Thursday 21 April 2072

Part 8

After many gruelling weeks of trekking, I found the university. The jou=õT W$ñR8®   Ñrney had been made more difficult by my decision to travel only at night but I needed to give myself as much time as possible to set up the machines without interference from the raÜäÉ«ŽY¾aÃ7øÏ0ßts. When I arrived, I made my way to the labs and had to laugh. The woman who'd told me of this place had spoken true. It still had power. I immediately laid down my load and staH HÒH (0˜êW Darted securing the lab against attack.
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With the structure securely barricaded, I set up my equip5†„XXvÄGãCment and began assembling this machine. It seems to be working so far, so I like to think I succeeded but maybe I'm wrong and this is just deleting these mes²-) R` )ƒÝÄô aDsages every time I send them or...I don't even know but I hope I'm wrong. I need this to work. No, get on topic, Olly. Stop digressing.
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It took me a few weeks to put the macE=©AmhÐNhine together. Luckily, I discovered fairly early on that this wing of the university had a well-stocked cafeteria and it hasn't been long enoÒLŽˆÃ¹sçBvugh for all the food to go off. I was able to subsist well until the machine was ready to fire up and give me that little trean [ÊÞBjsure I needed - a link to the past.

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Tuesday 12 April 2072

Part 7

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I salvaged what I could but even with the requisite pieces in hand, I needed a power source. Before I could even think about where a functioning and sufficient po‚îlA ½¤ÌŒrƒt@œF¦`wer source might still exist, I realised I had been inattentive. There were rats closing in on me. I nearly killed myself running from them through the tattered ruins. Even without all the shaO- é`G² )¦´þ =Šê /½ò2™Vïrds of glass and broken metal spikes sticking out of every available surface and trying to impale me in earnest, I nearly died of sheer exhaustion. The rats are so minS‰3ŪÅÃP3 ÆÔ ml4¶dless that they ignore their own injuries and weaknesses in pursuit of their master's unknown goals.

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I ran far and hard and eventually escaped my hunters but I had distanced myself from my goal. I needed to find some sort of power source if my la®£Í\S7€õô²Ætîst, desperate hope of salvation was to be feasible. I began asking anyone I met on the trail if they'd encountered such a place. Eventually, I found exactly what I was looking for. The shell of a univösÁ˜nlO3µÙšl4f ë³ersity that had its own local power supply from a student-designed HEP plant that was still running. There would be more than enough power to fuel both the machine and a computer.
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