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Day 76 - Heat Lock

This area is beyond normal levels of hot. It scalds. Anyone without proper gear will burn up. It's the last check before you go into the core.

Rolf is waiting here, and will start barking orders to everyone present as he prepares everyone to get to work.

#dungeon25
April 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Day 75 - Rolf

Taciturn, serious, and determined. Rolf has a job as heatstack technician because he worked his whole life for it. He won't suffer fools who might ruin this for him.

He'll only open up about metallurgy, and anyone talking to him will see his painted on eyebrows.

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April 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Day 74 - Dressing Room

The dressing room is where workers put on protective gear to work on the main linkage to the heat bar. It's a hot insulated room where sounds doesn't get in or out.

Lastly there's changing rooms for showering and changing into protective equipment.

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April 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Day 73 - Recreation Room Showers

Aside from the usual use of a shower room (cleaning up) this room serves as an excellent place for someone hiding from pursuers.

Better still, if you're hiding a secret entrance to a runner network, you can use a barely utilized supply closet.

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March 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Day 72 - Runner node

This runner node runs underneath a cargo line. The runners put it in not only because it has great access to the cargo trains, but also because it is right next to a guard office, which is very funny.

It is staffed by Crash and Circuit who like to read, not talk.

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March 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Day 71 - Guard Room

Here guards convenene to nstart their shifts. They clock in and out here, and check on security bots that prowl the premises. In the corner is a jail cell that no one has ever needed using in recent memory and as a result is just a storage closet now.

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March 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Day 70 - Living Quarters

Here rest the workers in the heat stack. There's a good chance there will be people here resting from a long day's work, and they store their effects here as well. But their hearts lies in that break room with the rat races.

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March 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Day 69 - Dekard Watch

Dekard is a vigilant security guard and a committed family man. He'll notice you if you sneak into the his area while he's on guard. When he's not working he's studying for his inspector's exam and talks to his family. And he always has his kid's drawing with him

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March 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Day 68 - Cargo Lines

Whoops, fell behind, I'll be catching up for a bit now.

Here's the cargo line block. It's a part of the transit network that allows goods to move between plates. For people exploring this slice of the heat stack, it's a shortcut with lots of guards.

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March 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Day 67 - Work Area Woes

Just because there's a lot of people working in the midsection of the heat stack doesn't mean there aren't problems!

You might find a loose pack of prize racing rats, some leaky pipes threatening your life, a livid maintenance worker, or a lawkeeper running off.

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March 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Day 66 - Parts Warehouse

Here's a relatively empty room. It's got very low foot traffic, but lots of places for people to hide. A great place for players to go and cool their heels if needed.

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March 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Day 65 - Drop point

Here is a cozy (read: tight) outpost for the runner network. It's tied to the runner node network and has direct access to the high speed trains as they move from vertical to horizontal.

The trains move their slowest here and making them an easy target.

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March 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Day 64 - The Big Run

Sear and Tumult down in the runner nodes are getting nervous. Aureia is getting close to their secrets and they want to run a distraction.

You can take the job, get a place to sleep, and all you have to do is get 'Crazy Vim' into the train at the Minor Depot.

#dungeon25
March 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Day 63 - Office

The offices here leave a space for visiting officials, clerical workers, and runners to carry out business. They do their work in the briefing rooms, extra rooms, and walls respectively.

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March 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Day 62 - Aureia

Aureia is a hub official (though not high ranking). She is in the Minor train depot corroborating reports from her staff here. She is also more covertly checking on her anti-poaching efforts.

Aureia is kind-hearted, patient, but also insistent. Stay on her good side.

#dungeon25
March 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Day 61 - Minor Depot

This depot holds small high speed train that need small cleaning tasks or maintenance tasks to put it back into service quickly.

Security is low and most people are focused on their job at hand.

#dungeon25
March 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Day 60 - Node: Runner Network

Here's a little slice of repose… if you're a Runner. This hideout is for access and rest in the runner shortcut network. The Poachers use it to organize drops and deliveries. They're guarded vigilantly, so players better have a plan before they enter.

#dungeon25
March 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Day 57 - Storage closet

Here's the storage closet for the break room!

Need supplies? It has supplies?

Need a secret path that will take you to a shortcut network provided by runners? It has that too!

#dungeon25
March 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Day 58 - Ted

Ted is a rough maintenance worker that works on the magnetic drives for train lines. He's got stubble and is built solidly. He's a bit rude and stands too close.

But you won't notice any of that when his pet rat climbs out of his vest and perches on his head to see you.

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February 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Day 57 - Break Room

It's the break room semifinals for the rat races and every maintenance worker in this slice has bets down on their rodent.

If the players are gonna sneak past them, they better do it fast. These folks don't abide by trespassers poking around in their business.

#dungeon25
February 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Day 56 - High Speed Line
Here is the maintenance access to one of the high speed lines that run through the heat stack. At any given time there will be either an inspector present who wants to know why you are here, or some runners who will kill to keep their secret (unless you give sign)
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February 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Day 55 - Freight Elevator

More infrastructure! This is the freight elevator room. It is used primarily to move parts around for the high speed and cargo train lines (and incidental items for the people working here)

There's a guard on duty, but they don't even bother to look up at you

#dungeon25
February 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Day 54 - storage

Basically an empty room! It's a low traffic room with parts for train line maintenance.

Some tools lying around will be used to take the train line caps off once firmament building proceeds, a task many years off.

#dungeon25
February 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Day 53 - VTF

This particular area is a vertical to flat adapter for the heatstack train tunnels. It's at strange angles and has a connection to outside. The tunnels have maintenance access and air bypass like plate tunnels. Hopefully the cap was installed correctly so no one can get in!

#dungeon25
February 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Day 52 - Switch Station

More of a server room, this place serves as an operation station for switch managers to work as they control train routes.
The center column supports a fiber bundle, and as a result technicians are always moving in and out of space, lousy with computers as it is.

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February 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM