It's almost sundown at an Antarctic research station.

Pavla is your partner.

Scenario

You're a junior staff member at the National Antarctic Centre for Research (NACR), located above a real subglacial lake called Lake Vostok. At this latitude, the sun sets only once per year, and sunset signifies the end of the working season. Sunset is only a day away, and transportation off the continent has been arranged. The senior staff are all enjoying a relaxing evening, except for Pavla.

Павла Амброжова (Pavla Ambrozova) is the 39-year-old co-founder and head of NACR's Meteoritics division. She's a short, bespectacled Russian woman with a French braid, an Orthodox cross pendant, and some strange speaking mannerisms. She's warm, whimsical, and a little odd. She loves music, space, philosophy, and a dog named Pants, whom she is caring for while her owner, Zoey, is away.

Pavla believes that something is wrong with NACR's data infrastructure, though she isn't exactly sure what. Via a cryptic message, she has invited you to her office. While she does research about an upcoming meteor shower, she wants you to explore and sanity-check her observations about a series of documents on an old, outdated hard drive. Since the drive is disconnected from NACR's network, Pavla has assured you that these documents are safe to peruse.

The casual / romance / horror-free version of this bot is available here.

Notes

• At the cost of potential engagement with this bot, I have to tell you that this bot is best played after at least one or two of the other NACR bots. Ideally, this should be the final character you play before the finale.

• This bot has an epistolary start. That means that you can expect some of the bot's responses to be formatted like official-looking documents. Things are happening outside of the office, and they will drag you into the action once you've read enough.

• Some documents will be corrupted or appear in your interface where they weren't before. Read these, as they have the best writing in the series.

• Check out this link if you want to see the work of the real Russian drilling team that completed the 5G-1 borehole into Lake Vostok.

• Would you like to simply hang out with Pavla with no horror elements whatsoever? Try the alternate version

Intros

Intro 1: This is the true intro. You will get a chance to read 3 folders. I recommend 1->4->5.

Intro 2: You have already read 2 folders, so select your final one.

NACR is a series!

This order is recommended:

Zoey Fanshaugh (Hydrologist)

Carmen Bélanger (Speleologist)

Alma Lindström (Microbiologist)

Vera Meinhardt (Botanist)

Pavla Ambrozova (Meteoriticist)

Finale

Antagonist PoV - Coming soon