[10:07] Kurt: Morning all
[10:07] Violet: Good morning Mr. McAllister!
[10:07] Violet: So I have a crowbar
[10:07] Kurt: From the crowbar shop?
[10:08] Scarlett: *Something* like that...
[10:08] Kurt: Okay...
[10:09] Violet: I'm heading to the lift now to try this out
[10:10] Violet: Prising open lift doors, it's just what I like to do on Friday mornings
[10:10] Scarlett: I thought you were trying to work the override
[10:11] Violet: Alright, yes, but the other thing sounds better
[10:11] Scarlett: Well, that was easy
[10:11] Scarlett: Have you been working out or something, Vi?
[10:11] Kurt: Violet? Working out? Hahaha!
[10:12] Violet: That's quite enough, thank you
[10:12] Violet: There's a button for level 2, which I presume is going further down underground
[10:13] Violet: I'm trying it out
[10:13] Kurt: OK, the lift must've done something to the system, I can see a Level 2 now
[10:14] Kurt: Where are you guys?
[10:15] Kurt: Guys?
[10:16] Violet: Nothing to worry about, just that the lights aren't on
[10:16] Violet: OK, I'm heading east now
[10:16] Scarlett: You'll like this room?
[10:17] Kurt: I will?
[10:17] Violet: It's a computer room
[10:18] Violet: I know that you're probably beside yourself with excitement, but I can't figure out these computers at all. Apart from the fact that there are big screens, they're just very different
[10:18] Kurt: Yeah, it's not very surprising, the components and operating system are probably completely different. A bit like divergent or convergent evolution I suppose. Hmm.
[10:19] Violet: We'll come back to this room later
[10:20] Violet: Next room is just called PR1
[10:20] Violet: It looks different, I think it's a lab. Heavy duty doors... practically an airlock, actually
[10:21] Scarlett: OMG! That's so weird!
[10:21] Kurt: What?
[10:21] Scarlett: My ears just went pop
[10:21] Kurt: Did you go down a level?
[10:21] Violet: No, nothing like that. It happened to both of us. We came into the room and our ears went pop.
[10:22] Scarlett: I don't like it, this PR1 place is creepy.
[10:22] Violet: I'm going to take a look around in here
[10:23] Violet: Basically, it's a lot of very complicated-looking equipment
[10:24] Kurt: Can you describe it to me in more specific terms?
[10:24] Violet: Why yes, K-man, I can
[10:25] Violet: There's a central space in the room, with an empty specimen box. Lots of things leads from it, like what look like optical and electrical cables, and lots of things surrounding it and *pointed* at it
[10:25] Kurt: What sort of thing?
[10:26] Scarlett: This one says 'Class 5A laser'... there's another thing here that's a 'Magnetic Micromanipulator'
[10:27] Violet: Aha. There's a label on the specimen box
[10:27] Violet: 'Vbourg, arrived March 4th 1732'
[10:28] Violet: It's all very high tech, like the labs you showed me in the Academy, but even more sophisticated
[10:29] Scarlett: I found some microscopes here as well! And some machines that look a bit like the scanning machines they have in hospitals, but smaller
[10:29] Kurt: Hmmmmm
[10:29] Violet: I can tell you're intrigued
[10:30] Kurt: I am. I wonder what they were doing there. The specimen must've been extremely valuable, since they went to the effort of pressuring the room
[10:30] Scarlett: Why's that?
[10:30] Kurt: Well, it's what they do with all samples like that. See, ... actually, never mind
[10:31] Violet: Moving on to the next room
[10:31] Violet: This room has a window into PR1... must be an observation room
[10:33] Violet: Empty like the rest, but there's a photo pinned on the wall
[10:33] Scarlett: I think it was taken through this window!
[10:34] Violet: Yeah. It has a bunch of geeky-looking people standing alongside the specimen case - and no, I can't see what's inside it
[10:34] Violet: Caption says: "March 12th 1732 - max coherence 0.2s achieved"
[10:34] Kurt: You know what that means?
[10:34] Violet: No. Do you?
[10:34] Kurt: No, I don't either
[10:35] Violet: Heading south to next room
[10:36] Violet: It's like PR1, but bigger. And so it should be no surprise that it's called PR2
[10:37] Violet: My ears popped again when I went into this room
[10:37] Violet: Actually. I have to agree. It is creepy.
[10:37] Violet: You know what's weird about this place?
[10:37] Scarlett: Everything?
[10:37] Violet: Well the facilities are superb, right, better than stuff we have in the academy?
[10:38] Scarlett: I bet Kurt has an ears-go-pop room, don't you Kurt?
[10:38] Kurt: I believe they are called pressure rooms, but yes, the Academy does have them
[10:38] Violet: But where's everything else?
[10:39] Violet: There are labs but no showers.
[10:39] Scarlett: Why would there be showers?
[10:40] Scarlett: Maybe they're on another floor.
[10:40] Violet: Look, they were obviously working with some kind of chemicals here, right?
[10:40] Violet: It'd just be weird not to have decontamination showers nearby. It's standard procedure.
[10:40] Scarlett: Maybe they had some more advanced version of shower. Like using photons or something.
[10:41] Violet: Photons? Do you even know what a photon is? What do they teach you at Marmalejo, anyway?
[10:41] Scarlett: They're particles of light. Or a wave, if you look at them in a different way. So there! And they use UV light to decontaminate food.
[10:42] Kurt: Touche
[10:42] Violet: What's that?
[10:42] Kurt: Some obscure Earth language. Anyway. PR2. Tell me what you see.
[10:43] Violet: It's like PR1. Empty specimen case in the centre, lots of cables
[10:44] Scarlett: But less scanning stuff. No lasers or anything.
[10:44] Violet: More computers, more electrical equipment and micromanipulators
[10:44] Scarlett: Let's go into the observation room