( open ) arrival

[tailorspy]

Who: Garak and YOU!
What: Arrival and exploring the city
When: First few days after his arrival
Where: Some random abandoned buildings and shops, the hotel
Warnings: None expected


I ▹ INFORMATION

[ One thing Garak has learned can be more valuable than virtually anything is information. The bright orb waiting for him upon arrival was useful, but incredibly lacking in many aspects, and Garak finds himself needing more to know what he's dealing with.

Yes, he realizes that a dying species likely had other things to worry about than just how much information they left readily available for others to come, but that doesn't mean some isn't laying around somewhere. He takes to exploring each and every building, pushing through the overgrown plants to step inside, climbing up stairs where he can manage, poking his head into different rooms as he passes them.

He'll approach any computer screen he finds, and he'll promptly open the nearest control panel to try and see what the circuitry looks like, and if there's any chance to get power running through it again. When that fails, he heads back outside and walks towards the outskirts of the city, trying to find whatever path the power might have once followed, hoping to find some sort of energy central.

The same goes for the plumbing system. At least plenty of people seem invested in getting power back up again, but Garak has a feeling they will all be in dire need of a decent bath sooner or later, and things will get rather unbearable if they don't get the plumbing working again.

If he finds anyone else exploring anywhere he happens to go, he'll smile at them, tilting his head all too politely. ] Greetings. May I ask what you're looking for? Perhaps it's the same as I, and we can help each other.

II ▹ CULTURE

[ Garak has found himself a place to sleep in at the rundown hotel. It's far from perfect, and he fully plans on finding something better eventually, but for the moment it has a door, a mostly intact window, and a whole ceiling. The bathroom has a tub that could be filled with water for a bath if need be, and having pushed the bed frame aside, Garak has gathered a few old blankets and sheets to serve as a small bed by a darker, warmer corner of the room.

He's not sleeping currently, however. Door open, he's sitting on those blankets, legs crossed, hunched over what looks like some kind of electronic device in his hands. He runs his fingers over the screen with a frown on his face, tapping and clicking like he's looking for something...

And then music just starts playing. Garak groans, eyes practically rolling back on his head. ] Oh, useless.

((ooc: Garak is new and can be found pretty much all over town, wherever you'd like to run into him I'm game! Feel free to write your own adventure, or friend/ping me @ extreminator if you'd like to plan something out!))

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[art_of_war]

Thrawn had been following much of the pipeworks for some time. He had started with the greenhouse (and made mental note of how to employ a greywater system to maximize efficiency there) and traced back to what appeared to be a larger mainline. No obvious cracks yet.

He had removed his white coat and carried that over his shoulder which left him only in a black tank top. Thrawn absently wondered if it might not be a better idea to make use of the planetary weather system that encouraged such profusion in plant growth and switch to a rainwater capture system when he met Garak coming from the opposite direction.

"Greetings. I am unsure of what it is I am looking for only that the greenhouse lacks water to use in their irrigation system. I have been following the pipe in order to find the reason for that lack."

[tailorspy]

Garak notes the man approaching from a distance, slowing down at first, then greeting him with a smile when it's clear he's going to speak to him.

"Then it seems our paths were fated to cross," he comments jovially, glancing back to the path he'd just come from. "I've found what seems to be a leak of sorts, where one or several of the pipes running under the ground are cracked. I think we may be able to get the water flowing again once those cracks are fixed."

[art_of_war]

An underground pipe may be interesting to patch since, by descriptor, it was underground. Rather than trying to fix that leak directly, it might be a better idea to seal off that section and thus the water would be redirected.

Thrawn stayed the same level of neutrally calm as he asked; "Forgive me, but are you an engineer or are otherwise used to finding the errors in pipeworks?"

[tailorspy]

If there was even another pipe to redirect the water through. But to know that, Garak would have to learn the path of the pipes built to irrigate the town.

"Oh, I am a simple tailor. I have merely dabbled on a few repairs in the past, in a place with likewise limited resources. Not quite as limited as here, but still," he cants his head. "Are you an engineer?"