Re: The Game: Chapter 12 - The Infinity Beyond
In reply to Basilisk (msg # 954):
While Roger, Rebecca, and anyone else interested in reassembling the power plant linger behind in the fuel room, Billy and Xander make their way to the grand staircase and spend some time examining the slab of ceiling that cuts off the staircase part-way through.
An open wall panel where Roger was poking around earlier can be seen to one side of the staircase, though this exposes nothing of interest. The ceiling's material is thick, hard, and cold to the touch. It will probably take some doing to punch through, though the mech's impressive leverage and armor-piercing bullets could certainly make things easier.
OOC: Lasers, bullets, or fists, gentlemen? And to confirm, you're moving Abraxas out of the lobby at this point?
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Roger works in a blur of motion, his fingers flying this way and that even as he mutters and murmurs. An untrained eye might assume he's simply flailing around haphazardly, but it's hard to argue with the results of his work as a lattice of structural scaffolding falls into place where the network of pipes once sat.
With Rebecca's help, they soon dismantle and reclaim the available materials in the fuel room and transfer them to the generator room. Roger huffs as he hauls the growing chassis of what will soon be a makeshift power supply close enough to the fuse box to splice its wires into place.
The device is not yet complete, and it is unclear what Roger intends to use as fuel for this contraption, but it is certainly coming along nicely.
OOC: Going to give Team Destruction a few more rounds to operate.
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Ibis ignores all of this, choosing to instead crouch low over the alien body that Roger saved from the flames. She has placed the splayed index and little fingers of her left hand against the corpse's forehead, and appears to be concentrating mightily. Her lips are moving ever so slightly, and those who pause to look might see her mouthing the word "Ceto" every few seconds like a mantra.