[ DC 104 ] At 14:10, soon after the Wagon Wheel power shuts off

[smoak]

( ooc: Group thread encrypted to all specials (threadjacking encouraged). )

Power in the Wagon Wheel just shut off completely.
I'm not sure what's going on.
IntSec is freaking out right now.

[ Oh, of course, she should also mention: ]

I'm okay for now, I think. Maybe. But it's starting to get loud in the hall.
No one can get in or out of any of the doors.
Help.

[ Felicity's on the 17th floor of the Wagon Wheel, since she actually got assigned to work for IntSec. Maybe it was lucky, since IntSec, given their jobs, was one of the more protected floors. ]

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[sanguinescry]

It's the whole Wagon Wheel? I don't know if that's better or worse than it just being Forensics... Not freaking out right now. Not freaking out.

[smoak]

The entire building.

[ Felicity conveniently leaves out exactly how she got that information. It might have involved hacking into other people's messages on her PDC. ]

I'm on 17th. You?

[sanguinescry]

Same. Forensics is part of IntSec. Where on 17?

( Lydia doesn't have to ask, because she assumes that either Felicity got her information by looking through other messages that Lydia's blocked because they aren't encrypted, or the way Root tends to get her information, typically. )

How long? I mean, I wonder if it all went out at the same time or whether it was systematic.

( Because Lydia knows that, in this place, terrorist attacks are just sort of a thing and a systematic outage sub-sector by sub-sector wouldn't surprise her in the least. )

[smoak]

In the cubicle farm down the hall and to the left from the elevator.
I'm in Encryption Breakers.

[ As if that didn't give away how she got her information in the first place. But hey. The Computer gave her that job title. ]

Our power's been out for about 10 minutes.
My supervisor clearly assumed the backup generators would have been up right now, but they're not.
IntSec being down for this long is clearly freaking him out.

[sanguinescry]

( Ah. So the Root method of intel gathering. )

It's been about the same here, I think. I didn't check the PDC clock, although I should've.

...it sounds like there's rioting outside... You hear it or no? I'm wondering if it's closer to me or in the middle...

[smoak]

Uno momento.

Only faintly. It must not be close to me. Are your doors like ours? Lockpad access only?

[sanguinescry]

I don't know if that makes me feel better or worse...It's loud over here…

But yeah, lockpad access only. The thing I'm worried about is...whoever took out the power could be working on shutting off the security systems — like the door locks — as we speak.

( Which is actually a terrifying thought now that she's put it out there and forced herself to face the reality of said possibility. ...shit. )

[avemachina]

anyone in your vicinity look twitchy?

[smoak]

Upset.
Scared.
Bored.
Maybe there's one guy who's kind of twitchy? Why.

[avemachina]

if i turned off the power somewhere it would be because i want to get something from there, and no one in cpu is striking me as suspicious

[smoak]

[ Root's got a point. A very good one. ]

No one in Encryption Breakers either. But IntSec is big.
And Lydia says she thinks something is going on outside of Forensics.

[avemachina]

my bet's distraction but there are always opportunistic malcontents when you live in a totalitarian underground ruled by a broken asi...

[smoak]

Honestly I don't know what they'd want in Forensics. And to attack IntSec of all places.

Even without power this place still feels like a fort.

[lefey]

On the plus side, I have a lot of strawberries growing in here today.

And the little robots can't go psycho and attack me like they did the first time I met them if the power is off.


Hey does that mean they can't gas us if it's not up by tonight...? Hrm.

[smoak]

What? You have *strawberries*?

[ How is she not friends with this woman yet? Strawberries was one of many things Felicity never expected to see again. ]

Yeah I guess?
The sleep gas won't work if they don't power.

[lefey]

I work in hydroponics, so I'm locked in with a lot of plants. Including strawberries.


That's either very good or very much a problem.

[smoak]

Wow.
Is that where all the higher ups get their food?

I haven't been here long. But if this blackout isn't over by bedtime ... that means all of us are going to be sleeping here.
*That* is very much a problem.

[lefey]

I would hope so. There aren't too many other places habitable to plant life.

Well I guess you could grow mushrooms anywhere, and we might have too if the lights don't come back.


..yes I suppose that's a problem as well. [Her problem was a little bigger than sleeping near her coworkers. She wasn't convinced her visions wouldn't come back without the gas to force her under, not after the incident two days ago.]

[smoak]

Do you get to ...
eat any of the things you grow?

Encrypted to Barry and Cisco, 14:30

[smoak]

IntSec is down RIGHT NOW. From what I can tell, that means no logs. No one paying attention. My division can't even hack whoever did this without the power.
I know we said that we don't want to put other people in danger.
But if we try to find Ray RIGHT NOW, maybe no one else WOULD be put in danger.
Maybe no one would even notice.

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[namegenerator]

Okay, that's...in the Wagon Wheel, right? Question: Would they not keep prisoners in IntSec...? Because I'm not there, all's good here and I can probably sneak out for a "bathroom break" if you tell me where I'm going. I haven't been here that long and I haven't really had a chance to look around, considering all of my lovely missions.

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[runsonwater]

I'm stuck in the Forensics Lab with Lydia. As far as I know, all questioning is done here in IntSec, but I've never seen or heard of long term prisoners being held here.

I think if they're out there, Cisco it'd be in the Armed Forces Sector.

Same Filter

[namegenerator]

Okay, you say that like I know where that is. Give me a general direction and I'll see what I can do. Or...should I be coming to you guys to try to get you out, first?

Same Filter fo-eva

[smoak]

Don't come here. I think something else is going on and I'm not sure it's safe in the halls. Barry, have you been to Armed Forces before?

Same Filter

[namegenerator]

Okay, not going there. Your PDC is clearly working, think that you can use that beautiful mind of yours and give me a little hand along the way once I know which way I'm going?