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<h1> Open Up! </h1>
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<p class="comment">
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This is probably a working title until I come up with something better.
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Just thought it was funny. Too similar to "Wake up!" tho.
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</p>
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<p>
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Jack puts the soldering iron back into its holder and admires his
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creation. This hack job of bodge wires and not quite right replacement
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components, held together by what remains of the corroded motor driver
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board is truly beautiful in the ugliest way possible – in his eyes
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at least. He picks it up and ispects the other side.<br />
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<span class="quote non-speech">Probably good enough.</span><br />
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<span class="comment">A note on the spelling of "bodge":
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You may or may not have noticed that I tend to stick to American English.
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This is a notable exception. There is no mistake here. The word
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"bodge" looks way more elegant spelled this way. I'm the
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BodgeMaster – BotchMaster would look weird, wouldn't it?
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If you think I'm wrong, then you're wrong. :)</span>
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</p>
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<p>
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Jack gets up and walks over to the bunker door. He mounts the board to
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the motor – using only two of the screws – and begins
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connecting the wires. The moment the power cable comes into contact with
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the board, the motor starts making a harsh buzzing sound. He drops the
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cable and it stops.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">So that's why this was burnt out.</span>
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He fetches a multimeter and pokes around the board and the mess of wires.
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One of the control wires is stuck on.
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</p>
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<p>
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After a bit of fiddling with the electronics under the door controls,
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he gives up and removes all the control wires. Then, he bolts the cables
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for power and ground to their lugs and connects another wire to the power
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cable. He touches it to one of the contacts. There's that buzzing
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again. He touches it to the next one, The motor starts spinning and the
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bunker door begins to move. It squeaks and scratches as it slowly
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retracts into the ceiling.
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</p>
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<p class="comment">
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Lay of the land from a neutral perspective:<br />
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The bunker sits about a third up the side of a small valley with
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a small river flowing in the middle. The bunker door faces north, down
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into the valley. The valley opens up and gets larger to the west and
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gets narrower/smaller and ends to the south-east.
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In front of the bunker is a small flat area that is overgrown with
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bushes. The flat area connects to a road coming from around the
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mountain to the south-west and going a bit past the bunker to the east,
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where it then takes a turn and crosses over a bridge to the other side.
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From there, it follows the valley back to the west and disappears
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around a mountain to the north-west.
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In the next valley over to the north is the city of Ivydale.
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The land gets flatter from there to the north-west, the location of
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Ivydale's larger sister city Sentinel Shores.
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</p>
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<p>
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Jack takes the wire off the contact and leaves it dangling. He steps
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forward and looks outside. The area in front of the bunker is completely
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overgrown with large bushes. He pushes the leaves aside and
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</p>
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