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>[!quote] Root Oversight Array- Location Classified >[!quote] Root Oversight Array- Location Classified
>We start somewhere else, while you are all discussing what happened at B2 with Ellias >We start somewhere else, while you are all discussing what happened at B2 with Ellias
> The room is all stone, and steel, and light. > The room is all stone, and steel, and light.
> In the center, is a platform which holds a wide, shallow basin. It is filled with a liquid- or is it light, that seems to map out a ghostly diagram of the leyline network: bright trunks, branching roots, pulsing nodes. > In the center, is a platform which holds a wide, shallow basin. It is not filled with a liquid- but light, that seems to map out a ghostly diagram of the leyline network: bright trunks, branching roots, pulsing nodes.
> Hooded technicians in plain grey robes move between pillars, checking readings, murmuring quietly. The whole place hums with an all to familiar heartbeat- but here, amplified one hundred fold- the room throbs. Each beat knocks dust from the walls and gravel from the roof. > Hooded technicians in plain grey robes move between pillars, checking readings, murmuring quietly. The whole place hums with an all to familiar heartbeat- but here, amplified one hundred fold- the room throbs. Each beat knocks dust from the walls and gravel from the roof.
> **A BEAT** > **A BEAT**
> One of the technicians, younger, nervous, stiffens. The crystal pillar in front of him flickers, then flashes an angry red. > One of the technicians, younger, nervous, stiffens. The crystal pillar in front of him flickers, then flashes an angry red.
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>“Root oversight offline,” he says, to nobody in particular. >“Root oversight offline,” he says, to nobody in particular.
>“Let’s see what you do without a leash.” >“Let’s see what you do without a leash.”
# Spin Alley # Spin Alley
Non-negotiable in world facts Ellias will NOT bend on:
- Admin already has:
- A timestamped grid anomaly.
- A log that B2 was manually adjusted shortly before line 4 died.
- Sensors on the hatch that say the doors were opened.
- Elias was watching the tap from topside; he knows:
- Stress went up, then down, then the unknocn branch died.
- This wasn't just "it popped on it's own".
- Elias' priorities:
- Keep his job
- keep you guys from getting expelled
- prevent admin from panicking and making things worse
- stop them from admitting they destroyed expensive government property out loud.
- He will not agree to a story that paints him as the sole mastermind sabotaging the school.
- He will not outright lie about the node nearly failing; he _did_ see the stress levels and knows “we stabilized it” is mostly true.
- He _will_ downplay the intentional destruction: “a failing line went during emergency triage.”
>[!quote] Elias, pacing:
>“Okay,” he says. “Before Larkvale drags us into his vivisection lab, we need to get our story straight. Because right now, the system logs say: Node B2 flagged a critical load, **Students** were detected in the tap cell, and an output line physically failed while someone was manual-adjusting it.
> “So. In your own words: what happened down there?”
## Cooperate
"We stabilized, shit went bad in the process."
>[!quote] Elias
>"Good. Okay- we can work with that- emergency triage.
> We say that we saw the stress from up top, and you all insisted on going down with me because nobody else was responding. We manually lowered the intake and tried to bled off pressure. One output was already cracked, and failed while stabilizing. That makes you out to be heros, not saboteurs.
If they mention the unknown branch:
>[!quote] Elias
>"Stop. There was no "unknown branch". Only a compromised conduit.
>Admin doesn’t even admit the C-line exists. If you bring it up, we’re not just in trouble, we’re in ‘shut-the-campus-down and ‘where did that funding really go’ trouble.
>We call it a cracked line. We say it failed. That’s it.”
## Ben commits to Elias is the villian
>[!quote] Elias
>“You think _I_ built this? If I’d designed the tap network, I’d be on a government salary in a tower somewhere, not eating academy cafeteria slop and patching leaks with underage arsonists.”
>He jabs a thumb toward the field.
>“I’m a **grad student on a stipend** with a maintenance pass and a supervisor who thinks ‘mana physics’ means ‘turn it off and on again.’
>What I had was a diagnostic tool and enough training to see B2 was about to go from ‘concerning’ to ‘front-page obituary.’”
If Ben continues to press Elias:
>[!quote] Elias
>“ Yes, I knew that line was ugly. That’s why I brought the only people on campus who had already survived one meltdown to help me stop the next one.
>I didn’t _make_ you kill the line, Mulkerberg. You did that all by yourselves. I’m just the idiot who stayed topside and watched the graphs scream.”
If ben threatens to blame Elias:
>[!quote] Elias
>You _can_ try to pin this on me. You can walk into Larkvale’s office and say ‘Elias dragged us down there and broke the node.’ You know what happens next? I get investigated and probably thrown out. Admin still has logs showing **student biometric signatures** in the cell. Admin still has logs showing **student biometric signatures** in the cell. You don’t get off the hook by lighting me on fire. You just guarantee you burn too. I am not your enemy. I am the one person in this building who understands what you actually did last night and isn’t immediately calling the district audit board. So either we work together, or we walk into that meeting as four separate suspects. Your call.”
## Throw Admin Under the Bus
>[!quote] Elias
>I *like* that idea. We *did* respond when nobody else did. We *did* lower the stress before the line failed.
> Be smart about it. Blame the system, blame the lack of oversight, blame the fact there was a critical node under the field with no on call engineer.
> Do not start naming hidden branches or implying you have a more complete map of the tap than the people who built it.
If they commit to wanting to expose the whole conspiracy:
>[!quote] Elias
>"You don't *have* the whole conspiracy. Right now you have a weird grid, a bleeding tree, and a dead conduit. If you go in there screaming about secret C-lines and ancient root watchers without proof, you look crazy and dangerous. And crazy, dangerous students get removed from unstable systems, not entrusted with investigating them!