You guys handle that however you wish.

I posted a teeny update to the game thread. Before I can go much further, I need to know if you guys are going to continue exploring (and how you will proceed), whether you plan to do anything else to/try to learn more from the machine, if you wish to wait for Charlie to get in to the computers, etc, etc.

When Blake received the plans for the facility did she also have access to the electrical and heating schematics?

How is the overall facility receiving power?

Would shutting down all power be a possibility, and would the cold boot on the computers speed Blake's process up at all?

Is Kernan able to get any of the security disks to playback?

1. Blake has access to the heating and wiring schematics.

2. There is large generator outisde the facility (marked as area 25 on the map). It has its own control room on the map (see room 23). One could reach it by walking outside, but this is not necessary - the two buildings are connceted via a tunnel.

That sublevel contains a circuit breaker room (27 on the map), located directly beneath the power control room.

The facility is heated with a combined oil/forced air system, which has its own controls, located in room 24 - adjacent to the power control room in the outbuilding. Note that the ducts in use are relatively small, so there is no possibility of people crawling around in them.

Finally, to round out the utilities (even though you did not ask), there is a water treatment room in the sublevel (26 on the map), located adjacent to the circuit breaker room.

3. Conceivably, one would shut down the power from the power control room, yes. Unfortunately, this is not the movie Jurassic Park, in which invincible computer data protection schemes are bypassed by simply turning off the computer. I'm operating under the assumption that one of Blake's first actions was to do a cold boot.

4. The disks play back fine, but appear to be recordings of dull, mundane events. They are dated, and the catalog is more or less constant, though there are a few small gaps.

Noticeably, there are no disks for a period of time of about a week, during late 2023.

Also, the machine itself was empty when you arrived. There are no disks labelled for any time earlier than six days ago.

Of course, you haven't more than afew minutes reviewing the disks so far.. there's no telling what you might find. If anything.

Note that the recordings seem to be of laboratory activity only.

Excellent post, Brom!

Make sure to either give the team orders on how you want them to proceed, or post the room sequence here. You don't want the nasty GM assuming anything.

Great post! Already coming up with response, but the blackberry is not condusive to writing anything other than basic posts. Too hard to toggle back to other pages mid-post.

I'll leave the route to the fire team lead.

Not exactly sure what you need from me as far as orders to the rest of the squad.

But like Van and Olan nice post.

All you need to do is post the order of rooms you want to take the fire team.

Ok correct me if I am wrong but I thought the Main lab was pretty much the last room on this LvL as we both started on opposite ends and met in the middle.

What rooms are left that need to be checked Olan??

**grumbles something about people should look at their own maps**

You haven't been into either auxillary laboratory (rooms 12), nor have you been in the testing laboratory (room 11).

I need to double check the posts, but I do not believe you have been in the mess hall (room 5). Seems like you WERE going there, but never made it.

That's it for this level - there is a staircase (leads down to the tunnel) situated next to the mess hall, and only accessible via it, but it's not really a room.

Yes we did go through room 5 ok I will post in my next post conformation of the Lt's orders and will check rooms as follows.....

First room 12 to the north then through south 12 room into room 11 and down the hallway into room 5 then down the stairs.

Thanks for the room order.

As for the wiring and such:

The station has distinct electrical circuits, and the main laboratory is definitely on its own. As stated in the previous post, the machine itself appears to be on a dedicated power feed, apart from even the lab power. In theory, one should be able to trip a circuit breaker. In addition, the power control room should provide another power access point.

So no, it should not be "kill all power or none".

Is the breaker in the same power station as all of the rest?

The breaker room is located beneath the power station itself, in the tunnel sublevel. (Next to the water treatment room)

will post a small bit about that when I have some time. Went back to work on Monday, and I'm wiped