Spoiler for Pipeworks at the end of Round 4:
Map at the start of Round 4:
Items at the start of Round 4:
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SpreadsheetROUND 5
131.
There's a woman working for Sanitation who lives in unoccupied territory. Her name is Martha. Martha wakes up at 8AM. By 10AM, she's dressed and washed and she's eaten some of her rations, and she's out in the pipes to clean. Today, she'll be fixing lights.
At 12AM, Martha's still struggling with her first light. It's not been working for a good few days and she was given the task of fixing it. Martha's thinking to herself that the Engineers should be doing this. But noooo, the Engineers are lording around in their little office, drawing designs and building machine and other stuff that nobody gives one single damn about. And Martha has been told to do what an Engineer should do. She wishes the Megalomaniacs would get their work rotas in order.
Martha is a Sanitation Worker. Like her mother. Like her grandmother. Although Martha isn't pregnant yet (not for lack of trying, her body simply isn't ready), one day, her children will work in Sanitation too. Martha is proud to wave the green flag. But no Sanitation worker should have to fix lights.
By 16AM, Martha feels like she's broken the light even more than it was before, and decides to move on. Her footsteps echo on the concrete floor as she makes her way over the next light, the ceiling of the pipe vaulting high over hear head, far out of reach. It's lucky that the lights are on the walls - if a light on the ceiling broke, it might be broken forever.
It's almost halfway through the day, and Martha has achieved nothing. She opens the cover of the next light fixture and peers inside - a cut wire. Looks like this one was sabotaged. A bit of molten solder will bind the two bits of wire together - almost there - perfect. Martha closes the cover and the light immediately flares into life, almost blinding her even as she flinches away.
Martha covers her eyes with her arm. After a moment, she opens her eyes, glad to see that they have recovered, and looks around her.
Before, this pipe was swathed in darkness. Now that it's illuminated, it has a distinctly yellow tinge. It takes Martha a moment to realise what is happening. In a flash, she takes her radiation detector out of her pocket. This morning, it was a disc of pure white. Now, it's completely black. She's seen detectors with patches of black on them before, but never one as severe as this.
She knows there's no point going home. Martha looks up at the next light. She can't be bothered to fix it.
By 17AM, her skin is crawling.
By noon, her skin is burning.
By 1PM, she's starting to get blisters.
By 2PM, the blisters are in her lungs.
By 3PM, all the pain has gone away and she can finally relax.
By 4PM, she's dreaming of the surface world.
131.
That's how many denizens of the Pipeworks died this round. They were all killed by radiation.
Round 5 has ended.Submit your actions in the top six lines of your titanpad. Please PM me any queries.
I'd like to draw your attention to Silver Emerald's post, which is applicable to Round 5 but managed to get in before the round's update.
