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[devotedtothecore]

Who: Chrysos, Ky, anyone
When: Day 64, late noonish (sometime after Albinia's storytime)
Where: Third floor stairs ---- common area --- the main doors and out
What: Trying out solutions!

[ amidst today's invasion of snakes, one might notice about this time that a much larger and thicker length of tubing now winds its way from the stairwell of the increasingly flooded second floor, connected to a gleaming mechanical device of sorts, with a thin cable stretching up from it to the nearest base of where-a-lantern-once-was.

A second, somewhat thinner tube extends from the machine and stretches all the way to the main doors and past them, to a brass nozzle-like thing in the hands of Engineer #1, back against the glass wall and facing the rain-sodden tree highway beyond. His makeshift crutch leans on the glass beside him. There may be some willful ignoring of the shenanigans of the Great Minibar of Kalidas over at the far end of the common area. ]

Comments

[impenetrable]

[double checking the line on the way back to the machine]

Ready on your end?

[devotedtothecore]

[ looking back over his shoulder... ]

Just call when you flip the switch.

[followthewind]

[perched up somewhere, watching. You can only tell he's there from the scuffling he did getting up there.

And totally has a bottle of whatever Kalidas was giving out /o/]

[impenetrable]

[you do that]

[devotedtothecore]

[ you think I can't tell when you're somewhere jiiiiiing by now ]

[thevineintervention]

Ah?

[impenetrable]

[waves to, give us a second]

[devotedtothecore]

...

[ glances back, are you drunk

you are probably drunk aren't you ]

[sharksong]

[following the tube from the main doors back towards the machine curiously, occasionally kicking aside a snake that wanders too close to her]

What's this . . . ?

[impenetrable]

It's a water pump with an added nozzle at the end.

[nods towards the end Chrys is holding]

[misterious]

[Studying the stuff]

A pump of some sort...?

[impenetrable]

Got it in one.

[hold on, turning it on]

[beautymark]

[ can't help stopping to watch

trying to stay well out of the way though ]

[impenetrable]

[wise decision, considering it could accidentally launch Chrys into the air]

[whocanhelpinthebigbadwolf]

[Passing by, holding a bloodied butcher knife (for the snakes.)]

What's that?

[devotedtothecore]

[ glances at from his position... ]

...a water pump. We're currently putting it to the test.

[tonewlengths]

[I am painting aaaaall the walls and- Ooooh]

What's this? [Looking at all the gears and wires, following the tubes with her line of sight] Some kind of pump?

[impenetrable]

It's a water pump.

[that we're turning on and accidentally shoving Chrys to the floor with]

[foil]

[hey~ someone familiar is walking along those tubes, wondering what they do as he maneuvers around snakes]

( semi-placeholder. off to work I go )

[impenetrable]

[I don't recognize him, do you Chrys?]

[freelancetogoodhome]

[coming by to investigate (assuming for the time being that Cayden has successfully acquired an terrarium for his snake and Lancer didn't in fact have to kill it >_>;;; )]

Is this it then?

[beautymark]

[ hey let's talk to you probably... before ever talking to anyone else because god knows where that's going. ]

It's impressive, isn't it?

[ergaleomancer]

[Theta looks absolutely ecstatic to see it, and comes over excitedly, leaning close but carefully not touching, inspecting every inch of the mechanism.]

This is magnificent! Did you build it?

[revanchism]

But what does it do?

[nolongerslate]

That's pretty impressive.

But you might want someone with a bit more weight holding down the far end.

[derpfarmer]

Do we even have someone that big?

[over_the_fop]

A pump? Of course. Right on top of the game, as to be expected.

[devotedtothecore]

[ this, however, was probably a bit less so. ]

[autorejoin]

[ following the tubes curiously ]

What the hell is all this...?

[sharksong]

It's some kind of pump they're trying to drain the lower level with.

[revanchism]

And the purpose?

[impenetrable]

It's a water pump. We're just running a test so we can refine the design.

[unmaskedlizard]

[ah... a pump?... sees the machine before he sees Chrys, wandering up-- hrk]

[impenetrable]

[oh you must be one of those like Breeze]

[supraliminally]

[so excited gosh you guys are the best]

Oho? I'm falling behind, if you already have something like this ready!

[devotedtothecore]

[ wwworking on checking out the pump by now, though he blinks and looks up at her for a moment ]

...to be fair, we started work on this before the rains began.

[ pushes himself up with his crutch ]