02 Wake Up: Fill in a gap and rewrite a good portion of the chapter to match

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head, he realizes that his entire body hurts.<br />
<span class="speech">Owwowwowwowwoww... Ouch!</span><br />
<span class="speech">Emergency defrost complete. Entering low power
mode.</span>
announces an automated voice. <br />
mode.</span> announces an automated voice. <br />
He thinks to himself: <span class="thought">Get it together, Jack! You
knew this was gonna happen. You have trained for this. Where are the
meds again? ...</span>
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rust. The red night lights on the ceiling are dimly illuminating the rest
of the bunker. He looks to the left: The wall is lined with other
preservation chambers, all except one of them being powered down. In
front of the back wall are desks holding a radio, a terminal, and some
front of the rear wall are desks holding a radio, a terminal, and some
boxes. To the left of the desks in the corner is a minicomputer in a
half-height rack and a teleprinter, and above it a phone on the wall
&ndash; the usual Neotek equipment. He looks to the right: More
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the computer.
</p>
<p>
The phone lifts off the wall with a quiet click and Jack begins to dial.
He holds the receiver to his ear - silence. Welp, another thing that
isn&apos;t working. He puts it back on the wall while turning to the
terminal.
<span class="comment">There needs to be a mention of him trying to turn
on a lamp but it only flickers for a short moment.</span>
He leans over the desk with the terminal and flips the power switch.
Bonk! <span class="thought">Seems to work, at least.</span> While waiting
for the tube to warm up, he walks over to the rack and sits down
on the floor in front of it. He inspects the status lights.
<span class="thought">CPU is idle, serials are idle, primary hard drive
is powered up &ndash; all good. Secondary hard drive is powered down,
let&apos;s change that...</span> He pushes the power button and hears the
spindle spinning up. The power button blinks. There is some intermittent
rattling from the drive, <span class="thought">probably a shot
bearing</span>. It takes an unusually long time for it to get up to
speed. Impatiently sitting there, Jack waits for the drive to be ready.
Clicking form the mechanism unlocking the heads followed by a ringing
scratching noise. <span class="thought">Of course</span>, he thinks,
quickly pressing the power button again. The scratching stops and the
spindle motor turns off. <span class="thought">That&apos;s gonna be an
ugly head crash.</span> He looks around for other ways to get the manual.
He could try calling someone, maybe the lines to &lt;dome city&gt; still
work.
</p>
<p>
Bonk! At least this seems to work. While waiting for the picture tube to
warm up, he opens the lid on the teleprinter - only to find that
something has eaten most of the paper. He removes what remains and opens
one of the cabinets under the desks. By some miracle, the animal that ate
the paper on the printer didn&apos;t find the rest. He takes a piece of
the stack and tears it off. Then, he sets it on top of the desk with a
thump. <span class="comment">need translation for &quot;Staub
aufwirbeln&quot;</span>
Not exactly excited by the prospect of calling random people, but not
seeing another option, he reaches for the phone. It lifts off the wall
with a quiet click and Jack begins to dial. He holds the receiver to his
ear - silence. <span class="thought">Welp, that&apos;s that.</span>
He puts it back on the wall.
</p>
<p>
The terminal screen reaches full brightness as Jack feeds the paper into
the printer. He makes sure the holes on the feed ribbons line up with the
mechanism, then he turns back to the terminal and begins to type.
<span class="thought">I wonder what happened over the years...</span>
He walks over to the the teleprinter and opens the lid to find that
something has eaten most of the paper. He removes the remains and opens
one of the cabinets under the desks. By some miracle, whatever ate the
paper didn&apos;t find the rest. He tears off a piece of the stack and
puts it into the printer, feeding the end into the tractor mechanism.
Then, he sits down at the terminal and logs on.
<span class="comment">This should be rephrased to indicate that there
is some purpose to him opening the lid in the first place, like him
wanting to change the ribbon bc it's no doubt deteriorated or something
like that.</span>
</p>
<pre class="terminal">
Tue, 2106-06-01, 15:21
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Welcome to INUX!
$ &#9608;
</pre>
<p>
<span class="thought">Over a hundred years, huh...</span><br />
He types a few commands.
</p>
<pre class="terminal">
$ ls
$ pwd
/home/jack
$ cd /var/log
$ ls -F
cron/ outpost/ dmesg.log wtmp
$ ls
cron outpost dmesg.log wtmp
$ cd outpost
$ ls -F
comms comms_diag/ event logbook
$ ls
comms comms_diag event logbook
$ cat logbook &gt; /dev/ttyS1
$ &#9608;
</pre>
<p>
The printer comes to life and starts printing.
The printer comes to life and starts printing. Jack gets up and walks
over to it. The printer prints. And it prints some more. The paper
reaches the floor. Jack picks up the end and holds it, folding the pages
along the perforated lines as they reach his hands. Finally, the printer
stops to print. Jack turns the wheel on the side of the printer, manually
advancing the feed mechanism, until he reaches the end of the page. Then,
he tears it off and takes the small stack of paper back to the terminal
desk. Trying his luck with the lamp again, he flips the switch multiple
times until it stays on.
</p>
<pre class="paper">
2000-01-01 Automated Announcement: