Collections of Madness

Intro : All of you were best friends of Robert Douglas during your college years. 1915 freshmen at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Robert was friendly, outgoing, and interested in all kinds of sports. In fact, all of you were groomsmen at his 1919 wedding before he and Ellen moved to Canada to be near her family. You regularly exchanged Christmas letters, till late 1921 when Bob’s letters stopped. You hadn’t really given it much thought as people do seem to get on with their busy lives. Joe Austin  (Nathan) Accountant. Partied a lot with Robert back in college. In one of those parties, he hooked up with a gal into cult worship. A wild 6-months of hangovers and vaguely remembering chants to “the Great Old Ones.” When America entered the war, he sobered up and left the girl. Joe tried to enlist but was denied for his asthma attacks. Today, he lives in Seattle with a hobby of amateur boxing. Stanley Toothman (Julian) Studied ar...

Intro : In the latter half of the 21st century, humanity began the colonization of space. First with the Deep Space Gateway space-station placed in orbit at the L-4 Lagrange Point. And now with a permanent manned mining outpost on the rim of Shackleton Crater , at the lunar South-Pole. Opposite the Chinese’s North-Pole outpost. Cloaked in perpetual darkness, the Shackleton crater floor preserves a useful bounty of water ice and rare minerals, along with even more precious helium-3 which is badly needed to supply Earth’s nuclear fusion reactors. This scenario concerns the fate of one such international relief mining crew. This is their 3 rd 6-month deployment bringing more parts to expand the base, rotating cycles with another crew. Currently on leave prior to their next launch in 2 weeks, they get a surprise call to report to Houston Mission Control for an impromptu meeting. (Mike) Jack Cortez (Mission Flight Commander) of NASA, had the most flight experience of any ...