TEST 7.

[azumods]

TIME. Seeing as it's probably not the best idea to kick down the front doors and immediately announce your presence to the entire base as a whole, a more delicate touch is probably what's needed here when it comes to infiltrating the base; the warehouses near the main building, then, seem to be an acceptable place to start looking for another entrance. It isn't difficult to find - the buildings are largely unlocked for the time being (possibly for ease of access, possibly because no one is capable of caring if they aren't locked right now) and enough exploration and shuffling boxes around will grant you access to a door at the back, leading to an underground passage seeming to lead you in the general direction of the main base. At the very least it's well-lit, the corridor leading to what seems to be a large basement that's both spacious and completely, unsettlingly devoid of people; there's no security posted down here, though it seems as though there really should be, and at the far side of the basement there's a staircase waiting for you, leading to a set of metal doors at the top that seem designed to slide open as soon as you approach them. Before you can do so, there's another one of those odd pulses, signaling that another temporal disturbance has occurred; nothing looks different down here, however...

Comments

[greydients]

[...did you say machinery....?

...

...hm. Well, it's their only clue right now, so Rey will start heading cautiously toward it.]

[eudaimonikos]

[Oh good, Michael didn't super wanna go alone. Let's go together!]

[azumods]

[The machines down here are huge.

They're brightly-colored in shades of gold and green, four of them regulated by a console of some sort in the center, two of the large...things flanking it on either side; they look like they might be power converters or generators of some sort, maybe.]

[greydients]

[...those are, indeed, some big-ass machines. Judging by the humming...]

...I think these might be generators, but...what sort of system would require this much power?

[eudaimonikos]

Time machine?

[Michael's gonna move over to the console. Is it awake, can he wake it up?]

[azumods]

[Looks like it's been locked down for now; it isn't seeming too responsive. Maybe you need something else to activate it.]

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Um...you think we need a password or something...?

[greydients]

That would be my guess. Unless the authentication is through biometrics.

[Is there anything here that can give them a clue about how to get this thing working?

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Bio...what?

[He's not that smart, please use smaller words.]

[greydients]

[....ah, right-]

When your body is the password - like a fingerprint scanner, or something something.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

O...oh...

[ah. That's easy to get.]

So maybe it opens with Saturn's fingerprint? Or something.

[eudaimonikos]

Eyeballs, Sena. You open it with your eyeballs.

[He is 100% doing this one deliberately.]

I think it's in another time. We might have trouble doing anything. Let's look for the key anyway, though.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

[Why are you like this.]

T-too bad we can't get the doubles downstairs to mess with it...they would be able to, right?

[azumods]

[Looks like you need a key of some sorts. Probably a card key, from the look of the setup.

That said, touching it feels weird. Kind of like the people downstairs, there's some sort of resistance there when it comes to messing with it.]

[greydients]

...there might not be much point in us trying to find the key. I don't think we'd be able to insert it anyway.

[Perhaps they should just move on.]

[eudaimonikos]

I think we might need some kind of key, or badge or something.

[Did touching that thing feel weird, like the people downstairs?]

[azumods]

[It did, yeah. Kind of like there's some kind of resistance there.]

[discutio]

...

[quietly, because what the fuck:]

Can you check Eustace’s pockets? The other one, not ours.

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael hesitates for a second, then nods. He sees why you're asking him specifically.]

On it.

[He's gonna head back down and...see if he can investigate past-Eustace's pockets?]

[azumods]

[I mean, you can try, but it seems that there's not a lot of going through them that you can manage given that you're still having difficulty touching anything.

...Eustance, to his credit, does not seem to mind.]

[eudaimonikos]

[Yeah, kinda figures. He's gonna return to Ignis.]

No luck.

[discutio]

My guess is the sort that erases spirit or forces interdimensional travel, all things considered.

[hyruglyphics]

Or their teleportation pads, but I believe either of those are far more likely, yes.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

W... what the...

[llllet's get a look at that console. Is anything running? Commands of some sort?]

[azumods]

[Well, unfortunately...]