Howdy, all. I'm running Edge of Darkness for a group, with the intent of making it the start of a long-running campaign. However, I've hit a bit of a snag... when questioning Evard Zed, the party found out about the blackout fires, and decided to start being noble and go check out the ruined manufactorum (I winged it a bit when put on the spot and said the manufactorum was damaged in the blaze and partially rebuilt, but the machine spirits were churlish afterwards and so the Combine finally shut the place down to avoid having to do so much maintenance; I think I got the timeline wrong as well, as I have the blackout fires taking place a year or so prior to the Combine laying everyone off). The party Sororitas and Tech-Priest have expressed interest in attempting to repair the machinery (the Sororita out of a desire to make the people productive citizens, and the Tech-Priest because, hey, there's a bunch of machines that aren't working right).
I generally know what I want to do with an encounter at the manufactorum site, and how I want to tie it in to the campaign, but what I'm not so sure about is setting: what are they likely to find there? An empty shell of a building? Ruined scraps of metal? Machinery broken beyond repair? I figure Sikes would have "reclaimed" anything of any worth that he could, but what would he have missed? Also, is there anything in particular that gets manufactured as far downhive and away from everything as Coscarla?