Devil's Peak Station terminal entries

A transcription of **terminal entries** from Devil's Peak Station.

## Devil's Peak Environmental Controls

**Location:** This terminal is located in a room to the east after exiting the elevator to the second floor of the station.

**Note:** The terminal is locked and requires the Devil's Peak Environmental Controls Keycard or Hack 35 to unlock.

# Devil's Peak Station

SECURITY STATUS: Running diagnostics...

Atmospheric controls are online. Issue detected with the automechanical controls. Alerting HQ.

### Atmospheric Controls

ENVIRONMENTAL SENSORS STATUS: All sensors currently indicate a standard level range regarding temperature and chemical composition through the station.

#### Deploy Fire Suppressant Systems in Main Hall

WARNING: The Fire Suppressant System will remove all oxygen from the chamber. Please ensure that all personnel have been safely evacuated prior to initiating the safety protocol.

Proceed - Y/N?

##### Yes

**Note:** Selecting this entry will kill all living creatures inside the station other than the Stranger, their companions, and the Broker. This includes any C3 members who may have been convinced to assist with clearing out the station.

Activating the Fire Suppressant System...

Engaging chamber locks for user safety...

Siphoning all oxygen from the chamber...

#### Activate Station Fire Alarm

NOTE: Worker productivity loss must be weighed against the benefits of testing the Environmental Controls safety system. Excessive activation of the system's emergency alarms will trigger an automatic administrator review.

WARNING: Prolonged exposure to emergency alarms can lead to disorientation and ruptured eardrums.

Proceed - Y/N?

##### No

**Note:** This exits the terminal interface.

### Automechanical Controls

REQUEST FOR AUTOMECHANICAL SECURITY AND ASSISTANCE INSTALLATION

Time submitted: >5.256e+6 minutes ago
Status: awaiting an official response from Byzantium HQ

## V. Ramsey's Terminal

**Location:** This terminal is located on a desk in the large room immediately after exiting the elevator on the second floor.

# Devil's Peak Station

INCLEMENT WEATHER WARNING: Regional Severe Alert - next 72 hours chance of thunderstorms and severe thunderstorms including lightning strikes forecast across the mountain region.

#### FROM: V. Ramsey, SUBJECT: Emergency Protocols

Message Logs
FROM: V. Ramsey
TO: I. Broker
SUBJECT: Emergency Protocols

As I stated in my prior FOUR messages, there is simply no cause for alarm. I swear to you, Hiram, the situation is under control.

What you call a "near-emergency," I would consider a non-event. Yes, a high-energy transmission was used for too lengthy a period of time. And yes, the generators cannot safely support that activity. Yes and yes, they could have been damaged under load. But the point remains -- nothing happened.

We caught the issue in time. The engineers involved were reprimanded.

I swear on my mama's grave, it will not happen again.

Now, please, cease contacting me for daily updates on the status of the generators.

Thank you,
Val

#### FROM: I. M. Avoyeur, SUBJECT: Toilets

Message Logs
FROM: I. M. Avoyeur
TO: J.[*sic*] Ramsey
SUBJECT: Toilets

What in the black hole were you thinking, Val? At some point, "space efficiency" becomes inverse to "time efficiency" when one negates the other. What I mean is, how am I to do my morning business when the toilets are directly facing the open showers? You might like watching fellows scrub their jigglies while you take a steaming dump, but I don't.

Sincerely,
Thanks for the peep show. Not really. (That was sarcasm.)
Theodore

#### FROM: V. Ramsey, SUBJECT: Re: Toilets

Message Logs
FROM: J.[*sic*] Ramsey
TO: I. M. Avoyeur
SUBJECT: Re: Toilets

On the contrary, Theo. Not only is it a spatially efficient design, but it also encourages simultaneous users to hurry their... business.

Don't like, don't look. Or speed it up and move on.

After all, the faster you're back to your station, the happier we all will be.

Warmest regards,
Val

Postscript - You take too many bathroom breaks, and you know it.

## Broadcast Terminal

**Location:** This terminal is located in the corridor leading from the broadcast center where Hiram Blythe is to the roof of the station.

# Devil's Peak Station
AUTHORIZED BROADCASTER, select [Recorded Transmission] for a listing of all scheduled incoming and outgoing broadcasts. To go live, please ask your producer to initiate broadcasting. DO. NOT. Begin broadcasting. Without the supervision of a senior producer. Thank you. - Val

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#### Continue

STATUS: The station's primary band is operating with minimal signal interference.

>>>No outgoing transmissions remain for broadcast.

### Begin Broadcasting

AUTHORIZED BROADCASTER, don't even try to pretend you're unaware that all broadcasting is currently LOCKED DOWN. Please, return to milling about the breakroom and lamenting that internship in corporate arbitration you never finished. Or, to override the lock on recording, simply enter your admin username and p\*\*\*\*\*\*d in the command line.

Oh, you can't?

Maybe you should've been nicer to Val.

#### 1. Memorandum titled, "Clear Blue Skies" -- Mood: Optimistic

Dare I say, the future is looking bright. Indeed, I can run a full gamut of operations without ever leaving the sanctuary of the broadcast room. Sanjar and Graham are living up to their promises and have not interfered with initial broadcasts. The deal is holding. And I...

I believe I can make a life here.

#### 2. Memorandum titled, "Sneaky Sneaky" -- Mood: Sneaky

Had a near miss the other day. Nearly ended up with the Board on my trail. We will mark that trial firmly in the failure category. One must experiment, however, to ascertain the best methods. I have found, thus far, that the most reliable method for evading detection within the limited frequency of Monarch's off-world transmissions involves duplicating regular news broadcasts on several unused frequencies. My information gathering associates know how to filter out the sounds in the vocal range, in turn isolating the embedded data.

And the Board's authorities are non-the-wiser.

Playing Hazard has never been so thrilling. Nor high stakes.

-H

#### 3. Memorandum titled, "SHOULD HAVE KNOWN" -- Mood: Furious

Pox it all! Those imbecilic children! In their hatred of each other, Sanjar and Graham have over-saturated my key bands. They'll take down each other all right... and me right alongside them.

I should have never invited them to play. But what to do about it now? What to do, indeed.

-H