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title: 00011
created: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:47:26 -0600
updated: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:47:26 -0600
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syndicated: yes
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### 00011

The Retrieval Team 70 gophers are absolutely losing their minds over the ed terminal.

"It just keeps printing a question mark!" Vest sobs.

"Try pushing escape?" suggests Shorts somewhat panicking.

"I've tried it! It's not vi! It doesn't do anything!" Vest moans. "Here you try it if you're so smart!"

Sash is balled up on the floor crying, having already had a turn at the terminal.

Shorts carefully steps over them and timidly prods at the keypad.

A throng of beefy guard kobits come charging into the hall, alerted by the gopher racket.

"Here now! You're not supposed to be in here!"

One of them trips over Sash, still balled up on the floor, and crashes into Shorts's back, pinning them to wall. They squeal. Another guard grabs Vest by the collar, and after a brief scuffle all three gophers are escorted out of the hall despite their howls of protest.

"I had better check on the vault!" exclaims one of the kobits who remains behind.

They bang a few keys on the terminal and it spits out a slip of paper.

    ed v1.6
    19
    P
    *,n
    1        the door is locked
    *1s/locked/open
    ?
    *H
    no match
    *1s/Locked/Open
    the door is Open
    *wq
    17

There is a mechanical whir deep in the walls, and a click and a gasp of air as the door swings inward.

The kobit slips into the vault and the door swings only partly closed behind it.

The sword in the bottom of the pool pointedly narrows its eye at you.

The gods of Basmentaria observe passively from their reliefs in the alcoves around you.

The door to the vault is ajar, the first of the five legendary Ginnarak crystals presumably behind it.

From one of the twisty little passages, you hear a guard kobit approaching, singing a sad cowboy song to itself.

WHAT DO YOU DO

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