[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

[oorah]

[ he nods. ] Yeah, me either.

[ but that doesn't mean they give up, right? isn't that what he said? ]

What can we do other than look for it anyway though?

[copingskills]

[That causes the smallest of smiles, quickly fading, to creep onto her lips.]

That's usually my line. [Normally she'd be the first person looking through whatever they could find trying to figure it out, but...] I'll leave it to you guys just this once.

[oorah]

[ he just barely holds back the eye roll honestly. ]

Now you're stealin' my lines.

[ there's not a chance in hell he wants to creep around this place any longer than necessary. in fact, he's probably be gone already if he hadn't seen her. ]

[copingskills]

[She's not going to be sticking around any longer than she has to, it's just been more of a matter of getting her mind and body back together before doing anything strenuous.

Surely there are plenty of other people totally ready to take one for the team for both of them.]

Thanks for checking on me.

[A way to let him know he doesn't have to stay if he wants to bail.]