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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity - 21 Sept 06 - Advancing

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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity - 21 Sept 06 - Advancing

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Time: 03:55 PM

I wonder how long I can go without hitting Scarlett? It's getting to be sort of a game with me now. Seeing how long I can go without hitting Scarlett, (or, you know, telling her to fortheloveofGyvannbequiet) and then trying to beat that number. Why is she so chirpy all the time? Why? I've been spending a lot of time chatting to Kurt on my key just to be able to talk to someone who doesn't think that everything is either "sooo cute!" or "sooo pretty!" I'm sure she never used to be this bad.

We've made quite a bit of progress with the room we found in the lighthouse foundations. Kurt's been talking me through it every spare moment we've had. I can't help wishing I could have left Scarlett at home and brought him with me. This morning we went back to the concrete room with a couple of detectors Kurt had "borrowed" from the Academy for me and hooked in to my key's systems. We were looking for traces of metal first of all. We found them everywhere, all over the stone walls and floor of the room, running in a grid. This was, to say the least, suggestive.

We found one place in the wall which contained a much higher concentration of metal, and which seemed to have some residual electric currents. Then it was just a question of working out how to get into it, short of taking a pickaxe to the wall. (Scarlett wanted to take a pickaxe to the wall. That girl has got a little too comfortable with the whole gung-ho adventuring thing.) Kurt had to go off to a meeting, so we fiddled with the stonework, and any odd depressions or marks we found in the wall but to no avail. Eventually, Kurt had us use an electro-magnet we'd brought with on the boat which released a catch and a panel fell open. A control panel.

Kurt's jerry-rigged up an interface with the systems in this building to his key - you can see it here. He's also put a messaging system into his interface, so that we can talk to each other. The scans we've done indicate that the building may extend a little way underground which could make key comms difficult. Plus, it's easier for Kurt to talk to us doing work time this way. The lighthouse systems aren't like anything we've ever seen before. In some ways they're antiquated, and Kurt's had to write a quick operating system to allow them to communicate. But in some ways they're advanced, much more advanced than anything we've ever seen before. Even that magnetic catch to the panel is more technologically sophisticated than I would have expected. It can only mean one thing, really. The tech here was created during the war.

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