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