It was raining blood not even a tenday ago. [ Kimmuriel will never use 'week' and you cannot stop him. Seven days in a week makes no sense!! ] Some intrusion from other gods, if what little we have been told is to be believed.

It does not seem implausible that blood got into the machines here. [ The scent of blood is faint but unmistakable. ] Or, during this place being cursed, absorbed some of the curse themselves...I admit I have little idea how this sort of thing transfers to machinery.

[ The machine beeps as if to object to the idea that it can't be cursed. Kimmuriel grouchily feeds another token into the slot and prepares to try again. ]