You run in to the phone booth sized ejection pod, which immediately closes and launches. You’re able to watch on the pod monitor as the flaming Holliday veers towards the horizon. You aren’t able to see it crash however, as the collision foam envelopes you almost instantly.
After what you guess is fifteen minutes, but feels like an hour, the foam starts to liquefy, leaving behind only viscous orange goo. The time in the foam gives you a chance to regain your composure, and you start to think about what your next course of action should be. The primary question is whether to start your search for Typhus without your equipment, or a weapon, which seems somewhat foolish, or potentially waste crucial hours trying to find the site of the Holliday’s crash to try and recover whatever might have survived. At first you think that the wise course is to find the ship, but that gives a chance for Typhus, or whoever shot you down, to be the hunter, rather than the hunted.
You turn the pod’s monitor to the external camera to get a good look at where you landed. You appear to be in a swamp with three and a half foot deep water and a solid bottom. Judging from the trajectories, the ship is probably “south” of you. The pod’s sensors indicate that the swamp extends quite a distance to the south, so you’ll have to travel through the swamp to get to the ship. Tracking will be impossible in the swamp however, so if you decide to pursue Typhus directly, your first course of action must be to get out of the swamp by the shortest route possible, which would be northeast.
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