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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title> I Like Trains </title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="html_resources/style.css"></head><body><a href="index.html"><button class="back"><</button></a>
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<h1>I Like Trains</h1>
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<p class="comment">
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Context: They are exploring the Ivydale train yard
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<p>
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<span class="quote speech">Michelle! Look what I found...</span><br />
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She climbs through the gap between the rotting cars on the adjacent
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track.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Where are you?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Up here.</span><br />
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Jack is standing on the rather sketchy-looking roof of one of the
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trains. Michelle climbs onto the link between cars and Jack helps her
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to the top.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Look, over there...</span><br />
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He points across the deteriorating metro trains towards the outermost
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track of the overgrown train yard. A small roof - or in places what
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remains of it - extends over the track from the side of a large building.
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Several tank cars sit under it. Some are rusted through or missing
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parts, but a few look like they might still hold liquids.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Oh, wow! Maybe there's some gas left in
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there or something...</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">My thought. Let's check it out.</span>
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</p>
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<p>
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They climb back down and make their way over to one of the tank cars.
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Jack clmbs onto the side of the car and attempts to use the ladder
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leading to the top. It crumbles under his feet.
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<span class="quote speech">I guess I found the way down - hey, use me as
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a ladder.</span> He leans against the tank and helps her up on top of it.
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</p>
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<p>
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Michelle inspects the lid. It's held on with large nuts.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Do we have a wrench or something?</span><br />
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Jack looks around.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">I don't know. Lemme take a look inside
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there...</span><br />
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He disappears through an opening in the wall where used to be a door.
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After a moment, he reappears, triumphantly holding a large adjustable
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wrench.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">It's a bit rusty but should do the
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job.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">I'm afraid to see what you call very
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rusty.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">This thing, for example.</span><br />
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He knocks it against the side of the tank causing more pieces of the
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ladder to break off. Then, he hands the wrench to her. After a bit of
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fiddling, she manages to get a good grip on one of the nuts holding the
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lid in place - it doesn't budge.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Need a hammer or something?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Can you hand me that pipe? It should
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do.</span><br />
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Jack picks up a section of metal pipe and passes it to her. Putting it
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over the wrench for additional leverage, she pushes against it until the
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bolt snaps with a bang.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">That's certainly one of the ways to undo
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a nut.</span><br />
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She moves on to the next one.
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</p>
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<p class="comment">
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missing section: Michelle opens the lid and finds some disappointing
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fact - it's empty or whatever<br />
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then repeat for another one
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</p>
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<p>
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The contents of the next tank are more promising.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Smells like diesel... We should go find a
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truck or something to drive around.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Okay, uhh, stupid idea but I need to show you
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something.</span> Jack grins.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Oh no, what are you up to again?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Nothing in particular... Wanna follow me for a
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sec?</span><br />
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Michelle jumps down onto the edge of the car, then to the ground and
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follows him to the entrance.
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</p>
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<p>
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He walks over the door on the floor, past a counter to the left, into the
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wide open hall. It is dimly lit by the light that makes it through the
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dirty windows and small holes in the surprisingly intact roof.
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<span class="comment">note: Make it more clear that the windows are
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below the roof. Also, I imagine them to be milky windows for some reason.
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</span> A few rows of large industrial shelves on the other side of the
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hall hold partially rotting crates. On either side of the area with the
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shelves are spacious areas with machine tools, small cranes, and other
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machinery. A few plants grow here and there. A single train track goes
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through the center of the hall with additional tracks for a gantry crane
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to either side of it. At the end of the hall to the right, below the
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rusty crane, sits a train wrapped up in tarps.
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</p>
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<p>
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<span class="quote speech">Stupid idea indeed</span>, she says while
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walking towards it. Then, she corrects herself:
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<span class="quote speech">Actually, it might be useful. That's one
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of the diesel-electric ones, right?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Oh, I thought we drink the diesel and push
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this thing around for fun.</span> He grins.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Okay, so can we use its generator?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Maybe, if we can get it to a location where
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it's useful.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">There is no railroad close to the
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bunker?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Not that I know of, the closest would be
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somewhere around Ivydale South.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Okay, not very useful. That wasn't very
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well planned, Mr infrastructure guy.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Let's go find a truck.</span>
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</p>
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