1.5 - The Wyr River: Hunger strikes....

You see Vult start scratching on a piece of paper, numbers and arcs and lines and triangles and .... you head starts to spin.
You find a picture menu on the screen and start scrolling through it. You find two items that look like the dark liquid you saw and ask for a glass of each. The machine beeps and produces both in glasses on a tray. Picking up the first one, it is hot and steaming. It has a fragrant aroma, smelling of something roasted ... but you cannot put your finger on it. The smell is good and you put the cup to your lips and take a sip. It is hot, but what strikes you is it is very bitter. You spit it out asking how anyone can drink stuff like that. You put the cup down and pick up the second. It is cold and has chucks of ice in it. The chunks are all uniform and float freely. Looking closer, the liquid seems to boiling slightly and bubbles rises up, still it cold. "Odd", you think. You lift the glass to your mouth and the bubbling fizz tickles your nose. You take a sip and the cold, the bubbles and the ice cannot hide the fact that this drink is sweet. It reminds you of a drink your mother gave you as a child made from a bean that grew locally. She sweetened it with the juice from another tree and this is like that, only sweeter and bubbly. You take another drink. It is almost too sweet, but better than that bitter concoction. You drink the rest.
The hall on the other side is dark. As you approach, the panel on the left of the door lights up. The panel on the right remains dark. Peering through the window, you press your hands against the door, cupping them and hoping to shield the light from getting in. The window is cold, but you hold your place, waiting for your eyes to adjust.

As your eyes do adjust, you see a hallway on the right about 20 feet down from the door. You concentrate more there appears to be shadows moving very slowly in the distance, maybe 50-60 feet away. They are barely illuminated by the light bleeding from the window.

After several minutes of scratching and calculations, you are not sure. You could be somewhere else, but the stars groups are pretty much the same. The terrain is different that anything you have ever seen, but it does match what is described as beyond the south wall.

Still, the sky is too different. That device said that whatever it was tracking was 238,900 miles or so away. It is possible. There are Numenera scholars who think the moon is 235k to 240k miles away. That would fit, but no one has ever been there and the moon has this big green stripe. Maybe you are near the stripe, like above or below it or something.

Still, something about it makes sense. It is plausible. You feel you need to study more.

As you look out the window, a canon on the ridge above lets out a silent beam and shatters that was falling towards one of the domes. Searching the landscape, you notice other such cannons posted around this structure. The rocks are not hard to see, when they get close and the cannons strike each one, sometimes more than once to turn them into dust. As your eyes fall to the northern most dome, move above catches your eye.

A large rock is falling to the ground, coming straight for the dome. You scan the cannons and the two closest seem to be trying to respond. However, they don't seem to have the arc right. That's when you see it, on the northern ridge, the debris of a cannon and its station. It's been smashed and has partially slid down the ridge. You look up and the find the rock again, following it down as it crashes into the northern most dome.

"Yes, we could still be at risk."

Juicy, but needs A1

The left panel is lit and functions okay. But, you also know the left panel controls the door side. You step over to the right panel and it is not light and does not react to you as you try pressing it in different locations.

You know you can open the door from the left panel, but it will not control the other functions.

You are on the right track, but when you pull the panel off to expose everything. There are cards and crystals, but nothing is lit up. One crystal in particular looks burnt and cracked.

Overhearing Darazen and Utazó, Khoren will attempt to assist them in repairing the console.