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Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy ([personal profile] damn_it_jim) wrote in [community profile] outer_divide2014-09-08 04:59 pm

[Video] 4AM Friday Morning, locked to the Sci-Fi/Tech Folks, the Mind Control Folks and Leah:

[Bones hasn't wasted much time since startling out of yet another dream, of the weighted and disquieting sort that he's gotten unfortunately good at recognizing as psionic spillover. He's hastily sketched out as much of a device as he can remember, and has it held up on a sheet of paper. For the hypertech familiar, it might be some kind of generator, vaguely cylindrical. When he speaks, it's with a voice hoarse from sudden awakening, and from what's visible beyond the edge of the drawing he hasn't bothered with a shirt.]

I had another one of those dreams, so if someone can say that they got it too, I'd appreciate the confirmation of my limited sanity.

Someone was looking at this on a display, a control interface maybe. There was a message -- 'Buffering mechanism disabled'. I could see a reflection in the display that looked like someone in an Outer Authority facemask. Woke up after the message, more or less.

So now what the hell is going on?
infourbooks: Neville at the head of a line, holding his wand, looking nervous (Hesitant)

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[personal profile] infourbooks 2014-09-08 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Neville wasn't woken up by the call. The dream had taken care of that already.]

You're not mad, I had one too.

[They could both be mad, but there's been too much of a pattern for that]
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[personal profile] infourbooks 2014-09-11 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
The same thing. If we were mad, I don't think it would be so alike.

[He shakes his head]

I don't even know the words for most of what I saw.
infourbooks: Neville at the head of a line, holding his wand, looking nervous (Hesitant)

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[personal profile] infourbooks 2014-09-14 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish Muggle Studies had been... more.

[There's movement as he's groping around for something to draw with]

I'll try to draw what I remember...
infourbooks: Neville cringing away from something (Intensely uncomfortable)

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[personal profile] infourbooks 2014-09-18 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Machines at all barely were.

I'll be there.

[He needs to help. Even if he wasn't sure how.]
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[personal profile] unofficial_ambassador 2014-09-09 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[She'd really been hoping that this part was over.]

I saw it, too. And felt it - something breaking. I tried to draw it too, but I don't know how accurate it is.
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[personal profile] unofficial_ambassador 2014-09-10 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It's worth a try. This isn't . . . really my wheelhouse, these mechanical things.
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[personal profile] unofficial_ambassador 2014-09-14 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
That might be our best option. Do you want to meet?
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[personal profile] unofficial_ambassador 2014-09-17 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[He's talking to someone who has pretty much only worn pants once in her life, but she understands the sentiment.]

Of course. At the hospital?
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[personal profile] loveshishammer 2014-09-14 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thor believes in the power of dreams, especially after everything that's happened surrounding them on Verdana, so he's perfectly happy to assume this is something real.]

Someone is tampering with that, then. Whatever "that" is. A buffering mechanism could be connected to anything, could it not?

[There are generator-like objects all over the city, some in the ship and some not. He even saw a few while stuck in quarantine after his last adventure with wraiths.]
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[personal profile] loveshishammer 2014-09-18 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps is it a little of all three, depending on their location. The outer authorities do not wear their masks when in Poseidon nearly as often, so it is likely not here-- at the Old City base, then, or near to or inside the plague zone.

[He pauses, frowning.]

Are there generators inside the plague zone? I admit I have only been a very little way in, only through the first shields.
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[personal profile] loveshishammer 2014-09-22 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes, that would be sensible. I cannot imagine that anything on the other side of the wall would require generators, however, that would need to be buffered or disabled, would there? There is no one there to use them.

[Which probably suggests it was mostly disguise that the mask was used for, rather than actually keeping the wearer alive and plague-free. Hrm.]
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[personal profile] loveshishammer 2014-10-06 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thor looks somber.]

Perhaps someone ought to inform the Outer Authorities. They are more able to look into such things than we are, and more likely to know where an item like that might be housed that requires buffering. Surely the lady Leah will trust us enough to at least investigate, after all the time we have worked with her.