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[falsesmile]

Who: Ves (falsesmile) and general!
When: Day 6, afternoon
Where: The Ruined Hull
What: General exploration post!

[ The Ruined Hull has been unlocked! The go-team has been in the area for a while, the stay-team members who are so inclined have probably meandered over here somehow by now -- time to go exploring, but keep an eye on those suit power levels ♥ ]

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[dateme]

Still more than the rest of us. [ he still doesn't quiet get why Clark can do it, but hey. Whatever gives them a leg up right? Especially now that they've got this massive thing to explore, Inui's hand tracing one of the walls idly as they come to an intersection where he takes a moment to search for the marks jess left. ]

--Okay. We take a right here, and it should be on out left. I remember that wall panel there being open. [ he points to the indicated area of the wall near the floor to their right. ]

[anewhope]

[ Clark doesn't either and all his theories seem to lead him to darker thoughts, his heritage sbearing down on him. ]

Huh. Maybe someone else got to it first.

[ He takes a closer look at it. ]

pets u

[dateme]

Maybe? Not a big deal. I just hope they remembered to stock up. I'm at 36% so far, how're you holding up? [ As in, it took more than half his suit power to get to this point already. ]

[anewhope]

Not too bad. I haven't needed to use a lot of my power in here.

[ For Clark, keeping track of his powers is easy. It's part of his every day life. He's too powerful to open a door without breaking it, to walk at a normal speed. They are aspects he had to train himself into learning, until it's second nature. ]

[dateme]

Cool. Keep an eye on it though okay? At 10% we should charge up. [ Inui says that and then sees the door he's been looking for, a steady mist creeping out from the opening and spreading across the floor. ]

--Here we go. Mist room.

[anewhope]

Mist room?

[ This time, he steps in front of Inui to open the door. Just in case. ]

[dateme]

Yeah, check it out-- [ Inui motions for Clark to follow him into the Rusted Room where mist covers the entire floor, falling off of the power core in the middle of it ceaselessly. Kind some sort of smoky rover. ]

[anewhope]

Looks like this is the power core.

[ He had never seen anything like it. Clark's eyes were wide as he took it all in. ]

It doesn't seem badly damaged. What made them crash?

[dateme]

Power failure? [ he's joking mostly, what with the whole ship being completely unresponsive. But it would be pretty spot-on if it were. ] Or a malfunction. Weird that we haven't found any bodies yet.

You think it's really been that long since stuff went south here?

[anewhope]

It's hard to tell with some ships. The one I came into contact with was older than entire ancient civilizations. It was in decent shape.

[ Just on the lowest vestiges of power. Clark had been in the process of re-purposing it when Zod arrived and once that happened, he abandoned it. ]

[dateme]

...Wait, you serious? [ Clark you really need to fill him in on all the deets here. He's blindsided by all this new info you keep dropping. ]

[anewhope]

It was hidden in the Artic. Krypton had sent ships all over the universe to find other habitable planets. Potential colonies.

[ He lapses into silence. Clark had never spoken about these things before and he finds himself surprised that those were his words. ]

[dateme]

Isn't Krypton, like, the name of an actual element in the periodic table? That's a crazy coincidence that your planet's the same. [ Mildly off-topic, but that's Inui. ]

Lucky you though. Got any experience with this sorta thing?

[anewhope]

It's not related.

[ He gets the feeling he'll be fielding a lot of those questions from Inui. As to his query, Clark simply shakes his head. ]

If I had my old key, perhaps. Otherwise, I wouldn't know.

[dateme]

...? [ Inui looks over to give him a quizzical look. ]

What does a key have to do with alien tech?

[anewhope]

It had an AI implanted in it. That was the quickest way to get access to a ship.

[ He still wished Jor-El had made more of them. ]

[dateme]

So the AI did the alien stuff, not you. Makes sense if you thought you were human the whole time you were growing up. [ No parent aliens to teach him to...alien, he supposes. ]

[anewhope]

Up til I was fourteen or so.

[ When he rescued a drowning bus. A few parents had come up to the house, saying it's god work. Smallville was a small town, small community. Aliens is not the first conclusion they would jump to. ]

Like I said, I know very little about . . . aliens.

[dateme]

Too bad, that woulda come in handy here. [ Inui shrugs, moving over towards the power core and looking up at it as it casts blue light across his face. ]

This is the sorta thing you only see in comic books.

[anewhope]

[ Clark pauses before replying, steady. ]

Let's hope it's as neat as it is in comic books.

[ Because the reality is very different. ]

[dateme]

Right?

Hey, what d'you think'll happen if we mess around with this thing? [ he motions to the giant power core with a thumb, wandering a little closer. ]

Maybe we can turn it back on?

[anewhope]

Yes. I'm sure there's a convenient button just for that.

[ If only. Still Clark approaches the power core with no fear. He doesn't reach out to touch it though. ]

It probably needs an activation code.

[dateme]

We could always check for something, see if anything down here works. Someone found a bunch of these weird glowing batteries earlier.

[ Technically power cells, but Inui's not really sure what to call them, more interested in peering around at the foot of the power core for any sort of toolbox or other upended items. ]

[anewhope]

Batteries?

[ He's surprised that this advanced race even needs something like that. ]

I don't suppose they found where to use them.

[dateme]

I didn't ask. [ Inui shrugs, aaaand--bingo. Inui finds a rusted, warped metal box--looks like something an engineer might have--and drags it out. ]

Feel like flexing those pecks a little?