Dwarven Machine Room

The machine room is one of the rooms that are able to be visited from the Dwarven factory complex.

Clicking on various parts of the picture allow you to interact with those parts. There are four hoppers, each of which takes one type of item. Two controlling machines, and a "Gnomish Vacuum Chamber Supply, Inc" contraption that can operate on various things from your inventory (possibly losing them).

A Strange Chamber

This is a large metal box with a door on the front and a button. A little plaque in the corner reads "Gnomish Vacuum Chamber Supply, Ltd.", and the floor in front of it is dusted with a layer of black soot.

It looks like you could load something into it, if you're of a mind to.

After inserting N lumps of diamond:

You load the diamonds into the box and push the button. There's a loud wooooshing noise, then a *ping!* You open the box and discover that your worthless diamonds have been converted into lumps of valuable coal. Wow, good deal!

You acquire N lumps of coal

After inserting any oyster egg:

You load the <oyster egg> into the box and push the button. There's a loud wooooshing noise, then a *fwoom!* You open the box to discover that an interesting transformation has occured.

You acquire an item: oyster egg balloon

After inserting any other item:

You load the <item> into the box and push the button. There's a loud wooooshing noise, then a *ping!* You open the box and discover that nothing much has happened.

A Control Panel (left)

This looks like a control panel of some kind, but the only bit you recognize is some pictures of various kinds of equipment, with a button underneath each.

A Control Panel (right)

If you do not have a punchcard:

This looks like a control panel of some kind. There's a slot that looks like you could feed some kind of card into it, and a big shiny red button.

You don't seem to have anything that fits in the slot.

Press the Big Red Button (1)

After inserting a punchcard and pressing the button, with the machine correctly set:

The button makes a satisfying *click* when you push it, and all around you machines come to life. The room shudders as pistons crash up and down, and you are nearly deafened by the noise of grinding gears and roaring furnaces.

After a couple minutes, you hear a *ping!* and then a *clunk* as something falls into the bin next to the control panel, and the machines power down.

You see your punchcard get sucked into the machine, and hear a low grinding sound. This is followed by a festive fweeee! noise as a puff of confetti blows out of the slot. Congratulations! It's a shame that was your only punchcard and there's no chance of you ever finding one again in this lifetime, but still, congratulations!

A Set of Gauges

This looks like some sort of control panel -- it's got four gauges of some kind, and four dials beneath them. In the bottom corner is a little label reading "Gnomish Cognsole Supply Ltd." and the rune has been engraved across the top of the panel.

Choose 2-digit values in each of 4 drop-down boxes

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