Work at Rupture Farms (v.5)

[Slaveless]

Gappiqu drew back his arm, but let no expression enter his face. He didn't want Dionysia feel like he was a complete idoit. He then came up with a great idea and blurted, "Very well, you are more important than myself. But I'm not going down to the grinders, unless," He stopped to poke her chest, and continued, "You come along with me. Abe won't find you if you don't go working around the place. He's never going to find you or get closer to you if hang with sligs."

[Splat]

Dionysia: "so you're saying you won't do your work unless I come look after you? Ok," She turned to Arnie, "Does that seem ok to you boss?"

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Jim: "That's probably why, to get the freedom. A way of looking around without being watched by the sligs all the time. Plus they can find out what the glukkons were planning." He shivered slightly and glanced at the paper he still held. He grinned, "Hey, one of the mudokons who made this thing was called Jim to... Or Jimmi, same thing." Up ahead a much narrower flight of stairs ran both upwards and downwards. "Which way now? Down would be... the storerooms? Or the cafeteria? Up? I haven't been to the upper floor yet."

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Stivik hesitated, trying to make up an answer, when suddenly his eyes flashed for a moment. "Uh, maybe we should split up? if you look in the train station and cafeteria, if you see her send her to Arnie. And I'll look upstairs, she ran off outside the armoury so maybe she was hiding up their, Odd knows what she's up to.

He ran off quickly, before giving Razer a chance to object, and headed for the upper floor security office. Once there he let himself inside and locked the door behind him. After aseconds pause he grabbed a piece of paper off a table and scribbled on it with a marker he found in a drawer, "Doing paper work, P!$$ of unless you want to help". Then he hung the sign outside the door and unclipped his recording box froim his belt. It was vibrating gently and when he slid down the panel at the back a yellow light was flashing imortantly. He pressed the button beneath it and a glukkon's voice floated out.

"We've got all we want on Arnie, his reform has begun. You're no longer useful in Rupture Farms, another job is waiting for you. a train will arrive at Rupture Farms station in two hours to return you here. Don't hold it up."
Stivik swore. With Anni to punish, that talking paramite running around here somewhere and now Dionysia's arrival, leaving was the last thing he wanted.

Well, that or not getting paid.

[dripik]

OOC: It wasn't clear enough, it seems. I'm still at home, the trip's going to start next Friday (7th April).

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Arnie followed the arguement like a tennis match. At least he knew another of Dionysia's causes of being here: she was like some sort of double agent. But she seemed loyal to Industrialists.

"As long as you do something useful for the meat plant, it's fine with me." he said. "Now go, I also have a lot to attend to here."

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Rick was walking around the corridors until he found the Grinding Station. He went inside to the others.

#7 Slig noticed him. "Hey Rick. Where've you been?" he asked.

"In the Cafeteria. A lot happened there, but everything's fine now. Now, shall we start the repairs?" asked Rick.

"Of course." said #7 Slig. "RG?"

"I see that the Mudokon organic, who you refered to as Floyd, is already working on one of the grinders, so I suggest we should start with another one."

"Fine with me." said Rick with a shrug.

They walked to another grinder. RG-49 took a moment to examine it. He walked around it, lifting the grinder's arm and checking the joints. "It seems that there are metal shards here and there. A few cables got cut, too." he said, releasing the arm and looking at the controls. "Most of this console has been torn off, must install a new one." He stepped behind the grinder and opened the lid on the back to reveal the engine. "The electronics are badly damaged here." he said.

"Hey, are these things offline?" asked Rick, looking at the machinery. "We don't want to receive a... shocking experience."

"The boilers connected to this area are inactive. There's no power in the grinders now." said RG-49.

[big bro boogie]

OOC: Hey guys. School really took all of my time last week... or weeks? I can't remember But anyay, I've fallen back quite a bit, so I'll have to take some time to read back and make sense of it all, as my head is all >_< -ey right now. And... I can't do it just yet as I'm even in a rush now. So... expect me to come back soon. If not, expect me to come back within another week or so. I'm really sorry.

[Munch's Master]

OOC: Splat, is Stivik going out of it then? Hope not, I like his character. Also I agree with T-Nex, we should usae Splat's map, but I always imagined the lab on the ground floor. Doesn't really matter thuogh.
IC:
Arthur followed Groll to the cafeteria, walking in to see 3c mudokons. He roughly recoggnized Dean and Kix, but there was a 3rd one he couldn't remember seeing.
Arthur walked over to Dean
"Hey uh, Dean, that is your name right? Well, what's on the menu, cause I'm kinda hungry and well, you're the chef round here."
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Dek was just about to start work on Molt when he saw a second Vykker appear from somewhere, inject Gore with something, and then try and escape. He picked up a large amputating saw for protection from this unstable Vykker, and walked over to it.
"So you're Vykker X, the one who injected Goresplatter here hmm? Well, nobody knows you're here, so I think we can give you the 'trhow away the key' treatment. Slap, Gore, put him in one of the holding cages through there." He gestured off to the adjoining room, in whic hthe cages were.
(OOC: Goresplatter, you don't mind Vyker X being caged for a bit do you. As he's a Vykker he'd prbably get out, its just to deal with him while Dek operates.)
Dek then turned back to Molt.
"Oh and Slap, when you've caged that....Vykker, get me that gas anaesthetic you just used, and take a couple of painkillers and muscle relaxants from the cupboard, along with some surgical tools. Oh and then go and look for a spare pair of Slig pants and a spare Big-Bro mask. I know that's a lot of work, but it all will be neccessary to help this poor fellow."

[Slaveless]

Gappiqu then said to Dionysia, "Well then, should we get moving along, now should we?" He walked over to the nearest grinder's enterance and waited there for the black mud's arrival.
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Slap then picked up Vykker X and tried to place him in a cage. He found it rather hard to pick up the Vykker, so he waited for Goresplatter to support him. He also tried to reach to the laptop and typed noisly, "Sir, if I may ask, what is the gas and Big Bro Mask for? This slig appears to be already unconcious and if you're giving the slig steroids, I wouldn't suggest it. The slig already appears as if his body can't handle steriods."

[Jarnww]

Sev arrived at the grinding area and found #7. He walked up to him and asked,

Sev:"Well, here I am. Need me to do anything?"

[Munch's Master]

"Sir, if I may ask, what is the gas and Big Bro Mask for? This slig appears to be already unconcious and if you're giving the slig steroids, I wouldn't suggest it. The slig already appears as if his body can't handle steriods."
Dek shook his head, smiling. "The gas is to make sure he doesn't wakew up durting the operation ,as it is quite painful. the mask is to take one of the goggles from it and reconstruct it into a mechanical protectino or replacement for Molt's eye, as his injuries are very severe. Trust me, I know what I'm doing. this Slig should be alright, he'll just have a lot more metal in him."

[Slaveless]

Slap saw that this slig may not live if he didn't act quickly. Slap dropped Vykker X and rushed to the gas he had. He returned to Dek and placed it right next to him. Slap returned to the cupboard and looked for the medince and drugs Dek needed. He found that looking for painkillers wasn't difficult. But finding the muscle relaxants was quite hard, for people didn't use them to often. Luckly, he found them near the chill pills. Slap returned to Dek and gave him the supplies he needed, on a table near Dek. Slap returned to his laptop, and opened up his brief case. Slap hastily placed them near the drugs and started to move out to the armory room.

[T-nex]

"Well lets go up then... The storeroom doesn't really sound interesting." Anni said, and kept walking till they got to the stairs. They were primitive, and made by metal from different parts of Rupture farms. She whent up, assuming that Jim would follow.
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"Ok," said Somi and cut the webs so Max could move, "Can you follow Max's smell? I know that Slogs should be very good at recognising smells."

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Razer shrugged and whent around the Factory looking for a black Mudokon. He then gave up and a though occured to him. Maybe she had gone to Arnies office herself... On the way he saw Gappiqu and further down he saw the black Mudokon. He stopped and called her.

"HEy you!" He said, "Stivik is looking for you, and you had better meet him before you get yourself into trouble"

He aimed his gun at her.

[Splat]

ooc: Would I really?
Apologies for the use of random chars in this section.


Dionysia was not best pleased. "Stivik isn't my body guard, or is he too scared to be on his own? Anyway, Arnie just told me to get to the grinders, so that is where I'm going." Ignoring Razer and Gappiqu she stepped quickly past them both and headed towards the stairs.

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Stivik stood, desperately trying to decide what to do. a thought occured to him and he moved over to the fone (ooc: not a typo, that's how they spell phone in Oddworld) in the corner. Hoping no one stepped in, he pulled a small metal key out of somewhere on his pants and stuck it into the crack beneath the screen. After a few seconds the fone buzzed and the screen flickered on to show a slig saluting to the right of the screen. looking confused the slig leant forward and tapped something out of view.

Stivik hissed quietly, "I'm over here you idiot."
The slig spun araoud. "Oh, sorry, wrong camera," he looked embarassed.
"Look, shut up and get me through to Cartel Snoops dept."
The Slig looked suspicious, "The password?"
Stivik sighed and told him the password (something too rude to type). The slig nodded. "Righty-o, hang on a second..." The screen went black.

A few seconds later a message flashed onto the screen in blazing letters, "Welcome, you have reached the Cartel Snoops Dept. If you believe their is a snoop in your factory or place of work, press 1. If you are looking for work as a Cartel Snoop, press 2. If you Are a snoop and would like a word with your boss, press 3."

A few seconds later the head of a rather irritated glukkon appeared on the screen.
Glukkon, "Yeah, whaddaya want?"
"This is..." He lowered his voice, "This is spy 5070, Stivik, requesting permission to speak to Director Ureal."
"Alright, hang on..."

Another pause of a few seconds and then a different glukkon appeared on screen.
Ureal: "Stivik? What is it? Make it quick if it can't wait till you get back here."
Stivik took a breath and continued barely above a whisper, "I don't think I should leave Rupture Farms yet, I think there's still work for me to do here."
The glukkon looked annoyed, "You'll leave when you're told to leave, Arnie's judgement has been passed so we don't need a spy there anymore."

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Jim followed closely behind Anni and as they rose the staircase turned sharply left. Jim could here someone talking quietly and a crackly voice like a fone. After a few seconds he reached the top of the sairs and found himself in a narrow passage running behind a room that the voice was coming from. Tiny holes in the wall allowed him to see into the room, but peering through there was no one in his range of vision. But the voice went on.

"Dionysia can't be trusted!"
The fone voice replied, "That's exactly why she's there! We know what went on between you two and it won't effect our decision."
"But You can't take her word about Arnie, if she sees an advantage in saying he's changed when he hasn't she'll take it. Even if you send someone here every other day they can still lie their way through it. You need someone here all the time to make sure their really is a result."
The voice sighed. "Fine, how's this? One of the vykkers will be going down there tomorow or the day after, they can't bare to be separated from her. If he thinks it's necessary that Arnie is watched you can stay. If not you'll be going back with him? Ok? But as long as you're there keep a close watch on Arnie himself, not on what the workers are doing."
"Ok, that's fine."
"Good, I'll expect to here your report soon."
"I'll send a recording tonight. Stivik out."
jim saw a slig suddenly walk past his eye-hole and out of the door of the room. Not daring to speak, he stepped back from the wall as quietly as he could and looked at Anni.

[T-nex]

"I KNEW IT!!" Anni hissed in a whispering voice, when Stivik had gone away far enough, "And who's this Dionysia?"

She wondered for a bit, but then it hit her.

"A... New vykker is coming??" she became a bit nervous, "Why here? Cant they just leave?"

She scratched her butt for a bit, and then looked at Jim.

"Well... Maybe we should tell arnie... But he probably already knows. Uhm... And i don't think he can do anything about when the Cartel's involved." She then said in a normal tone, "And why does he wanna stay? It seems like he hates this place."

She shrugged.

"Lets try to follow him." Anni said, and hoped that they would be able to follow him via the passage.

She hurried along the corridor.

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Razer was about to say something, but then he decided not to. If she had already gotten an order from the boss then why bother? Stivik was going to her to Arnie anyways.

"Well have fun then, blackie..." she yelled at her and whent away to look for Stivik.

[Slaveless]

OOC: Max needs to know what his own scent is? Oh well, probably meant Molt.

IC:Gappiqu went into the grinders, before Dionysia. He looked at the place and saw that the place really was a mess. He quickly made a head start in fixing the place.

He started on a lever. He saw that it was partly jammed, by a piece of paramite bones. Gappiqu reached for an item that could, in any way, help lever out the bones. The only thing he got was a wrench. He quickly used the backside of the wrench to unwedge the bones. This proved to be a difficult task, so it took him a while to unwedge the bones.

He fianlly got a great deal of the cloging of the bones were removed, so he could do the rest by hand. Soon after he did the rest of the bones, he looked for any flaws with the lever. It then it him, that the screws were rather untight. He searched for a screwdriver, but saw none. He went over to Dionysia and said, "Hey, do you know where the screwdrivers are?"
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Max barked, "Of course I know what Molt's scent is like! I've known him since birth!"
Max sniffed the air, smelling a lot of things. Train exhaust, mudokons, sligs, a large scrab, and a swarm of paramites. But not the ol' metal covered slig. Fianlly, he smelt his injured body. Even from this distance, he knew that Molt was in troubled. He couldn't smell his normal breathing rate. Panicing, Max hurried to a hole in the wall and sensed his surroundings. He was in the Stockyards.

Max barked to Somi, "Hey man, he somewhere, on the second floor. Can you get me up into the second floor?"
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Slap was concerned of Molt's health. He quickly used his large attenion span, to remember where the armory was. He knew that in order to access it, he needed to go through a random case of stairs. He rushed as fast as possible through the corrider, thinking only of how many hours Molt had to live in his condition.

He fianlly got to a staircase, and quickly rushed up it. He got up to the thrid floor, and with a quick slide, he rammed into the the armory door. He got up from the fall and opened the armory door.

Slap quickly looked around, seeing hundreds of accessaries. But he was spieficly was told to get a big bro mask and a slig pant. He quickly found the pants, for they weren't so far away from the door. He picked up the pants and searched for the maskes.

Those also were also, easy to find. But the problem of this sitution was that the maskes were on a shelve, more suitble for a big bro to get. But not for the likes of an intern. He tried to think as hard as he could to get one and then it hit him. There was a box, full of one eye piece maskes. He hastily ran to it and pushed it to the shelve. He place his feet on the maskes, trying to both keep his balance and get the mask.

He reached for the mask and succedded. Slap jumped off the box and place the mask in the pants. He next rushed out of the armory room.

[Munch's Master]

ooc: can I just check-Molt belnogs to slaveless right? I've forgotten.
IC:
Arthur waved his hand in front of Dean. "Uh Dean? Yoohoo? Can I get summat to eat? Ah ferget it."
He gave up and went over to the serving hatches.
"Let's see, Scrab legs, Paramite steaks, Fleech surprise, Elum meatballs, Meep mutton." He took a Scrab leg and Paramite steak from the container, dumped it onto a plate, took a knife and fork from a different container, sat down, and began to eat.
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Dek first made sure to remove the oversized metal pants from Molt, to ensure nothing went wrong with the pants and interrupted him. He removed Molt's mask as well slowly and carefully, first cutting through it to give hismelf more space and to avoid it dragging on the wound.
'Why is it that people get injured so easily here? Scruben wrecks his eyes, Boogie fries his lungs with steam, this Slig nearly gets killed. And, from the reports I heard about this place in the early days, there were initially accidents left right and centre. One would think there was an assasin here.' dek thought to himself.
He placed the mouthpiece of the gas anaesthetic in Molt's mouth, and positioned the tank out of his way. Dek rinsed and sterilized his surgical instruments, preparing for what would be a big operation.
'Honestly, its because of the freedom the Mudokons get. If the higher-ups in the Cartel knew about this place, they would go ballistic.'

[Slaveless]

OOC:Molt does belong to me, of course. And Gappiqu has oversized pants, but that doesn't matter now.

IC: Slap returned to the stair case, immentdently. He ran down the stairs, with the pants and the mask in hand. Eventually, he got the corrider that lead to the lab. With his quickness, he arrived to Dek in time for the operation. He placed the mask and the pants at his feet and relaxed.

He next asked Dek,(in typing of course) "Sir, may I assist you in this opertion? Or may I see Goresplatter's legs are functional?"

[Goresplatter]

OOC: Sorry haven't posted in quite a long while, but I've read up to date and know pretty much functional. Nope, don't mind if Vykker X is caged at all, I was planning for him to become contained somehow anyway
IC:

Goresplatter got up from his semi-trance on the floor. He picked Vykker X up by the top of the head and stuffed him into the cage. Gore looked slightly dazed, and his eyes were glazed over. He got up and the walked to Slap.
Goresplatter: "Weh buh uhm uh,"
He spoke mindless drivel, but shook his head and spoke properly.
Goresplatter: "Can I get that X-Ray soon please..."
Vykker X suddenly shot up inside his cage. This meant that he smashed his head on the roof of it, but he recovered and shouted.
Vykker X: "Why the hell are you givin' him an X-Ray, it won't show up what's really wrong with him, this stuff is almost flawless!"
He pulled out a bottle from his bag marked 'X' and rolled it out of the cage with a wolfish smile.
Vykker X: Well, the way it's effected his legs is flawless, I wouldn't hang around him a couple of days if I were you..."
Vykker X the gave a mad laugh as he sat back in the cage, comfortable, and smiling to himself.

-=-=-=-

The Delivery Boy was lost. He decided he would wait for his master to find him. He sat down in the cold with his hands over his head, and remained totally motionless.

[Munch's Master]

ooc: slaveless, hoep you don't have any problem with anything in my pst. If you don't want Molt to become so...robotic, then say so and i'll change it.
Dek turned to Slap briefly.
"Whichever you like, but I'd prefer if you helped me. Goresplatter doesn't seem to be in a critical state, as he is trying to subdue that Vykker X, but Molt here is badly hurt. My brief plan is that I'm going to remove his damaged eye, it seems too bad to repairproperly, although I will try. I'll attach one of the lenses fro mthe Bigbro mask to it and wire that into the nerves of his eye. With luck, he should be able to see through it, although posssibly only with night, infrared or thermal vision ,as they are built into the goggle so can hopefully be wired up to his optic nerves. For his arm, that's what the pants are for. I intend to use a similar system of surgery and wiring to construct him a mechanical arm. His arteries can be set on the road to recovery with some antibiotics, some anti-cholesterol medicine to clean them up, and a blood transfusion. So help me up until the blood transfusion, I'll need you to fetch a healthy and normal Slig for that, such as Arthur the Slig. I believe he's in the restroom. (Dek doesn't know he's gone to the cafe)"
Dek took a deep breath after that speech, then turned back to his patient. Adjusting his own goggles to magnify the wound, Dek opened Molt's eyelid gently, then placed the tip of a scalpel behind Molt's injured eye. He lifted it slightly to examine the wound, then gently scraped off some congealed blood with a second scalpel. His third hand was shining a small torch into the eye, trying to determine whether it could see out, while his fourth was holding a small instrument with a cupped end, touching and turning the eye carefully. Dek noticed some cut nerves. He'd have to remove the eye.

[Splat]

I guess we're stuck with my map until further notice then . Just as a reminder, the grinders were quite badly smashed up in W@RF three or four, they were quite damaged and when someone turned them on all the blades flew off and caused a lot of damage. I'll maybe post a link to the page later.

Jim looked less than prepared to follow any slig, in secret or otherwise. But as Anni was already gone and he didn't want to be shouting out loud in the current situation he followed as quietly as he could.

Stivik, unaware that he was being followed, headed down stairs and paused. He'd go and talk to Arnie about Anni now, the people who'd been in there before should have had a chance to clear out.
He reached Arnie's office quickly, and knocked on the door.

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Dionysia stood around, looking bored, while Gappiqu worked. When he turned to her she rolled her eyes. "Do I look like a walking toolbox? You're the machanic, plus I only got here this morning." She looked around, "Maybe that robot (RG) over there has one."

[T-nex]

OOC: OH sorry MM, i forgot all about Arthur X(

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Fortunatly for Anni, the passage whent right past Arnie's office. She whent so that she could see inside. Arnie was there, then she heard the knock on the door.

"That's probably Stivik..." Anni whispered as lowly as she could, "I wonder what crap he's gonna let out now..."

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Dean didn't really notice Arthur(don't ask me why), but then he saw him go to the kitchen.

"Uh... Oh well..." He said, "I think im gonna lay down a bit." He said as he sat down on a chair next to Javi.

Kix joined them.

"Hmm... Not much to do here... They need help with the grinder area i think. Maybe we should go there." Kix said.

Both Javi and Dean agreed on that and when to the grinder area. When they arived, Kix noticed Dionysia.

"Oh... Thst's the strange new mudokon." Kix said and shrugged.

Javi looked at her but didn't pay much attention. He looked at the mess around, and whent to the robot-thing.

"Can i help with anything?"

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Somi followed him(i assume they are outside now?), and stopped when she saw the wall. a window was open on the second floor.

"Well i guess i can." She said, and crawled ud to the window.

Then she shot a string of web at the wall and crawled down, letting web come out of her till she reached the ground. She shot a string of web at Max and crawled up the string of web on the wall, pulling him with her. After some effort she finally reached the window, and quickly took a brake, breathing heavily when she was inside with the slog.

[Slaveless]

OCC: MM, I don't mind if Molt is a cyborg, or anything.

IC: Gappiqu was frustrated with Dionysia's additude, thinking that she is so much better than everyone else. He said to her, "You are so lucky that I'm not Molt. He would've already siezed you by the neck already and throwen you into a grinder..."

He was inturrped by Javi and Dean. Gappiqu smiled and said, "Yes, you may tell me where the mechanic tools are. And knock some sense into this mud here to work."
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Max cuaght up with Somi and looked around. It wasn't the place he was looking for, but it was close enough. They were in a random corrider, but Molt was in a floor beneath them. He barked to Somi, "Thank you for bring me here." He licked Somi's face, and rushed off to the stairs.
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While ignoring Vykker X, Slap thrusted Dek a pair of tweezels and scrizzers. He wondered what he would to help Dek, besides giving him supplies. Slap shrugged and gave Dek the big bro mask. He then typed, "Sir, may we need mechanic to do the metalical arm replacement? Or are we going do that one ourselves?"

[Goresplatter]

Noticing noone was paying close attention to him, Vykker X put his mind to work. He opened his bag and pulled out a tiny saw, and began the work to saw through the bars. He was very efficient and quiet, and within ten seconds two of the bars were behind him in the cage, and he was crawling out carefully. He snuck out of the room without a sound, and checked a radar of some kind in his backpack. The screen showed a map of the facility, and the blip was in the corridor connected to the infested area. He had to retrieve the thing at the blip, so he would have to be mindful of the paramites lurking there. He drew his Sawbones Saw and some sort of taser from his backpack, and set off running towards it.

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Goresplatter, who had been sleeping quietly in the corner, woke up to see Vykker X was missing from the cage. He slapped his head, noting his stupidity at this moment. He stood up, turned round, and punched the wall extremely hard. He was feeling massive anger, and he didn't know why, but he had no time to think about it. He punched the wall again, and again, until a few drops of blood dripped from his hands, because of the fingernails digging into his palm. Yet, he punched it once more, and heard a snap. He looked down at his hand, and found it broken in several places. He winced, but strangely, felt no pain. He turned and walked slowly back to the corner, and sat down, quaking slightly.

[T-nex]

Kix scratched her head a bit.

"Uh... i don't know where any tool is... Why don't you ask a slig? And... What are we suposed to do?" she said, and then pointed at Dionysia, "Besides, she looks like she doesn't know what to do.. Hmm... This seems like male's job."

She backed off a bit.

"I s'pose we could help." Javi said indifferently and patted Dean on the back.

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Somi remained speechless for a few moments, but when she wanted to say something, Max had already run away. She followed his scent. But suddenly she found the scent of something else.

"FREAK!!" She yelled out, as she saw the Slog stand there.

He whimpered and ran towards her, licking her face.

"Where've you been?"

[Slaveless]

Gappiqu was rather disappionted to hear that none of the mudokons had any tools. He only had two workers that had an idea of what to do, one mudokon wothout a clue, and one who thinks she needs to save her strength for terroists. Gappiqu had admit, Dionysia may have a point. That robot seemed like to have a clue of where tools are. He said, "Everyone that wants help the grinders, come with me."

He walked over to RG-49, and asked, "Excuse me, but do you have any extra tools to borrow?"
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Max heard the screech, and smelt Freak. He didn't hear what Somi had said next, but he thought that she was in danger he ran up the stairs, following the twos' scent. He found Somi and lept at Freak and barked in his native language, "Hey man, don't hurt her! She already saved my life and found my owner!"

[dripik]

#7 Slig looked around. He was glad to see some workers who wanted to help at last. "Time to get things under control, then..." he thought.

"Sev, you can help us with the repairs. We could use a hand or two." He said to Sev.

Meanwhile, RG-49 replied to Gappiqu. "Since I have all the tools I need built in, my only guess would be the containers with the parts. Maybe they have a few basic tools inside." He walked towards the boxes they brought in earlier. "It would sound logical if there were some tools."

He opened a container and found the parts inside neatly placed: grinder blades, interfaces, cables and other accessories. He found what he was looking for on the inner side of the box: a few wrenches, screwdrivers, electric scanners and other tools. "I was right. You can find what you need in here."

He took out a handful of folded cables, a console and, a screwdriver, since he just noticed Sev. He gave the screwdriver to Sev. "I heard you want to help, Slig organic. You should start by getting rid of all the metal shards in the machine." He pointed to the grinder he examined. "I'm going to work on the console."

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Arnie was about to go back to his office when he heard a knock. "Sure, I don't have anything else to do, just hanging around, waiting for someone to interrupt my peace! Come in!" he shouted at the door.

[Splat]

Stivik entered Arnie's office, leering. "Hey Boss, this isn't a bad time? Cus I thought you should know that one of the muds has turned psychopathic. That mud Anni who got in that trouble with Nick when I first got here? Well she strikes again. Yesterday I caught her trying to escape through the stockyards. When I stopped her she grabbed my gun off of me and tried to shoot me with it. That's just the first time. Later on that day I saw her heading into the ruined sections of Rupture Farms and I went after her to see what she was up to. Then in front of witnesses she tried to grab my gun off me again. Fortunately I'd loaded it with tranquilisers thinking she'd be up to something so I managed to push her off and put her to sleep. The vykker Dek was here, and the slig Razer, both saw. Dek decided we should carry her to his lab so we took her there where she broke free somehow," He decided it might be better to not mention the spiritual powers, that had a habit of either sending glukkons over the edge or making them break down to the point of screaming that you're lying, "And again tried to kill me, she stabbed be with an unknown syringe, I'm lucky to have survived that and again Dek was there as a witness. We put her in a cage overnight in the lab. This morning I sent to check up on her. She pretended to be ill so I opened the cage to check up on her and she leapt out at me and attacked me again! I had to fight her off and keep fighting to the point where I had to knock her out to defend myself. That's four times she's tried to kill me and I'd like to see her dead before she tries again. I've given her second chances knowing just one attempt for a mud to kill a slig meant death as a punishment, but she kept trying. She's not safe to keep here, who's she going to go for next?"

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In a tiny passage behind the room Jim stepped back and looked at Anni in shock. He whispered, "Is that true?"

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Dionysia looked skeptical, "And what do you want us to do? Aren't you meant to organise these things?" She looked around at the general mess that was the grinders, "I don't know about the mudokons but I don't kno anything about mechanics."

[T-nex]

Anni heart filled up with rage. She was about to hit the wall with her fist, but remembered they might hear it. She turned to jim.

"Partly... But damn he's good at twisting the truth..." She whispered annoyed and angrily, "Ok... I'll tell you what happned if you promise never to tell anyone... I... Don't like talking about my past..."

She lowered her head a bit, as she remembered the worst time of her life. It had all come back to her, when she first got into Dek's lab. She sat down leaning her back against the wall.

"Well... I guess this is it. Arnie will never believe me, or at least hear why i did what i did." she whispered, but mostly to herself, "I'm never going to escape my nightmares..."

She closed her eyes to relax a bit, but all she saw was images of her past, so she opened them again.

"Look Jim... I hate being violent, but my anger and my pat just... changes me from time to time..." She rested her head on her arms.

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Freak Dodged scraedly, and then ran behind Somi, whimpering.

"No wait!! Don't hurt him Max! He's a friend." Somi shouted.

Freak kept pretty far away from Max as he was trembling.

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"Ok... What should we do then?" Javi asked Gappiqu.

[Splat]

ooc: Found the post where the grinders got smashed.
Those were the days, good gravy I miss Nick and Math, such great characters.


Jim looked worried, "You could get in a lot of trouble now Anni. I know Arnie's a nice guy but who could ignore something like this?" He leant forward and peered through the tiny crack in the wall to hear Arnie's reply. He had a feeling it wouldn't be anything good.

[Munch's Master]

Arthur finished his meal and turned to Groll. "Right, i'm off to the grinders, I bet they've still not been fixed."
He exited the kitchen and headed off down the corridor to the grinding area on the ground floor.
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Dek turned to see what Slap had typed. He explained "The mechanical arm could be a little tricky, but I know a bit about machinery and I've done some small robotic surgery before, usually hands and the like. I'm planning on adapting that pair of pants into a robotic arm, but it would be helpful if that robot, RG-49, was here. I could use him for reference and...spare parts."
He returned to the task at hand, and carefully, slowly, used the scissors to begin cutting the irreparable optic nerve. he left as much of it as he could, and then carefully lifted Molt's eyeball out of the eye socket, prising the eyelid as far open as possible and then using the tweezers to lift it out. He placed the eye to the side, then quickly went to a cupboard, got a jar, filled it with sterilized water from the lab tap, and placed the eye in it. he may have future use for it. Now he had to do the difficult task of constructing and attaching the mechanical eye.

[T-nex]

"Well... If he goes too crazy I might just find that way out... I never intenden on really leaving... I'd never leave my friends.. Kix, Jave and Dean..." Anni whispered as she watched Arnie and Stivik, " Really... Just wanted some air... Get away from the grey world, and... just relax. Then I'd come back you know.. Most of the workers here are quite nice, and I like work."

She shrugged
and whent back to spying.

[Slaveless]

Gappiqu was rather disappionted to see that none of the mudokons helping him had any idea what mechanics were. He looked up and groaned. This wasn't good. No wondered the grinders were destoried! Gappiqu looked at the ceiling and saw that there was a pipes that were destoried. He thought of how to fix that part of the grinders, but that would be impossible without help. Oh how RG should've stayed.

Gappiqu said to the three mudokons, "OK, if you want to help, give me a bunch of long thick rope and grappling hooks. Tell me when you get them."

He walked away, and bringed the supplies he was given. He picked up the container as well. He went over to the broken lever, grabbed a wrench, and screwed in the screws. He pulled the lever, but didn't expect too much. Nothing happened, and his little brain went to work. He remembered that all meat saws had been connected to the wire base underneth the floor. He snapped and grabbed a screw driver. He looked at the floor, looking for nails implanted onto the floor. He saw a group of them and activated the screwdriver. Gappiqu started to unscrew the screws on the floor, to find the wire base. He grinned at what Dionysia would think of him doing this.
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Max realized that Freak was helping Somi and barked, "Hey man, I'm sorry. And what'd you wanted again?"
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Slap knew quite well that Dek was having trouble constructing an eye, so he typed his suggestion. "Sir, may I suggest sawing off the base of the eye of the mask? That way, we can use the nueuron used on the eye we've just taken out, connected onto the mechincal eye. Then we implant the eye into the Slig, making a mechincal eye. Does this make the sitution differ?"