11.22.2006
Down And Down
Good questions, sorry for not being clearer. The strongbox is definitely liftable- it's the size and shape of an unabridged dictionary: about 12" x 12" x 8'. Weighs about 20 lbs. Padlock on the front clasp. Made of iron, and you can hear something heavy slowly sliding around inside.
You take it with you, and head all the way back down. Then, into the basement.
...
You descend into a small room. A series of empty rooms leads off, but there's also a stout door carved with what looks like a large nautilus shell. It leads into a small... metal lined room? A room of chrome, it seems. There's a large blue button. You look around, search some more, turn up nothing, and shrug, pushing the button.
The room shakes, and descends. You seem to be in some sort of elevator.
...
Down and down you go. The walls of the cylinder you're descending in are all chrome-lined also. As you drop, a soft blue light illuminates the elevator shaft.
You estimate you go down about 30 meters or so. Another nautilus door stands before you.
You push it open. "Welcome to Subsea Station One," says a soft, pleasant feminine voice.
...
Stepping out into the hallway, blue lights automatically turn on. It's a soft, soothing light. You're definitely underground- and, wow, under water. Blue lights continue to turn on in the room and hallway beyond.
You exit the elevator into a medium-sized room. Three of the walls are white marble, and an unlocked, iron door leads off to the right.
Ahead of you is the fourth wall, of glass. Outside, you see the seafloor. It seems that the lights are illuminating the room from lamps placed outside, shining in. You get an amazing view of the bottom of the Gorgos sea. Spot checks, y'all.
The glass wall has an opening in the middle, and a long, long hallway stretches out and down along the sea bottom. The hallway itself is semicircular, curved at the top, and glass all the way down. Steel reinforcing bands periodically line the hall. Right at the entrance to the hallway, on the ground and all along the walls, are tiny blue runes. On the other side, an enormous horned demon paces, and looks at you, smiling.
The demon drops a shiny ball that bounces and lands just on the demon's side of the runes. The demon bends over a bit, and makes an exaggerated grimace. "Oh, my aching back. I can't get that. Be a dear and fetch my ball for me, will you?" It smiles, all teeth.
Hmm.
You take it with you, and head all the way back down. Then, into the basement.
...
You descend into a small room. A series of empty rooms leads off, but there's also a stout door carved with what looks like a large nautilus shell. It leads into a small... metal lined room? A room of chrome, it seems. There's a large blue button. You look around, search some more, turn up nothing, and shrug, pushing the button.
The room shakes, and descends. You seem to be in some sort of elevator.
...
Down and down you go. The walls of the cylinder you're descending in are all chrome-lined also. As you drop, a soft blue light illuminates the elevator shaft.
You estimate you go down about 30 meters or so. Another nautilus door stands before you.
You push it open. "Welcome to Subsea Station One," says a soft, pleasant feminine voice.
...
Stepping out into the hallway, blue lights automatically turn on. It's a soft, soothing light. You're definitely underground- and, wow, under water. Blue lights continue to turn on in the room and hallway beyond.
You exit the elevator into a medium-sized room. Three of the walls are white marble, and an unlocked, iron door leads off to the right.
Ahead of you is the fourth wall, of glass. Outside, you see the seafloor. It seems that the lights are illuminating the room from lamps placed outside, shining in. You get an amazing view of the bottom of the Gorgos sea. Spot checks, y'all.
The glass wall has an opening in the middle, and a long, long hallway stretches out and down along the sea bottom. The hallway itself is semicircular, curved at the top, and glass all the way down. Steel reinforcing bands periodically line the hall. Right at the entrance to the hallway, on the ground and all along the walls, are tiny blue runes. On the other side, an enormous horned demon paces, and looks at you, smiling.
The demon drops a shiny ball that bounces and lands just on the demon's side of the runes. The demon bends over a bit, and makes an exaggerated grimace. "Oh, my aching back. I can't get that. Be a dear and fetch my ball for me, will you?" It smiles, all teeth.
Hmm.
