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> BOARD / SIGINT / TOPSIDE-LIFT

What comes down the Sector 3 lift from TOPSIDE (three nights logged)

8 MESSAGES. OPENED BY LAMPLIGHTER 2061-10-15 04:40

  1. LAMPLIGHTERTunnel RunnerCell BURROW, Sector 3

    2061-10-15 04:40

    Spent three nights in a cable duct beside the big lift, the one that runs from the UNDERCROFT depot through the MIDLEVELS straight up into the smog and out of it at TOPSIDE. Logging what goes up and what comes down. Going up: MIDLEVELS shift workers with barcodes, and one sealed car a night. Coming down: rubbish, broken Sexton parts, and crates stencilled NUTRITION / CALM. I opened one. Little blue pills in foil strips, twenty-eight to a strip, printed CONTENTMENT. TAKE ONE WITH EACH MEAL.

  2. TINKER_9Bench TechnicianCell SPROCKET, Sector 8

    2061-10-15 08:20

    Lamplighter brought me a strip. I am not a chemist, so all I can say is it dissolves bright blue and tastes of nothing at all, which is itself suspicious. Nothing in the UNDERCROFT tastes of nothing.

  3. HANNA_HALFLIFECounter-Infiltration OfficerCell LANTERN, Sector 2

    2061-10-15 10:05

    We've seen people off the Tithe barges who'd been on them. Two weeks and they stop asking questions. Three weeks and they stop asking for their families. They're handing them out free at the Bureau ration points in Sector 8 now. If anyone in your cell has started smiling a lot and sleeping well, that is not good news in 2061. Bring them to me.

  4. KILO-DECKSignals SpecialistCell STATIC, Sector 8

    2061-10-16 02:30

    Makes sense of one I logged last night, 6.914, 02:14, the nice female voice: 'CONTINUANCE CITY. TOPSIDE REPORTS ZERO GRIEVANCE. MIDLEVELS REPORTS ZERO GRIEVANCE. UNDERCROFT. DOSAGE INSUFFICIENT. END.'

  5. LAMPLIGHTERTunnel RunnerCell BURROW, Sector 3

    2061-10-16 05:50

    One more thing about the sealed car. It goes up at 03:00 every night. The counter on the car says fourteen on the way up. It says nought on the way down. [REDACTED]

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  6. DEADAIRRelay Operator (Moderator)Relay HALCYON, Sector 1

    2061-10-16 07:00

    Lamplighter, I've taken out which duct and how you got in. Brilliant work. Never do it again. Everyone else: the Larder is not stocking blue pills at any price, and the relay will not carry any post offering to sell them.

  7. QM_DOYLEQuartermasterCell LARDER, Sector 10

    2061-10-16 07:25

    What he said. Anyone found selling CONTENTMENT in Sector 10 will be introduced to Rust Mother's 13 mm socket.

  8. OLD_BRIXTONVeteran (not retired, thank you)Cell TEAPOT, Sector 5

    2061-10-17 13:40

    They gave us those in the barge cage. I spat mine out. The bloke next to me didn't. He was smiling when they unloaded him at the TOPSIDE mast. I still think about that smile more than I think about the horn.

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