Overdue Maintenance

Jack parks the truck just before the exit of a tunnel and the four get out. Roaring water echoes from somewhere in the distance. Annie grabs her bag and follows the others towards the end of the tunnel. The wall to the right features doors, large gates, and a few windows that allow a peek into abandoned offices, storage spaces, and a machine shop. The end of the tunnel connects to a large balcony extending into a narrow ravine with rusted metal walkways going to either side.

They walk onto it and take a look around: The walkway to the left goes to a freestanding staircase tower that leads down and is just as rusty as the walkway itself. The walkway to the right connects to the top of a concrete dam blocking the ravine. A couple bushes, flowers, and a small tree grow there, partially hiding rusty cranks and levers, and the dam is green from moss and small ferns growing all over its side. Water flows over the spillway, falling into the depths below. To the right of the dam and walkway, inset into the same side of the ravine as the tunnel exit, is a wall with a front of windows.
Annie, check this out!
Jack gestures for her to come to the railing. She hesitates.
That railing is gonna hold, yeah?
Idunno?... He attempts to push shove? it and bangs agains it – it doesn't budge. Probably?
She walks over and cautiously leans on it to peer down. The water flowing over the spillway joins a torrent of water rushing out of two big pipes deep below, at the bottom of the ravine.

Michelle and James go ahead, using the walkway towards the dam. About half-way, as Michelle walks onto the next section of walkway, it starts making scary foreboding? creaking noises. The moment James reaches it, the creaking turns into cracking and the panel of grid floor beings to give out underneath his feet. He grabs on to one of the railings and quickly hops? Idk some word between "step" and "jump" onto the beam holding it, leaving the section of floor barely hanging on.
Michelle asks: You okay?
Yeah – less so the floor...
The two walk the rest of the way across, meanwhile Annie and Jack stay on the balcony.

TODO: Change this so Michelle and James explore the dam first, then turn their attention to the windows.

After the Aufregung? dies down, Michelle and James start looking around.
Would you look at that!
Michelle is looking through the windows. A few of them have cracks but most are somehow intact.
I think I found what we're looking for.
Jack asks: The control room?
Yea, it's right here.
Guess we're gonna have to climb across...
Annie says: I'm not doing that.
James walks up to one of the windows saying: Looks like there might be a way back to the tunnel from inside. We could let you in that way.
Jack replies: That would work but we probably don't wanna break these windows.
Nobody said anything of breaking...
James takes a screwdriver out of his pocket. He jams it inbetween the window and its frame, then quickly pulls on it. The window jumps open with a bang.

Jack and Annie are waiting in the tunnel next to a door. The handle moves down and they hear the deadbold retracting with a click. The door creaks as it gets pulled inward, revealing a hallway. Michelle is on the other side, leading the way. James is standing in a door to the left, holding it open. They go through and enter the control room, a somewhat large room packed with equipment. Across the room is the wall with the window front, allowing a view of the spillway and the top of the dam. In front of it is a random collection of electronics and furniture, mostly desks and chairs and terminals, zusammengeschoben? piled up? for storage. In the center is a large console with more buttons, switches, and gauges that is facing the windows and an opening in the floor behind it, covered with a thick glass pane. The wall to the left is lined with metal cabinets with buttons, switches, large gauges and levers on them. The wall to the right is taken up by storage cabinets? the drawer thingies... and an assortment of large devices and contraptions.

TODO: They take a brief look at the control room and then climb outside onto the dam, returning to the control room afterwards.

This needs to be tied together again as the beginning of the chapter has been rewritten. They roam around the room for a while. Annie looks outside, admiring the flowering lilypads floating in the water held back by the dam. Meanwhile, Michelle looks at an old calendar.
Jack, what's the status on that dome city you're building? You guys only have two years to finish that project.
Oh no, I guess we're gonna have to slack less while waiting for bureaucracy to take its course.
The power lines are gonna get hooked up to the battery bank in a couple days. Aren't you excited for progress?
Not my department but I sure hope we're no longer gonna need these portable batteries down there. Having a working power grid is gonna be so nice.
They are laughing. The calendar shows October 1991 with a few entries and crossed-off days.

Jack looks at a clipboard that was placed on the control panel on the center console.
The next maintenence expedition is scheduled for 2011... I don't think anyone ever stepped foot in here after Sunside Cove was sealed off.
Annie turns around and leans against the center console.
It wouldn't surprise me. Many people are legitimately scared of the outside world.
I mean they're probably right, the outside world is pretty dangerous. Watch your step, by the way...
Whoa!
She stumbles backwards. Without noticing it, she had walked onto the glass pane. It allows a view down into a hall filled with machinery.

They gather around it and look down. The floor is flooded by water rushing out of a burst pipe and spraying out from the flanges of many other pipe sections.
It's a miracle this place is still running.

missing section

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: Turbine C, replacement 2.

exploring the warehouse, they find a forklift and a railroad in the back