by Narrator » Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:01 pm
The elevator does indeed have a camera monitoring it, but fortunately it comes within reach as the elevator slowly moves up and a pretty much static shot of an empty cabin is really easy to loop for Natalie. The doors open to the view of an empty cabin she'd already caught a glimpse of via her power. Riding it down takes a while, the large cabin only vaguely illuminated and with everything else being quiet the sound of the moving cabin seems so much louder as it rumbles it's way down into the Point. In reality it's probably pretty quiet, but it's just one more thing that might give away her intrusion.
Finally the cabin comes to a gentle stop and the doors slide open. The workshop is empty, but all the lights are on. The various projects that Ashlie and the students were working on are still there, but some stuff has been moved around, shuffled, as if somebody had moved through and looked everything over and not bothered to put it back in the right place. All the way across the room, near the door, a large area has been repurposed for... who knows what. Pieces of all kinds of things are strewn about along with thick cable strands that snake out the door, propping it open a couple inches. There's dis- or partially assembled scanners, emitters, a radar dish of some sort, a couple buckets of blue-ish fluid that has a vague glimmer to it, a 5 by 5 feet area that is fenced off by poles topped with some kind of reflective array or signal booster...