i also had trouble getting out of the workshop but eventually made it. the enthusiastic writing carried me through, even though i knew it was thermionics the whole time...
haha! I kind of fell in love with the sci-fi jargon trope and let it go a bit too far. That and the over-the-top dialogue had me laughing hysterically at my own work at one point. I just could not find the nerve to cut some of the content.
