I took Carol and the two others and placed them on the medical beds. I then noticed something hanging over their heads.

  that makes no sense. Carolyn's the superior officer here. She's in charge of the whole ship until I can find somebody who is higher on the chain of command. Andrew is only a nurse. So why is it showing him at a higher level?

  Cray shook his head and walked back into is core room. No, wait, the engineering room. Why did I call it a core room? I looked at my core.

  There was something off, almost like I wasn't sitting right. Cray kept looking at his core. It looked like somebody had taken a tomato and thrown it at the wall, making it splatter. My core was just sticking out of the pile of mold and black coral.

  Watching my core, I decided to change some things. The pile began twitching and sinking into the metal wall taking a form. I knew all too well the wall began to glow and show intricate patterns of blue lines across it. The pillars that had grown out of the mold slowly shrunk and turned to gold as they gathered around my core I stuck my hand out as I watched it all formed before me.

  Words were hanging above my core, I read them aloud.

  Cray

  Unaffiliated dungeon core.

  In the corner of my HUD, I saw an icon that was slowly blinking. While I looked at it, a window popped up.

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