Rata Mall - Walkie Talkie Chat

[Talitha]

I believe I can probably turn the gas on with using a wrench on the valves. The main gas line leads has three gas pipelines coming off it that go somewhere out from the west wall of the basement. I guess one pipe (maybe the southernmost one?) goes to the FlipnBurger grill in the Eatery. If I open the first valve I'm assuming the gas will flow out the 1st (southern most) pipeline. If I then also open the 2nd valve, gas will flow out the southernmost and middle pipeline. If I open the all three valves, gas should flow out all 3 pipelines.

[Talitha]

Sorry that wasn't a very clear explanation but I tried!

[RubberDuck]

There were pipes in lab but I wasn’t in a position to check them. They are in the top left corner by the Frankenstein machine. Johannes says he stuffed something into the basement pipes and Xavier was aware of this.

There is gas heating in the cafe as well as the barbers.

[Talitha]

Hmmm

Hey, did Harry know you were going into the tunnel under the mall? Did Johannes tell him that's where you were going?

[RubberDuck]

No, but Harry didn’t know why I was here and demanded to know why I was snooping around the UFO when only him, Jia and Johannes saw it. Johannes claims he didn’t tell Harry about me coming here. Harry got here via the cinema emergency exit and jumped down into a dumpster.

Harry knows about the tunnel now, because Johannes said out loud that he wanted to check it. There’s a second manhole by the UFO, so we think it was just an alternative path to get here.

Johannes used his carpark keycard to open the gate instead, which is how we both arrived to find Harry already here.

[Talitha]

I appear to be under a road... the hole goes through some layers of plaster, asphalt... but there is something metallic covering the hole

[Talitha]

If | is the west wall, -- is the south wall, xx is gas pipeline and 0 is the valves, this the the gas setup I am looking at here:

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[RubberDuck]

Johannes came to the same conclusion. I want to try flying the ship, but Johannes and Harry are standing around idly doing a whole heap of not much..

[RubberDuck]

Ok, I see - each valve is connected to two gas lines.

[Talitha]

I reckon the bottom pipe goes to the Eatery stalls
The middle pipe... to the secret lab then maybe the cafe?
The top pipe... potentially to the barbers and elsewhere

[Talitha]

If I'm correct and I open the first valve... gas will go to the Eatery (not sure if it will flow out... depends on what is damaged there)

If I open the second valve... gas will also flow to the secret lab - and flow out into the room because of all the damage... and maybe kill the monsters

I probably don't want to open the third (top) valve as I don't know exactly where it goes or if anyone is in the barbers

Do you see any flaws in my reasoning?

[RubberDuck]

Sounds correct to me based on the description you've given me.

The damage in the Lab is from the laundry chute on the bottom left corner to the drain on the top right corner. The gas pipes are on the other side of the room in the top left undamaged area, but they are right by the Frankenstein machine.

I think do it, if it helps us ruin Xaviers machine.

[Talitha]

So the question is, do I also cut the power, so Xavier can;t teleport here with his monsters when he figures out what is happening.

Or do I leave the power on and be ready to electrocute them if they turn up.

I kinda like the second option....

BTW the mummified arm I have here looks like it came through the hole in the ceiling. Should I do anything with it?

[Talitha]

My recollection is that the gas pipes in the lab run pretty close to the chute. I think they go all the way along the west wall.

[RubberDuck]

Xavier was in the lab when I left, and he already had FrankenCasey with him. That means he can Frankenstien Cindy this turn, unless Ambic has put a restriction on him like only having one at a time or something.

He gave Frankencasey instructions to go out via the cafe to do something in particular but not sure what and told me not to get in it's way or it would be dangerous.

It's possible to door a near full loop of the East wing of the mall during the same phase, which I've told Harry and Johannes but they don't care and aren't interested in checking. (

Seriously considering not playing one of these again, no one cares to follow up on clues or even try considering ideas, and I thought Groza would be more interested than posting once every 12-18 hours..

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Office & Hw Store |<----Ufo Highway <-> Carpark <-> Underground Tunnel.
                          /^
  The Cafe <-> Lab <-> Cinema <-> Brewery
                          \
          Eatery   <->   Elevator   <->   Office

We saw someone turning on/off the lights in the Brewery and Harry immediately said, "No, it must have been a power surge making the lights flicker." But they don't want even try to go check, we can literally teleport from the ship to the office, take the lift to the cinema, check the brewery, see who is there, run down into the lab or the cafe, or jump back down into the highway from the cinema emergency exit to where we are now, and that's not even including the underground tunnels which we still haven't checked.

Cinema to the ufo is one way, with the alien ring you can teleport one way into the office or the hardware store, if you choose the office you can run freely back to the cinema and lab cafe etc until jumping back down to the Ufo...

[RubberDuck]

So the question is, do I also cut the power, so Xavier can;t teleport here with his monsters when he figures out what is happening.

Or do I leave the power on and be ready to electrocute them if they turn up.

I kinda like the second option....

BTW the mummified arm I have here looks like it came through the hole in the ceiling. Should I do anything with it?

2nd option sounds better to me, leave the power on to Zap.

The mummified alien arm is where Johannes got the alien ring that opens the UFO.

[RubberDuck]

Hell, if I was fast enough, I could teleport into the office, lift to cinema, run into the lab, grab the PC monitor Leo threw in there (It's undamaged), run back to the cinema, lift down to the office, connect the pc, keyboard and mouse and then get you to radio me the password to the pc.

But no.

Harry won't even try co-operate and I can't get into the ship without Johannes.

[RubberDuck]

and I can't get into the tunnels either because Johannes has the crow bar and they weren't interested in trying to move the ship even though it's clearly stated as

undamaged and the flight controls are intact.

[Talitha]

Oh wow. Well maybe it is a combination of busy-ness and timezone differences.... and maybe groza is just taking time to think about it.

Harry on the other hand definitely sounds like he's up to something.

Do you have any idea why he would've been carrying green spraypaint? I pickpocketed Sir Leo and got green spray paint. Then later I pickpocketed Harry and got green spray paint. And on the cameras when I was looking into the bathrooms I saw "let's talk" spray painted in green on the walls. I wonder if certain people (I won't say "the baddies" but that is what I am thinking) all got given green spray paint to help try and find each other?

[Talitha]

All right, I think I am gonna turn on some gas....

May the mod have mercy on us....

[Talitha]

By the way, the magic piece of paper I stole from Jia just disappeared into nothing.

I wonder if something happened to Jia.

I wonder if Casey got her...

[RubberDuck]

It's possible, or she was able to summon the paper to herself?

[RubberDuck]

We've found some water valves all in the on position in the tunnel (Finally)

How much water is in the basement, perhaps we could drain it and you could find something?

[Talitha]

Oh - maybe! She wasn't worried when I stole it.

Oh... I've got no water here. I just tried to break the water pipe to flood the basement floor but no water came out...

[RubberDuck]

Johannes says, "There is a drain in the floor. Tell her we had removed a piece of pipe near the lever, and then opened it (momentarily)."