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+ Jack goes ahead, walking across to the staircase tower. He reaches the + first platform.
+ Clear.
+ Michelle follows him as he starts walking downstairs. She reaches the + platform.
+ Clear. +
+ James follows them and also says clear + as he reaches the platform. Annie hesitates.
+ Jack looks up to her from the next platform down and says: + Come on Annie, you got this, it's gonna + hold.
+ I'm scared.
+ James turns around and stomps on the walkway. It makes a dull ringing + sound and rust and debris rain down into the depths.
+ He says: Nah this thing's fiiiine. + You can come over.
+ He goes back to the top of the tower and Annie cautiously walks + across.
+ Jack continues downwards and the others follow, making sure to never + be on the same staircase with each other and passing warnings back:
+ Careful, missing steps here.
+ James, missing steps.
+ Annie, missing steps.
+ Okay. +

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+ The staircase tower stands on top of a large, slightly elevated concrete + platform roughly taking up a third of the ravine's width. One side is + connected to the rock face, the other side ends in a vertical edge that + goes down to where the outflow of the power plant flows past. A very + rusty railing begrenzt that side, though + it looks like it might fall apart if you look at it wrong. + The entire platform is flooded by water rushing out of a broken door in + the rock face. It spreads out over the platform, and flows off the edge. +
+ Michelle says to Jack: I don't think + we'll get in this way.
+ Got another idea?
+ They walk down the last staircase and onto the platform.
+ No, but you're gonna get swept + away.
+ We just need to get past the door, the water + inside will be moving a lot slower.
+ Michelle and Annie decide to stay back, Jack and James approach the door + from the side. The two pick up a large rock and throw it right in + front of the door. It starts rolling immediately and, within seconds, + tumbles off the edge.
+ Jack calls out to the girls: + You were right.
+

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this is in the middle of the chapter after they went + downstairs and tried to explore the turbine hall, back up in the tunnel +

Jack turns the key and the gate starts to move up, scrathcing and squeeking as it does, revealing a bunch of crates. About half-way - up, it gets stuck, making a buzzing noise. He lets go of the key and it - stops. They duck under the gate and look around. They find themselves in - a warehouse much larger than the gate and windows facing the tunnel would - lead to assume.
- Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I call - an adequate stockpile of spare parts.
- Jack walks up to a huge crate and wipes the dust off the label: + up, it gets stuck, making a buzzing noise. He lets go of the key and + the buzzing stops. They duck under the gate and find themselves in + a warehouse much larger than the gate and windows in the tunnel + would lead to assume.
+ Jack says: Now that, ladies and gentlemen, + is what I call an adequate stockpile of spare parts.
+ He walks up to a huge crate and wipes the dust off the label: Turbine C, replacement 2.