Emergency Phones

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The emergency phones are various orange-colored phones scattered throughout the Lower Underrail and Upper Underrail. Initially they were meant for Biocorp metro users to report various incidents using the different buttons on the phone, with Red Cross for medical emergencies, Red Rathound for wildlife, Green Shield for humans, Yellow Wrench for mechanical issues (which would also dispatch robots), Red Exclamation Mark for hazards and Blue Exclamation Mark for an explanation of what emergency phones do. Hundreds of years of disuse as well as the occasional tampering of a certain hacker have left the effects of their buttons unpredictable. Additionally, all emergency phones have a storage compartment that sometimes contains items, and may or may not be unlocked (and thus requiring Lockpicking).

Upper Underrail

Several phones are unusable, but 4 are functional.

Sounds and the Orange Box

The majority of emergency phones in Upper Underrail were modified by Phreak in order to act as hideout entrances, and interacting with him will eventually net you the Orange Box, the device used to interact with them. In order to trigger the entrance, the player has to repeat 3 randomized sequences in a row consisting of multiple button presses (roughly 5 to 9 different button presses), and failing to repeat a sequence will mean the player has to start from the beginning with a new sequence. What sound plays when pressing each button is randomized in every playthrough. Difficulty determines how many sound playbacks on average are unresponsive on the Orange Box (with 0-2 on Hard^Verify and 1-3 on Dominating). Successfully activating 2 emergency phones will grant the player character the Fine Tuned feat.

Lower Underrail

Several of them can be interacted with for various unique interactions.

• Pressing Yellow Wrench on a certain one will summon a hostile Sentry Bot and unlock a nearby door.
• Pressing ??? on a certain one will summon a neutral Industrial Robot that will likely kill the nearby Lunatics.
• One can be repaired using Electronics to detail an interaction with Phreak.
• One can be fixed using Hacking to detail an interaction with Phreak.