01 Wake Up: minor revision
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<p>
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He walks over to the door's control panel. The paint is flaking off
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revealing the rust underneath. Jack attempts to press a couple buttons
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but they get stuck and nothing happens. A couple expletives and banging
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on the panel later, he turns back to the inside of the bunker looking
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for tools, contemplating the tradeoff between waking up a couple years
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too soon and getting slowly poisoned by the air, and being locked inside
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a bunker due to a bunch of apparent troglodytes unable to close a door
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properly... Doesn't matter, too late now.
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but they get stuck and nothing happens. A bunch of expletives and some
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banging on the panel later, he turns back to the inside of the bunker,
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looking for tools, contemplating the tradeoff between waking up a couple
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years too soon and getting slowly poisoned by the air, and being locked
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inside a bunker due to a bunch of apparent troglodytes unable to close a
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door properly... Doesn't matter, too late now.
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As he passes each of the presevation chambers, he looks into them. Empty,
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improvise.</span>
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He returns to the kitchen area and rummages through the drawers to find
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Jack returns to the kitchen area and rummages through the drawers to find
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anything useful. He grabs a fork. <span class="quote speech">Works as a
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screwdriver, I guess...</span> He proceeds to jam the handle into a
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screw on one of the kitchen cabinets to see if it will turn. It does
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– barely. Using a slightly rusty knife sharpener
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<span class="comment">sharpening rod?</span> he begins the long and
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arduous process of making the fork handle more suitable as a screwdriver,
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grinding its end over it over and over and over. He does this for a long
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time. Over and over and over. His fingers start to go sore and he stops
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to inspect his work. <span class="quote speech">Meh, could work.</span>
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He tests it on the kitchen cabinet again.
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grinding the end over the sharpener over and over and over. After a
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while, he stops to inspect his work. <span class="quote speech">Meh,
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could work.</span> He tests it on the kitchen cabinet again.
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His newly gained screwdriver in hand, he walks back to the control panel
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His newly gained screwdriver in hand, Jack walks back to the control panel
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for the door and unscrews it. After a bit of fiddling, the panel lifts
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out of the niche in the wall, pulling cables out of the box under it.
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Holding the fork by the handle, he bends the <span class="comment">
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middle? inner?</span> prongs out of the way and attempts to bridge the
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control panel's switches using the outer prongs. Nothing happens.
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<span class="quote speech">Of couse it wasn't gonna be that easy.</span>
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He grabs the fork by the handle and bends the <span class="comment">
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middle? inner?</span> prongs out of the way to bridge the control
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panel's switches using the outer prongs. Nothing happens.
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<span class="quote speech">Of course it wasn't gonna be that easy.</span>
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He starts to dig into the wires, attempting to find the fault, but
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realizes after a while that the wiring is more complex than expected
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realizes after a moment that the wiring is more complex than expected
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and he has no idea what he's doing.
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<span class="quote speech">Let's get the manual for this
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thing...</span> <span class="comment">He probably wouldn't say it
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like that while talking to himself.</span>
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<p>
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Jack returns to the desk with the terminal and flips the switch on the
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Jack walks over to the desk with the terminal and flips the switch on the
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desk lamp. It flickers for a moment before turning off again. He flips
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the switch back and leans over the terminal to turn it on –
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Bonk! At least this seems to work. While waiting for the picture tube to
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