Rata Mall - Carpark - phase 10

[RubberDuck]

First thing - Everything I said to you and carla on the radio was a lie. Xavier was listening to the conversation and said if I did one thing wrong I was dead.

Xavier was in the lab and Casey is already a Frankenstein. He is about to make Cindy into one too.

He has a personal defense system in the lab, which he used on Cindy when she tried to blow up the lab to avenge her sisters kidnapping.

The Cafe door code is broken, but can still be locked manually from the inside.

FrankenCasey cleared the rubble from the collapsed drain and the cinema is now accessible again from the lab.

The "Machine" is what makes the Frankensteins and it's basically instant production if he has a suitable corpse.

The cloning vats are indeed destroyed as is the time machine.

Xavier has the mall rigged with nerve gas which he can use to collect more bodies if he needs to. It's likely he will also try and collect Sir Leo and Mark from the Eatery.

Xavier let me go on the basis that he is only interested in preventing Jia, who he says is an alien trying to get the secrets of time/travel and portal/teleportation. He said this is in alignment with the TV broadcast about the aliens wanting "The Technology" which he invented. Jia apparently has an alien piece of paper that always has the correct codes for doors.

FrankenMage was designed specifically to hunt down Jia - but suffered from low intelligence and couldn't stay focused on one target. Xavier said as long as no one tries to go after him, he will leave us alone.

I have suspected for sometime that we are all in an alien simulation. That’s why none of us can remember before the mall or why we each have our goals for no apparent reason. We all knew where to look in the mall for certain things, but when we stared asking how do we know this detail, who told us, or why do people seem to know where to look for clues etc. None of us have any history as to who put things here and how do people then know to look for things in the mall with no apparent history or memory.

If I'm right, that could mean we are all inside or connected to AL, the alien Augmentation League Hive computer Jia was talking about. Jia said one of the effects was losing memory from being connected.

While I was back in the Cafe with Terry, I tried to look back out into the eatery to see if anyone remained behind, but all I could see was the void. The simulation appears to have limited memory capacity.

Stand in cafe door and look out to the Eatery other stores to see if anyone remained behind.

You are unable to see anyone. It's as if the eatery was in a parallel dimension somewhere

I considered that you were able to see Casey in the eatery with the truck from the bank, perhaps because areas only load/render when there is someone in actively in them.

Look back into eatery to see if anyone remained behind

[RubberDuck]

Use Walkie Talkie

"Hello?"

[RubberDuck]

The radioactive coin is on the ground somewhere in here, we should try to avoid it for now. Casey dropped it after raiding the ticket machine, so it should be nearby. Yvonne also indicated that the body is radioactive and Carla identified it as John the mixologist from the intro story. The other heavy radiation detected by Casey was in the underground tunnel at the point of the bathrooms/barbers.

The way into the tunnel is under the red car which we need to push out of the way and then you need to use the crowbar to open a manhole.

Take a potassium Iodide

Give a potassium Iodide to Johannes

Check daylight conditions, or is it in fact now night time?

First things first, let's try to avoid the tunnel for now and see where we get with your keycard? You indicated the tunnel seemed to be heading the wrong side of the mall so perhaps it leads elsewhere.

[RubberDuck]

Most of the dead clones in the lab were copies of Terry, there's still one in the unbroken vats that could be probably Frankensteined

[RubberDuck]

Also, the ticket machine was crowbarred open by Casey, so your card access may not work. Hopefully he didn't bust it.

[RubberDuck]

The reason I asked, is that when I first turned off the eatery lights at the start, I could still see everyone clearly.

Later when Jia turned off the lights, I could only identify some people by their silhouettes.

And later again when Xavier turned off the lights it was totally pitch black, I could not see anyone and had to turn on the torch.

If we summarize that each phase is an hour in length..

For me that would be the following:
Eatery - Hardware - Eatery - Cafe - Eatery - Barbers - Eatery - Phone Store - Eatery/Lab - Carpark.

If we arrived at the mall at around 10am, in theory it should now be approximately 8pm?

Until now, I was reasonably certain I was the only one to have noticed the shift time and lighting conditions.

[RubberDuck]

Hey Lacey! I'm alone in the basement.
Something bad has happened here... ceiling cracked, blood on both ceiling and floor.
I wonder if this is where FrankenTerry was created.

So couple of issues - Yvonne is there alone and Xavier will be able to see that on the CCTV, I've ordered her to smash the CCTV immediately.

The next issue, is FrankenCasey cleared the rubble to the drain meaning Xavier can get to the Cinema and then use the elevator to reach the office and eatery during the same phase. So anyone in those areas is at immediate risk.

We have to assume that FrankenCindy is now active.

[RubberDuck]

Also, I warned Yvonne against tampering with the power - Yes, she may be able to turn off the generators thus disabling the portal, BUT that will also disable the elevators trapping anyone else that may have gone to the Office or Cinema.

Secondly to this, it will also draw Xaviers attention to immediately send FrankenMonsters to the basement. One was tough enough to fight, if he sends both to attack Yvonne while she is alone - there is nothing she can do.

I've asked her to look for cables which she can use to electrify the water down there.

[RubberDuck]

If there's nothing else, lets go check the crash site. I'll keep you updated re: Yvonne.

Go to roadway

[RubberDuck]

LOL - We just locked Harry out again, <its currently 3am his time> He's going to think we're doing that deliberately

I will need you to help move the car

Push Red car away from manhole

[RubberDuck]

Oh I know why.. Carla came into this tunnel earlier with Casey and Yvonne. She saw the box with her Grandpa's initials on it but couldn't reach it.

She drained the water in the bathrooms, then used her dynamite to make a hole large enough to retrieve the box.

So let's head back to the valves..

[RubberDuck]

I'm still wary of shutting off all 3x valves and believe we only need to do the correct combination. Perhaps?

Looks like you'll need to swipe us back out to the highway again.

[RubberDuck]

Let's try all shutting off all 3x and if an alarm starts going off for something going critical, we'd better race back out and figure out the right combination.

Unless you have any other ideas?

[RubberDuck]

There and back again - an drain filled journey

[RubberDuck]

Check water level of tunnel

[RubberDuck]

Climb down tunnel

Use flashlight

[RubberDuck]

Proceed to bathroom area

[RubberDuck]

Carla was able to see out to the alleyway from here and the box of her grandpa's.

[RubberDuck]

Inspect the gold visually, but do not touch it.

[RubberDuck]

Carla never specified, only that she could see it from here but couldn't reach it.

She drained the bathroom water, lit the dynamite and got the box, she was looking at the bank/gold records of her grandfathers in the office this turn, there's an entire filing cabinet on him there.

[RubberDuck]

This is as far as they risked coming as far as I know. Yvonne and Carla said they didn't go any further beyond the bathrooms.

Look at approximate continuing direction of tunnel

[RubberDuck]

I'd say that confirms Carla's line of events.

[RubberDuck]

Continue to barbers

Assuming that's where the tunnel continues?

[RubberDuck]

"Just up ahead the tunnel turns right."

Oh it will be under the hardware store, like in Carla's photo. I thought it strange nothing had been found in that room yet.

That will be the gas line going to the barbers heater.

[RubberDuck]

Think you can reach? Give it a go, might be something in there. Or we can try what carla did an access from the floor above.

[RubberDuck]

I'm smaller, so its probably easier to boost me if you want?

[RubberDuck]

Check drains while boosted

[RubberDuck]

Can I reach the box from here?

[RubberDuck]

Can't fully see into it from here, but looks to be empty.

Climb down

[RubberDuck]

She said her win condition had changed as a result of finding it and very strangely, "I no longer need to find the ghost."

I hadn't known she was looking for a ghost, but she elected not to elaborate on what was in the box or why her wincon had changed.

[RubberDuck]

I had expected there to be something down here.

keep going

[RubberDuck]

Listen to noises?

[RubberDuck]

Also, until now I hadn't noticed the Hardware Store was called L J's..

[RubberDuck]

Oh, lol L J, that's us

We should keep going.. I'd prefer not to be nearby if something breaks through.

[RubberDuck]

Thought that would be the case.

[RubberDuck]

Inspect machines

[RubberDuck]

Inspect wall to the south

Might head into the basement

[RubberDuck]

What are our options, perhaps we can salvage of the generator enough to destroy the lab once and for all?

If we bring the radioactive coin here we could probably use it as a short burst of fissionable material and irradiate the lab?

Or we just try to blow it up somehow.

[RubberDuck]

Yes, if he's not in there, let's sabotage the lab. I'll boost you into the hole if I can. Also the freezer door locks from the inside so you could lock him out if he's that side. Do it.

[RubberDuck]

That's the Frankenstein machine alright, that or the portal.. though the portal may also rip open space/time so your call.

I think if you use the ray gun, that will destroy it fully.

Back off to a safe distance

[RubberDuck]

Xavier is going to be so pissed off

[RubberDuck]

Turns off flashlight

Whisper Johannes - do you think you could get the big guy now?

[RubberDuck]

Carla's cross checking gold ingots serial numbers against her grandfathers records. So I think she needs it, but harry will try take it if we move them. I'd still like to check the vhs in the hardware store now we are done here.

Let's just tell Carla how to find the gold.

[RubberDuck]

Yeah, that's what we did with the ingot harry had.

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