Emerald Enclave

((Hours passed by, yet not a single conversation was had between the colonists who worked diligently from their stations to try and make sense of the mess before them. Quite a few cables and parts lay strewn about the room, many of the machines now completely dormant and cold with the parsing of their various pieces.)) Work only stops when Stryx cuts herself along a piece of exposed plating, and Kanene resigns herself to tending to the wound while Jack tries to find any clean-enough moss or l...

As shocked as they all were, it pales in comparison to the revelation that sits behinds Kanene's pleased figure. ((Not only was that wall hiding something, it was hiding a room filled to the brim with electronics and panels and all manner of do-dads that must've once been a larger cog in the drainage machine. Many of the screen faces are busted or glitching, and quite a number of buttons seem partially torn from their consoles that bear scars of what Coriander can only assume to have...

((The water sloshed all around their legs, a murky gray hue dampening any hint of what might be waiting beneath the surface. Metal pipes jut out from all directions, cascading the pathways with layers of steam and smoke that clog Coriander's nose and send Stryx coughing into the echoing channels with a horrendous sound.)) Behind them, Kanene and Jack both move the best they can through the maze of machinery with eyes that pick apart the scene, desperate to unravel the looming mystery that's k...