You would have found that "Arthur" interactive story in the making if it hadn't been deleted...
Hehe, the ARC Encounter... that storyline was based on a short story I tried writing about three times and never finished. I think I'll give a little plot synopsis of the story.
Basically, what happened in the story was this research facility/colony on Mars suddenly drops out of communication after a solar flare and nobody knows what happened. The main characters are in a big space station orbiting Mars when a bunch of marines (sorry, SPACE marines
) dock with the station. The general dude steps out and talks to the captain, saying that they'll need some scientists and stuff to go with them from the station. Here some characters are introduced: a doctor, a mathematician, an exobiologist, and the captain. They join the marines on a little shuttle down to Mars and go into the base. It seems abandoned while they're in it but then suddenly... uh... heh, yeah I know it's a total rip-off of "Aliens" so far but it gets a bit different later on... suddenly they are attacked by all the people of the colony. Well, sorta. They're all mutated and stuff. There's a really cool action scene where they run away from the crowd firing guns at 'em. The general gets his foot caught in some cables while the rest of the soldiers get to the airlock. As the mutants surround the general he pulls out a grenade and suicide-bombs, spraying icky mutant blood on everyone in the airlock before it can close. Anyway, the survivors go in the shuttle back to the space station, but they have the virus with them now! (When I wrote this story I didn't know what the word "cliche" meant) Knowing that they're probably infected, they order all the people in the space station to move out of beta quadrant (I stole the space-station quadrant idea from System Shock) and seal it off so they can dock there without infecting everyone. Incidentally, beta quadrant is the one with all the scientific and medical equipment that they will need. They find out in a lab that the virus basically slowly destroys mental ability and eventually mutates ya into a really ugly mutant dude who smells like rotten kumquats.
Anyway, from there on it's a race against time as they struggle with the mind-numbing rage-enhancing effects of the virus trying to find a cure. To make matters worse, the Marines are the ones most seriously effected by the virus and they gots guns! And to make matters even more worse than the previous worse situation, the people down on Earth heard about the virus and they've got a big nasty nuclear missile flying through space towards the station! I never really figured out how to end the story though...
Here's what I think is the best idea I had for the ending:
After losing the battle against the Martian virus, they realize that all hope is lost and decide to sacrifice their lives to save the rest of the station. So they separate beta quadrant from the station and steer it into the path of the nuclear missile. But at the last minute the mathematician dude (his name is Malcolm, BTW) snaps and makes a run for the escape pods. A brief and incredibly clumsy fistfight with the captain ensues (cause both their brains are seriously screwed by now) but Malcolm overpowers him and makes it to the escape pod. Beta quadrant is vapourized in the nuclear explosion, but Malcolm still remains, still infected. And guess what the destination of the escape pod is, to make it one of those "outer-limits"-ish kinda tragic twist endings? Hehe, you can figure this one out...