
You play Ayrault, leaving Sylvia Preston and Earth behind to pilot the spaceship Callisto to Jupiter with Colonel Bearwarden and Professor Cortlandt. Touchdown puts you on a plain of giant ferns and unfamiliar animals, one of which springs at the party before a rifle proves it venomous. Night brings a horned creature testing your electrified perimeter, and morning shows tracks of something strong enough to cripple a mastodon and drive it toward you — trees are already falling on both sides when the chapter ends.
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