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[network] @HGWELLS; Day 005 evening; open

[So she's found another house and she's started making note of a peculiar event she's noticed in a couple of the buildings she's been in. And she wants to know if anyone else has bothered to look. Or at the very least people can put their heads together and try to deduce what it could mean. Maybe.]

So I have to say, in the buildings I've found, I have begun to make note of the state of their breaker panels. All of the electrical wiring and so forth within the boxes have been expertly removed. For what reason? And by whom? It seems rather curious why someone would remove electricity from this place in such a way.

Has anyone else found anything similar to this? I had hopes of attempting to repair whatever state the system was in, but it is completely non-existent.

[She has hopes of finding parts somewhere along the way that she can start fusing something together, but that may be a while down the line. But Helena is nothing if not persistent.]

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not similar as in having anything to do with electricity
but as far as things being deliberately removed goes, have you noticed there are no signs here?
no street signs or markers, nothing
I was checking that out a couple of days ago and like
there are holes. Where signs used to be.
there used to be signposts here and someone actively took time out of their lives to remove them. It's messed up

I noticed that as well. I found a convenience store a couple days ago that was missing its sign. It's all rather queer, I'd say. Why would someone take the time to remove signs and electrical systems?

to mess with us.
the thing that brought us here wants us kept weak and disoriented and helpless
Then it can pick us off at its leisure

that or everybody was in the middle of major renovations when they died or went nuts, who knows

I certainly hope it has not underestimated any of us. I, for one, am used to strange and unpredictable things happening. And I always solve the mystery regardless of how well hidden the clues may be. Whomever brought us here will answer for this when we find them.

I was just in a house made entirely of metal, like a big house-shaped box. It bent my screwdriver.

[ She holds it up in explanation: a flathead, at a slight angle. ]

[She blinks at that.]

That is quite some metal for the screwdriver to get bent. What were you attempting to accomplish that the screwdriver bent like that?

[ Uh. Vandalism. ]

I was trying to see how thick the metal was, and how hard.

[Not like she's about to judge. Helena would tear a building apart if she felt she would find any electrical wiring right now.]

Clearly the metal is either very thick, very hard, or a combination of both. Though why an entirely metal house? That would seem more than a little dangerous for when thunderstorms came through.

[She is, of course, assuming there was a time when the place wasn't buried in snow. She'd found a playground after all. That suggested there was a changing of seasons here at one point in time.]

[ Steph just wants to set it all on fire. But she'll settle for drawing phalluses all over the place. ]

I can't think of anything. It all felt... fake. Like a doll's house. Or a rat cage, if you're worried about the dolls chewing through the bars.

[That was somewhat worrisome.]

I wasn't worried the dolls would chew through the bars. Until now. [She's actually joking. Mostly. Coming from a world where inanimate objects could actually do that, and far worse, she's not going to dismiss it.]

This place only becomes more and more mysterious the more that we discover of it.

[ hahAHAHA don't worry, just giving us all nightmares. ]

Empty fuse boxes, uprooted signposts, destroyed houses, metal houses.

Maybe I'm jumping the shark here, but it sounds like they leveled this place to prepare for us.

[As if Helena's nightmares aren't bad enough. But hey, most everything here is nightmare fodder.]

...I have no idea what jumping the shark means, but they obviously did something here. And the fact that there are so few signs of anyone who previously lived here outside of the few odds and ends in the in tact houses and such. We were brought here for a reason, and the scientist in me has a very bad feeling about what that reason is.

Ah- [ Where does that phrase even come from? Whatever, she gets the point. ]

Yeah. I think it's safe to say that whatever's really happening here, it isn't good.

There was a gas station with the pumps completely removed. However, there was a working sink inside the building itself.

It's a strange inconsistency, coupled with the apparent pains taken to remove electrical wiring.

No pumps, no electrical wiring. Yet there is some functional plumbing as well as one functioning machine I have found. It makes little sense aside from making us all having to rely on our survival instincts.

[Most might be finding the isolation a bit much, but Helen has felt little need to connect with her fellow wanderers in the handful of days since her arrival here. It had been far more important to her to watch the network and listen, get a feeling for those sharing her (apparently quite large) prison.

By this point, she's reasonably certain, however, that whoever is responsible for her current situation, no one here is likely to have any idea who she is; so perhaps it's time to add her voice to those already using the network.

A post made by @HGWELLS seems as good a place to start as any.]

Very nearly everything about our current situation seems rather curious, does it not?

[Not that she's disagreeing; simply stating a fact.]

I'm afraid I can't speak as to the why, or the whom, but for them to have gone to such trouble, I have my doubts they'll have left us with access to anything which might be used to repair it.

[Unless, of course, it's a product of whatever happened to those who were here in the past, and the entity that's brought them here is actually trying to fix whatever it is that went wrong. She finds that highly doubtful.]

[Helena, on the other hand, has severe issue with being isolated from people to this degree. Though she's at least handling it well enough currently.]

It is entirely curious, yes. It is a mystery that I am bound and determined to solve.

[Because solving mysteries is what she did. And it gave her something to focus on. Something other than the cold and the isolation she felt.]

Most likely not. Alas, I am keeping my eyes open for anything that can be converted into something useful. Electricity may be beyond fathomable at this current state, but it will not stop me from trying. What I wouldn't give for a bloody gaslight right now.

[And, well, it clearly dated her for mention a gaslight. But give the past few days, Helena isn't quite watching what she's saying.]

I haven't been looking for that, but I will definitely look in all the places I go in the future.

[Why would anyone remove the electrics? Unless it was deliberately to make things harder for whoever sheltered there next.]

Can you tell how they were removed?

It is something to make note of, at least.

And no, I cannot. At least not beyond the fact they gave it the appearance that it wasn't even there before. It is simply empty.

[It's good to hear from her, she was the first person Al actually saw here, and that means he's been worried since they parted that it was the wrong decision to travel separately.]

Maybe they had different forms of power? Maybe they didn't use electric any more?

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