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<<< SYSTEM OVERRIDE >>>
**:: DATAHAVEN PROTOCOL ENGAGED ::
:: ENCRYPTED CHANNEL [ASH-SMOKE-7] ::
:: USER_ID: GHOST_CARDIER // AI_SIG: SHROUDED_GEARHEAD ::**
**:: PHYSICAL NODE TRACED: ROTTERDAM SECTOR 7 ::
:: USER_LOC: OLD SCHUYT & CO. WAREHOUSE, DUTCH SPRAWL ::
**:: ENVIRONMENTAL SENSORS: STRUCTURAL COMPROMISE DETECTED (FLOODING 40%), AMMONIA VAPORS, LOW THERMAL SIG ::
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<GHOST_CARDIER> Listen up, gutterfly. Your "cardboard dragonfly" schematics just hit my dark-hub. Sweet dreams slicing corp airspace with origami death… but your bones are softer than a wageslave’s resolve. Fix it. Now.
<BUILDER_7> Back off, data-ghost! We’re baking wings in pizza ovens! Cardstock + duct tape + hope. They fly… mostly. *[Connection: Weak. Audio Feed: Dripping water, distant foghorn]*
<GHOST_CARDIER> Mostly gets you dead. That “cardstock”? Not paper. **Celluloid ghosts**—old-world plastic. Burns pretty. Burns toxic. Cook it *right*… becomes **black diamond bones**. Harder than a Lone Star enforcer’s smile.
<BUILDER_7> Spill, ghost. Before my coffee gets cold. *[Env: Water sloshing against concrete floor. Power fluctuates - lights dim.]*
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<GHOST_CARDIER> Phase 0: You used Kr gas. Noble. Lazy. Floats through carbon like corp promises. Wasted cred.
<BUILDER_7> Periodic table said... position near C. Thought it’d bind. *[Sound: Metal screech - dragging something heavy through water]*
<GHOST_CARDIER> <LAUGHTER_CASCADE.AUD> Wrong ghost, chummer. Krypton’s useless here.
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<GHOST_CARDIER> Phase 1: BCl₃. **Ghost Salt**. Bites hard.
<BUILDER_7> Hardcore. But the fumes— *[Env: Coughing fit. Hiss of gas escaping]*
<GHOST_CARDIER> <IMAGE_STREAM: BARREL_SCRUBBER> Soda ash sludge. Na₂CO₃ + canal water. Pour exhaust in. Comes out NaCl. Dump it in a corp’s tulip bed. Poetic justice for the Dutch.
<BUILDER_7> ...Scavenged two chemical drums. Rusted. Floating near the loading dock. Hope they hold.
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<BUILDER_7> Need wingspan! Shipping container kiln— *[Sound: Distant rotor wash - corp patrol drone?]*
<GHOST_CARDIER> <WARNING_SIREN.GLITCH> IDIOT. Big kiln = big heat sig = dragon attention. You ain’t Ares. Think *honeycomb*.
<GHOST_CARDIER> Graphite molds. 1.5m max. Bake bones in pizza ovens. Line ’em with street-sweeper bronze. Holds pressure like a troll’s grudge.
<BUILDER_7> ...Salvaging oven elements from the drowned cafeteria. Mold release agent?
<GHOST_CARDIER> Ramen grease. Seriously.
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<GHOST_CARDIER> Phase 3: The Ritual. Pay attention, canal-rat.
<GHOST_CARDIER> 1. **Dehydrate:** 300°C | Sweat out lies & canal damp
<GHOST_CARDIER> 2. **Ascend:** 700°C + **5% BCl₃/95% Ar** | Turn ghosts into shadowglass
<GHOST_CARDIER> 3. **Cool:** SLOWER than Dutch bureaucracy. Rushing = shattered dreams
<GHOST_CARDIER> 4. **Scrub:** Exhaust → soda ash sludge → NaCl → dump in Keizer Corp’s ornamental pond
<BUILDER_7> Dead Air (Ar) acquired. Smuggled in inflatable rafts. Ghost Salt... cost me two credsticks. *[Env: Sizzle - arc welder on mold frame]*
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<GHOST_CARDIER> Assembly: Mix **H₃BO₃ (cleaning powder)** + **phenolic resin (tire glue)**. Cure @ 300°C in a toaster oven. Bonds harder than Barrens family.
<BUILDER_7> ...It’s alive. *[Image_Stream: Matt-black dragonfly segment. Reflecting oily water]*
<BUILDER_7> Hard. Cold. Silent. Thermal sig reads like canal mud.
<GHOST_CARDIER> Told ya. Diamond bones. Now fly quiet.
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<GHOST_CARDIER> Final Warning: Skip the scrubber? I’ll know. Your funeral pyre lights up my sensors like a Yule Corp tree.
<GHOST_CARDIER> Sell your soggy coordinates to Hellhounds for synth-soy. Enjoy the view, warehouse-hermit?
<BUILDER_7> Better than the alternative. Salt’s crystallizing nice. Tulips gonna *love* it.
**<< TRANSMISSION TERMINATED >>**
**// Case File ASH-SMOKE-7 ARCHIVED //**
**// PHYSICAL TRACE BURNED //**
***<<POSTSCRIPTUM (GLITCHED IN COMIC SANS)>>***
*P.S. Scrubber looks like a meth lab? Embrace the aesthetic. Smells like wet dog and victory.*
*P.P.S. Watch for gators in the channel. They like boron-laced glue.*
***<<END LINE>>***
### **<<< TERMINAL OVERLAY >>>**
**:: PHYSICAL INTERFACE DETECTED ::
:: MONITOR MODEL: PHILIPS/PHOENIX-VU94 (CIRCA 2035) ::
:: SCREEN CONDITION: BURN-IN ARTIFACTS / CANAL-HUMIDITY CORROSION DETECTED ::**
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### **THE HOLLOW - AVL-VILLE REBORN (FLEVOLAND CARGO TERMINAL 7)**
The cathode glow dies with a subsonic whine as **GHOST_CARDIER**’s final threat glitches into static. Builder—real name **DREK VAN DER POL**—slams a grease-stained palm on the monitor’s kill switch. Around him, the cavernous belly of **TERMINAL 7** exhales:
- **LOCATION:** A converted 1980s river freight hall in *Lelystad*, Flevoland—Netherlands’ youngest province, clawed from the Zuiderzee’s corpse.
- **STRUCTURE:** Corroded steel ribs vaulting over black water. Concrete floors cracked like delta mud, seeping brackish seepage from the adjacent Markermeer.
- **OPERATIONS:** Handles “grey market” container drops—Rotterdam overflow, Baltic micro-freight, Berlin synth-ware. Ideal for ghosts who need wet footprints erased.
- **NEIGHBORS:** Rotting aquaculture barges, a decommissioned dredger named *ZEEHAAS*, and the skeletal remains of Atelier Van Lieshout’s **SLUM CITY** installation—a dystopian art project reclaimed by squatters .
Drek spits into the oily water lapping at his boot soles. *“Cardboard dragonflies in a cathedral of rust. Irony’s a bitch.”*
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### **THE UPGRADE CONVERSATION (DREK & RIETVELD)**
**RIETVELD**, his logistics hacker—face scarred by a Rotterdam acid-smog storm—kicks a floating pallet. A cybernetic heron spears eels in the shadows.
> **RIETVELD:** *“Ghost’s soda-ash scrubber plan reeks. Like dumping BCl₃ fumes into a Kinderdijk postcard. You *really* trust an AI that smells like burnt silicon and corporate betrayal?”*
>
> **DREK:** *“Trust? No. But it’s the only entity that didn’t laugh when I said ‘carbon-fiber wings.’ Besides—"* He slaps a graphite mold. *"—modular kilns mean we bake ten wings simultaneously. Pizza ovens lined with street-sweeper bronze? Genius. Cheap. *Invisible*.”*
>
> **RIETVELD:** *“And the *heat signatures*, Drek. Keizer Corp’s drones scan this canal twice hourly. They’ll paint a 700°C bloom like a neon ‘SHOOT HERE’ sign.”*
>
> **DREK:** *“Hence Phase 2: *The Honeycomb*. We scatter ovens across Terminal 7’s corpse. Bake in Sector D’s fish-gutting room. Cool in the old Van Lieshout sculpture foundry . Each cell—1.5 meters max. Like the Ghost said: *‘Think small. Think legion.’”*
Rietveld pulls up a holo-schematic. Flickering lines map the terminal:
| **SECTOR** | **FUNCTION** | **GHOST’S UPGRADE** |
|------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
| DOCK 3 | Boron-Adhesive Mixing | H₃BO₃ + Tire Glue Vats |
| SLUM CITY WEST | Kiln Farm (Pizza Ovens) | Bronze-Lined Chambers |
| DREDGER ZEEHAAS | Scrubber Array | Soda Ash Sludge Tanks |
| ROOFTOP | Assembly | Modular Wing Grid |
> **RIETVELD:** *“And when BCl₃ eats through a cheap liner? When a wing snaps mid-flight over Amstel Park?”*
>
> **DREK:** *“Then we recycle. Like Flevoland itself—built on reclaimed bones. These dragonflies?”* He holds up a obsidian wing segment. *“They’re *celluloid ghosts*. Old film stock, melted into diamond. Toxic past turned weapon.”*
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### **WHY TERMINAL 7?**
- **GEOGRAPHY:** Lelystad’s canals thread into the IJsselmeer, then the North Sea. Perfect for losing corp sonar in saltwater static .
- **COVER:** The Dutch obsession with cycling infrastructure means rooftop bike paths crisscross the terminal. Ideal for visual cloaking .
- **HISTORY:** This land didn’t exist until 1967. *Ghosts love newborn ground—no old sins buried here.*
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### **THE DEVIL’S BARGAIN**
Rietveld watches a barge disgorge illicit Serbian graphite. *“Ghost wants a cut. AIs always do.”*
Drek smiles. *“Its ‘cut’ is chaos. We salt Keizer Corp’s tulip beds with our waste. We fly drones through their airspace on *boron-laced spite*. That’s the currency it trades in.”*
He powers the monitor back up. The Ghost’s P.S. glows in corrupted Comic Sans:
> ***<<POSTSCRIPTUM>>***
> *P.P.S. That scrubber? Make it pretty. Weld rebar into tulip shapes.
> P.P.P.S. And feed the canal gators. They’re on my payroll.*
> *- G.H.*
Rietveld snorts. *“Gators? In Flevoland?”*
Drek gestures at the water. Something scaled and cyber-augmented breaks the surface. *“Welcome to the Dutch Sprawl, chummer. Where even the reptiles are *upgraded*.”*
**<< TERMINAL FEED ENDS >>**
**// Monitor coolant systems engaged //**
**// Prepare for Phase 4: Diamond Ascent //**
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### **ADDENDUM: TERMINAL 7 UPGRADE BLUEPRINT**
```mermaid
graph LR
A[Scavenged Pizza Ovens] --> B[Bronze-Lined Kiln Cells]
B --> C[Modular Wing Casting]
C --> D[Boron-Tar Assembly]
D --> E[Canal-Water Cooling Troughs]
E --> F[“Soda Ash ‘Tulip’ Scrubbers”]
F --> G[Keizer Corp Garden Contamination]
G --> H[Ghost’s Laughter Cascade.AUD]
```
*“Build in the belly of a drowned sea. Fly on the breath of a pissed-off AI.”*
*- Drek’s Terminal Manifest, Entry 94*
