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[piecewise]

Try to walk

((I took a painkiller, so it shouldn't hurt that much))

With no small amount of difficulty you manage to stand, your legs more of a hindrance in that effort then anything else, and take a few stiff legged steps. Well, you can forget about running, or even walking very fast, but you can hobble along.

[Ehndras]

...Maybe this wasn't such a good idea.

[IronyOwl]

...Maybe this wasn't such a good idea.

What, coming here? Defying the Magisters? Not faking your own death?

Yeah, all pretty terrible.


Examine other rooms.

"Maybe it's just a display...?"

[piecewise]

...Maybe this wasn't such a good idea.

What, coming here? Defying the Magisters? Not faking your own death?

Yeah, all pretty terrible.


Examine other rooms.

"Maybe it's just a display...?"

You walk out of the northern room and into the main room. Feyri is standing there, wearing Jim like a back pack, and looking off down the hall to the west. You peek over her shoulder and see the hovering plate she's looking at. You walk into the western room to take a look. The plate here is pretty much identical to the one in the north, but it seems to be floating a bit closer to the ground. It also has a series of small holes melted through it. You look through one of the holes and notice that there's a corresponding hole in the wall behind it. You crouch down on hands and knees and press your face plate against the hole, peering out onto the plain below. It's hard to tell, but the hole seems to line up with an area near where you were dropped off. How odd.

[Caellath]

Milno examines the place.

Aren't these the towers of the deadly turrets?

[piecewise]

Milno examines the place.

Aren't these the towers of the deadly turrets?

You take a look at the inscription on the hovering plate. [intuition roll:6] It looks an awful lot like the turrets outside...well that and about a dozen other things in here. Fucking aliens and their limited geometric range. Maybe you could turn off those turrets using these plates? Or maybe it causes them to explode? Or maybe they'll just open fire on this spot. Hard to tell.

[Caellath]

Milno:

Will for it to shoot at a rock on the ground far below.

No, don't do that.

Contact Steve instead.
"Hey Steve. How many tokens am I refunded if I turn in my fully loaded laser rifle? The only time I tried to shoot with it I had to dodge and dislocate my shoulder."

[piecewise]

Milno:

Will for it to shoot at a rock on the ground far below.

No, don't do that.

Contact Steve instead.
"Hey Steve. How many tokens am I refunded if I turn in my fully loaded laser rifle? The only time I tried to shoot with it I had to dodge and dislocate my shoulder."

> If you bring it back in the same condition you got it I assume they'll give you a full refund. You'll have to bring it up to the armory master though, and she's probably not in the best mood right now. Some recruit whose name I don't care to look up modified his Cameyes to look through clothing and she was his first test subject.

You may be able to see him about now,if you look up.  She fired him out of the airlock about 20 minutes ago.

[Caellath]

Milno looks up and tries to see where the unfortunate bastard will fall.
He may want to try and loot the corpse later if there is something still intact.

[Scelly9]

Aren't we inside?

Hobble around and examine the rooms.

[IronyOwl]

Head to center platform, tap cube upwards again.

[piecewise]

Aren't we inside?

Hobble around and examine the rooms.

You're still on the ground floor you realize, right?

Milno looks up and tries to see where the unfortunate bastard will fall.
He may want to try and loot the corpse later if there is something still intact.

>Judging by the helmet accelerometers you actually did look up didn't you? Did you get a nice view of the ceiling? Yeah. It's times like this that I'm tempted to use those shock modules we implanted in your spine.  

Head to center platform, tap cube upwards again.

You walk back to the central platform and give the cube a gentle lift. It glides up a few inches and then comes to a stop before the entire platform begins to rise again. The ceiling is lower here, so you're through within moments. The next level is comprised of a single, massive room, with rising terraces stacked one on top of the other like shelves in a great book shelf. Each Terrace holds dozens, maybe even hundreds of thin, clear boxes, set into the walls. Within these boxes you can see what look like giant Hopper Crystals, huge and mindbogglingly complex collections of glittering square spirals.

At the center of the room is a great dais, a collection of hundreds of slowly churning shapes, and upon it lies something all together different. It scarcely looks real, just a collection of spiderweb fine lines, lit by some inner power and swirling like smoke in the wind. Occasionally a surface materializes within those lines and the whole chaotic web will take on a definite shape, a cube or pyramid or sphere, but it will vanish as quickly as it appeared and the mass of light shall once again become formless.

[Caellath]

Milno:

((There is a hole which allows me to see the outside...))

Repeat Faith's action and drag Feyri with me. Do not go if I can't drag her with me, because, you know, I need someone to shield me.

[Scelly9]

Oh.

I go up the elevator!

[piecewise]

Oh.

I go up the elevator!

You hobble comically to the elevator you just finished hurling yourself off of and ride it up to the next floor.

Milno:

((There is a hole which allows me to see the outside...))

Repeat Faith's action and drag Feyri with me. Do not go if I can't drag her with me, because, you know, I need someone to shield me.

You walk up behind Feyri and grab jim's corpse. With a swift yank you send the body flying across the room; Feyri turns and follows it, arms outstretched, to its landing point on the elevator. You step onto the platform and press the cube up, riding the elevator to the next level as Feyri sits and cradles jim's limp carcass in her arms. You're explaining away jim's flight as a freak alien gravity fluctuation when you reach Faith.