<> (We have communication with the others, yes?) (Yep.) * Hestia looks down. ...uh, way way down. "Not sure how I feel about the bird theory now. Why the hell did they need this?" * Zeke comms, ~Building vertically for birds seems reasonable. Perhaps there is an advantage to this construction.~ <> * Hestia seems, for all her tech savvy, to dislike talking on the comms. Weird. * Kyle glances at Lexi as they descend. "Keep going?" * Hestia shrugs. "Building deep into the earth doesn't jive with bird people in my mind." * Lexi shrugs. "I dunno. It's pretty dull. What the hell do they need a giant pit of nothing for? But maybe there's something at the bottom." * Hestia looks down. "Considering the depth? I'm guessing lava." Given we've been going for, what, a mile now? Probably. ~That could be a component of the power generator.~ * Lexi shrugs. "Well what do you guys think? Should we head back up?" * Hestia looks around at Zeke's suggestion and frowns. "You'd think there'd be actual computer equipment in the walls if this were part of the generator, even if it's just sensors or readouts." * Zeke is silent a moment, then, ~I agree. If that is not the case, that is highly odd. Perhaps their computer technology is primitive?~ * Kyle hmmms. "It'd be pretty screwy if this was a computer system." I mean, it's huge. Maybe it's some sort of massive irrigation or sanitation system? * Hestia snorts. "Maybe the Bugs wanted to drop a bomb into the planetary core to just explode the whole thing." * Zeke 's drone keeps crawling down. It's fun! ~Unsure.~ Dunno (Eric Bana needs to be in fewer time travelling movies.) <> Bingo! * Hestia raises an eyebrow, and starts walking toward the control panel. Carefully. <> Dude, awesome! * Hestia mmmns faintly and, provided lasers do not happen, runs her fingers over said panel! (Sorry, was afk for a sec) <> * Hestia frowns. It's either crazy primitive, or so advanced it's looped around. ~In what manner?~ * Hestia shrugs. "No complicated circuitry, no 'modern' materials..." You can hear the fingerquotes on that one. Now, who's brave enough to try the level, is my question. (Lever, even.) (My typos are racist against Asians.) * Zeke replies, ~I am outside.~ (Kyle will do it. He can't help it, he's a born lever-puller.) ~I am not certain bravery is the issue.~ * Lexi shrugs and pulls the lever with TK. "There." <> * Lexi sighs. "Well that was way too fucking difficult. Who wants to go have a looksie?" * Kyle shrugs and takes a look! (Is this round robin roleplay? <_<) (Fuck yes.) (WOO) * Hestia raises an eyebrow at that. "Well, it IS old." She goes to look! Yeah, old things tend to be hard to move. < ound the inner cylinder, which remains at a constant width all the way up. From your guess, it looks like it goes all the way back up to the catwalk level, and then some.>> Hoo, that's a lot of stuff. * Lexi looks over "Yeah?" and she heads over and slides into the room as well. I think we found all the electronics. <> * Zeke's drone crawls in and he comms, after a moment, ~Up. Unfortunate.~ * Lexi shrugs and starts heading up. (Okay, time to cut, if everyone's amenable.) (Sure!) (I'm good with that.) (Sorry I've been spaced out, I didn't get much sleep last night.) * Hestia starts the ascent too, but only so she can look over the wires on the stairway! It's a long way! * Kyle starts up. UP UP UP!