Gestoypahts 2nd Puzzle

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Gestoypahts 2nd Puzzle

Postby pappou » Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:39 am

MAKING THE SCIENCE BUILDING WORK

The City was abandoned due to a bizarre fungus transported through a geosynchronous satellite tethered by an elevator line to TwoCities Island. [Really; such a 'space' fungus is reported to have attack the Russian Mir space platform.]

Explorer has now entered the Science Building where work was being done to expunge the blight – until its last scientist was overcome by long exposure to the fungus. Explorer has not been exposed, so her immune system is still sufficient. She must get the Science Building functioning in this now abandoned City, and then deploy the experimental remedies in hopes that scientists from MotherCity may return to effect a stable solution. Three of them have already been killed by exposure to the fungus.

At this point Explorer is faced with no power and the need to get elevators working in order to lower heavy spraying equipment to the ground. Below is the control panel for operating the industrial elevators. Operation is based upon restoring auxiliary power and and upon configuring the best possible arrangement of Raum in the building – an urban aesthetic consideration which very nearly a religion for these people.

The control panel shows a monitor underneath heavy pinkish glass, which when powered, will light up with a floor plan of the Science Building and provide various designs for bringing the building back into operation. When Explorer has achieved the best arrangement, the elevators will become active.
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Re: Gestoypahts 2nd Puzzle CONTROL PANEL

Postby pappou » Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:15 pm

The Elevator Control Panel operates a very large amount of material in the Science Building floor plan. It raises various portions of the floor as well as the elevator itself (depending upon the operator's selections), but it also displays areas where Raum should be contained, or actually is contained. These Raum decisions affect how the elevator responds.

All of this is selected and activated from the 'L' shaped cabinet upon which the whole panel rests. It is a large cabinet, 42 inches high and 13 feet wide. It has 12 control buttions set into a brass plate:
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To this plate, five control levers are added. These activate in various ways the selections from the key pad:
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Re: Gestoypahts 2nd Puzzle

Postby pappou » Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:19 pm

Explorer will have to go down a dark stair into an area which is not only darker still, but the floor is two or three inches deep in water (not nearly as bad as Tetsonot -- but definitely not nice, in a strange place). She uses a dimly lit chemical cell to help her feel around for a power panel (never forgetting that she is standing in water).

Once auxiliary power is restored to portions of this Science Building, she can see that her blank monitor lights up with a plan of the main floor of the Science Building:
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Next, to test the buttons and see what they activate.
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