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Shift "Everyone okay?" He says after popping into existence in front of them. Giving them all a hard look, Shift considers them. They obviously had the spark, but were they fighters? "Good fight. Spiders! Thank you!" He calls up to the trees as they move into the trees to vanish. "They are going to come back with patrols and air cover. We need to get out of here. Now." Looking at a compass and a hand drawn sand map of the area that he needed to know, he starts moving quickly toward the safehouse. "Follow me, be quick. Be quiet." Shift says, introductions didn't save lives, and they didn't have time. One champion was hard to kill, a squad was impossible.
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Lilly "So, this thing is blocking our path then? I can lift 3200 lbs. Shouldn't be that hard..." I boast as I move to lift this oversized piece of plastic out of the way.
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Fuel Wet clothes were bad, especially somewhere as cold as New Detroit. In a slum with many and varied ways of getting sick, this was one of the surest ways to do so. But it was all worth it, because once they got into the secret MERLIN bolt hole they could dry off, warm up, there would be tools for taking the drat collars off and everything would be okay. Evie expected the building, like so many others around it, to be demolished by now. Several times over. So long as it didn't collapse on top of the three of them it wouldn't be too bad. But when they get to John Carter's, and Evie hurries over to where the hatch should be, she again deflates. With a sunken sigh, she just taps another menthol out of the packet and slips it between her lips. Even though it was probably far too wet to actually light anymore. "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley. An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy." She grumbles, her eyes not having left the congealed mass of alien attracting consumerism blocking the way downwards. "Okay," She turns her head to both Blondie and Brother. "Where we need to go is under this building. There should be a hatch right here." She points to the floor. "Except it's covered by five years worth of environmentally friendly capitalism." Evie kicks the lump just in case they were wondering what the hell she was on about. "I'm willing to take suggestions without notice."
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Deadlift Lilly gripped the sticky plastic with both hands and heaved with all her might. It budges slightly and then... refuses to move. After a few moments of straining her arms, even with her rapidly repairing muscles, begin to ache. She had no idea what this stuff was made of, but she was sure there were cars lighter than it in its current state.
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Ernie "Why don't you try and melt it more? Maybe something's under it..." Ernie says, continuing to look around John Carter's. "Wait, wait, wait, no, bookstore. Bad idea. Just give us some more light." He keeps looking around, maybe they missed something on the initial pass. "Ev, what do you think?" Per +10 xian fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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Fuel "Melt slag? That doesn't really work." Evie shoots the idea down as Blondie breaks her back trying to lift the thing. "Even if we got the fire hot enough to do anything, it'd be bright enough to paint a target on our heads from 5 miles out AND we'd be dead from the noxious smoke. Not a good idea." She looks around the store. "Yeah, that won't work Blondie." Evie tells the girl after she had already broken herself trying to lift the plastic. "You need some mechanical advantage. Wedge. Pulley. Lever. Lever would be easiest with what we might find." She supposes. "Ern, see any long lengths of metal around? I can work the fulcrum out of any old thing, but without a long pole or something this is sunk." Robodog fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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Fuel "No rest for the wicked, Blondie." Evie says, her hand glowing slightly as she grabs the girl's hand. "We need to get into this hatch. Keep at it." Even for somebody who plays with fire, Lilly feels like her insides are burning. Like her heart was pumping molten lead instead of blood. But however uncomfortable it felt, there was no doubting that it also fuelled and stoked the fire burning in her regenerative power. Power Enhancement on Lilly. Boosting Regeneration 6 to Regeneration 8 w/ Persistent extra, healing 1 condition every round bar 2 a minute.
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Lilly White "Now I'm not exactly a specialist on these matters, but that doesn't sound good?"
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Ernie "There was go" Ernie huffs as they dislodge the melted plastic. "Yeah," Ernie says, "Auxiliary power system." He looks at Evie, "You should, uh, probably get on that. Or at least turn off the annoying alarm. You've only got ten minutes." xian fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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Fuel "See? Where brute force fails science once again saves the day." Evie says, toggling the switch and seeing the hatch slide open. "Go science." Being a card-carrying member of MERLIN, Evie goes in first. Just in case security was still active and ready to melt non-MERLIN personnel. Thankfully that wasn't the case, but the second worst thing possible happened instead. "Containment failures aren't usually a good thing, no." She answers the girl, pointing at her finger. "Keep the light on, Blondie." Is quickly added as they descend deeper into the MERLIN facility. "A containment failure is usually either a prisoner of some sort or an experimental device of the mass destruction variety. Can't know for sure until I see it." At this point, Fuel turns around to look at the two behind her. "This is a MERLIN outpost. Long since decommissioned as far as I can recall. But assuming I can bring it out of mothball and whatever is about to break containment doesn't kill us, I should be able to break our collars off in here." Despite the mysterious doom object below, she can't help but smile a little. And then Evie sighs. "Yes. Thank you, Ernie. I'll look for the auxiliary power system." She agrees, turning back around and heading into the outpost proper. "Close the hatch behind you."
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Lilly "Hold up, wouldn't that deplete the oxygen down here pretty fast? With an open flame and everything."
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Fuel "Well if I don't get the auxiliary power on to stabilise containment we're dead in ten minutes anyway, so I'd say it's something of a moot point."
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Le Geai “Pyow,” he said outloud. He looked over at Shift and him a wink as the Champion came crashing down into the woods with a satisfying thud. Not one hundred percent satisfying because it was still clearly alive. Still pretty good, though. Julian started to go for a fist bump when a dozen birds flew over his head screaming their word for “Coalition.” Loud-Not-Birds-Without-Eggs-Or-Nests-Who-Definitely-Should-Not-Be-Here. You kinda need to be able to understand bird to get the full sentiment because the word itself doesn’t translate that great back into English. The important gist, though, is that birds really hate the Coalition. Something about their nature, the alienness of it, is off putting to most wildlife. Birds in particular. Except for, like, buzzards and vultures. But you’d be pretty hard pressed to find a group more chill than carrion birds. Julian liked them a lot. Good group. Very friendly. Easy to talk to. Then there was the roar of plasma bolts. Julian re-shouldered his rifle and disappeared once more to hunt himself a trophy. Using improved aim to get +10. My attack in the following round is Ranged Combat + 8. Blast 4 with an Improved Crit 17-20
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Fuel "Emergency supplies by the door, check it out." Evie taps her brother on the shoulder, taking stock of the outpost proper. "If I were to take a guess… somebody wanted to have the power eventually fail and broke the back-up so whatever is in containment would be released after a few years. Which only raises more questions than answers and doesn't keep us from dying in less than ten minutes." Evie thinks out loud as she walks around the outpost. "So!" Evie looks to the broken generator controls. "Good news is, this is a geothermal tap. Geothermal power generation, as we all know, works from pouring water down a hot hole to spin a wheel. Thankfully we still have the turbine generator and we even more thankfully have a heat source." Fuel puts a bit of panache in pointing at their fire-powered friend. "Blondie. My deepest apologies, but to ensure you are not incinerated within the next few minutes you will have to power this turbine to get the auxiliary power back online." Okay so! Investigation +10 to have a look around the room, a look at the tools to maybe break the collars, and a look at maybe what is being contained by the computer and if communications are busted for good. Technology +9 to identify the generator and point Bondie at the right parts of it!
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Lilly "Uh... well, you had some good and some bad ideas in the past, but you at least seem to know what you're doing, so, uh,... okay, I guess? Does it just need to be really hot or do we need actual fire? I can do both." I answered, still confused as hell by this place. I really hope she knows what she's doing... Yami Fenrir fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Sep 22, 2015 |
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Fuel "I was a MERLIN research scientist before the aliens blew our planet to hell and back." Evie reveals to the third wheel tot he D'Aubigny duo. "So I know what I'm doing here." She states just to make sure Blondie was in no doubt. "You don't need actual fire. Just superheat either the water to create steam or the air so it rises fast enough to spin the wheel. The turbine will do the rest." Evie explains. "MERLIN auxiliary power generation was very efficient."
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Lilly "Right, just show me what exactly needs to get hot. I don't really want to accidentally blow up or melt any of this weird hi-tech stuff and killing my- all of us."
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Ernie Ernie cases the place for useful supplies, silently and trying to stay out of the way, really hopeful that Evie and Zippo can stop them from exploding in a geothermal, sort, of, ah, explosion. Perception +10 xian fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Beauty and the Beast Fuel examines what she can of the geothermal power generator. Without the controls the system is unable to cycle in the water it requires to run the turbines, but she realizes there's a secondary thermocouple system to harvest 'waste heat' that Lilly would be able to charge with her power. Hopefully that will provide enough power once the fire controller gets to work. Even if she managed to repair the sophisticated automation that controls the water flow into the thermal bore, Fuel is unsure if the actual infrastructure of plumbing still works, considering the widespread damage to the outside city. Temporary half measures are better than no measures though, so she sets Lilly to work and then joins her brother in examining the supplies. Together they find the appropriate metal working tools to cut the collars, and after a brief examination of the collars themselves, they don't seem to be tamper resistant to cutting, if done properly. Ernie finds enough preserved food and water to keep about 20 people going for an entire month, or a smaller group for much longer. In addition he finds an extremely well stocked first aid kit, and what appears to be a portable surgery kit. There doesn't appear to be any damage to the communications console, but since the radio waves are owned by the Coalition it would be of little to no use even if they had anyone to talk to. The computer, however, is much trickier. For one thing, it's using an extremely archaic and hard to understand operating system. When the timer vanishes after Lilly starts to funnel heat into the system, Fuel finds herself face to face with something she has only heard of in legends, spoken of in whispers in the halls of MERLIN's elite IT experts. A command prompt.
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Fuel Evie had long since mastered the skill of talking down science to normal people. It was second nature by now. "Just keep the heat on the generator, and we'll get a trickle charge. Should be enough to get this place going again." She really dumbs down to Blondie. And lo and behold, the alarms silence and auxiliary power is restored. "Okay, great. We have power. Just keep it up Blondie!" Multitasking because otherwise she would otherwise have to rely on Crazy Fire Girl and Ernie to do do things all on their own, Evie goes over the supplies with her brother. "Good, this place still has tools. Should be able to cut off all our collars with these." She can't help but smile in rare fit of pure optimism. "So that's part one of our escape plan covered. Ernie, pack up anything else we can use. I don't think we'll be coming back here once we've got the collars off." And on to another task, the computer. "Hmm." Fuel wasn't a technologist, but had enough training through MERLIN to have some idea of what she was dealing with in the outpost. "Communications still work. Not that we can send out anything without giving away our position. Or that there is anybody else to send messages to…" She just sort of trails off, instead just staring in awe at what appeared in front of her now that power was running through this place again. "Is this…" Evie is taken aback, looking back at her brother and the computer screen several times. She just couldn't believe it. "This is UNIX... I don't know this." Not being a crack MERLIN computer wizard, Fuel very cautiously stretches her hands over the keyboard. "This is some really foundation level MERLIN stuff. No wonder the aliens haven't found this place yet." Well then! Technology +9 to take a gander at this here outdated operating system! If you need me to specify, Evie will first look for what is being in containment. Then damage report. Then stock take and inventory. Then see if there are any files on the thing that can help with escape or information on what has been going on in the world and such. Robodog fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Lilly Despite not really understanding most of anything going on here, it was a good feeling. Helping people, that is. I should do it more often. Enthusiastically, she increased the heat a little to provide more energy. "Uh, should this thing be melting?" Using Environment Control Rank 2 to keep the power up, and provide more if possible.
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Fuel "Can I just say," Okay so ls brings up a list, good. "You two are the luckiest people under the sun right now," And ff makes me find things, also good. "To even have somebody to work this computer at all," Maybe who? No, whoami? Doesn't help. "Because I can guarantee you that nobody else in this entire city or the space above it would have any clue how to work this bloody OS." Log file! Finally. Reading through the report that… "Oh wow." Fuel mutters out loud. "This report was written Dr. Haskill to Dr. Haskill and…" She pauses, turning around to the other two. "You guys won't know who I'm talking about so never mind." She sighs, turning back to the redacted report. "What about Stardust, you must've heard of her right?" Evie wasn't really holding out hope for that either. She wrote best-selling novels, super famous, pretty much the first super hero. So maybe they've heard the name before. "I ask because whoever is in this field, Stardust killed. And it is a whoever, the report is pretty clear it's a person in there." She tells Brother and Blondie. "But they got better. Regenerated, not unlike you Blondie. And to quote the report verbatim 'It is recommended that this stasis field never be deactivated unless humanity faces an extinction level threat.'" She reads for the benefit of the others. "So, what do you lot think? Should I try and open the containment?"
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Ernie Ernie knew some of the names his sister was naming. Haskill, that was one of the Janes, or all of the Janes? Whatever. It didn't matter to him. And Stardust was another compatriot of his grandparents. But, he knew from other history that history was written by the people who won. So if Stardust "killed" whoever was in this basement with them, Stardust would be the one who authored the official record. Doesn't meant it's not true, but it does mean Ernie's looking for a grain of salt. "If this, ah, isn't an, uh, extinction level threat..." he begins as he walks up behind his sister and reads the log file over her shoulder. "Sis," He begins, "Let's go through this together." Ernie says, and then he begins cherrypicking bits from the report '"'we'll have, ah, bigger problems than blank,' We're there. 'It is recommended that this stasis field never be deactivated unless humanity faces an extinction level threat.' Yeah, aliens invaded, threw us in camps, ah, tick that box. 'While, ah, blank, should be cooperative--,'" He steps back and looks at both Evie and Lilly, for the first time including Zippo in their sibling conversation, "If whoever in this basement isn't going to want to kick some Alien rear end then we're back where we were. Starving to death, and gonna have to fight. Might as well take the chance that whoever Stardust threw down here is a jacked beast and at least, uhm, sort of on our side. ."
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Fuel "There is the off-chance that whoever it is holds a big grudge against MERLIN and will try to kill me over it." Evie adds. "But if anything is going to convince anybody that working together is a good idea, it's an outside invader. And they do sound like a jacked beast." The D'Aubigny votes counted, she turns to their walking, talking generator. "What do you think, Blondie?"
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Ernie "So just don't identify yourself as MERLIN. Whoever this is doesn't need to know we're D'Aubigny's till, uh, at least a week from now. Especially if they have a tiger's face for a head." "And, if they're... rowdy... it might be a situation where my whole thing might be, uh, you know, useful. I can... subdue 'em while you convince 'em." "But once we let them out is the place still going to explode in 5 minutes? That would be, uh, a hitch, in my plan... of letting them out and then figuring out the rest after." xian fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Sep 24, 2015 |
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Sep 24, 2015 09:05
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Fuel "That warning was just for power to containment failing. Now that we have an idea what is in there, the power failing won't do anything explosive." She confirms. "In fact, finding some way to scuttle this outpost after we're done wouldn't go wrong."
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Lilly Haskill? Stardust? Who are all of these people? Never heard of them. Oh well. "Well, I don't particularly see a problem with it. We kind of... do have a little alien problem and all. But how about we finish getting these collars off first, just in case?
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