Night 64: X-Ray Operation Room

[lighthearted]

[From here.]

The first thing Sora did as he stepped in was shine his flashlight into every corner, on the lookout for monsters that might have been waiting for them. It looked like the coast was clear, though, and so he quickly turned his attention to the actual contents of the room.

There was really only one thing in here that was of notice, and that was a control panel. "Hey, I bet this is what you have to use to make the X-Ray machine work!" Sora moved closer and started to illuminate the buttons and knobs with his flashlight, but it looked like a lot of the instructions had faded away. It was like they were trying to make this hard on them purposefully, though that wasn't such a huge surprise.

Other than that, the room had a cabinet and yet another door, so it looked like their search wasn't over just yet. Sora paused and turned back to Link. The other boy probably wouldn't be able to make sense of most of this, but Sora still wanted to give him the chance to look around.

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[his_legacy]

"...Rubber?" What's rubber? Link looked at the strange thing closely, stretching it until it flew out of his hand. "Oh... It's like a sling shot," he mused, smirking slightly. Picking up another one, Link latched it on his right thumb, pulled back with his dominant hand, and took aim at one of the larger buttons on the array, hitting his target in one shot.

"Well, you never know when something silly will come in handy." Link grabbed the spares, putting them in his pocket and making his way back over to the control panel.

"You are right, though. We ought to at least try to figure out how that machine works... And all of these switches and things." He frowned, trying to find a button that looked particularly important.

[lighthearted]

As it turned out, Link was some kind of natural when it came to using rubber bands. Sora watched as one of them hit a button on the control panel perfectly and couldn't stop himself from grinning in response. "Hey, you're pretty good at that!" Sora was glad that he'd mentioned it, since the bands might actually be useful to Link. He was already stocking up on possible weapons on his first night.

There didn't seem to be much else to do in the room beyond messing with the buttons and levers that were practically begging to be pushed or pulled, but Sora was still apprehensive. "I don't want to do end up doing something we can't undo, though." This was complex machinery and with two people who knew next to nothing, that could end badly.

"Maybe we should check out the next room first? We've got to hit a dead end eventually." Or just circle back out into the main hallway, where Lingormr was likely still waiting.

[his_legacy]

"It's not much different from a slingshot, really." And Link had used his plenty. And maybe if he found something small and round for ammo, he could use it like one, too. He decided he needed to get outside somehow and look for rocks.

Link nodded when Sora spoke, turning away from the control panel to face him.

"That would be the best option for now, yes-"

But something interrupted his thoughts. Hearing the door slam the next room over, Link looked up through the glass window, seeing two figures entering frantically into the main X-Ray room.

"Sora, someone's come in." Link made his way for the door.

[lighthearted]

That sound was enough to draw Sora's thoughts away from things like exploring and slingshots, and as his head snapped up to see what had caused it, he spotted two figures in the other room. It was too dark to tell who they were from here, but either way it looked like they'd finally been joined by a couple of other patients.

Sora nodded to Link. "Yeah, let's go," he said quickly, following after Link back into the room they'd come from.

[To here.]