The first priority that presents itself to you - both eking some information out of this shattered room and hopefully finding materials that would be a bit more useful in putting something together to defend yourself with.
The first step to that, though, is a bit of a nerve-wracking one: seeing just how well you are able to move around the room. Thankfully, the answer to this question seems to be a mostly favorable one, if not perfect; you feel just a little bit of dizziness, and some fatigue, and it can take you a moment to get your bearings, and along with the headache this
can inhibit things. However, the good news is that this seems to be the only set of serious obstacles you're facing right now, and even there they seem to be well on the mend. The injuries to your legs sting, but your legs are by no means buckling under you, and the cuts were probably pretty shallow. Walking down the stairs of the catwalk turns out to be a little easier than anticipated, too - it helps that you seem to have some level of muscle memory with this staircase, and though a hand to the railing helps keep you steady, you don't really anticipate worrying about falling too much as you make your way down to the first level.
...
...you lost time, again, you realize. A glance up at the sky reveals that the sun hasn't changed position much, if at all - maybe you only lost a few minutes? It's getting a lot better. Still, you don't have a lot of time to waste, especially with this little issue in mind, and it's about time to get to the task of scavenging.
The downstairs section of this room appears to be some sort of central work area for what is some sort of druid-engineering complex, judging both by the tools present here and by the layout of the room itself. The central table itself contains a large but removable-seeming resin monitor at the center (currently, of course, cracked beyond the point of immediate usefulness), with a couple of keyboard and mouse setups around the table probably connected to that screen. A frame for holding a large piece of paper near the center is also on the table, although unfortunately the paper presently there is in fact blank. The rations that you've been using are still here - you aren't actually quite sure how many of them you've taken, but judging by the wrapper count up there, it's been probably a few days. The rations (consisting of some more nutrient-packed protein-like blocks, but also some meats and even fresh fruit like mangoes and papayas) haven't rotted, due to an enchantment of life preservation on them, and probably never will. Quite a few chairs circle around the table, but they've only got a slight, consumer-grade durability enchantment.
The table isn't the only piece of furniture in the room; desks are along one side of the room, firmly under the catwalk - and, thankfully, not under the side of the catwalk by the massive hole in the roof, which is in fact collapsed. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much along the lines of actual filled plans or paperwork here either, nor even in the large row of file cabinets, nearby. In fact, those cabinets seem to be have been opened and are glaringly empty, with one that was likely jammed shut by some piece of shrapnel in fact being broken partially open, with its contents burnt to ashes inside of the cabinet itself. The desks and cabinets aren't a total wash, though - there appear to be multiple toolkits left in this area, many of them opened and flipped over, and leafing briefly through them indicates that they're each missing different individual items. Some of the items these toolkits have are actually missing from your
own toolkit - you don't quite know what they are, but a bit of experimentation could probably turn up something useful.
A couple of the bodies also turn up hand weapons of their own - one of them is a laser weapon in not dissimilar condition from yours, but there actually is also what appears to be a ballistic weapon of some sort, pristine except for the fact that there isn't any ammo in it.
Heavily reinforcement-enchanted wood, scattered from the walls, is scattered around the room as well. This appears to come in two levels of reinforcement, with larger chunks of the less reinforced wood and smaller, more root-like pieces of the more reinforced wood that makes up the gnarled reinforcement structures that crawl up along the wall. One of the corpses is clutching a broken piece of the latter. The pieces of wood that can be found in here are of different levels of damage - you could probably find a conveniently-sized piece, or conveniently-sized pieces of the more heavily-reinforced wood nearly undamaged, but it would take a little bit of time.
One of the doors from the room leads to, well, bathrooms. These are only lightly damaged, but are also largely just tiled with and furnished with earthenware such as porcelain - after all, woe betide the guy who elects to design a bathroom out of fucking wood. There are a few pipes in here which also appear to be ceramic. The other main door is labeled by a sign as leading to "offices/testing", but you can't open it - it feels like it's blocked by something. There's also an external door, which you elect not to screw around with until you're ready to deliberately go outside, lest that potentially be a risk.
Back up on the catwalk, it looks like there
were two more consoles. One of them is on the collapsed side of the catwalk, where the console is not only pretty utterly destroyed, but a very mangled corpse lies among the wreckage. The other one, however, looks completely intact, with no body present. Not only is it intact, in fact, but it's actually... messing with it reveals it to be
working, somehow, text filling up the screen. Primarily, it's listing the following: "Roof T.O.W.E.R. Defense Emplacement 2 Status Report:" and then listing off a rather disturbing amount of damage. Still, if you could find a way onto that roof, there's the wreckage of what appears to be some sort of large laser emplacement up there. It would be a difficult process and probably take about all of your scavenging time to access that wreckage, but... maybe it could be done!
What do you want to further search for and break down in this salvage? If you're breaking down salvage, what are you trying to extract from it?
Time Units until Enemy Returns:
3-5You
Physical Status: Head Hurts Incredibly, Head Had Some Sort of Bleeding Wound, Healing Leg Lacerations, Healing Leg Bruises
Mental Status: Confused, Fatigued, In Pain
Equipped: Unknown Uniform, Druid-Engineer Toolset
Unknown Uniform: You don't quite know what this uniform is, but it mostly seems like an okay thing to be wearing - the green, brown, and orange color scheme seems to clash a bit, but somebody probably tried very hard to make it tasteful. It's a rugged outfit, and you can feel there's a low-level enchantment in here - a bit of examination revealed that this uniform does protect to a degree against biological and chemical agents, aside from being tough... for clothing, anyway, it isn't even slightly armor. There is a problem, though - it's bloodied, and problematically gashed up around the legs - one of the pockets appears to actually have been wholly destroyed.
Druid-Engineer Toolset: It took an embarrassing amount of time to realize that this was around. It is a toolbox containing a set of tools for engineering and druid-work. Although it took you a while to be able to identify these, when you actually picked them up you handled the tools with what seemed like serious familiarity. In here are a few tools like screwdrivers and wrenches and a small hammer, but also magical tools, like a tool for identifying enchantments and a tool for shaping and stimulating the growth of wood.
Refined Salvage:
Potential Salvage: (A lot of) Shattered or Damaged Computer Wreckage (contains, for instance, wood, plasticresin, electronics)
1 Intact Computer (Like the former but completely undamaged; you could extract full parts from this, though obviously it'd stop it from working. Maybe you could also glean some more information on the "T.O.W.E.R. Defense Emplacement".)
Wooden Furniture (Table, Desks, Cabinets - consumer-grade reinforcement enchantment, but mostly they're just the most easily-accessible wood.)
2x Broken Hand Laser (You don't fully know what the plans are for this thing, but you can tell that it contains an electronic core, roots enchanted to transform electricity into light, a metallic barrel-like device at the front end, and what is probably a battery.)
Intact Hand Pistol (Toying with this for a couple of minutes reveals it to likely significantly simpler than the lasers. Although its remarkably flat, chevron-like barrel is treated wood, it actually has a metallic core, with a spot for some sort of flat tube magazine to go in the back.)
Other Toolsets (Not all of these tools are in your toolbox... maybe you could look for something to help with specific tasks.)
Bathroom Earthenware (Stoneware piping, porcelain tiles, and porcelain furniture make up this bathroom.)
Rations (Aside from rations being useful for... y'know... eating, they also make up organic material for druidcraft and have a life-preservation enchantment.)
Structural-Grade Wood (Wood heavily enchanted for particular reinforcement. The stuff making up the bulk of the walls is more lightly enchanted than the stuff making up the supports. Pieces of both types are all over the floor.)
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