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bastionmods ([personal profile] bastionmods) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2014-09-01 12:21 am

[Day 225] [EVENT] A sinking feeling

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?
]
coffeewithmysugar: (edea4)

[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-04 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't mind the company.

[Because she knows her senses are dulled by the lack of sleep. Adrenaline only helps so much. Edea shifts her stance so that one side of her leans more toward Saix.

Weapons appearing out of nowhere wouldn't actually startle her too much, even in her current state. She's used to that.]
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[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-05 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[He comes up besides her, adjusting the gun so that it's more comfortable in his arms, and glances out at the expanse of Skyway.]

I suppose we became too confident.
coffeewithmysugar: (edea7)

[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-05 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's not really my place to say. I've only been here a month. [She shrugs, fighting back the urge to say "which is longer than I've stayed in many places."]

But when someone tells me "this is a safe place" you don't exactly expect that to be conditional.
croceamors: (liekos) (sideye > If ever again)

[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-05 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
It's always been conditional, just never to this degree.

[It's usually been more minor, along the lines of "Work for your food and a place to stay". A regular line of thought, really. And...]

I wonder if this has something to do with the Cores. They are what powers the place.
coffeewithmysugar: (edea3)

[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-05 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Cores? Are they like larger versions of shards?

[This is the first she's hearing of them, but her mind does sort of flash back to her life before the Bastion. Hopefully the problems that arose from the crystals are not the sort of things that are going to happen here.]
croceamors: (icon by crystalreport) (glare > Some say you're trouble boy)

[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-05 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[...Of course no one told a new girl about it. Saix scowls for a moment before refocusing on the conversation.]

Yes. They're considerably more powerful than they are, and they're what the Bastion runs on. From what I understand, the Bastion isn't actually completed... but it will be once enough Cores have been installed in it.
coffeewithmysugar: (edea3)

[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-05 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
I see... I take it these cores are not easy to come by?

[Otherwise she would imagine somebody to have found enough of them by now. She doesn't expect rebuilding the Bastion to be everyone's top priority but surely it was high enough for several of them.]
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[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-05 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
No. Nathaniel, the man you saw running towards the Monument, can apparently locate them somehow but they're a rare sight. The Bastion has a good handful of them already, but I'm not sure how much number in a complete set.
coffeewithmysugar: (edea7)

[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-05 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
If they're a power source there's a possibility that there's no set amount needed. The Bastion may continue to require more if our numbers continue to grow.

[This is not an exciting idea, especially if cores are going to be hard to find. At least there are enough people with combat experience that they can be out on the Skyway to search.]
croceamors: (twilightshards) (business > Your voice is echoing again)

[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-05 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
If Nathaniel manages to come back, we'll have to ask him for more details.

[Assuming he doesn't fall through one of those sink holes and dies or some such thing, anyway.]
coffeewithmysugar: (edea4)

[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-06 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed.

[None of this does much to calm her nerves, but she does appreciate all the information. She sighs, trying to help herself ease the tension that's gathered in her muscles.]

Have you been here when they sought cores in the past?
croceamors: (icon by crystalreport) (glare > Some say you're trouble boy)

[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-06 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid not, only when their power has come into effect. I've been here for other things, however, such as when the Calamity was more properly explained.
coffeewithmysugar: (edea4)

[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-06 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Edea hates thinking about the Calamity and what it's done, even if she doesn't know a whole lot. You'll notice it's one of the few things she won't ask about.

I wonder just how much of all this we don't know about. And if that lack of knowledge is going to do harm.
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[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-06 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It's more a matter of "when", in my opinion. Finding more information on all of this would do us more good than not.
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[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-08 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
You're probably right.

[On both matters. And for a while that's enough for Edea to mull over. Why did everything have to be so complicated? Why would someone make this place rely on an object for power and then not tell everyone about it? Are things going to get worse before they get better?]

Ugh this whole thing is a big mess.

[Tiz would be disappointed at their lack of organization.]
croceamors: (twilightshards) (business > Your voice is echoing again)

[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-08 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
It is.

Our biggest problem is one of organization. I'm positive I'm not the only one who's thought it. We're managing but not as well as we could be.

If there was some sort of leader or group in charge of things, that would help make matters easier.
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[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-08 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Deciding on leadership might be difficult. We come from so many different places, we might have different expectations about how they should be and what sort of power we should allow them.
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[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-08 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Then we'll have to start a discussion about it. Not doing anything is obviously not working out well for us, considering.
coffeewithmysugar: (edea3)

[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-09 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
That's bound to be an interesting discussion.

[One she intends to be around for, even if she doesn't think she'll have much to contribute. Edea shifts her weight from foot to foot a few times before she asks.]

So how long have you been here?
croceamors: (liekos) (sideye > If ever again)

[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-09 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's been a few months now, but that's hardly the longest.
coffeewithmysugar: (edea2)

[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-10 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'd say any amount of time here is too long.

[Boy, Edea sure is still bitter about being the only one of her world here. Between her tone and the way she's crossing her arms you'd have to be oblivious not to notice.]
croceamors: (liekos) (sideye > If ever again)

[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-10 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
I'd rather be here than be dead.

[It's stated bluntly, without much sympathy. Then again... That tends to be a weakpoint of his.]
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[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-10 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Call me foolish but I'm having a hard time believing that anybody who isn't here is dead.
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[personal profile] croceamors 2014-09-10 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
Very well. You're foolish.

Haven't you seen the ash statues?
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[personal profile] coffeewithmysugar 2014-09-11 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Only a few. And I still don't see how that's proof.

[This is one of the few things she will be stubbornly optimistic about. Her friends are not dead. End of discussion.]

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