EVENT: HERE THERE BE MONSTERS

[initiatesnpc]

Date & Time: October 24 - October 31
Location: Throughout Exsilium
Characters: ALL; tag yourselves in
Summary: The Transports return from their mission to find the island crawling with monsters.
Warnings: Violence, possibly injuries (notify a mod if there's cause to add a particular warning!)

The Transports return from their mission to Medieval Russia, but the Initiative Hold is eerily deserted. Normally, their would be a number of Initiative personnel prepared to meet the Transports at the end of their mission for debriefing.

Instead, there is only silence.

That is, until a distant thumping sound can be heard. It is growing closer, and suddenly the beast is bursting into the room. It lets out a roar and charges. Within minutes, it is easily defeated, but damage has already been done -- it collided with the Transporter machine, which is now making a low fizzling sound and lets off a couple sparks. The commotion is enough to draw the attention of the few remaining Initiative personnel who still inhabit the Hold, who arrive immediately afterwards. They are able to tell the Transports two things: that the machine is broken and currently unable to sent anyone back in time, and that the island has been overrun with aggressive, mutated beasts sent by the United Earth. They have been under siege for months, with the island's population reduced to a mere fraction of what it had once been.

Comments

[feel_nevermore]

Raven stands a few feet behind Tony watching him work in silence. She's come to the labs for pretty much the same reason. Because she thought this would be at least a good opportunity to get a closer look at that time travel technology the Initiative stole from the government of United Earth. Unfortunaly she's not as good as Cyborg with computers and such. Not by far. That man here, however, seems to know what he's doing.

"Think you could fix it?"

[fe_male]

"To the extent it was already broken."

You're super lucky - Tony can multi-task, sort of, meaning that he can keep working and also glance you over enough to determine that you seem to have wandered out of a play. Or something.

"You looking to help or just looking?"

[feel_nevermore]

Of course, Raven notices the way he glances at her. Her looks often earns her this kind of nonplussed reaction. And she's learnt not to react to that. She shrugs.

"Well I suppose I can help. If you tell me what to do."

[fe_male]

If it helps, he gives people lots of looks. They get individual looks, and he doesn't assume all of them came out of a modern adaptation of a Shakespearean play, just the special people.

"How much do you know about - " vague hand gesture at... everything. "'Overcoming the Fourier problem right here' or closer to 'this wire looks blue'?"

[feel_nevermore]

That would have indeed made her feel very special if he'd told her that. ...Or probably not.

"Closer to the green and yellow one is the ground wire."

[fe_male]

"I can work with that. Find the panel labelled with the handwriting 'looks good' and tell me if the relays go into overload when I finish typing in this last bit of stuff." It won't take too long to finish it, and the panel isn't far away. He's hoping that they don't overload, oddly enough, overloading is bad, but this equipment - he's having to teach himself how it works even while he's trying to fix it.