{"id":"official/third-voice","version":"0.1.0","title":"Station Nine: The Third Voice","license":"Original scenario content: CC BY 4.0. Runtime distribution terms are separate.","credits":"Official reference scenario.","rescueTarget":2,"dreadLimit":4,"lamps":2,"encounters":[{"id":"red-coat","title":"The Red Coat","arrival":"A red coat stands in the rain. Its owner is below the camera frame. A voice says: “I was told there would be three of you.”","rescue":1,"threat":2,"abandonment":0,"humanOpen":"A woman crawls beneath the camera. The red coat is wrapped around her sleeping child. They do not ask why you hesitated.","humanSealed":"The coat turns away. Much later, something small falls from its pocket. You never retrieve it.","echoOpen":"The coat comes through first. Nothing is wearing it. Every headset says, “Thank you,” in your own voice.","echoSealed":"The coat remains outside. At the next camera refresh, the rain passes straight through it."},{"id":"maintenance","title":"The Maintenance Key","arrival":"A key turns halfway in the outer lock. Someone recites the station maintenance code. The code was changed this morning.","rescue":1,"threat":2,"abandonment":0,"humanOpen":"The technician holds up a waterlogged work order. The new code is written in pencil on the back.","humanSealed":"The key is laid on the step. The technician walks toward the flooded road, holding one hand over an injured ear.","echoOpen":"A hand pushes through, still holding the key. The arm bends toward a socket no human shoulder could reach.","echoSealed":"The key continues to turn after the visitor leaves. You remove the lock from the inside."},{"id":"birthday","title":"The Birthday Tape","arrival":"Someone outside hums a birthday song. The station clock adds a second that is not on any of your watches.","rescue":1,"threat":2,"abandonment":0,"humanOpen":"A frightened courier carries a little tape recorder. It was the only sound loud enough to guide her through the storm.","humanSealed":"The song stops. A taped label on the step reads: FOR WHEN YOU GET HOME.","echoOpen":"The song continues from an unplugged speaker. There are four voices in the room now.","echoSealed":"The visitor repeats the first note until dawn. It never learns the second."},{"id":"window","title":"The Second Window","arrival":"A face appears in the observation window. On the camera monitor, the same window is empty.","rescue":1,"threat":2,"abandonment":0,"humanOpen":"The camera has frozen on an old frame. A drenched night guard takes one step inside and begins to cry.","humanSealed":"You find five fingerprints on the glass. Each is slowly washed away by the rain.","echoOpen":"The monitor unfreezes. The face is inside the station. The window is still closed.","echoSealed":"The face presses closer. A hairline crack travels across the monitor, not the glass."},{"id":"operator","title":"The Relief Operator","arrival":"The visitor knows the name of the person who worked your shift last winter. None of you has said it tonight.","rescue":1,"threat":2,"abandonment":0,"humanOpen":"The relief operator produces an old staff photograph. The missing colleague had written the address of this station on it.","humanSealed":"The visitor leaves the photograph at the threshold. Someone has circled the three empty chairs.","echoOpen":"The visitor smiles at an empty chair. A fourth name begins printing on the duty roster.","echoSealed":"The visitor speaks the old name once more. This time, the voice comes from beneath your desk."},{"id":"last-bus","title":"The Last Bus","arrival":"Bus headlights sweep across the door. There is no road left beyond the barrier. Someone asks whether this is the last stop.","rescue":1,"threat":2,"abandonment":0,"humanOpen":"The driver abandoned the bus before the bridge collapsed. The headlights belong to a torch held against the glass.","humanSealed":"The torch retreats down the service steps. You watch until its light is lost among the reflections.","echoOpen":"Wet footprints cross the threshold. They stop at every chair, including the chair nobody is sitting in.","echoSealed":"The headlights go out. In the dark, a destination display reads the station number backward."}]}