They enter the narrow tunnel behind the security door, Sarqo’s flashlight revealing countless footprints in the inch deep dust. Saffron checks an air vent which seems to function has an exhaust for a heat source from down below. The corridor opens into a small room with 6 alcoves, one of them illuminated by blue radiation that reveals a motionless vome.
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| Vicar's Ear |
Azure contemplates sending Cataract to interface with the vome but the bone and wire salamander is hesitant indicating that she is pregnant, so Sarqo sends Flux instead. Azure picks up a suspicious looking tiny creature looking like a tiny flash drive with feebly moving legs. Flux returns and spits out a paper tape that reads: *connection established * system programmable * danger of code corruption *. Unsure about the ramifications they leave the vome behind.
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| Vome Slacking |
They hear the rhythmic hammering on metal against stone and come upon an excavation site with worker vomes - one of them wearing the overall of a Red Bear villager - breaking the stone with heavy tools. A conveyor belt transporting gravel disappears into a tunnel. Saffron’s thermal vision reveals a blinding heat source in the corner of the room that comes from a dozen corroded metal crates. Sarqo sends Flux down the tunnel and when he reports no apparent danger they surf the conveyor belt. Rattled and poked by stones they emerge on the other side in a large room where the conveyor belt ends in the maw of a giant biomechanical brick making machine with numerous drone vomes carrying the bricks down another tunnel. Sarqo finds green glass shards and a dark stain on the ground under a passageway and when he investigates a glassy slime drops from the ceiling cutting and ensnaring him. Applying snake oil he manages to liquify the slime. The discover a manhole cover hiding a maintenance tunnel leading to a switch board and further down to an airlock that ends under the lake.
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| The Switchboard |
The switches have different labels: Elevator, Observatory, Rector Door etc. and they flip them all on. Climbing back up they move through another passage way to an entrance room with stairs leading outside, a postmodern fountain and an open door to the observatory. Sarqo ignores the pyramid of stacked green glowing screens where the Crab vomes left seashells and other found objects in reverence and looks through the telescope that is pointed at a strange planet. They return to the entrance room and press the silver button when a friendly android voice announces: “I am Belle, how can I be of service?”
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| Mapper's Impression of Vicar's Ear |
Actual Play: https://youtu.be/odF_RFUXyiY
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