[MINGLE] PLOT: Down the Tubes: Alarm

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: The bunker & elsewhere
WHEN: 1 September 2018
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Please warn on threads
NOTES: Plot Details | Bunker Details | Bunker Map & Key
Threads may take place ANYTIME during the plot, including before, during and after the tubes have been opened, just please do not godmod tube arrivals without explicit permission. Related threads not in the bunker are welcomed, as are general bunker exploration/reaction threads that have nothing to do with the arrivals. Please reference the bunker key doc for what is and isn't available to explore at present.

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Deep under the mountain, tucked away in the newly-discovered bunker complex, there is a room where everyone begins. It is filled with equipment — Computer consoles, monitors — but the point of it all resides within ten vertical stasis tubes lined neatly along a far wall.

One of them has been cracked and lies dormant, dry. In six of the remaining are bodies, unconscious and floating in their familiar vari-colored scrubs, vital signs ticking calmly off on their respective readouts.

In the corner, near the cracked tube, the ceiling has shattered and tumbled inward, across the floor and over the largest console in the room — The one flashing 24 HOURS UNTIL STASIS FAILURE.

Comments

[nifties]

"That depends on if you're goin' to keep looking at me like I'm a side of beef," he admits sweetly, pulling the overalls out of the bag and frowning at them. "No, you're a month ahead of me. I'm the tenth too - of May. April 10th is Aries, the Ram."

[quinientos]

Vasquez shrugs as he tips his head to the side. The last place he was at seemed much more open about having people seek each other out for things like this, but he also has had no troubles here, so far.

He laughs, because a ram, that sounds like him. "Maybe this astrology of yours, it's not so bullshit. I can be very stubborn."

[nifties]

"And I'm full of bullshit, thus: Taurus." He opens out his arms with a tight smile. Hilarious. Resigned to his fate, he pulls on the overalls with a grimace. Stupid... The peacoat is quickly donned after like that makes it any better. Are hiking boots really the only shoes in here? He's going to look insane, but here goes nothing.

[quinientos]

Vasquez already thinks he likes him, even as he watches him unearth his things. He'd had another box of clothes waiting for him, which is why he's able to go between his clothes from home and the ones here.

"It's probably still too hot for that coat," he points out. "Though, I think people told me that it's miserable winters, so you'll get a chance to wear it plenty."

[nifties]

"A bit of discomfort is worth it to stay enigmatic, my friend." He nods like he's just said something very profound. "None of this seems to faze you very much." John gestures around vaguely before pulling on the hiking boots, god these are ugly.

[quinientos]

"I've been through this shit before," is all he says, which isn't literally true. After all, he's never done a bunker or things like this, but after being in Cadelle and now here, he's pretty sure that it would take a very lot to make him feel wary. After all, it's not like Rose Creek had been normal, either.

"What, you want me to act more traumatized? Would that help you, somehow?" he challenges.