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Here's the hatch....
I'll go first, you can follow me down.
During the balloon
portion of the tour, I told you about the elevator that runs
from the bottom of the counterweight spire to the rest of the ship.
This is the top end of that elevator!
This is probably
ill-advised, but I'm going to open the door so that you can see how
far down the elevator shaft goes. From here, you can--
Ted!!
What the hell, are you crazy??
Fresia! When did
you get here?
I've
been standing behind you two goof-offs this whole time! I was
getting some work done on the detainment cell, but I'm taking
a bit of a break now. If you fall down there, don't expect me
to jump in after you, by the way.
You're right, leaning
down the elevator shaft probably isn't too great of an idea.
Falling
from really high up sucks, Ted. Take my word for it.
You certainly have a
point. Hey, Fresia, would you like to finish showing our guest
around? I need to go prepare the hot air balloon for our
descent back to the ground.
Uhhhh,
I guess I could... what else is there to see?
Just finish up the
room, if you could. Oh by the way, I got some new frozen
burritos we should totally try out tonight.
Burritos? Ah Ted, you know me so well. All right all
right, I'll finish showing our guest around, you prep the balloon or
whatever.
Thanks a bunch!
I'll see you in a few minutes, tour buddy.
So, Ted
showed you the whole ship? Nice. I hope he didn't drive
you too crazy... he loves this ship with all his heart, and
he jumps at the chance to show her off. I think he even
carries a picture of the thing in his wallet. Truly a mad
scientist at heart, Ted is.
Anyway,
I guess you'll be wanting to see the rest of the ship. Don't
worry about it, I've got time. Like I said a second ago, I was
just working on this here detainment cell. It's not done yet,
but it's getting there. That thing next to it, by the way, is
the drinking water tank. That thing supplies fresh,
drinkable water to the kitchen and bathroom faucets. The blue
donut-looking thing hovering above the main tank is some sort of
super advanced water filtration thing-a-ma-jig. A purifier,
I think it's called. Anyway, water feeds into that sucker from
the big fish tank upstairs. I'm sure Ted told you more about
it than you'd ever want to know, yeah? The filter gets out all
of the gross stuff, and the end result is 100% drinkable. I
haven't grown any third eyes yet, so I can tentatively speak for its
effectiveness.
Oh, and
I bet Ted didn't tell you this, but all waste water is jettisoned
off the ship. We use biodegradable washing liquids and stuff,
so I'm told that doing this is environmentally safe. We're
just not supposed to do it over cities, which sucks.
So
yeah, about this cell. Ted doesn't think we'll need to use it,
but I'd rather be prepared for anything. I've kind of been
Ted's apprentice in woodworking for the past year or so, and he's
letting me work on this little corner of the ship by myself.
It's not done yet, but it's really starting to come together.
It's not magic-proof yet, either, but I'm trying to get Cyborg
Necromancer himself to come out and throw some barrier-type spells
on it one of these days. He's a busy man, you know.
After he does, I doubt there's any villain in Arcadia who could bust
their way out of this cell.
If you
come over here, you can get a little better view of the interior.
There's a bunk and a ladder. Nothing too fancy,
but that's what our future criminals get for messing with a Helios
ship. Hey, stand over there by the water tank for a second.
Isn't
this cargo bay huge? It won't look so huge pretty soon,
though. Ted's moving a bunch more of his science crap onto the
ship this weekend, so all of these open areas will be stacked high
with crates and equipment. What? You can't hear me?
Come over here, then!
Okay
now this, this is something pretty special. We can access any
of this ship's internal functions from this touchpad computer
terminal right here. We usually fly with the "cookbot,"
our robotic assistant who, ironically, does not much care for
cooking when he has computers to play with. He will carry out
remote orders from Ted in the lab and generally monitors the ship's
performance. The screens and touchpad aren't turned on right
now, and I'm terrible with that kind of stuff so I'm just going to
leave them be.
That
yellow thing there is the internal chamber of our magical testing
apparatus. Ted's a skeptic about magic in general, but
it's pretty common knowledge that magical energies are prevalent in
many different items, beings, and locations all across Arcadia.
Hokey sounding, I know, but it's true! I've seen it!
Anyway, CGN Labs is apparently testing out some prototype
magic-based projectiles and explosives that we'll be trying here
soon. The thing's never been used before, and it's a little
terrifying, to be honest.
Well,
this was pretty fun, eh? You're a lot better than some of the
morons we've had come through here. At least you didn't go
snooping around anywhere you weren't supposed to be...
...I'd
better get you back up to Ted, now. Don't be a stranger,
stranger.
Next:
Hop back upstairs and get back into
the balloon. >
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