he stopped, looked around the glittering ice field, and just whispered "This is amazing."
He went into Open, and started in his Sidewinder and proceeded to mess almost everything up. He took a mission to bring 1 Beer to Trevithick Dock, his starting outpost.
He misread the mission and thought it was a delivery, and he already had the Beer in his hold. He thought his transactions tab was also a way of looking at his cargo.
He took off, thought at first he was supposed to deliver to Trevithick Dock. He hadn't noticed that this was the same station where he'd started. Where's Trevithick Dock? Oh, wow, it's only 1.82km away. Right here! I watched him turn 180 without realising what he was doing. When the station came into view, he assumed it was a different one.
He worked out how to request landing permission after a long while. He tried to land facing the wrong way. His inability to fly backwards made fixing this extremely difficult.
Once he landed, he tried to complete the mission. Isn't the beer in my cargo hold? No. Oh. He finally realised that his viewers had been reading the contract more carefully and were telling him that he needed to go and get beer and bring it back.
So he took off again and then followed a viewer's bad advice and headed to Yaping Orbital without ever opening his galaxy map. Once he'd realised he needed to bind his Frame Shift Drive Key. "Friendship Drive charging? Did she just say Friendship Drive?" The first time he was in supercruise, he was just staring as planets came shooting past him with the sun drifting by on his right. "Wow! I'm going faster than the speed of light! C. C is the speed of light." He had some trouble with slowing in supercruise and nearly ran into the planet the station is orbiting. When he dropped out he shouted in alarm as the station seemed to come out of nowhere and threaten to smack him in the face. Then couldn't find the entrance to the Coriolis as his landing request timer ticked down. He nearly crashed coming in as he'd never negotiated anything as narrow as a station slot before. When he landed safely, he actually punched the air with both hands and shouted "YESSSSS".
It's then he discovered that Yaping Orbital is an extraction station. It doesn't sell beer. He swore a great deal. He somehow got it into his head that Trevithick Dock must have had the beer all along. He flies back, clearly having an argument with his viewers. He lands. No beer.
He finally opened the galaxy map. He messed with view. Trade routes. It took him a long time to find Beer, under Narcotics. He looked at the routes. He openly wondered, "So... which place do I go? The ones with arrows with coming from them, or going towards them?" It was obvious from his reaction to the text that people are spamming 'COMING FROM'!
He took off again. He'd got flight and boosting around pretty much under control now. He'd plotted a route to Eravate on the galaxy map. When he jumped to witchspace, his reaction is one of nervous fear. "Wait, this is different to before. Why is this different?" It was obvious he was staring at his instruments going haywire. So when he slammed out of jump with the FSD spooling down, he actually screamed as he saw the sun come rushing towards him.
And then, after recovering, he started checking his navigation tab for stations...
He's getting the hang of it.
And throughout it all, he's been mumbling a constant stream, "Holy... this is... this is so much harder than I thought... this... how do I... oh god, this is insane..." He got quieter and quieter and quieter, until it was obvious he was ignoring his viewers and just lost in trying to deliver 1 lousy canister of beer to his starting station. He eventually went completely silent, flying along with eyes like saucers.
