Luoda: "I uh, don't think that'd be the best idea, with your suit an' all."

Madenuuk: "Aye. Most of the parts we obtain from drakes, but there is a special component that comes from elsewhere. I only had two, and I have used them already."

Aucupe: "It's the most important part!"

She places her hand over her chest.

Aucupe: "The heart!"
____________________



Vandolf heads over to the casket, seating himself into the worn velvet compartment as Kura and Luoda slowly close the hinged door.

Luoda: "If something ha-"

Ettiin: "WAITDIDYUOSTARTYET"

Ettiin bursts out of the stairwell, clambering over to see what's going on.

Luoda: "We just attached a mana supply and put it into the slot, we haven't done anything else yet."

Ettiin: "Okay cool. Don't mind me, I'll just be watching."

Luoda: "Anyways, if something happens, just give a shout and we'll pull you out."

The door fully closes, leaving you in complete darkness.

Nothing happens immediately, but after a few seconds you start seeing lights on the inside of the casket door. Lines of text scrolling down, eventually disappearing and leaving three rectangles, each with a short phrase inside.

[Status]
[Descend]
[Open Door]
____________________


Miimas: "I'm thinkin' from a stall, maybe get a little something for Tuhota too. I don't think she was given a key to the place, don't wanna leave her sitting on the street."

Madenuuk: "They are a new form of AM. When I found Aucupe and the other children, they had two among them. The people who had them contained called them Heartstones."
____________________


You tap on the one that says [Status].

Walls of text appear again, but this time they seem to be random characters and symbols. After a few seconds of scrolling text, it ends with a message and a selection screen.

ERROR: An unknown error has occurred.

[Retry]
[Activate Probes]
[Back]
____________________


You stand nervously with the lamp.

Might as well test out sensitive the armor feel is. Scooting over to a wall, you put your armored finger to the brickwork, finding that you can feel the grittiness of the stone pretty clearly. Rubbing harder, enough that it would normally take the skin off your finger, doesn't cause any pain, but that also might be from the armor not taking any damage.

Aucupe: "Um, I don't know too much, but there are lots of girls there and the people were hurting us. Horoma knows more, she got a lot of the people to talk before she killed them and burned a building down. It's an evil place."
____________________


You tap the probe option. The text clears, with an option at the top reading [Back].

The rest of the lid is covered in rectangles that have a text label and moving images, displaying dark hallways, rooms of equipment, and other poorly-lit places. Most of the images are completely blacked out.

The screens that seem to be somewhat interesting are -

[Probe F3 - Location : Bird Cage]
[Probe E9 - Location : Control Room]
[Probe T5 - Location : South Palace Hallway]

"Bird Cage" and "Control Room" are pitch black, but seem like points of interested. "South Palace Hallway" is an active screen, and it looks like there are some bodies.
____________________


You relax and watch the lamp. It hasn't changed yet, so that must be a good sign. A quick flip of the switch and the activation of magic light confirms that it's working, though you turn it back off to conserve energy.