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A large hall, 800 square feet. White tiles on the floor, an white tiles on the walls up to a heigt of 6 feet. Some of the tiles have come off, some have crakcs in them. The hall is brighly lit by fluorescent lamps, one of them is flickering. The floor is clean, a cleaning trolley is parked in the corner, but in the corners near the ceiling there are cobwebs.
In the hall is an installation that would make a medium sized pertrochemical company jealous. Tubes, pipes, valves, funnels and three very large cast iron cauldrons. They look a little bit out of place. From one pipe hangs a handwritten sign. "The ICC share". The installation is buzzing an whirring.
A file cabinet against the wall with its doors open contains one ordner with photocopies of the design of the installation, and a hand written piece of paper that has "what to do in an emergency" written on the top of the page. Next to the file cabinet is a chair with an andruplicate sitting on it. The andruplicate has black hair and a big moustache. He was built by a RUR engineer who was asked to make a copy of the manual, but accidentally made a copy of the cleaner, Manuél. The andruplicate's sole task is to write down the temperature of the caldrouns every twenty five minutes.
On the glass door of a medicine cabinet hanging over a white sink is a yellow sticky note taped with two layers of scotch tape. The note says "nutrients, vitamins, flavours" In the cabinet are a few glass bottles, some of the bottles have crystallised liquid visible under the plastic caps.
Near the ceiling hang eight little black boxes. These are part of the "Shadowland Airco-system" or SLAC. SLAC is based on miniturised Whompa technologie. SLAC inlets are placed in Penumbra and Inferno, to regulate temperatures in the hall.
WHOP!
one of the SLAC's stops working.
Manuél stands up and stares at the stopped SLAC. then he pickes up the phone and dials a four digit number. "Yes? Hello? Aai theenk airco seven ees broken."