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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.

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Network - Text

[personal profile] plate_builder 2020-05-13 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Someone definitely looks tired and a touch frustrated.]

Tony, my friend, what did you do
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[personal profile] plate_builder 2020-05-13 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Sorry, but it's not like Reeve sleeps much, and that's before the exaggerated night cycle here.]

Fair enough. And here I had assumed you were merely attempting to set a mood.
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[personal profile] plate_builder 2020-05-13 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I admit, a mood was created. One where I'm squinting by light of this communicator to see my paper for notes and math.

I'm almost considering moving to one of the ships for light.
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[personal profile] plate_builder 2020-05-13 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
And you expect me to get all the way to the caves and hot spring there in the dark? Without a light? And I have no candles.

And until I have a computer with a reasonable CAD program, my hands are better than nothing.

Please make sure to rest at some point, Tony. I worry about you.
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[personal profile] plate_builder 2020-05-13 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
You truly don't know? There are caves near the shore. Among other things, there is a hot spring there. Well suited to baths. It's a network of them. Some almost seem to be private spaces, meant for one. Or two.
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[personal profile] plate_builder 2020-05-13 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh Reeve is absolutely chuckling in the dark of his room.]

It's a long walk in the dark, Tony. Aren't you scare that I'm going to fall into a hole and do my old man self a harm?
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[personal profile] plate_builder 2020-05-13 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Yes, but at the end of the walk there is a lovely cave filled with glowing mushrooms and blessedly hot water.]

A fair enough point.

[He does, though, send a message that just includes coordinates, based on their map app, indicating where the entrance to the proper cave is.]

For reference and your use as you see fit. As for myself, I doubt I shall sleep any time soon, and I can get no work done in the dark. So I believe I shall take a stroll. [Does he even need to say it's to those self-same hotsprings?]
Edited 2020-05-13 01:46 (UTC)
theladyofwinterfell: (and you would fall)

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[personal profile] theladyofwinterfell 2020-05-13 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
( Sansa, sleep deprived and more than a bit cross, had been taking some precious time for herself to bathe when the power cuts. )

I have a newborn son and this is the first moment I've had by myself in two days. Repair it.
stabgremlin: (35)

network, text;

[personal profile] stabgremlin 2020-05-13 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
One question- what in the deepest level of the ninth Corellian Hell did you do?!
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voice - private

[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2020-05-13 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Have a small sigh. ]

...right. I won’t ask what happened.
Just tell me... did you get hurt?

[ His compulsion doesn’t work over the network, so he can ask. ]
out_of_order: (i smell like what)

[Network] - Text

[personal profile] out_of_order 2020-05-13 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Should I ask?
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[personal profile] theladyofwinterfell 2020-05-13 03:16 am (UTC)(link)

I’m in the bath and now it’s pitch black, Tony, because I didn’t light a candle

Edited (i sure do love when my phone texts dont format right) 2020-05-13 10:42 (UTC)
deal_me_in: (Don't know don't care)

problem...solving?

[personal profile] deal_me_in 2020-05-13 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Here was at least one light that wouldn't go out with a powergrid trip-up. Maybe not unless he was actively poking it or something, but that wasn't on his to-do list.

The bright blue, actinic glow of a perhaps by now familiar gaze appeared in the darkness, the crunch of heavy boots underfoot further suggesting a certain Exo's presence as he walked along the noticeably darker, abandoned streets. He approached Tony, his gait casual as a cowboy entering a saloon.

Amber light was soon to accompany it once Cayde opened his mouth to speak, the warm glow backlighting his throat in an eerie way given everything else. "So this is a thing."
out_of_order: (sass)

[personal profile] out_of_order 2020-05-13 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Well, no. But regardless the trouble's still there, right?
stabgremlin: (34)

network, text;

[personal profile] stabgremlin 2020-05-13 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
A++ deflection there. Have you considered a career in politics?

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