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nightlogs2023-09-02 01:51 pm
ninjavampire) wrote in nightlogs2023-09-02 01:51 pm
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lab log first edition
Who: Miggy and YOU
What: Constructing a lab out of rubber bands and paper clips
Where: A hidden away upper corner of the Pole
When: Post Branch, Later in the month
Warnings/Notes: spider robots
A little over a month has passed, and if Miguel appears to be sparse, it is because he's been hard at work building up another lofty and hard-to-reach cave to hide in. The lab itself was designed by someone who can scale walls and hang from the ceiling without much effort, so the layout is a bit obtuse and taller than it is long.
He has made use of the entirety of the wall from ceiling to floor, with some vertical pathways pocked with holes where his claws had punctured through - he simply re-used them as handholds.
There is a notable lack of ladders or light sources - the guy apparently adores a dimly-lit workspace. And it remains.. a work in progress! For now, it is only closed off by an unlocked door. But he'll be lurking around inside.
a. The Information Explainy Thing
full size
To your left, a chalkboard mounted high up the wall, visualizing some of the data he's gathered from his scans and interactions insofar. If you have talked to him at some point your universe is probably marked up here!
b. Computer Wife In Progress
Much of the room is taken up by around a dozen improvised server racks half-packed full of hardware he must have swiped from a visit off the Pole. The cabinetry is wooden and filigreed, from the stockpiles in the workroom, but the drawers meant to hold computer parts were metal and modern.
It's a bit of disorganized chaos - a lot of long cables were still being routed around to be placed in neat groups, and he needed to find more meat to fill the empty bones of his machine.
It was also missing a proper screen. The laptop at the center of it all looked a little out of place surrounded by the growing electronic behemoth.
c. A Small Friend
Linger around for too long and a click-click may interrupt your perusing! An octoped-like wood-and-brass spiderbot is crawling around, able to maneuver freely on its lifelike legs. It is another half-finished project with loosely arranged wires and exposed joints.
On its body is mounted a kitbashed digital camera with which it took that photo of you! And, seeming to be proud of its work, it flips the camera around to let you see.
Sharp eyes may spot an area dedicated to being a workbench, scattered with several aborted attempts to make something magitech function as intended. It appears this spider is the one that lived!
d. Wildcard!
What: Constructing a lab out of rubber bands and paper clips
Where: A hidden away upper corner of the Pole
When: Post Branch, Later in the month
Warnings/Notes: spider robots
A little over a month has passed, and if Miguel appears to be sparse, it is because he's been hard at work building up another lofty and hard-to-reach cave to hide in. The lab itself was designed by someone who can scale walls and hang from the ceiling without much effort, so the layout is a bit obtuse and taller than it is long.
He has made use of the entirety of the wall from ceiling to floor, with some vertical pathways pocked with holes where his claws had punctured through - he simply re-used them as handholds.
There is a notable lack of ladders or light sources - the guy apparently adores a dimly-lit workspace. And it remains.. a work in progress! For now, it is only closed off by an unlocked door. But he'll be lurking around inside.
a. The Information Explainy Thing
full size
To your left, a chalkboard mounted high up the wall, visualizing some of the data he's gathered from his scans and interactions insofar. If you have talked to him at some point your universe is probably marked up here!
b. Computer Wife In Progress
Much of the room is taken up by around a dozen improvised server racks half-packed full of hardware he must have swiped from a visit off the Pole. The cabinetry is wooden and filigreed, from the stockpiles in the workroom, but the drawers meant to hold computer parts were metal and modern.
It's a bit of disorganized chaos - a lot of long cables were still being routed around to be placed in neat groups, and he needed to find more meat to fill the empty bones of his machine.
It was also missing a proper screen. The laptop at the center of it all looked a little out of place surrounded by the growing electronic behemoth.
c. A Small Friend
Linger around for too long and a click-click may interrupt your perusing! An octoped-like wood-and-brass spiderbot is crawling around, able to maneuver freely on its lifelike legs. It is another half-finished project with loosely arranged wires and exposed joints.
On its body is mounted a kitbashed digital camera with which it took that photo of you! And, seeming to be proud of its work, it flips the camera around to let you see.
Sharp eyes may spot an area dedicated to being a workbench, scattered with several aborted attempts to make something magitech function as intended. It appears this spider is the one that lived!
d. Wildcard!
b
[So Miguel won't necessarily notice him at first.]
[He notice things go missing though. Small components that are important but not vitally important. Easy to misplace. After Miguel looks for them for a while, they mysteriously turn up again, usually in just slightly a different place.]
[(Branch is enough of a stickler about his workspaces that he knows how infuriating it can be to have something disappear and reappear just slightly out of place.)]
[Or he'll notice them jammed somewhere, like in a crevice in the floor boards where they're unharmed but have to be dug out with a screwdriver.]
[But then plugs start getting pulled. Again, there's no permanent damage. Usually a quick scan of all the plugs makes it easy to see where one has come unplugged and it can be plugged back in. While it's possible to accidentally knock something off a table with your elbow, or forget putting something down somewhere, plugs don't unplug themselves.]
[It's starting to get pretty obvious sabotage is at work.]
[Branch has decided to stop tormenting everyone at the Pole. With ooooone teeny tiny exception.]
it begins
One day, while Branch was scurrying about the expanse of his lab to continue his devilish work, something small and eight-legged plops down closer to him.
Click-Click... It is the spiderbot! Taking photographic evidence of the only other thing moving in the space. Miguel had adjusted it to behave a little more like a spy-camera once he suspected sabotage!
The bot itself was smaller than a cat, about Bird-Eater size, and the digital camera it was using was still kitbashed from what Miguel found on the Pole. Theoretically, someone could use the camera buttons and go through the photos. But it wasn't sticking around to find out. It scurries away to who-knows-where with its evidence in tow! ]