an android is tested. for science.
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"Maybe I do."

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"How will you recharge once you run out of energy?"

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"I'll figure that out when it happens in ten thousand years."

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The robot doesn't respond to that.

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The android keeps walking.

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Darkness gives way to huge walls with metallic arms attached to them, and this lone catwalk passing between them. Glass tubes with cubes and other things flying through them criss-cross the enormous expanse ahead of her, and in the distance she can see a regular illuminated door attached to a regular stone wall. Not connected to her catwalk in any way, though.

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Why. Why this place.

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The catwalk bifurcates again, with stairs going up to the left and a sign reading "Testing Track 17" with an arrow pointing to the continuation of the catwalk to the right.

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Let's not go to the testing track, that sounds like a swell idea.

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Then up the stairs, leading to a path perpendicular to the one she'd been following and towards one of the non-weird walls. The catwalk meets the wall and goes in both directions.

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...Right.

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Probably a good idea; that one door she saw is on this wall to the right, if on a lower level. Perhaps there will be stairs?

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Who knows. She'll find out.

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There are in fact stairs, and there's the door. The catwalk continues on beyond it, though.

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What's inside the door?

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The door is locked.

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Securely?

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Nah.

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Kick.

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The door is successfully hacked open. It gives way to a hallway.

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Exploring time.

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It has a very 1950s aesthetic, and a bunch of doors, most open, to offices and cubicles and server rooms. There's another locked door near the end, though.

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The finer aesthetic distinctions of 20th century office decor are lost on this android.

Presumably this door is similarly hackable.

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It is! There are stairs behind it.

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As a door affords hacking, so do stairs afford climbing.

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