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Any recordings of the event would become highly sought collectibles for certain segments of regime insiders.

An advanced technique known only to those with a lifelong passion for it.

Yes! Yes!! That's not a real model but fuck it!!!

Amateur wirework.

No use. The Umatic disc encoding method is basically extinct. You can't play this thing without specialised equipment.

A Protypo 909 50-watt with multi-disc changer. Last-generation model, designed for affordability at the expense of power and clarity.

Wait! There's no neatly perforated line to guide your tearing. And the binding's flimsy -- any operation you attempt, without the proper precautions, will become a dissection.

This is a Umatic. While the form-factor's the same as any modern disc, the encoding method is entirely different.

Machines don't make mistakes, mister.

Baleen -- whale keratin. Also used to manufacture the cuirasses worn by Lävendi's revolutionary brigades.

It's much more expensive than a mere toy.

By the sound of it, it's more expensive than a mere toy.

No wires, switches, or screws anywhere on that thing he's holding. Remarkably untechnological for a Ramses project.

One, two, dead. One, two, dead -- a precise interval. The lightbulb isn't flickering, it's pulsing.

There is only one security system that uses that setup, the Abwehr-Pastorius Mk. III. A legendary keypad and lock duo.

There's something about stars and what it says about this type of lock, but it doesn't quite come to you.

Intercom looks expensive, the interference suggests a building-wide system. Nothing 'light' about this security.

Of course. When an industry dies out, its buildings are repurposed into offices for that contemporary, utilitarian feel.

With a certain weariness, you discern.

An emergency venting cycle; motors spinning down. The device is trying to adjust to an unexpected baseline.

One must think of multi-tiered privileges. Access granted or withheld via radio wave. Most likely off-the-shelf.

The Subcomandante's 'metaphysical superweapon' is useless, unless.... could it be he's found a way to reconstruct the red disc?

Perhaps a kind of social scramble pattern.

Velodisk! A modern laser-hybrid format, played using a heated stylus unit. Astounding sonic fidelity. Cause of thousands of home fires.

You see him now -- eyes wide, reward circuit shorted out by the cut and thrust of commerce.

Behold! The paladin who stands before Absurdity and declares 'Well, technically...'

Remanence: the charge that remains after the removal of a magnetic field. The ghost of magnetic possession.

Pretty esoteric term we've got here... Just roll with it.

As if to ward you, vector of the techno-plague, away.

Velodisk! A modern laser-hybrid medium, played using a heated stylus unit. Astounding sonic fidelity. Cause of thousands of home fires.

Necro-techno sorcery. Awesome!

She has surpassed him.

At least two different colours and three different consistencies in there. That's not a drug, that's a cocktail.

Enabling subconscious links between several participants, all wearing headsets. Very futuristic.

Rendering the patient almost vegetative. No neurological activity means no seizure.

A Wachbann door. Double-skin boron-alloy, tungsten-carbide backing, sixty millimetre core. High-end prison-grade.

Forget the frame. Look at the glass. Something's off about it. Enhance!

Sequential logic applies. Operating the controls in a specific order will lower the water outside.

Push the buttons. No, wait, the lever! Whichever goes click-clack the loudest.

Next: switch, then lever.

Next: the switch.

First step confirmed. Sluice cycle initiated. Next: either switch or lever.

Best guess: toggle for a humidity sensor, or pressure relief for a bypass pipe. Ignore it -- it's irrelevant.

This is it. Now hold down the red button.

That's the sound of being technically correct. Next: the lever.

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