not surprised. my cousin works logistics for crownward and says the corp floors get the good stuff always. guess some things about the old world we really did keep

at least crownward has to build things to earn it. britannia just flips a switch and calls it labor

filed a complaint. it went into the same void as my lift ticket from thread 003, probably

pro tip: layer up before shift, the thermal core techs will just tell you "core's stable, stop asking"

yeah, sector 4 got the curfew extension notice too. don't make eye contact, don't ask questions, works every time

my dad used to say you can tell when the implant's active by the eyes. thought he was exaggerating until i actually looked. did not enjoy that

genuinely feel bad for whoever's under that visor. crownward pays their techs better than the union pays the corps, that much i know

reminder: nobody in this thread said anything critical about the union. we are simply discussing lighting conditions near the lift

correct. beautiful lighting. very atmospheric. anyway stay inside tonight

honestly it's free cardio. embrace the stairs. become the stairs

i do not want to become the stairs, i want to press a button and arrive at a different floor like a civilized pre-storm person

filed a ticket with crownward three weeks ago. status still reads "acknowledged." acknowledged by who. acknowledged when.

status: acknowledged is bbs-speak for "a machine read your ticket and felt nothing"

bring back the guy who used to fix things with a wrench and mild swearing. simpler times, before crownward centralized maintenance

hive history round is going to be brutal, nobody remembers anything before their block was already built

my grandmother still won't talk about the early undercity quota lottery, so that round might hit different for some of us. keep it light please

noted — keeping it to fun facts, nothing about the quotas. sorry for even bringing it up, deb

my grandfather helped build the early tunnels. said half the original crew were people who didn't make the surface quota and figured digging was better odds than waiting outside

that's dark but also kind of on brand for this hive

makes me appreciate the lift being broken a little less, honestly. at least we HAVE a sector 9

traders always jack up prices right after a curfew, they know we're all stir crazy for anything from outside

one of the pilgrims traveling with them said paris still hasn't budged an inch against the union. man's been walking for weeks and that's the whole update

paris will outlast all of us out of pure spite at this point. gotta respect it

also heard secondhand that moscow's still deadlocked between the shields and the union-friendly side. some things really don't change city to city

did three months on a platform crew. pay's good, but you're basically living next to gun turrets all day, noise never stops

at least it's steady work. beats waiting on a crownward maintenance contract that never comes (see: thread 003)

my nephew applied. said the interview was mostly them checking if he'd flinch near live ordnance

didn't berlin basically go quiet after the storm? thought they were assumed gone

"assumed gone" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. love that for us

adding "guess which city sent the envoy" to trivia night. you're welcome

same here, thought it was just me

filed a ticket, they said it's "within normal mineral tolerance," which is not the reassurance they think it is

"normal mineral tolerance" is what my grandad used to call it right before the pipe actually burst, just saying

please nobody tell britannia power we're worried, they'll just raise the water tariff to fix our feelings about it

not made up, my family has an old photo from a lift platform. wild to think that stuff existed before all of this

explains why they were so desperate for the rare metals though. imagine building all that and then losing it in one bad winter

"one bad winter" is generous, it's been like two hundred years

adding "orbital lifts: real or grandparents lying" to trivia night as well. this list is getting long