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Post by lichlord on Oct 21, 2020 3:08:27 GMT
Nue makes her way through the ice-capped offices, and everything is deeply frozen over. She passes by a few of them without seeing anything, and is just about to consider moving forward when she spies the vague silhouette of a figure sitting at the desk of one of the offices behind a thick sheet of ice.
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Post by Raven on Oct 21, 2020 3:46:39 GMT
Hm. A person? Even if it's just a body, it'd be the first person Nue's seen since she 'arrived' here. Let's check it out.
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Post by lichlord on Oct 23, 2020 7:25:12 GMT
There's a thick sheet of ice that'll need to be melted, but it'll need some care not to melt 'too' much of the room. After all, it's only office walls and such. Not exactly 'standing the test of time' material. Probably never expected to be deep frozen.
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Post by Raven on Oct 23, 2020 7:30:13 GMT
Hm. Well, trying to chip away at it with knives (that will later need sharpening/replacing) would take ages and the cold will only make things harder (even if working at it would warm her up some). So, fire it is! She calls out Eevee of the Flaming Jaw and instructs him to (very carefully!) make an opening with Ember.
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Post by lichlord on Oct 23, 2020 8:30:13 GMT
After a few embers, there's enough of a hole for Nue to get through. And... well there's a sight beyond the hole. Sitting at the only piece of furniture in the office other than the chair it sits in, is a ice sculpture of what looks like an adult human male. Nothing inside the ice itself, but upon closer inspection, the ice isn't smooth. It almost looks like it was 3d printed, with clear build lines. In front of the ice person on the desk is a laptop, open, and surprisingly running, despite being covered in ice. So there's no typing on it, but the main desktop is open, and the background is what looks like a standard office logo, but what's intriguing is that it's for Sliph co's main saffron branch. Which doesn't make any sense, considering that Sliph co and the city it was based in no longer exist!
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Post by Raven on Oct 23, 2020 8:40:15 GMT
Hm. If the "body" offers nothing of interest, then perhaps the computer will. Technology is far from Nue's strong suit, but even she ought to be able to find something on it if she pokes around long enough.
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Post by lichlord on Oct 24, 2020 3:32:47 GMT
There is a sheet of ice covering the screen and the keys, despite it being on and working. So she's unable to really interact with it. However, it does seem like she could just... take it? Melissa could probably get something out of it when she gets back, considering at that point it'll be a bit... moist.
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Post by Raven on Oct 24, 2020 4:53:20 GMT
Hm. Yes, the icy casing does make interacting with it difficult. With luck, when it starts to thaw out later (after Nue leaves this horrid place), it's internals at least will still be salvageable. As such, she grabs the frozen laptop, placing it in a separate bag from the rest of her stuff so it (her other stuff) doesn't get wet. After this, she leaves the frozen room and explores the rest of the floor on her way to the far side (and hopefully more stairs down).
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Post by lichlord on Oct 26, 2020 3:31:59 GMT
Nue looks around some more of this floor, trying to find anything of note, and other than empty frozen offices... she doesn't see much else.
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Post by Raven on Oct 26, 2020 5:30:00 GMT
Nue and Eevee (of the Flaming Jaw) look around carefully. Whatever shall they see?
Nue Perception: 0JKIEQV43d6 Eevee Perception: 2d6+1
Intuition: 2d63d6·2d6+1·2d6
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Post by lichlord on Oct 30, 2020 6:41:48 GMT
Nue just gets this eerie chill in the back of her neck that leads her to the back end of the office floor, and in the wall, there's an A/C unit stuck in the wall on full blast. The temperature DROPS here, so maybe this is the source of the ice? Hmmm.
Nue does note that this unit has locks on the point where it meets the wall, like a bunch of them. That's... not standard procedure.
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Post by Raven on Oct 30, 2020 6:44:17 GMT
Hmmm. Nue does her best to begin undoing the locks. She'll bash them with a kunai hilt or something if necessary, but she'd prefer to just like... unlock them normally.
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Post by lichlord on Oct 31, 2020 4:47:53 GMT
Once the unlocks are done, the A/C unit starts shaking violently! It shakes itself hard enough to loose itself from the wall! As it plops down on the ground with a VERY loud thud, it seems that it's actually possessed by a Rotom! Except... it looks REALLY off, as it's struggling to be real. It reaches out, maybe in a vain attempt to get some help, to Nue, but then leans over and phases through the floor, and is gone.
There's a moment of silence before Nue notices that it now doesn't seem as cold on this floor.
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Post by Raven on Oct 31, 2020 5:00:05 GMT
Nue blinks in surprise when the AC unit turns out to be some weird (glitchy?) Rotom. Well, maybe she'll bump into it again. With nothing left on this floor, she heads for the stairs and down one level. If she's going to be stuck here for awhile, no reason not to explore it thoroughly (which was technically her original intention anyway).
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Post by lichlord on Nov 4, 2020 1:13:05 GMT
Nue heads down to the next level, and finds what looks like an office under construction. It's very open, and it looks like tools and spare pieces of rebar and wood are strewn around, long abandoned but no single piece of dust on any of it.
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Post by Raven on Nov 4, 2020 1:21:35 GMT
Well, let's look around for anything of note. It's unlikely that every level will have something interesting on it, but can't hurt to check.
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Post by lichlord on Nov 4, 2020 3:31:21 GMT
Nue scans before picking up the sound of a bunch of small metal... somethings all shaking against each other next to a support pillar. From a bit away, her keen ninja eyes picks up a bunch of nails and screws in a far-from-perfect sphere, all seemingly magnetized to each other.
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Post by Raven on Nov 4, 2020 3:32:52 GMT
Nue cautiously approaches, and Eevee growls at the things.
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Post by lichlord on Nov 4, 2020 4:08:02 GMT
As Nue approaches, the pile all drops. Then, after a moment, it explodes! Nue's ninja training gets her to leap back from the shrapnel, but then she looks up and oh hey an Obelisk! OF COURSE THAT'S HERE NOW.
It floats outside the window, and a scanning laser sweeps through the room, and it hasn't reached Nue yet. What do!
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Post by Raven on Nov 4, 2020 4:14:19 GMT
Nue recalls Eevee and darts behind the first solid cover she can see.
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