+ Annie walks down the stairs to the basement and turns on the lights. + She goes back to the small office space with the terminal where she + finds a sticky note on the screen: + Trying to sabotage the network or what? + That phone stays unplugged. + She takes the note off the screen and sits down. She finds a pen and + scribbles on it: Sorry +
++ The terminal screen is dark. She looks for a way to turn it on. + There's a power switch on the side but that's already on. + That RDY light is lit up. + She tries pressing a random letter. The screen crackles as it gets + energized and it slowly lights up. + The RDY light goes out. +
+Wed, 2106-06-02, 18:21 + +AgriWorks Login: f█ ++
+ It appears that Jack isn't there yet. Annie waits for a moment, + before she gets bored and gets up to grab some cookies from the break + room. Cookies in hand, she swings by her office to grab a few sheets of + paper and a pen. Then, she goes back downstairs and sits at the terminal + desk. The screen had gone out again so she presses another button. + Still nothing. She makes some space on the desk, folds the paper + in half and starts drawing. +
+
+ Just as she gets started, the terminal comes alive. The screen lights up
+ and it makes a beep.
+
+ TODO: Annie needs to figure out the return key in
+ chapter 2
+
+Jack> Hi. +Jack> So I made a little program that should make it easier to chat... +Jack> Anyway, am here. You there? +Annnie> yes +add some kinda small talk or no? +Jack> You said you had questions... Ask away. +Annie> my grandpa said you were frozen in your bunker how and why +Jack> That is a great over-simplification, but yes. I don't know how it actually + works. People much smarter than me figured it out very late into the disaster. +Jack> As for why... I am part of a ground support team for the Lunar Biosphere + Project. Our task is to wait until needed, and then use the abandoned + infrastructure to the best of our abilities to assist them. +Annie> there are other people with you +Jack> Well yes and no. One of them is left. I'll leave her frozen until I get + this door open, don't think she'd deal well with this siuation. +Annie> what happened to the rest +Jack> They were called up, went outside, and fulfilled their mission. +Annie> isnt the outside toxic +Jack> It was. Reading the logbook, it seems that things were mostly fine again + by around 2050. +Annie> people here think its still impossible to live there +Annie> they taught us in school that there are deadly chemicals in the air +Jack> That was true at one point, a long time ago. How much do you know about + the disaster? +Annie> not much just that it happened and the result +Jack> Jack gives a quick rundown of what happened, can be one of: + - mining sludge dam broke and there was a chemical plant downstream + - something started cooking off underground like Centralia + - ??? (need more options to decide) ++
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