(Sorry for the wait, was on the road. Finally got internet access long enough to post)
("Reasonably Finite" is probably a good word for it. You've got a medium-sized backpack, pockets, and hands, and you might be able to figure other ways to carry things)
Retrieve Arm(s)
Err o_o Those are some suggestions.
> Check if arm is real bone or fake bone.
That's... hmm. You pick up the arm to see if it's real.
As you touch it, for a moment you'd swear it feels warm. But it was only for a moment, perhaps just a passing fancy. Huh. Well, it's a bit of an off-yellowish, whitish color. Feels glossy, yet slightly bumpy, that kind of smoothness that feels damp without being so. As far as you can remember, this is the color of real bone, but don't they also go bleached after a while? It's hard to say for sure if it's real. Though it is odd how the bones seem to stick together without any visible means of connection. No wires, no dried out icky connective tissue.
Open da drawer. Then try and activate power to elevator.
Having opened the drawers and taken a look inside, you take a look at the monitors. None of them seem to show much, aside from the one in the bottom center. You try some of the switches on the big analog board below them to see if anything happens.
The camera numbers changed, though still nothing but static. The systems check thing also doesn't seem to have changed, though perhaps everything's already on? After all, you're pretty sure that generator had "Aux Power" over it, and that looks like it has the same status symbol as everything else.
What's in the clipboard in the middle drawer?
What are those items in the middle one? Inspect/store in bag of detective-holding!
Well, enough checking the electronics for now. You take out the more mundane objects from the desk to examine them...
The clipboard looks pretty beat up, possibly water damaged
(also, didn't it look smaller in the drawer?). It's made of some kind of processed wood, like most clipboards, that may once have been smooth. Clipped in are a couple of yellowed, faded scraps of paper on which you can't discern any marks.
The baseball is old and hard, shriveled and faded to a uniform grey. It's got the unmistakable texture of old leather. It almost makes you feel a bit nostalgic. The baseballs were almost always real leather, when you were a kid.
See if you can remove the top and middle drawers to see and access the bottom drawer.
If the bottom drawer has a leg in it, this desk probably cost an arm and a leg.
GM: Do we have a...say, 'reasonably finite inventory'? 
Because I'd also be adding: "Get a drawer for/in your inventory."
An idea occurs to you. If you can't get to the bottom drawer by force, why not be clever? With some tugging, you're able to remove the top two drawers. Also, inexplicably, an idea strikes you to hold one of the drawers in your arms like some kind of bin. It's a bit hard to hold the flashlight like this, but you manage.
You kneel down to see what's in there...
Hat
Nylon rain poncho
Sweatshirt
Ambiguous pants
Wool socks
Hiking shoes
Flashlight
Backpack:
-Digital camera
Metal drawer: (2H)
-Bone arm
-Weathered clipboard
-Old baseball
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