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Post by Lessah on Jun 30, 2021 10:08:14 GMT
Stella holds her pickaxe held high and aimed at the door. Yes, she did notice the sign. Yes, she understood that maybe she didn't have to pickaxe the door. But ... A bead of sweat formed on her forehead. She wanted to pickaxe the door. Sloooooooooowly she moved the axe closer and closer to the door.
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Post by lichlord on Jul 1, 2021 3:19:50 GMT
The door is just standing there... MENACINGLY!
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Post by Lessah on Jul 1, 2021 23:00:58 GMT
"!" Stella gasps. Then steels her resolve and glares back at the door. And puffs herself up to appear more intimidating!
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Post by Lessah on Jul 1, 2021 23:51:29 GMT
"!!" With a silent war cry Stella closes her eyes and steps forward into a swing. Bonk. The door have been pickaxed! The orange haired girl carefully opened her eyes to inspect the damage. Then, just in case, she reaches for the doorknob and tries it. Hhm. One way or another, she opens the door and steps inside. With her pickaxe resting on her shoulder she squints and looks around for clues.
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Post by snark on Jul 1, 2021 23:58:18 GMT
"'Demolition halted' - I should hope so! That's my laboratory they're talking about! I've a mind to go and have a word with whoever decided they could touch my building..." Given Melissa's ire at the sign, one might expect her to object to Stea's use of the pickaxe, but either she doesn't care or didn't notice. She steps inside. "Once we've had a look around, we can go talk to whoever's running this so-called investigation."
She peers around. Where would she hide the entrance to the restricted areas...?
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Post by lichlord on Jul 2, 2021 1:42:40 GMT
Well the door was barely hanging on originally, a pickaxe wielded by an orange girl surely took it down. One tap, and it falls completely backward, off it's hinges.
It ain't staring no more!
The group steps inside the entrance, and finds a small lobby. Burned to a crisp, for sure, but a lobby nonetheless. It seems it leads off to a few areas. Upstairs, though mostly fallen into downstairs, seems to be viewable to a point. Downstairs there seems to be an 'Observation' Room according to the few signs in here, as well as a 'Research' room, and it seems Melissa has her own office in the back of the building!
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Post by Lessah on Jul 2, 2021 11:41:56 GMT
"Pff!" Not so though after all! Stella triumphantly stepped over the door and into the building.
Once inside the very structurally unsound building she looked around. Carefully. More signs! The 'Observation' room sounded promising, since that was basically 'looking around' but more fancy. Though she doubted someone would have been kind enough to put all the clues there ... Hmm. Related idea - the orange haired girl looked around for any sort of security office. "CCTV?" she asked out loud. Though the cameras would surely be gone by now, perhaps some of the tapes had been spared the fire? Or the labels on the screens could at least tell them something; whichever room didn't have a remote screen would surely be the secret one!
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Post by oddeyes on Jul 2, 2021 18:16:24 GMT
Gwen wasn't the most excited about rolling around in a condemned building. "Wooow. Love what you did with the place, Doc. Wouldn't be surprised if the damn place was haunted too. What do we need to look for, cuz staying in here, shockingly, isn't safe."
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Post by Lessah on Jul 3, 2021 19:33:40 GMT
Stella lightly taps her hardhat. It'll keep her safe! But best not tire it out - or worse - anger it. She quicky switched from tapping to gently patting, waiting for her comrades to ponder where to go.
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Post by carnackiArdent on Jul 3, 2021 20:34:45 GMT
"'Research' or back in the office seems like the best bet, if we're looking for records from when I was here." Noire looks around curiously, and her ears swivel, though there's not likely to be too much to listen for unless some Pokémon have moved into the building since it's been abandoned.
She glances at Stella in confusion when she asks about CCTV. "You think that'd work? Well, I guess it's worth a try... Hm. I think I'm gonna head for the Research room and work my way around."
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Post by Lessah on Jul 5, 2021 20:40:18 GMT
Stella shrugs. It worked in the investigation tv shows? Sometimes. Honestly, she would actually be a bit surprised if a perfectly sized child knew how to do these things!
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Post by oddeyes on Jul 5, 2021 20:48:20 GMT
"I'll stick to the first floor I guess. Doubt Doc had the hindsight to have elevators, but it's not like they'd hold up now. I'll go snoop in Doc's personal office." Gwen smirks, and pushes herself deeper into the building. Although, she does kind of wish she'd invested in a safety helmet like Stella had. Roof coming down isn't something she wanted to deal with.
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Post by lichlord on Jul 6, 2021 4:05:31 GMT
Office- Those heading to !Melissa's office find it... sort of... intact. As with most of the lab, it's all blackened, but compared to other areas.
(Everyone going to the office roll perception)
Research - Those going to research do find that this looks like the most damaged area. The least amount of roof is above this room. A couple of half-melted tables and chairs remain, as well as piles of scrap that used to be equipment presumably pushed off to the sides. Whatever happened here happened HERE, in this room. There are assorted small holes in the floor that reveal heavy metal wiring and pipes that lead here too.
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Post by Lessah on Jul 6, 2021 13:04:39 GMT
Stella looked around in the research area and scratched her chin. "Boom?" Surely Science Lady would be more responsible then experiment with anything dangerous and explosive? Surely? "Pffff" It was hard to keep a straight face at that thought.
She touched her hard hat to make sure it was still there and keeping her safe. Then she boldly ventured forth into the blown-up room to touch and poke at things. Perhaps there were some clues anywhere? Or just shiny bits ...
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Post by lichlord on Jul 7, 2021 7:14:44 GMT
Stella does notice one thing odd. The middle of the room seems... rather empty. Like the floor is burnt and destroyed, but one would think Science lady's alternate self would fill this room with science things for the science stuff. SCIENCE!
So it is rather odd that whatever destroyed bits are all at the sides.
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Post by Lessah on Jul 7, 2021 20:21:06 GMT
"Hmm?" Stella steps into the middle of the room and flails around with her arms. Nothing invisible around right? Hmm. Probably not. So... That meant ... She flails her arms more violently and exclaims: "BOOM!" Whatever exploded must have been here right?
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Post by snark on Jul 10, 2021 8:28:13 GMT
"Yes, this does appear to have been the epicenter," Melissa says, having naturally followed Orange Girl to the most interesting part of the building. "Only to be expected, really. I suppose this suggests an experiment gone wrong, rather than arson... though we still can't rule out sabotage by my enemies."
She starts looking around the room, in hopes of finding something that might hint at what used to be in here.
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Post by carnackiArdent on Jul 11, 2021 20:13:59 GMT
"Wait, hold on..." A spark runs up Noire's ears as she thinks. "Yeah, it's the epicenter, but I think something's wrong. Would somebody responding to a fire or an explosion shove all the stuff to the sides?"She crouches down to examine the holes in the floor. "What are these pipes here? Gas lines?" A gas leak would've been a pretty anticlimactic explanation, but maybe the pipes were for something else? She starts checking to see whether any of them are ruptured or damaged. Perception: VyT1xVaX4d6 4d6
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Post by lichlord on Jul 11, 2021 21:54:04 GMT
Poking her face in, Noire does find that there are a ton of them, and they are weirdly corroded. She can't tell exactly 'how' considering they were recently on fire, though.
Gwen - Gwen makes her way to the office, and takes a quick look around. With Stella's suggestion in mind, she tries to look for some sort of security record or cctv or 'something' in the room. She rummages around a bit in the draws of Alt-Macavity's desk, and while this room isn't totally ruined like the rest, it did not get spared from the fire, so when one of the drawers merely falls apart after being pulled out, she's not that surprised. But what is surprising is what falls out. A small remote, hidden presumably in a well-disguised false bottom that seemed to have some sort of special way to unlock, merely falls out onto the floor. The small device is blackened a bit, but mostly from soot, which wipes off. It seems it's still online, and there's no buttons or anything Gwen can see, just a fingerprint scanner.
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Post by Lessah on Jul 13, 2021 15:33:01 GMT
Well, if there were still any gas lines... Stella firmly holds on to her hat and watches the spark ontop of Noire's head as she sticks it where all the flammable stuff would have been. ... Not exploded! That was nice. Though she guessed Science Lady wouldn't have paid her bills anyhow, so they were probably safe!
Inching closer she peered besides and under Noire to see what she had found. Those pipes looked odd? Hmm. "Muk?" Not sure how someone would pipe those, but they had at least seen one corrode stuff before! And - she nodded - it had been hostile to Science Lady. So it could clearly be sabotage!
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