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Tony Stark ([personal profile] in_extremis) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2020-05-12 07:10 pm

Outage

WHO: Tony and fellow 10s exclusively.
WHERE: Heading to the power plant, open to suggestions
WHAT: Tony gets into the civil engineering game, for his own purposes. He has disrupted the grid. Sorry.
WHEN: Now? Whenever you're ready?
WARNINGS: Thread is horny.
SOME NOTES: This is a blackout that I didn't really intend to last very long, but that's up to you. If you want to use it to do some power outage shenanigans, let me and/or Hux know and we'll stay distracted from fixing the problem.


network
[Shortly after all of the power seems to cut abruptly, whether or not anyone noticed or were peacefully asleep in the dark, absolutely everyone receives a direct, private text message at the same time.]
I will fix it. Not a problem.



problem solving
It was inevitable that this would become a problem, but Tony didn't anticipate it happening this fast. There was a whole city out there that, presumably, had been run on this very same grid when fully populated. How was he supposed to know that the entire alien power load was only built to anticipate a single Gamecube and a dinky water display? D.A.T.A. was still smoking in the dark from the surge when Tony wandered dejectedly back into the workshop, no luck fixing the outage locally-- this wasn't a fuse problem. It was everyone's problem.

At least one thing was obviously not part of the same grid; the network hadn't gone down for Tony, and while that was further bad news in the long run, he could take the blessing to try to address the issue before anyone got hysterical about it. He sent out the mass text as he tore the data spheres down from their suspension and meticulously worked in the low light from the simmering forge to feel for the heat and melted warp, and gut the most damaged pieces, leaving them spread blindly on the workbench. That was really going to fuck up his schedule.

He knew where the power plant was, kind of, in theory, and it wasn't a trek he was eager to take without the full light of day on his side, but it wasn't like he was getting anything else done here. It would be faster than it looked, he could run, there was probably a generator up there and the way was going to be brightly lit and not an dark, creepy forest at all. Deep breath. Tony grabbed his jacket and his tool belt and started across town.

Elsewhere, the hum of power had gone silent, lights winked out, and the steady bubbling of the fountain at the centre of the city murmured to a stop, until the surface of the water was still as glass.

out_of_order: (heard that before)

[personal profile] out_of_order 2020-05-13 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
It happens.

It's pretty old. Not sure how well-maintained everything is. You talk to Hux?
out_of_order: (don't answer big doors)

[personal profile] out_of_order 2020-05-13 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
He's been here longer. He knows more about how the power works around here than I do, but then he's one of the ones who's worked on getting it functional. I...wouldn't be surprised if he's aware of the situation. He lives at the power facilities.
out_of_order: (heard that before)

[personal profile] out_of_order 2020-05-13 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
I think you'd be better off just armed with an apology and an explanation.
out_of_order: (sass)

[personal profile] out_of_order 2020-05-13 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
I figured it wouldn't be, but that's my suggestion.