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[attr="class","illeana i"]”okay.”

with felix positioned at the entrance, his gallade and her golurk on each side, there’s a slight increase in comfort. it tries to persist as long as possible.

and as she releases a rotom from the confines of its pokeball, she kneels on the ground in front of the power supply. here, she can see everything: lifeless wires, circuitboards overflowing with dust, broken parts left as husks of a former glory.

”woah.”

something about it screams extraterrestrial, alien, foreign. she’s never seen anything like it.

her rotom buzzes beside her, excited and curious.

”can you get in there and see what you find?”

it’d, perhaps, be easier if she had a porygon here too. unfortunately, she has yet to find a porygon-z so her rotoms will have to do.

Felix Gallagher

05 investigate the depowered power stations and their destroyed cords, powerbanks, machinery, etc.

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[attr="class","illeana i"]a bright smile is quick to rise as his porygon-z joins her side. the funky little alien software is cute in an off-putting sort of way, she muses.

”you’re the best.”

it’s soft, affectionate, and doesn’t quite have a place here right now.

she leans a little closer into the lifeless power station, eyes scanning.

at her shoulder, her rotom buzzes once before it begins to merge itself into the circuitry.

”lots of wires, old circuit boards, dust, and some broken parts. i’m trying to see if my rotom can get anything working…”

after a moment, her voice rises again.

”hey, porygon-z, could you scan for any anomalies in this thing as rotom merges into it?”

Felix Gallagher

05 investigate the depowered power stations and their destroyed cords, powerbanks, machinery, etc.

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[attr="class","illeana i"]after five beeps, her eyes swivel toward his porygon-z as it begins to pull together a report.

she skims the report once, twice, and finally lets out a little gasp.

"interesting."

while her rotom infiltrates the machinery, she begins to reach for wires and parts.

"the readings almost make it seem like the wiring is of an organic makeup."

as if it's not machinery but veins and sinew in a body...

worrying, perhaps.

"can you give it a charge, rotom?"

the ghost chitters from somewhere within the power station and electricity buzzes after a moment. it zaps her hands, causing wires to drop as she lets out a soft yelp. the power station still seems lifeless upon first glance, however...

Felix Gallagher

05 investigate the depowered power stations and their destroyed cords, powerbanks, machinery, etc.
22 find a way to bring power to a deactivated power station, but any instruments or machinery within will fail to work yet.

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[attr="class","illeana i"]”yes, it’s more like a body’s nervous system or veins than electrical wiring.”

she’s never seen anything like it…

her rotom has fully submerged itself into the power station by now, buzzing happily as it explores

”rotom, higher charge please… shock it.”

her eyes drift to felix’s and then past him to his porygon-z.

”prep a scan. begin when rotom shocks the system, please.”

Felix Gallagher

05 investigate the depowered power stations and their destroyed cords, powerbanks, machinery, etc.
22 find a way to bring power to a deactivated power station, but any instruments or machinery within will fail to work yet.

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[attr="class","illeana i"]a hum escapes.

"no, i don't think so..."

she remembers, briefly, the hulking bodies of electrical wires they passed as they made their way here. the unnatural look to them, the sense of barely pulsing life simmering in cold wires.

"seems more like they had taken life to power this thing."

and how would they recreate such a thing now?

her rotom tries its best but nothing seems to work... each part is still broken, dead.

Felix Gallagher

05 investigate the depowered power stations and their destroyed cords, powerbanks, machinery, etc.
22 find a way to bring power to a deactivated power station, but any instruments or machinery within will fail to work yet.

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[attr="class","illeana i"]"those bodies of wires we saw back toward the entrance."

her eyes dart to his for a moment before retreating back to wiring.

there, she traces them over and over until they all blur together into one dead heap.

"they could've taken these wires from those and made this a living machine."

but there's no way to know.

unless...

an awful, downright terrible idea rises and she gets to her feet with it. her eyes travel to the entrance, to what lies beyond. those bodies are still out there.

she tries to take a few quick steps toward the exit.

Felix Gallagher

05 investigate the depowered power stations and their destroyed cords, powerbanks, machinery, etc.
22 find a way to bring power to a deactivated power station, but any instruments or machinery within will fail to work yet.