Question 5. Complete the following paragraph.

[Mr. Tenk]

Academy of Industry was lost because................

[Doctor Obolensky]

....a bunch of students, after a particularly excessive post-exam celebration, attempted to prank the Dean's office by creating a device that created smells of the most horrible sort.

Due to a drunken error involving exponents, the resulting "Stenchotron" was far more effective than the students imagined, driving all living things out of the Academy and surrounding buildings due to the nasal trauma that ensued.

[Ceejay Writer]

((OOC: *dies*))

IC: *dies* I believe every word of it.

[DreddPirateBob]

I do believe it might well have been the left over stench that caused one Django Yifu to drive his Traction House over m*cough* Dredds cafe after he took it for a spin around the academy...

Of course, it could have been spite but i doubt it...

*grumbles

[Mara Razor]

*sniffs and wipes tears from her eyes as she thinks of her two lost scamps* Oh dear DJ and Bob! They were such high spirited boys!

[Elilka Sieyes]

I'm not sure it's possible to follow that.

[DreddPirateBob]

On a more serious note i have always wondered this. Myself and Dj were very interested as at that point we were using it near-extensively both personally and within our RL educationy jobs

[Mr. Tenk]

can i get an industrial accident and zombies maybe?

[DreddPirateBob]

in relation to the academy or just generally?

Stench zombies?

[Mr. Tenk]

well, i had "earthquake" in the information, but it seems we can do better than that. need a reason it was destroyed.

Before Wednesday?

[Katherine Montpark]

Hmm...let me try this!

*ahem* The Stenchotron was "enhanced" by one of the participating prankster students with a potent olfactory neurotoxibiorganic compound snitched from the office of Dr. Ignatius "Laughin' Iggy" Rappicchini, a Professor of Biological Engineering known for enthusiastic experimentation and dubious sanity. Those closest to the resultant malodorous effusion were quickly reduced to shambling automatons. These "stench zombies" would chase and try to catch anyone nearby, forcing them to breathe in their horrible smell and thus become revenants themselves. It is said that in the darkest reaches of the sewers, one can still occasionally detect whiffs of some indescribable horror, and hear the faint, unearthly cry of "Pull my finger..."

[Kandace Commons]

Trouble with an earthquake is that it would've damaged surrounding regions also. Perhaps a sinkhole instead. Overmining and/or natural caverns under the city could collapse, swallow the academy whole. It happens from time-to-time, usually on a smaller scale, but definitely plausible.

Perhaps mines outside the city were illegally/mistakenly mining under the city walls. Some heads are going to roll for that one.

[TriloByte Zanzibar]

If there was a collapse, perhaps it had something to do with the mole men?