The passage of time in this place is not easily tracked, not without a clock of some sort, anyway. The days may even begin to blend together, only occasionally interrupted by confrontations with the robot spiders or discussion with whoever is on the other end of that terminal.
It seems like things won't change any time soon. But something is off today, and some of you may notice it sooner than others.
The mind-numbing drone of the nearby builder going about its work has been with you from the very start. Located behind the terminal and far down below, it was the first sound you heard upon arriving here. It has been arranging walkways in increasingly complicated and baffling designs, extending them ever outwards into space. This much has not changed at all during your time here; the drone of the machinery moving and metal being slotted into place may even have become somewhat comforting background noise.
It is completely silent today.
The skittering of spider robots through the vents or patrolling the area is not heard either, and though the atmosphere remains as gloomy as ever, the lack of sound will undoubtedly be noticeable to some of you. Thankfully, you can still hear; it's simply that the machines have stopped their usual tasks, for whatever reason.
[With both arms disabled, Viktor quickly calculated the situation in his head; the other machines were too fast to risk taking shots at without potentially htiting the others, and he was presenting a target just standing around. New plan.]
[He's just going to move to the terminal and see if there's way to shut this whole thing down.]
[You can make your way to the terminal! It's still lit up with the same text as before, though there doesn't immediately seem to be any buttons to push what will do anything...]
[this is a bad time to mention runeterra is a largely steampunk planet, huh?]
[Fortunately, the engineering genius can at least take a few stabs in the dark, touching the screen round where the status changed. Are we working with a touchcreen, or are we just kind of screwed?]
[The low rumbling of machinery of the builder begins to hum in the same droning tone you all have grown used to here. Unfortunately, its arms aren't exactly working? So it can't build?? But it has been set back to protocol.]
[ Re: that laser that almost took out Percy. Ashley can't do much to help besides trying to trigger her visions, which, you know, she will attempt once again—but she also is going to stick close to Viktor and that terminal. Partly because— ]
S- see if they can do something, if- if they know what those things are!
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[He's just going to move to the terminal and see if there's way to shut this whole thing down.]
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[Fortunately, the engineering genius can at least take a few stabs in the dark, touching the screen round where the status changed. Are we working with a touchcreen, or are we just kind of screwed?]
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[he's not betting on that influencing the Sentinels, but definitely looking for any other options while we're here]
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[ Re: that laser that almost took out Percy. Ashley can't do much to help besides trying to trigger her visions, which, you know, she will attempt once again—but she also is going to stick close to Viktor and that terminal. Partly because— ]
S- see if they can do something, if- if they know what those things are!
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[That sounds like pressure! The Hexclaw swiveled as if watching out for the pair of them, Viktor glancing briefly out of the corner of his eye.]
Keep close and tell me if anything is coming for us.
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...Looks like you might need to look out for yourself, Ashley.]
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