[network] night 102 - text - @claytonator; deep thinking [open]

[dr_unconscious]

[And now it's time for something completely different.]

So.
Where do you figure the lowest point in Norfinbury is?

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[swatsflies]

Depends on what you mean by lowest point and what you want to do when you find it.

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[dr_unconscious]

Lowest surface elevation, I guess. The actual lowest point I think must be underground.
The idea is to try and find a path to it.

@gravedigger; voice

[harlequinofhate]

Only the spiders know that.

And they don't want us going there, either.

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[dr_unconscious]

[This might get a little hairy, but Clayton's not in the business of painting people as criminals. Goodness knows the Joker's done a good enough job of that himself.]

But Winter does. And as much as I want to leave the spiders to themselves, I think we might have to start reconsidering whose word we ought to take.

@captaininvincible; text

[notaquaman]

i mean
some might argue we hit rock bottom w/ that vicodin mess
lol

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[dr_unconscious]

[...That stings more than Clayton expected it to.]

Then I guess we can only go up from there, right?

@jphawkins, text

[rattlingthestars]

Hospital morgue, or in one of those houses with the trap doors.

What's this about?

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[dr_unconscious]

That's kind of what I'm thinking. Hospital's already mostly submerged, so the bottom of the hospital has to be a lot lower down than everything in the suburbs, or downtown that we've found. Hospital opens up on the bottom floor too, doesn't it? Haven't gone further than that.

I think we need to do some digging.

@quark; text

[averytinyparticle]

i think bombs are a bad idea

[Your brilliant weigh-in from Quark, who is a bit less tense now that House is alive again. Not much less, but a little. He doesn't want to disagree with anyone's thoughts, but...well, it sounds dangerous.]

i just think there has to be another way to open those trapdoors.
dunno how but i do

ive been trying to find a chance to dig around the area where the pond is.

[dr_unconscious]

[Clayton could not agree more, but he also doesn't want to crush Zell's dreams upthread. His support will have to remain implicit.]

I could try prying one up with a fire poker or something, but I'm not sure I could get enough leverage to match, you know, a bomb. Maybe something corrosive? Would be tough to make an acid that strong, though, and I'd have no idea how to go about it. Maybe they all require some kind of key that we just haven't found yet.

The pond by the church? [Suddenly very concerned for smol.] There aren't a lot of buildings around there to stay overnight in. Please be careful.

@endureandsurvive; text

[brickmaster]

[Hm. This is interesting.]

For what it's worth, I found a note that said "dig deep" the day I got here.

[So it's not just Winter. Either that or Winter isn't as far away as they thought. Who knew.]

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[dr_unconscious]

Like a physical, written note? Where at? Do you still have it?

@lockhart; text

[powersouls]

I'm not sure how to get those trap doors open. When we used the bomb Kain made, the door sealed back up again.

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[dr_unconscious]

Could have been the way it was done. I mean, it was an explosion. Kind of hard to miss and it causes a lot of surrounding damage.
Maybe there's a more subtle way in? A key or something that wears away at it gradually?

@CaptSteveRogers; text

[starsandtights]

[After reading the other messages...]

You're not the only one thinking Winter's message was literal.

Found one of those trapdoors in the shed I woke up in after we were all abruptly relocated. 114 on House's map. Ice tunnels.

There's a swimming pool up north. 11 on House's map, I think.

For an icy hospital stairwell, we might try heat rather than brute force. If we can get enough fuel, get something metal as a contact against the ice...

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[dr_unconscious]

That trapdoor in the tunnels has to be lower down than the hospital morgue, but if it's anything like the others then we might have more trouble opening it than it's worth, at least for the moment. I'd like to avoid more explosions and spider invasions if at all possible.
Swimming pool sounds dangerous if it catches anyone by surprise but it's worth looking around in, if anyone hasn't already.

...Like taking the wall to a soldering iron or something? How would we do that? I have plenty of metal stuff and some matches, but something tells me that's not quite enough for what we need.

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[canyouhandlethismany]

She even insisted that we shouldn't trust our tablets- [Was it shiro who asked her about computers in general and winter specifically replied 'someone' (Leon couldn't recognize he name) wouldn't like tablets? Probably.] so perhaps it'd be better discussing things in person, as soon as there's any sort of plan.

We can probably create some kind of makeshif pickaxe if we cooperate, I can't cut metal here but I think something can be adjusted with metal pipes and all. Exactly like we could try to create leves to attempt to open the trapdoors.

Melting the wall with heat is a good idea but would require a lot of coordination, fuel and people willingly to take turns to stay there: depending on the wall's thickness it may take forever

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[dr_unconscious]

I can kind of agree with that--after what happened last week with the tablets, I think we can all agree that the tablets aren't always the best way to go--but if we discount everything said over them, then there's not much we can realistically do. Being separated like this doesn't give us a lot of power over how we communicate, you know?

Liking the idea of a pickaxe. Would it really work faster than fire, do you think? That's a lot of manual labor and probably a lot of metal to rely on.

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[maskintape]

[ And this is where Tim would usually respond with "my entire life" or "that one time Jay thought I'm making a documentary about hotels was a convncing lie," but. Nah.

He skims the post anyway since he has nothing better to do. And besides - ]

I have a shovel
when you think of a place I can dig on my own lmk and I'll head that way

not here

[0thingsonmymind]

*Tim wtf are you doing offering to help Clayton!!! :|*

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[dr_unconscious]

That's convenient! I guess it depends on where you are.
No, you don't have to say if you don't want to. Sounds like the best place to dig in the neighborhood is that house with the sinkhole. Best place in the tunnels would be the packed stairwell in the hospital. Downtown...not sure, have't explored enough. Would like to find a way into that hotel though. Think you can reach any of those?

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[ecks]

The lowest place I have been was the bottom floor of the

[She has to pause and think of what the term would be. She had her suspicions about what it was, but no one else has confirmed them.]

place of surgery

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[dr_unconscious]

The hospital, you mean? The very large building buried in the ice caves? The bottom floor is a morgue.

[Let's fix that!]

Text | @Summoner (meant to tag this sooner!)

[ninjainviolet]

When I spoke to Winter, she mentioned being able to look up at a lake while in the tunnels.

But, honestly? I don't think that's the lowest point.

I don't think we've actually found it yet.

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[dr_unconscious]

I'd be surprised if we had yet. Based on the vents, there's got to be something very far down that they lead to. It's just a matter of finding a way down there.

The lake sounds like it's somewhere along the path, though. Access to it's from the lower floors of the hospital, right? That's got to be deeper than all the other parts of Norfinbury we've been so far.