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/*TODO: Remove and replace with speech/non-speech where appropriate*/
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/*TODO: Remove and replace with speech/non-speech where appropriate*/
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<h1>Erosion</h1>
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<h1>Erosion</h1>
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<p>
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<p>
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<span class="quote speech">Morning, Michelle!</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Morning Michelle!</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Ugh.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Ugh.</span><br />
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She feels dizzy and her body is filled with a burning sensation.
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She feels dizzy and her body is filled with a burning sensation.
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She stumbles forward, out of her preservation chamber, and sits down
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She takes a step out of her preservation chamber and sits down on the
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on the floor in front of it, putting her arms over her knees to rest
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floor in front of it, putting her arms over her knees to rest her head.
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her head.
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<br />
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<br />
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<span class="quote speech">I'm gonna ... need a moment.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">I'm gonna ... need a moment.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Water?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Water?</span><br />
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She raises her head and Jack hands her a glass. After taking a couple
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She raises her head and Jack hands her a glass. After taking a couple
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sips, she sets it down, unsure whether it helps or makes it worse, and
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sips, she sets it down, unsure whether it helps or makes it worse, and
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rests her head again.<br />
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rests her head again.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Just let me sit here for a while.</span>
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<span class="quote speech">Just let me sit here for a moment.</span>
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<p>
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A few minutes later, she lifts up her head again:<br />
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After a while, she lifts up her head again:<br />
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<span class="quote speech">What year is it? ... and what's our
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<span class="quote speech">What year is it? ... and what's our
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mission?</span><br />
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mission?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Twenty-one-oh-six. There is no explicit
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<span class="quote speech">Twenty-one-oh-six. We don't have an
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mission, uplink's dead.</span><br />
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explicit mission, uplink's dead.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">You're kidding.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">You're kidding.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Nope.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Nope.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">How'd you get woken up then?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">How'd you get woken up then?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Technical failure. My preservation chamber
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<span class="quote speech">Technical failure.</span><br />
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died.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">You survived that?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">You survived that?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">That was the least of my challenges.</span>
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<span class="quote speech">That was the least of my challenges.</span>
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He chuckles and briefly tells her how he found himself trapped inside
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Jack briefly recounts his side of the events of the past
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and that the people of the dome city helped him repair the door.
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<span class="comment">amount of time</span> as well as some of the things
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he had read in the logs or talked about with Annie.
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<p>
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Michelle's dizziness starts to go away and the burning sensation
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Michelle's dizziness goes away and the burning sensation in her body
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in her body begins to fade. She slowly gets up, takes a few cautious
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begins to fade. She slowly gets up, takes a few cautious steps forward to
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steps forward to the table, and leans on it.<br />
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the table, and leans on it.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">So? What now? Any plans?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">So?</span> She looks at Jack.
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<span class="quote speech">I guess, for now, taking a look at the uplink.
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<span class="quote speech">What now? Any plans?</span><br />
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I wanna see if we can fix it.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">I guess, for now, exploring the area and
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taking a look at the uplink. I wanna see if we can fix it.</span><br />
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Michelle thinks for a moment.<br />
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Michelle thinks for a moment.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Sounds good – but I don't feel
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<span class="quote speech">Sorry but I don't quite feel ready for
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quite ready for a hike like that.</span><br />
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a hike like that. I'm gonna need a little bit longer.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Take your time, you just woke up.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Take your time.</span>
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She pulls back one of the chairs and sits down. Jack picks up her glass
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and sets it down on the table.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Thanks.</span><br />
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She takes another sip.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">The people who helped you, do you think
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they'd help us with the uplink too?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Don't know, but they can't.
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They're stuck inside the dome city and need our help.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">How? Even if the tunnels have collapsed,
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I can think of quite a few other ways to break out.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">From what I know, they aren't physically
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trapped inside, the people in charge just don't want anyone to
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leave.</span><br />
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Jack sits down as well and retells everything that happened in detail,
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starting with his preservaton chamber breaking down. It takes him about
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an hour, including answering Michelles questions.
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</p>
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<p class="comment">ToDo: tie this together</p>
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<p>
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<span class="quote speech">How have you been dealing with food?
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After a short pause, Jack walks over to the kitchen area, saying:
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I imagine the stockpile was already pretty low?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">If you want, I got some leftover baked potato
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<span class="quote speech">Actually not, the others seem to have mostly
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wedges...</span><br />
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hunted and foraged for themselves.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Ooh yeah, something to eat would be really
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<span class="quote speech">I wonder what they found to still be
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nice right now. Did you make your usual spicy dip to go with them?</span>
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edible...</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Speaking of food, I got leftover baked
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potatoes. Want some?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Now that you ask, I'm slowly getting
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hungry. Did you make your usual spicy dip?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Yup.</span><br />
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He gets up and walks over to the kitchen area, grabs a small bowl filled
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with a dark red-ish paste, and sets it on the table.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">I had to improvise a little because of
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a distinct lack of fresh ingredients but I think it still turned out
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pretty good.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Oh wow, that looks almost kinda scary.</span>
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<span class="quote speech">The flakes they left us just aren't
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<span class="quote speech">Yup.</span><br />
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the same as fresh peppers. I had to add <i>a lot</i> to get even close
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He places a small bowl filled with a dark red paste on the table.
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to the usual spiciness.</span><br />
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Then, he takes the <span class="comment">Backblech?</span> with the
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He grabs the <span class="comment">Backblech?</span> with potatoes
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wedges and puts it in the oven to reheat them.
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and puts it back in the oven to re-heat them.
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Michelle turns around and picks up the glass off the floor before sitting
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down at the table.
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<span class="comment">Idk they eat, guess I'll need to describe that
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<span class="comment">Idk they eat, guess I'll need to describe that
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in a bit more detail... Michelle might be having a really good and really
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in a bit more detail... Then they get ready to leave.</span>
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bad time at the same time. Jack eats like three of them potatoes with
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roughly a ton of the dip. Then they get ready to leave.</span>
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They step outside and, following what remains of the old path, start
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They step outside and, following what remains of the old path, start
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walking. It is narrow and winded, overgrown, and has partially
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walking. It is narrow and winded, overgrown, and has partially
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disappeared. Jack walks ahead, only half following the path, half making
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disappeared. Jack walks ahead, only half following the path, half making
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it up as he goes. Michelle struggles to follow, slowly falling behind.
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it up as he goes. Michelle struggles to follow, slowly falling behind.
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After a while, he stops abruptly, looking down at something, then up,
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<p>
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After a while, Jack stops abruptly, looking down at something, then up,
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then down again. Then, he turns to Michelle who is catching up to him
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then down again. Then, he turns to Michelle who is catching up to him
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and says: <span class="quote speech">Well, that could be a reason why
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and says: <span class="quote speech">Well, that could be a reason why
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the uplink is down – it literally <i>is down</i>...</span>.
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the uplink is down – it literally <i>is down</i>...</span>.
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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title> No U Don't Have Train. </title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="html_resources/style.css"></head><body><a href="index.html"><button class="back"><</button></a>
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<h1> No U Don't Have Train. </h1>
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<span class="quote speech">Why wouldn't they work outside? It's
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not like they're magically gonna come off the rails once they leave
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the dome.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">All of your trains are outfitted with fail-safe
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emergency brakes. On power loss, you have about 15 seconds before they
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are applied and the train comes to an abrupt, unscheduled halt.
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You can't even tow these things without power.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">I thought you said the tracks were in decent
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shape? Why would the <span class="comment">contacts? sliders?</span>
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come off the power rail for that long?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">A) I didn't, I said they are in
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<i>surprisingly</i> decent shape after being exposed to the elements
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for a century without any maintenance. B) That power rail isn't
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gonna be of any use because it doesn't deliver any power.</span>
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<span class="quote speech">What do you mean? Why not?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Where does the rail get its power from?</span>
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<span class="quote speech">The power grid.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Not quite, but close enough. What do we not
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have outside?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Of course there is a power grid outside.
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It's what powered the old world just as ours powers the city.</span>
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<span class="quote speech">There used to be one, that much is correct,
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but it hasn't been used or maintained in a century. Even if you did
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somehow manage to get part of it working, I still wouldn't trust it.
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And where would you wanna get the electricity to run it from?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">From a substation. We fix up one of those and
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use it to power the grid.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Great, now you have a local grid attached to
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the high voltage grid. And what do you wanna power that with?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">What? The substations make the power.
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It's where all the power in the city comes from: Two substations
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– one in the wall next to this airlock and the other one is by
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the other airlock.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">There is a third one deep below Central
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Square. These are indeed where the electricity in the city comes from
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but they don't make it. They get it from a power plant outside,
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a bit northeast of here.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">The dome powered by the outside world?
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People be believing strange things these days...</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">I don't have to believe. I was there when
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the city was built and, more recently, I helped replace a failing
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generator at said power plant. You might have noticed the power
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outage.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Uhuh, sure buddy. Since you've been doing
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nothing but spewing nonsense all this time, I'm just gonna have one
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of our guys drive a train up there and we'll see what happens.</span>
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<span class="quote speech">I'll get some popcorn; watching this is
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gonna be fun. Wouldn't be the first time a train got stuck in these
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tunnels...</span>
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