Something tumbles down the chute, both a large thunking sound and a far tinier one echoing through it. Once it stops, you open it up to find what your mind confirms to be a journal and a pen.
INTERCOM: Since you do not have the writing skill, you will have to learn on your own.
INTERCOM: If you do not want to go through the manual learning process, consider asking for the skill with your next reward, or have someone else teach you.
SEE: …someone else?
INTERCOM: Are you asking a question?
SEE: No, no, I’ll- I’ll figure it out.
You step off of the bed, flicking open the journal’s pages and looking at the blank lines inside. Weird…so you write in this? You’ll have to mess around with that later…for now, it’s time to check out what’s outside.