After leaving Joy's office they set out to go investigate the park some more.
"Hey Rarity, I have an idea. What if we split up, we can cover more ground that way?" Pinkie offered.
"That's not a bad idea." Rarity replied with a nod. "You got an access card?"
"Yep!" Pinkie pulled out the blue access card from her hair.
"Alright, in the meantime, I'm gonna go visit Elliott Chen to see if we can talk to him. And if I get the soldering gun from him so I can fix the card reader."
"Okie-doki-loki!" And with that Pinkie zoomed off, while Rarity wandered on her own.
Pinkie wandered over the carousel ride and was intrigued by its look. It may have looked like every standard carousel at every amusement park, but it was still extravagant to take a look at the design and effort put into the artwork.
"Oooh... pretty." Pinkie replied.
She opened up the gate and walked onto the carousel turntable. She looked around to see if anything stood out, and surely enough something did stick out. She found a spot where a carousel horse, was missing. That must have been the horse that was stolen.
Pinkie pondered over the missing horse for a moment, and walked over the middle of the carousel ride, she opened up the side and found a secret compartment. There she could see a card reader on a wall where some more paintings were, and the other side there appeared to be a wooden cabinet with a card reader as well.
She pulled out the access card and slid it down the one that was the wooden cabinet. Once it beeped indicating access was granted, she opened it up. Inside she could see a cabinet with a piece of paper attached to it that said 'Do not touch ANYTHING in here without asking me first OR ELSE!!!'. Curiosity got the better of Pinkie and when she opened it she found a bunch of bars inside.
"Huh. Nothing." Pinkie said as she closed the cabinet and looked at the sheet of paper attached to the door. She pondered for a moment and found a phone number attached to it. "Guess we'll have to call this Tink guy later."
Pinkie slipped out a little notepad and wrote down the phone number before closing the cabinets. She turned her head to the left side and found a set of pipe organs all set in a row, along with a knob set to switch to certain tracks, and a switch to turn it on and off.
"Oooh." Pinkie smiled.
Pinkie flipped the switch on and listened to the first song that played, bobbing her head up and down, side to side enjoying the tune.
Once it ended, Pinkie switched the knob to the other track but nothing was heard. She switched it back to the first track and then back to the other, but still nothing.
"Something's missing here." Pinkie said.
Without anything else left to investigate, she closed the door and turned her head to the other card reader. She slid it down and it opened up allowing her inside.
"Ooh..."
Pinkie had found herself inside the the carousel, where a giant beam stood in the middle keeping the top up, on the left there was a wooden cabinet, and on the right she found a small door in the floor.
Feeling curious, she walked over and pulled up the door revealing a set of stairs that went down underneath the carousel.
"Guess I'm gonna have to start crawling." Pinkie said.
She crouched down onto her hands and knees and carefully moved down the stairs down into the dirt underneath the floorboards above her.
"So this is the space underneath the carousel. Pretty messy though." Pinkie said as she was finally able to get back up on her feet and brush the dirt and dust off of her. She looked forward and unfortunately there was a lack of light ahead, so she slipped out a flashlight from her bag the front of her hair held it as she walked forwards.
As a bit of the light from her tiny flashlight illuminated in the darkness, it finally hit something which grabbed her attention. As she picked up it, she noticed a few details that stood out. One of them being there was several yellow pictures implying that it was a danger zone, and another thing being a small little blue box lying in the dirt.
Pinkie picked it up and took a closer look at it. It had a company logo on the bottom that read Zap Tech Transmitters, along with a remote model number, and a big red button in the middle for activation.
"Better not press that button."
Pinkie then began walking back up and crawled back up the stairs. But as she looked up she noticed something that stood out. There was a letter in the top of the ceiling that looked if it was just hanging out.
"A letter!" Pinkie exclaimed. She made it to the top, and closed the door. Looking up, she tried standing on her tippy toes to reach for it, but alas she had no luck.
"Maybe a jump should do it!" Pinkie jumped up as high as she could and she almost made it, but she was sadly a few inches short away from it.
"Oh come on!"
Once back on the ground, she scratched her chin contemplating what to do.
"Hm... I'm gonna need something to reach that."
With that, Pinkie began walking out of the carousel and she pulled out the map in her bag. There were a few locations she could check out. One of them being the haunted house, and the other being the arcade where all of the midway games were. Rarity was on her way to go see Elliott Chen to get the soldering gun and she would begin attempting repairs on the roller-coaster card reader.
"Maybe I can go check out the haunted house." With that Pinkie skipped away to go check out the Demons of the Deep Haunted House.
Over with Rarity's end, she finally stopped at Elliott Chen's office and stepped inside. And when she did, surprisingly enough Elliott didn't say anything to her about being in his office. He kept working at his desk. And as he continued to work at his desk, Rarity surveyed what he ha inside the room. She could see a giant bookcase, a lathe, a fan with pieces of tissue strips attached to it, and so many other items like carpenter supplies.
"Um, excuse me?"
The man turned himself around to look at Rarity. He had gray skin, a shirt that had tons of paint splattered all over it, and blue jeans. He also had a little button pin near the top of his shirt that had a graphic of a paint can embezzled with a crossbones sign on it.
"Ah, one of the ladies of destruction return." he said sarcastically.
Rarity wasn't the least bit amused with his poorly written joke.
"I take it you spoke to Joy already?" Rarity asked.
"Yes, I did. And you can imagine my surprise when she told me you and that really hyper girl were detectives." Elliott replied.'
"Well, I also hope she told you that we spent a full 10 minutes in her office without spilling anything important." Rarity said hesitantly, sweat running down her head.
Elliott however was still collective and continued to be polite. "Its alright, accidents happen. Besides nothing important was spilled on, it only spilled on the floor. Nothing too major. Anyways... I hear you're here to solve the mystery of the 'curse' of Captain's Cove."
Rarity nodded. "Any chance you can figure out an explanation for what's been going on around here?"
Elliott shrugged. "What do I know, I'm just an engineer. Go ask our naturopathic engineer person."
"Oh, well alright. Do you have any idea who stole that horse off the carousel?" Rarity asked.
"Its probably someone who's into junk." Elliott replied.
"That's a little odd. Ingrid said carousel horses could be very valuable." Rarity replied.
"Well yes, when they're the original horses they can be valuable, but I'm talking about the one that was stolen. It wasn't an original. Around eighteen, twenty years ago, somebody bought one of the horses off the carousel. The guy who owned the park back then commissioned some hack to replace it."
Rarity raised a brow, unamused. "So the horse that the 'hack' carved was worthless?"
Elliott nodded.
"Oh, before I forget, Ingrid said you had her soldering gun. I need to get it from you if that's alright."
"Of course. I've been meaning to get it to her but I've been a little busy." Elliott said as he pulled it from off the table and handed it to her.
Why exactly do you have a soldering gun? Rarity thought to herself as she took it from him.
"So, the fact that the park is shut down must be a big relief for you, isn't it?" Rarity asked.
"You mean because I'm behind in my work? I'd be lying if I said the shutdown wasn't helping me get caught up. Meeting deadlines has never been my forte. But I certainly hope you're not suggesting that I arrange for the park to be shut down by manufacturing this curse thing because that would be ridiculous." Elliott replied.
Rarity just kept her calm demeanor. You are definitely going on the suspect list.
"Do you ever talk to some of the other workers here during the shutdown? Like Joy Trent or that security guard Harlan Bishop?"
"Joy Trent?" Elliott huffed. "Ugh, she's like invisible even if she's visible if you can catch my drift. And that rent-a-cop? I have no desire to see anything of him."
"Why do say that?"
"Dude is way to eager to make my business, his business that's all." Elliott finished.
"Alright. Well I thank you for taking the time to answer my questions." Rarity replied.
"Keep it real." Elliott replied and then turned back to his desk to continue working.
He really needs a haircut. And a clean shirt.
Rarity continued to look around the room and in a small little box, she could see a bunch of little tissue strips held together by a paper clip. These might come in handy...
"Do you mind if I can use some of the tissue strips, along with a small roll of duct tape?"
"Be my guest." Elliott replied.
She took a bit of them and put them in her bag, along with a small roll of duct tape. She then looked to a side of a room and discovered a small little receipt on the floor. She picked up and discovered on the receipt was for 360 board feet, just for wood.
Hm... That's a lot of wood. Rarity said as she picked up the receipt and put it in her bag.
After finding everything she could get, she exited out of Elliott's office now officially ready to repair the card reader for the roller coaster.