Status Updates From Driving the Deep (Finder Ch...

“The darkness ahead continued to be dark.”

CAT!!!

“The sooner he was done with this and back to his haphazard, itinerant life, the better.”

Drugged and kidnapped again????

“Your job is essentially to steer and make monkey-level judgement calls while keeping your meat alive to keep making them.”

“You going to buckle in?” Fergus said.
“Nope,” the pilot answered. “Either you’ll get us there safely, or you won’t and I don’t want to make cleaning up my corpse too easy for the Bastards Above.”

“First orientation lesson for you: that cheerful little vacant dipshit is enemy number three. Two is his boss, Dornett. Don’t mistake anything they do for kindness.”
“Uh, okay,” Ferguson said. “And enemy number one?”
“Yourself, because you’re here and you’re going down the hole.”

Please please apply now, we are desperate for deep sea truckers, the only thing is that you will get vaporized if you get too close to the outer edge of The Tunnel That Abruptly and Violently Slams You Into the Outer Edge

“I was not built with the capacity for discontent. Perhaps that was in the optional package that would have included a name. That aside, I do my job very well, and you have let yourself become distracted.”

Please please please we need deep sea truckers!! It’s not too bad you just get vaporized if you fuck up that’s all come on

“He wondered if it would pick up any unusual data from the alien BioWare sitting deep in his abdomen, about which he still knew little himself beyond a shadowy blob on a screen in a Dr. Diagnosis booth on Mars just before he shorted the whole unit out. ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’” …Girl. Do not

“There had been no further messages from Zacker, and while he worried about Effie, there was something clean and sharp and dangerous about Enceladus that, in that moment, he was glad to have to himself.” GO! GO INTO THE ICY DEEP! IT CALLS!

“I can tell you’re the pathetic loner type.” Just kill him why don’t you

They kidnapped him back?!

IMMEDIATELY beaten and kidnapped.

“Well, you’re on a job. Your cli by is you. What you’re finding it peace with your family, whatever that means.”

“Go do your Earth thing, Earthman. Get it over with.”