Fortuna Verto

27-Inventory Control

Lyun found herself so tired that she had thus slept in very late into the dusk. By the time she did finally wake up, she found Axln in a very zombie-like state, still unable to get even a wink of sleep.

"Axln, you look absolutely terrible. Do you want me to get some kind of sleep instrument so that you can get some rest?" "Nope, I'm good. Considering everything that happened earlier, I think I would much rather not find myself under some strange influence." Lyun noticed Axln grasping a certain white glove while responding, the meaning not at all lost. Axln was clearly feeling haunted by all of the chaos stuff, leaving her a complete wreck. Lyun had no idea how she could help, but clearly her presence wouldn't make sleep any easier, especially when she herself felt the need to get stuff done. However, after making the finishing touches to the other power gear, she also discovered that her presence wasn't being that constructive to anyone else getting sleep either, it had actually gotten a bit late. Of course, that was only by the standards of this world, she could easily find energetic ways to be productive in the other. The challenge would be dragging Axln around enough for them to complete a shift to that side. Axln at least followed along with the plan, not wanting to be in the way.

Kori was then set into yet another bed soon after, still in much the same state as Axln had been at this point. Their sleeping quarter with Hypertech was in one of the upper levels of the residential tower, leaving an overall trip from deep underground to high above it, and it didn't help that the tower was still using a simple stairwell. After Rosa ensured Kori had made it safely to a bed, Rosa made her way down to the ground floor and began looking into something to occupy herself with. As uncertainty set in, she decided it might be best to start by checking in with Drew. She wandered over to the main office and knocked on his door, getting a reasonably quick reply. However, instead of the guy slipping out of his office discreetly as he had typically done, he instead motioned that she was allowed inside, his face showing that he visibly had a lot on his mind. Walking inside, she had assumed his office would have looked a lot similar to Kori's own, a scatter of processing units in a slew of documentation work. While there were signs that some of such did exist, there was much more of something else. Metal parts laid scattered across the hall, visibly unfinished but still a work in progress. She couldn't even tell what half of this stuff was trying to be, but there was still a subtle familiarity with it all. Something about the layout suddenly started to remind her of her old workshop.

"Hey, welcome back.. and to my office I guess. Sorry about the mess. Listen, I was wondering if you two were aware exactly what sort of place you both had offered us." "A.. ruin in the middle of nowhere." "One which you two seem to vanish into frequently. Then again, considering you both appear to absolutely vanish, I guess it might not be this place that is as interesting by itself. We've already noticed all the strange singularities that have occurred every time you both leave as well as when you return, I sort of knew you were both here long before anyone even saw you. I've even clued into such being related to all the fuss behind the whole Aerospace mess, the truth of why you were probably being detained before. Still, that's a completely different matter, one I don't even hold against you at all, no one else even knows about it yet. But what no one else seems to also understand is the exact nature of this place, especially its history. It appears that, before humanity drove the conduits into the gutters of society, they had a quite established society of their own. This site itself is actually one of their great capitals, a place that they held bastion for as long as they were capable. Something about this place was a treasure to them, but humanity never cared. To them, it was just a stronghold of their resistance, a fortification to be dismantled to put the conduits into place in the new society. However, this location really wouldn't have held any strategic importance, there was another reason then for keeping it so secure." Drew very clearly had been busy, Rosa was finding it pretty easy to tell why the guy might have had a lot on his mind. Taking a seat, she listened intently to his report.