[Closed] Down the Tubes: Breakdown

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WHO: Breakdown crew
WHERE: The Bunker
WHEN: August 28
OPEN TO: Peter, Fang, Sam, Lyanna, Owen, Danny R
WARNINGS: Nothing yet

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There's no real rhyme or reason to the six of them that end up in the pod, and Peter figures if that's not a metaphor for life, he doesn't know what is — Most things are determined by the people who just happen to be around at the time. A little curiosity and the ability to swim is all it takes. One push of a button and they make a team, zooming off into the dark as they drip onto the pod's corrugated metal floor.

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[theimmortalweapon]

Danny nodded his head and slipped around Owen's side as they headed towards the room. He wanted to stay out of the way while remaining inside the soft gentle halo of the lantern. He didn't like the pressure of the dark but he ignored it, keeping his focus steadily directed towards their goal. They had to find a way to open more path ways, maybe a map or working lights? Anything would be useful.

"Bull and Stephanie said that they didn't find anyone down here but there must be clues to people who had used this place." Danny was determined and wildly hopeful. He hadn't been in the village long enough to know that finding another living soul was unlikely.

[underpinnings]

"The schematics we dug out of the wendigo," Owen says, almost thinking aloud, "we should bring them next time. "From all the sightings, those things came off the mountain, we might be near their territory."

Bull and Stephanie hadn't mentioned those either, and Owen hopes that holds true. The last thing he wants is to fight one in the dark, the pod locked down and no access to local flora.

Hell, he'd take some help from an ant bite, if that badger was any indication. "Hold this," he asks, handing off the lantern as he squeezes through the gap of the forced door. Bull's handiwork, maybe, or an old sign of life. In the residual light, he can see equipment along the walls, buttons and dials with their own faint glow. "All clear, looks like some kind of control panel. Still has some juice."

[theimmortalweapon]

Danny frowned. "There were schematics inside the wendigo?" He'd hated not being able to help during the attack but he hadn't realized that they had found something like that. It was definitely a strange thing to find inside of a creature; unless it had thought it was food.

"Yeah." It would be useful but still strange.

He took the lantern and then followed close enough to spill light into the room. He didn't know if Owen wanted him on that side of the door though he'd take some effort to get the lantern through.

"There any other rooms or is it a dead end?" Danny shifted the lantern through the door first and then began to attempt to pry the space open a little bit more and slip through.

[underpinnings]

Awareness returning to Danny, and his attempt to one-hand his way through the door, Owen returns to pry it back for him. Once they're inside, he nods for Danny to shine the lantern around the space to look for another way through.

"Looks like a dead end," he decides, unless they want to work out how to get into and through what look like a couple of very small vents. "And yeah, we posted them up at the Inn. Without any context though, I don't think anyone recognized them enough to call a meeting over it."

And there had been a body to bury, another to study. Take care of what you can, and get to the rest. So: the lights and doors. "It's a long shot," Owen admits, using two fingers to indicate that he needed light and attention on the console. "But you're not somehow familiar with underground bunkers, and which buttons might power up the place?" There were key pads, dials, a few levers. Their markings required closer inspection, and Owen leaned over, light spilling in from the side.

[theimmortalweapon]

He lifted the light and watched as the lantern spilled over the console. Danny didn't know a lot about technology but he'd caught on fast after his return to New York. This wasn't anything like that. It looked like it might be getting power, or he hoped so, the lights weren't on in his part of the bunker but Stephanie had told him that there lights down here which meant that there was probably power.

He stared at the unit before pointing to one of the buttons that looked like it could be a power button. "Is it this one?"

If Danny had been alone, he probably would have just pressed it but since he had company, he decided to make it a mutual decision instead of just pressing it. If Owen wasn't sure either and didn't have any better ideas, then he was totally going to press it and see if he was correct.

[underpinnings]

Whatever it did, logically, it probably didn't close the doors and drop the ceiling on them. With the pod already broken, Owen assumes the worst it can do is make some kind of noise--and they were told the place seemed empty.

And if green wasn't some universal color for on and go, they'd have nowhere to really start.

"Press it and let's find out," he offers, gesturing for Danny to do the honors.

[theimmortalweapon]

"Okay." Danny didn't need more than that to press the button. Nothing happened. So he pressed the button next to it and then the one above it. Eventually he found a correct button because the console flickered to life.

"Oh. That do it?"

He's just going to pretend that it'd been that first button.