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• But we just proved how effective the VOED is! The artifact is dangerous, yes, but it's also about as magically robust as they come.
• If entries that nearly killed us all were disqualified, it'd be a pretty lonely contest. The VOED deserves to win.
• Very well. For its novelty, its ingenuity, and its possible impact on locative science, I declare the VOED victorious. Congratulations.
• Outstanding! Pokka, I'm getting another signal from the VOED. It's similar to the first, and not too far from here. I'd like to check it out.
• And I'd like to accompany you. I'm seeing a lot of potential in this device...and in the krewe that made it.
• By all means, go. Find this new artifact, render it harmless, and bring it before the council. We want to make sure you get the credit you deserve.
• We have our item. So, Savant, tell me: what do we have?
• I'm not sure. The VOED just tells us where it is and how magical it is. This thing here is packed with arcane energy.
• A cursory visual examination tells me it's part of something larger. Something that was accidentally broken or intentionally modular.
• Well, we can't learn any more here among these damp, foul-tempered beasts. Let's get the relic back to our lab and run some tests.
• Let's review once more, okay? I'll operate the translocator. I give the judges some banter, explain the translocator's brilliance, and then...?
• Then you fire it at me. I'm the most familiar with the device, and with being teleported, so I'm the least likely to regurgitate breakfast all over the judges' table.
• Icehammer's Journal
• Exactly. You appear in a blinding flash of electrified brilliance, we prove teleportation is possible without a receiving gate, and the Snaff Prize is ours!
• Right now, Krewemate Pol, they just look bored. They're waiting for us, so let's get out there and dazzle them! Snaff Prize, here we come!
• This is an outrage! How could the Council credit an Inquest lout over a genius like me? We can't even claim the title "Snaff Savant" in circumstances like these.
• Save your ink, Varkk. It's obvious Flax and Teyo are working together. And I will not let them besmirch Snaff's memory.
• Zojja's right. The Council accepted that protest and gave away our translocator suspiciously fast. I think that whole charade was rehearsed.
• Which means it's only a matter of time before they rescind their decision, take away your victory, and award the Snaff Prize to the Inquest.
• Count me in. It'll be tough, but I have a stake in this, too. And maybe if I help recover the translocator, you'll stop bringing up the Sewer Incident.
• Let's get started, then. You pinpoint their location with the tracking device and we'll intercept them before they can lock it up in one of their labs.
• Before we proceed, I want to make it clear: we won the Snaff Prize, but we can't decide who gets the "Snaff Savant" title until we recover Doxa and the MIG.
• Now, then: I just finished calibrating my Aetheric Harmonizer for the tracking device in the MIG. Once we activate it, it'll pinpoint Doxa's location.
• Then what are we waiting for? I mean: please, sir, let's activate it right away. I'm worried about Doxa.
• I can see that. But I'm worried that your...personal concerns are distracting you. The startup sequence is more complicated than flipping a switch, you know.
• Ergo, I want you on the harmonizer core to make sure the apparatus doesn't overload, while your krewemate here fires it up.
• Consider it done, sir. Kazz isn't the only one who needs Doxa back. She's funny, and without her, our productivity has dropped by 43 percent.
• Did you hear that? Doxa was in there, calling for me. But why was she so out of control, so destructive?
• Her mind has been fused with the MIG's command protocols. She's confused, in pain, and struggling to adjust to a whole new consciousness.
• A definite understatement. I've reviewed reams of recovered Inquest records, and according to them no one has ever been un-fused from a golem.
• Satchel[s] of Dire Exalted Armor
• Enough about Kudu. Let's shut this place down.
• Waves completed: %num1%
• Well played, Pokka. Time for the hardest way: we've planted explosives all along the cliffs overhead. Give me the artifact or we'll bury this place.
• You skritt-shaving devils. You'd threaten this entire community, all these innocent people, just to steal our discovery?
• It's all right, Kozzak. Let them have it. It's not worth the risk.
• Spoken like a true also-ran. "Snaff Prize winner." Ha! I'd pity your weakness, if it wasn't so amusing. Thanks for the treasure, losers!
• That was very slick, Savant. Let them have that piece. We know there are more, and we still have the VOED. We can collect them before the Inquest does.
• And then we force Teyo to give us back the first one. Pokka, I'd like Zojja to join us. We're going to need all the help we can get.
• Capital idea! You and Zojja handle the search. I'll send word to Zojja and have her standing by. Kozzak and I will start cleaning up here.
• You need to come see the progress we've made. That thing the VOED found for us is amazing!
• Also, you were right: it's part of a larger whole or a...matched set. Or something. Anyway, there have to be more like this one out there.
• We've synchronized the detection wave with our larger global positioning system to achieve long and short range scanning capability.
• So the global system gets us in range, then the VOED pinpoints the exact location. Perfect! When can we go after the other pieces?
• That right there is why you're my krewe chief. We're almost done calibrating the global system. Once we have coordinates, we can head out and start picking up the pieces.
• Hear that, Shrieksy? We're going on a relic hunt!
• Idiots. You think you've beaten us? Ha! I was the Easy Way. Now we'll just have to do things the Hard Way.
• Nothing can prepare you for the unfettered fury that is the Inquest Attack Squad. Go on, beg and plead, void your bowels in terror. It'll do you no good.
• This guy's a few anodizing terminals short of a coating array. I say we feed him to Shrieksy.
• The Inquest has never had any interest in our krewe's research until now. They must want whatever the VOED is detecting.