[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

[womanofvalue]

It jibes with what everyone else says when they arrive in the more traditional way. Perhaps Peggy had been hopeful that arrival by these tubes somehow meant something different in how the people arrived here, but she's beginning to piece together a new theory.

"Not the sort of situation that might have somehow grab you and stick you in a tube, I'd imagine, this much be a terrible shock," Peggy says, not trying to be blunt, but wanting to ensure that Phryne is all right, given the inherent trauma in this moment.

"When it was me, I climbed out of a fountain, which now seems somehow more civilized."

[fishingfortrouble]

"Not unless there's something quite unexpected going on, no. And given the fact that things had just resolved I wouldn't have expected to run into another situation quite so soon."

Her life is more than a little exciting on a regular basis, of course. One of the side-effects of being even an unofficial detective. But usually there's a bit more downtime between things that require her attention. Not to mention that kidnapping is a little severe as a response to something that has largely involved street urchins. And while it had been important, yes, she's certainly had cases that involved higher profile individuals. As well as ones who might be significantly more likely to turn to kidnapping, in the case that things didn't quite turn out how they might have expected.

"And it does sound a little more civilized, yes. Although it could hardly be said to be a drier arrival."