<> <> (Do you want a second channel?) (Not right at the moment.) (So which group are we focusing on right this moment?) (Well, if you're heading down the other hallway I'll split, if you're remaining in the pit room I will keep the focus on both groups simultaneously.) (Right then!) (How long til the pit crew gets back to us?) (Depends on if they stop to look at anything.) (.... tell you what, let's just split. Amadeus and Zeke and Tomas into #atctoo.) (Sorry!) * Zeke has drones everywhere, both above and below! The two below have begun to climb upward inside the tower. (What had happened with us? We were heading up or something into some room with wires?) (Tomas!) (Yes. Wires and 'computers'.) (Basically, think a giant datacenter.) (Except messier.) (Also, a heavily graded stairacse.) <> (Other than to keep large objects/creatures/animals out?) (Possibly perches.) <> (Huh. Maybe perches then, yeah.) (So, what are you doing?) * Zeke's drones are climbing up! ~Clearly, they were very agile.~ (Is there anything blocking our way to the computers from the staircase? Like a wall?) (A grate?) (Yeah something like that?) (Oh, could we just float to the computerboxes?) ('swhat I'm thinking) <> I, er... wonder if Tia can access them. * Kyle floats closer to the computerboxes and takes a closer inspection. * Lexi shrugs and floats up and over to the computers. <> (Sorry, erase what I said. Wrong channel and also I'm tired!) * Zeke's drones mainly seem concerned with up. <> <> (Well, uh... Can we get Hestia to try and interface w/ these?) * Zeke doesn't mind the damage. It's expected, after all! (Hestia can't interface with these. She'll explain they're not S+ based.) (Only in a snarky manner.) (Oh, okay) * Lexi floats up towards the rock to try to get a closer look. * Kyle thinks while he floats up after Lexi. <> * Zeke's drones crawl along the underside of the impact rock to get to the box and investigate. He comms, ~This is unique.~ <> * Zeke comms, as the drone tries to look in more, ~It is... attempting to use gear-based mechanisms, but the damage appears to have damaged them.~ <> * Zeke comms, ~The rock will have to be moved if we want to attempt repairs.~ * Hestia has been... well, nobody knows. Maybe waltzing up and down the various pillars and whatever and looking at this stuff. Somehow she's made her way back to where the rock is? I don't know. That's what being late does to you. ~ Do we know WHY this was a mile deep yet? ~ ~Nope.~ * Amadeus comms to the others: ~We've found a number of scrolls written by this race. They're well preserved. We're going to need Lexi or Kyle to help transport them when you guys hve a chance.~ * Hestia raises an eyebrow at that. ~ Scrolls? Clockwork engineering? Are we sure this wasn't, you know... what did they call them on Earth? Something fairs. ~ ~I do not know.~ ~Backwards scrolls. They kind of flip open... it's hard to describe.~ ~The settlement seems significant for a... fair.~ <> ~I'm actually pretty sure this was a military installation, at this point.~ ~ Why's that? ~ (It's the fuckin' Chozo) (If it was the Chozo you would need eight different morph ball modes and six different suits to get from the front door to the barracks.) (Hahaha.) (Now I know what to spend my CP on.) ~Communal showers, bedrooms that look like barracks...~ ~You think this is some sort of... transit, exhaust, or something then?~ ~They coulda just had a warlike society~ * Hestia looks around. Yep, no bird people. Probably wiped out by the Zerg^WScourge^WBugs. ~ For all the good it appears to have done them. ~ (YOU ARE TOO LATE CHAMPIONS OF LORDAERON.) * Zeke comms, ~... The Bugs are known to be very effective at killing. If we wish to repair this box, this stone must be moved. Do we have the means?~ (You forgot Flood, Todd.) * Hestia crosses her arms over her chest. ~ Well yes, I've had superstrength all this time, I just thought it was funny to watch you try to puzzle it out. ~ * Kyle looks at the rock. ~Lexi and I could probably move it. Maybe.~ (If only we had some M311-composition blocks of military-grade C4. Or Link's power glove.) * Lexi nods. ~We can try!~ * Kyle grins at Lexi. (THEIRLOVEISSOSOTELEKINETIC) (Okay how heavy is this thing?) ('cause I can lift uh... 100,000 kg now) <> (You set it rolling to gather everything on the planet, then shoot it into space!) (Sounds like a plan!) (Okay. now... let be get this straight. We're in the pit. and we have this massive rock thing floating around... hm... Well I suppose we could just float up with it and find someplace on the planet to put it) (I am not sure We like this plan, little prince.) <> (And how big is this thing?) <> * Zeke is looking at the now exposed box, now! (Well, with a drone.) (Could we just lower it to the ground?) (for the moment?) (I mean later we may be ablt to take it back to the ship to take back as a sample) <> * Lexi moves it over to lay it down on the catwalks then! <> <> * Zeke's drone opens the door, if it can, to find the obstruction. <> * Zeke comms, ~This work is too fine for a drone, or possibly my suit.~ * Hestia is standing right there! ~ Let me have a look at it, I suppose. ~ * Amadeus comms: ~How's it going over there? We're pretty much at a dead end.~ ~Well we moved the giant rock thing. And now Zeke is looking at a box of stuff.~ ~So's T.~ <> (Ahaha where is my sheet) (This isn't a trap, right? :P) (level 3, and no.) ~Well, let me know if you need me. I'm going to take another look at this writing.~ 2d6+10 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Hestia (2d6+10) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 16. <> (Because it's so large, or unwieldy, or heavy?) (Or just too deep in) <> (I've got a 3rd or 4th hand if you need. Or a 5th, or 6th, or 7th...or 8th) * Hestia pokes her head out of the box? Or something to that effect. ~ Gear slipped. It's fixable, but not by myself. ~ * Lexi floats over there. "Whatcha need. T?" What's goin' on? * Hestia waves a hand at Small Ben. "Gotta keep the other parts from moving if we're going to get this one back in place." She points out a few of the connecting cogs and wheels involved. * Lexi nods. "No problem!" And she'll hold as many as needed with her head! (... small what now) (So long as that number is under 8) (It's not Big Ben.) <> <> * Zeke comms, ~The... gearbox is a sufficient generator.~ (Explain, since I feel like that term is familiar so Tia might know it but I do not.) * Amadeus comms, ~You got it to work?!~ (?) (Apparently, the gearbox is a crucial component to this generator.) <> (Ah. So it's not a specific term, you just don't speak English.) (BOX OF GEARS. :|) * Hestia steps back out of the gearbox. ~ Looks that way. ~ * Zeke's drones, or at least one of them, starts to crawl out of the obelisk. * Zeke comms, ~The earlier devices may now function.~ <> (Sure) (Let's blow this joint.) (Do we want to take the giant excessively heavy rock thing back to the ship with us? I suppose we don't have to do it now, though) (I'm down.) <> <> You know... my question is, what's powering that gearbox? I mean, it can't be a perpetual motion machine, it's got to be coming from *somewhere*. Thermal energy? I dunno. * Hestia shrugs. "Clockwork says hydro power to me... waterfalls or whatever." * Lexi shrugs. "Human sacrifice, probably." * Zeke's drones seem to have centered around the earlier console-looking thing, and Zeke has joined them. * Hestia glances at Lexi briefly. * Zeke's holoface is looking down at it as he starts to examine the buttons. Maybe there's something like a lever. Levers are safer than buttons! What?... It's always human sacrifice. I'm telling you. Probably has a really good conversion rate or something. <> * Hestia glances at it. "Not big on UI design, whatever they were." <> (Thank god.) <> * Zeke examines the port, pauses, then says, "I would suppose... there is a physical data key." * Hestia eyes Zeke, then eyes the port, then rubs her temples. "Ugh, meaning we have to find the object that fits that, if it even still *exists* anymore?" * Zeke steps back and points at it. "Yes." (We should wrap up soonish. I'd like to hit the next planet next time.) * Zeke adds, "There is no object here I have seen that matches." (Do we want to pick up here next time, or move on?) (Well I for one am really tired x.x) * Hestia sighs and shakes her head. "It could be anything. I'm not sure staying around to find it is worth the effort." * Zeke's holohead nods slightly and he replies, "There are other planets to explore. Perhaps they will answer these questions." * Kyle thinks. "Maybe you could make an object to match?" We could, but out of what? We don't really know what they stored stuff on. Huh, point. (Okay, so. We'll start on the new planet next week.) <>