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Finger’s crossed. If he’s not in, I have no choice but to go it alone on this one.
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*Connects a thick amber cord to a connector within the panel, and then walks to another machine housing a frosted cylinder that traverses up through the lab ceiling*
That sounds like it might be the last resort, if you came all the way out here to avoid it.
*Opens a pocket reference guide and traces a set of sigils onto a glass frame with an unsteady hand—the system autocorrects each symbol once I start the next and projects the runes on a display to the right*