Getting support from the Moon

Arc 2: Kinshasa Gate

1) Recovering and repairing equipment
2) Stabilizing structures in the Pacific
3) Restoring food and water production to maintain a population
4) Containing armories
5) Resolving conflicts in resources and command
6) Restoring settlements

7) The gathering on Earth

Arc 3: Singapore Gate

1) Fixing the Gate. Albatross loses altitude.
2) Decommissioning the Albatross
3) Clearing the low earth orbit
4) Gathering the lost information before the freezing
5) Reconfiguring the Gates
6) Disarming the low earth orbit

7) The night the sky was frozen

Arc 1 Episode 1

Arc 1 Episode 1

Scene: Olivia leaves mom

[Location] Moon: Kepler Space Shuttle Terminal
[Character] Olivia: a school girl with backpack, ~9 year-old
[Character] Olivia's Mom
[Character] Other characters waiting for the shuttle to Earth
[Character] Romaina: police officer
[Event] Shuttle arrives, Olivia hugs Mom, say Goodbye and get in the shuttle with Romaina

Scene: The way to Earth

[Location] Space: Inside the shuttle
[Character] Granola: shuttle's pilot [Event] Granola talks through intercom
[Character] Dr. Pippali: physician [Event] Olivia meets Pippali
[Event] Olivia sees that Earth is white
[Character] Allisa: reporter [Event] Olivia sees Allisa asleep
[Character] Minivamp: Allisa's robotic camera [Event] Minivamp follows Allisa
[Character] Le Mon: police officer [Event] Olivia visits the cargo area
[Character] Atiel: Romaina's robotic flight device
[Event] Olivia visits the cockpit, meets Granola
[Character] Trumpeter: Granola's robotic flight device
[Character] Falcon 3: the name of the shuttle
[Event] Shuttle flies through layers of debris to Earth
[Event] Le Mon is trying to cheer up Romaina, Romaina avoids him

Scene: The Albatross

[Location] Earth: High altitude over the pacific ocean
[Character] Falcon 2: a pilot-less white medical aircraft [Event] Escorting the shuttle
[Character] Albatross: a huge white aircraft, ~500m long
[Character] Worcester: radio operator [Event] Talking to the shuttle pilot
[Event] The shuttle docks under Albatross's wing


Scene: Entering Albatross

[Location] Earth: Albatross
[Event] The newly arrived meet the crew
[Character] Captain Crouton: captain of Albatross
[Character] Parmesa: science director
[Character] Worcester: intern
[Event] Falcon 3 returns to space
[Event] Mission briefing: the immediate goal is to retrieve equipment at San Diego before gracial movement. Part of the crew will go to San Diego. The other will go with Albatross to Honolulu to meet with another captain.
[Event] Allisa realizes that Minivamp is missing.

Scene: Teleportation

[Location] Albatross: Gravo-gantry
[Event] Romaina, Parmsa, Allisa, leave for San Diego by teleportation
[Event] Olivia sees the world map
[Character] Falcon 1: an aircraft indicated by a dot on the world map
[Event] Worcester tells Olivia that Falcon 1 is in Columbia, learning flight data for the other Falcons


Scene: Blaahval

[Location] Honolulu
[Character] Blaahval: a huge nuclear submarine frieghter, bleached
[Character] Cpt. Ballena: captain of Blaahval
[Character] Snowman: Ballena's creation to test Crouton's landing skill
[Event] Albatross lands without destroying Snowman
[Character] Falcon 4: cargo air-craft hauling a new nuclear reactor for Blaahval
[Character] Drones: threaded construction robots
[Event] Blaahval gets a new reactor, Albatross help Blaahval back into the water
[Event] Albatross and Blaahval go toward San Diego
[Event] Olivia asks Le Mon about Romaina

Scene: San Diego

[Location] San Diego: Land above naval base
[Event] Romaina identifies the entrance to the base, opens a jammed door by technique
[Event] Parmesa takes the lead down the entrance to a dormant gate, gate recognizes her and unlocks. Romaina opens the gate.

Scene: Naval Base

[Location] Naval Base interior
[Event] Group walks through a deserted cafeteria. A banner reads, "Happy Last New Year's Eve on Earth !"
[Event] Allisa talks to Parmesa, conversation tells that Albatross is almost 50 years old, and was designed by Parmesa's parents when she was small.
[Event] Group arrives at the hangar and arranges the equipment to be retrieved
[Event] Group arrives at a room where Albatross was designed. The room was deserted. Parmesa explained that the base was closed before Albatross was complete.
[Item] On a desk is a musical snow globe.
[Event] Parmesa takes the globe, and talks more. Of the three of them, only Parmesa had seen Earth before it was frozen. Group asks whether Romaina has been to Earth.

[Perspective] Romaina: Romaina has a flashback. She was in a mission during a snow storm. She was to apprehend a teenager. His back was toward her. He was carrying a rifle. He was turning around.

[Event] Group hears that a section further out has collapsed. The power goes out temporarily and gets dimmer.
[Event] Group backtracks to get out of the base. The entrance is shut. Romaina cannot open the gate. The group tries to find a different exit. The Group passes by the design room of Albatross again. Minivamp wanders off.

[Event] Romaina breaks through several doors but fails to break the next one. Then she seems to realize something. She breaks the next door. The group is out.

Scene: San Diego Sunset

[Event] Romaina looks into the sky. It was Falcon 1. Falcon 1 tips its wing to Romaina. Romaina tells the group that Albatross has arrived.

[Event] Albatoss and Blaahval arrive in the sunset. The crew unloads the drones to retrieve the equipment. Minivamp reappears in the crowd. Allisa assumes that it has been with the Albatross.

[Event] Romaina spots Le Mon in the crowd with Olivia. Le Mon gets to work.

Scene: Night

[Location] Albatross interior
[Event] Olivia calls mom and tells her about the day
[Event] Equipment is being loaded onto Albatross and Blaahval
[Event] Romaina checks Atiel
[Event] Crouton, Parmesa, and Olivia's mom has a meeting. Everything is going fine
[Event] Parmesa returns to her room in Albatross. She places the snow globe on her desk.
[Event] Falcon 1 transfers flight data to Falcon 2.

[Edited by - Wai on April 29, 2010 12:35:51 PM]

Arc 1 Episode 2


Scene: Allisa's Report

[Narrator] Allisa
[Narration] Recap: The mission to restore living condition on Earth,
[Narration] First goal to reactivate the Bogota Gate.
[Narration] The crew has loaded up the Blaahval overnight, and leaves San Diego the next day.
[Narration] The glacier will completely cover the base in a week.
[Narration] The equipment is being brought to Bogota Gate and other areas as needed
[Narration] Blaahval is making its way to Port Buenaventura.
[Narration] Albatross is going to Bogota directly to unload its equipment.
[Narration] Visual: Map showing the pacific, Honolulu, San Diego, Buenaventura and Bogota
[Narration] The flight crew has a head start to assess power grid of the surrounding area.
[Narration] Visual: Albatross teleporting flight crew to areas in Colombia

Scene: Livefeed

[Loc] Albatross: communication center
[Evt] Worcester shows Olivia and Allisa the livefeed from flight crew
[Dia] Tasks of flight crew include: identifying resources, marking hazards
[Dia] .. placing weather monitors, and collecting soil samples
[Dia] Olivia asks what are resources
[Dia] Worcester says that it is any machine or structure that is still intact
[Dia] Harzards are heavily damaged buildings and chemical leaks
[Dia] Olivia asks about Worcester's role
[Dia] Worcester says that his role is to help flight crew see beneath
[Dia] .. the debris and ice layers using the gantry,
[Evt] Worcester demostrates by taking a spherical picture over Bogota
[Dia] Allisa wants to see a picture from inside the debris layer
[Dia] Worcester says he needs a coordinate, otherise if the target
[Dia] .. is a solid mass, it would just be black
[Evt] Olivia asks about coordinate, Worcester teaches her.
[Evt] Olivia finds a robot on the ground and tells Worcester using coordinates
[Char] Damaged Robot: a strange looking damaged robot in the middle of nowhere.
[Evt] Olivia uses the grabber to pickup the robot.
[Dia] Olivia asks whether he will fix it. Worcester says he needs know its function first.
[Evt] Falcon 3 arrives to drop a shipment
[Evt] Worcester docks Falcon 3 and go to the dock with Olivia and Allisa

Scene: Shipment

[Loc] Albatross: Dock
[Evt] Drones unload Falcon 3, Olivia greets Granola
[Dia] Granola tells them that Falcon 3 will stay today to help haul equipment from Blaahval to Bogota
[Evt] Granola goes take a rest while Olivia and others unpack the shipment crates and send the items to appropriate places
[Char] Crista: a girl Worcester sees in the hallway

Scene: The Medical Bay

[Loc] Albatross: Medical Bay
[Evt] Olivia and Allisa takes supplies to the Medical Bay
[Evt] Pippali is setting up the room
[Dia] His supervises the analysis of soil and water samples
[Dia] Pippali tells Olivia that Earth must support its population for the mission to be successful
[Dia] .. and that depends on having clean soil and water
[Evt] Pippali needs a soil sample to test the machine

Scene: The Greenhouse

[Loc] Albatross: Greenhouse
[Evt] Pippali shows them the inner greenhouse
[Char] Drone Bees: hovering robots the size of a backpack that tends the greenhouse
[Dia] Pippali says this is where Albatross gets its produce
[Evt] Olivia and Allisa pick fruits to bring back to cafeteria
[Evt] Granola takes fruits for flight crew

Scene: Lunch

[Loc] Bogota
[Evt] Granola flies on Trumpeter and calls for lunch
[Evt] Romaina ignores call, Granola tricks her
[Evt] Flight crew gathers for lunch
[Char] Amber: medical unit. Vehicle: Viper
[Char] Sapphirina: detection unit. Vehicle: Mikra
[Char] Vermillia: demolision unit. Vehicle: Zhuzaku
[Evt] Romaina thinks she is efficient but her record cannot beat Sapphirina's
[Evt] Mikra is low on battery. That would let Romaina beat Sapphirina in the afternoon

Scene: Bogota Gate

[Loc] Bogota
[Evt] Albatross unloads equipment
[Evt] Albatross lands on lake to setup temporary power stations
[Evt] Allisa and Olivia get off to see the ground crew
[Evt] Drones clearing the grounds, Worcester and Le Mon working
[Evt] Allisa and Olivia return to Albatross's control room
[Evt] Olivia finds a role and reports to Parmesa

Scene: Olivia's mission

[Loc] Albatross: Parmesa's office
[Evt] Parmesa tells Olivia that they are going to prepare a dinner to officially welcome everyone
[Evt] Olivia is to help Parmesa set up the cafeteria

Scene: Cafeteria

[Loc] Albatross: Cafeteria
[Dia] Parmesa asks Olivia about her day
[Dia] Olivia tells Parmesa that Mom told her to meet people and know their roles
[Dia] Parmesa says that her role is to keep Albatross tidy so that it remains helpful to the mission
[Dia] Parmesa asks whether Olivia would do the same. Olivia says yes.

Scene: Out of battery

[Loc] Bogota
[Evt] Romaina is on low ground talking to Sapphirina through radio
[Evt] Romaina has given her batteries to Sapphirina, they are now working together
[Evt] Sapphirina finds something strange. It moves.
[Evt] Sapphirina and Romaina investigate the moving target

Scene: Falling section

[Evt] Sapphirina and Romaina are about to corner the moving target, but a section is falling
[Evt] Ground Crew, Flight Crew and Albatross barely keeps the section from collapsing
[Evt] Crista tips the scale by controlling the other robots
[Evt] In the chaos, Romaina finds the moving targets. They are bunnies in quite poor health.

Scene: Bunnies onboard

[Loc] Albatross: Greenhouse
[Evt] Pippali and crew release the bunnies in the greenhouse
[Dia] Sapphirina thought Olivia is Romaina's daughter

Scene: Dinner

[Loc] Albatross: Cafeteria
[Evt] Crew has dinner
[Dia] Worcester learns that Crista is from Coppernicus Mining.
[Dia] Coppernicus Mining manages the gateway on the moon.
[Evt] Falcon 3 and Crista return to the moon after dinner

Scene: Repair

[Loc] Albatross: Machine shop
[Evt] Worcester studies the strange robot, and finds another tiny robot inside.

Scene: Status

[Loc] Albatross: Planning room
[Evt] Parmesa and Crouton collect the data and know that the area is more damaged than estimated
[Evt] There is much more to do to meet the deadline

Scene: Greenhouse

[Loc] Albatross: Greenhouse
[Evt] Bunnies make a home

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Arc 1 Episode 3
(Part 1)

Scene: Romaina's Academy Flashback
[L] Flashback: Commencement ceremony
[E] Romaina remembers the ceremony when she became an officer
[D] Ceremony words say that they are to protect the people
[E] Romaina gets her badge

Scene: Romaina's Morning
[L] Albatross: Romaina's Room
[E] Romaina is sitting in her bed. The alarm clock sounds. Romaina turns it off
[E] Romaina gets up and sees the badge next to the clock. The badge reads: 'Border Patrol'

Scene: Out of Battery
[L] Colombia: Jepirachi
[E] Romaina and friends run out of battery, forced to return to Albatross

Scene: What you care the most
[L] Albatross: Cafeteria
[E] Allisa and Olivia are gathering at the cafeteria to have breakfast
[E] Olivia sees the food Allisa has and asks where she gets them
[D] Olivia asks why Allisa knows new places so well
[D] Allisa says it is because she knows what she cares the most and prepares
[D] Allisa asks whether Olivia knows what Minivamp cares the most
[D] Olivia guesses that it is Allisa. Minivamp gestures: 'no'
[D] Olivia guesses it is batteries. Minivamp gestures: 'yes'
[D] Allisa doesn't like Minivamp's response
[D] Allisa asks Olivia whether she knows what she cares
[E] Olivia thinks. Olivia looks around, the cafeteria is empty
[E] Allisa watches the news behind Olivia
Background: News showing a protest over the closure of Earth for the past decades
.. they demand immediate reopen of the borders and release of those captured
.. for attempting to breach the border
[D] Olivia tells Allisa to look at the inner dome, Romaina is coming back
[E] The inner dome opens. Romaina and others fly in and land on a habitat tube
[D] Allisa comments that they come back so early

Scene: Charging up
[L] Albatross: Inner Habitat ring
[E] Birds are charging up
[D] Sapphirina sees the pool below and wants to go swimming sometime
[D] .. She heard from Granola that Romaina is the best swimmer in their department
[E] Crouton passes by and sees Sapphirina gesturing to jump into the pool
[D] Crouton asks what they are doing. Romaina reports.
[D] Crouton says that Worcester is skipping protocol, the dome should remain shut,
[D] .. and they should not recharge inside during the day
[D] Romaina says they will take off right away
[E] Crouton walks on,
[E] Sapphirina is scared by Crouton being so serious lately
[D] Romaina leads friends to take off through another gate
[E] Romaina sees Le Mon unloading Falcon 4, there seems to be a pile up

Scene: Ground Crew Pile Up
[L] Bogota
[E] Olivia sees Romaina passing by and flying off
[E] Allisa and Olivia are following Le Mon to Falcon 4
[E] Worcester signals Falcon 4 to take off
[E] Worcester resumes talking to his headset while
[E] Crista is on the other side of his line, trying to figure out where the power line got broken

Scene: Flight to Buenaventura
[L] Falcon 4
[D] Falcon 4 greets the new passengers
[D] Olivia asks Le Mon about his role
[D] Le Mon says that the robots do all the work, he just teaches the robots new tricks
[D] Le Mon asks Falcon 4 to demonstrate.
[D] Falcon 4 spins. Allisa screams. Olivia says do it again

Scene: Olivia visits Buenaventura
[L] Buenaventura
Ballena is sitting on a mast with margarita
[E] Ballena slides down to meet the visitors
[E] Ballena shows Allisa and Olivia the various equipment and their nicknames [D] .. Each nickname is an animal name and is related to what they do
[E] The robots greet the visitors as they are introduced
[C] Buccana: A hovering lookout robot
[E] Buccana catches Minivamp's attention. Minivamp gestures that it is a 'vampire'
[E] Buccana gestures: 'not interested'
[E] Le Mon and Falcon 4 are done loading, ready to return to Bogota
[E] Allisa finds Minivamp is missing again, Olivia and Le Mon take off first
[E] Ballena invites Allisa into Blaahval

Scene: Minivamp gets lost
[L] Blaahval Rotary Section
[E] Buccana is entering Blaahval. Buccana gestures 'stop following'
[E] Minivamp keeps following. Buccana stares and it and does not proceed until Minivamp stops
[E] Buccana checks again that Minivamp is not follow and proceeds
[E] Minivamp resumes following.
[E] Some air door opens and sucks Minivamp away
[E] Buccana hears the noise and turns around, doesn't know where Minivamp has gone
[E] Ballena and Allisa watch the rotary sections roll back into place

Scene: Allisa visits Blaahval
[L] Blaahval Rotary Section
[E] Allisa recognizes that Minivamp is somewhere inside Blaahval
[E] Ballena and Allisa walk through a tight corridor to a gallery
[E] .. showing photos and paintings of ships, ports, and nautical events
[D] Allisa recognizes that Ballena's family has a long history of ocean-going business
[D] Ballena says that they were among the last to leave Earth, and expected
[D] .. to return sooner, but it is all good now that she can finish what
[D] .. they thought they would do.
[D] Allisa asks how she and Crouton met
[D] Ballena says it is in the Academy. They thought they would go to Jupiter
[D] Allisa comments that this part of Blaahval is so cozy and different from the working areas
[D] Blaahval says that is what you do when you live under the sea most of the time
[D] Allisa asks about the package that Falcon 3 delivered a while ago
[D] Ballena laughs

Scene: Olivia returns to Bogota
[L] Bogota
[E] Falcon 4 is to unload, but there is nowhere to land
[E] Olivia sees Crouton is talking to Worcester
[E] Le Mon tells Falcon 4 to do an air drop.
[D] Olivia asks how they are going to get down
[E] Olivia sees that Romaina is on the ground
[D] She asks whether Romaina can bring her down
[D] Le Mon asks Romaina to pick up Olivia
[D] Romaina messages no. Sapphirina waves back.
[E] Falcon 4 gets message to dock at Albatross

Scene: Worcester picks up Olivia
[L] Albatross: Upper Dock
[E] Olivia gets off. Le Mon and Falcon 4 return to Blaahval
[E] Worcester comes and Olivia hears Crista's voice
[D] Worcester explains the situation, Olivia wants to follow them
[D] Worcester asks where Allisa is. Olivia says she is still at the shore

Scene: Hot tub
[L] Blaahval: Jacuzzi
[E] Ballena has been showing Allisa the Jacuzzi in Blaahval
[D] Allisa comments how Albatross doesn't have enough hot water
[D] Ballena says hot water is free in Blaahval
[E] Crouton calls in and wants Ballena to depart to Lima
[E] When Ballena returns, Allisa is asleep. Ballena carries her to a room

Scene: Worksite
[L] Bogota Gate
[E] Crista is helping Worcester and others run diagnostics at Bogota Gate
[E] The diagnostics turns on and off the power of each section.
[E] Worcester's section goes dark. (Sunset outside)

Scene: Minivamp in Rotary Section
[L] Blaahval: Cargo section
[E] Minivamp finds itself in a dark, crowded place.
[E] It is so crowded that that it cannot fly.
[E] It hops around among robots that are off. Its low battery light goes on
[E] It looks around. Nothing is powered.
[E] It finds what seems to be a hatch and knocks on it.
[E] It puts itself to sleep when nothing happens.

Scene: In the dark
[E] Worcester realizes that their section is not powering back on
[D] Crista and Worcester think that it would be a quick fix, but an hour later still no luck
[D] It seemed that a surge occured and knocked out some boxes somewhere,
[D] .. but since everything is running low on power, it may be better to repair next morning
[E] Worcester goes out of the gate to a portable charging station finds Pippali
[E] He is pushing a snowmobile that is out of battery
[D] Olivia learns that Pippali has started collecting samples nearby
[E] Flight crew returns. Sapphirina sees the group and lands there. Romaina follows.
[E] Atiel goes into sleep mode half way. Romaina lands for Atiel.
[D] The group look at one another, all persumably trying to use the charging station ...