[Day 225] [EVENT] A sinking feeling

[bastionmods]

Who: Anyone and everyone
Open: Open
When: Early morning on Day 225
Where: Everywhere in the Bastion
What: Remember how cores used to be a thing? Yeah, they're still important.
Format: any
Warnings: terrible modpuns

[Early in the morning on Day 225, most people are probably asleep. For the couple of stragglers who may still be awake so late, though, they may notice something strange. At 2:31 am, any lights that are on start to hum, and flicker in and out of dimness.

At 2:32 am, every light in the Bastion (excluding the emergency lights) shuts off entirely.

At 2:33 am, a horrible grinding noise can be heard throughout the Bastion, seemingly coming from everywhere at once. This sound continues on for several minutes, throughout everything else that begins to happen.

At 2:34 am, for anyone outside Nathaniel can be seen running from the Apartments towards the Monument as if his life depended on it.

At 2:35 am, ever so slowly, sections of the Bastion begin to sink.

What do you do?]

Comments

[amnesiadragon]

[Ryu keeps hitting as many buttons and switches as he can reach with clawed fingers, and keeps one of his fists raised with flame so that they can see. This is a problem, they need to move people. He glances over his shoulder and spots people evacuating. Good. They're going to need it.]

You guys would have a better idea than I would.

[bastionpc]

I'm not sure how much one thing will help-

[Oh hello, there goes the power to what keeps the Bastion up! For about thirty seconds, it looks like the falling is stopping, and some patches of ground even look like they're starting to go back up!

But then the lights dim again, and shortly after everything shuts off once more. All of the lights that had just been blue? Yeah they're back to red now.]

...well, I figured out the problem at least.

[He does take Raile's crest this time, though, and he sets it right on top of the control panel, hoping that it's enough to get those controls working at least. Lo and behold, Rucks was right about what he had said to Raile, and it's enough to jump-start the control panel.]

Whatever ones you guys just hit, get those ones first. One of them was the stabilizers, which is what we need first. From there, turn them back on slowly. We're low on power, so I've gotta switch off the non-essential things as they come back up, so they don't drain what power we do have left.

[coolerthansora]

[Oh, they had it! Roxas quickly presses the last few switches he did again and pauses hopefully. That's when he finally notices that Ryu is using one of his hands for light and decides he can do one better.]

Ah, here-

[The Organization only taught him to use his powers for attacking, but luckily he's had a couple years since then practicing with book lights. He summons a ball of light and lets it just hang there above the group, glancing over at the control panel Nathaniel is at.]

What else can we do- to give it more power? Will shards help?

[bastionpc]

A little, but let's worry about getting things up and running first. Then we can work on gathering shards to shove in the monument.

[The extra light is good, though. It makes everything in the area much more visible, so the people working on turning the switches back on can actually see what they are doing, rather than just jabbing fingers at the lights and hoping to hit the switches. It also helps Nathaniel, who can see his control panel much more clearly.

With everyone's combined effort, they can stop the noise and get the Bastion stabilized within another ten minutes or so. Fortunately the ground was sinking slowly, so it doesn't take much energy to put everything back where it should be. But the fact that the Bastion is low on power is very noticeable: once they pass the halfway mark on switching things back on, there is a slight dip in power as Nathaniel quickly shuts off non-essential functions.]

Okay...I think we've got it. But to be safe, when we're done we should go out to the Skyway to tell everyone what's going on, rather than have them come back here.

[amnesiadragon]

Got it. We... we're gonna need to find another core again, aren't we? Since those give a lot of power...

[Looks like a job for an adventurer! Or just a Ryu.]