Seems like doomsday's come early this year...

[grandbellknight]

Characters: Those searching for the life support terminals
Location: All around Luministi!
Time: During the quick-time event
Summary: Time to find those terminals, reset them (all at the same time, mind!) and fix this! ... But is it really going to be that easy?
Warnings: None (yet?)

Six terminals, six parties looking for them, and time is running out. ... Along with any breathable air.

Following Proctor's instructions (and unfortunately limited memory), everyone looking for the important life support terminals would have to begin searching. Though they don't know exactly where each one is hidden, they knew they'll be in locations that were important to those originally in charge of the town. So, with a few locations in mind, at least they aren't blindly wandering the town. The idea is to split up, to try to get to the terminals simultaneously.

Still, they'd have to act fast. As time passes, it gets just that much harder to breathe, after all.

((OoC: Feel free to use this post to log out your adventures in terminal-resetting. ♥ Prose or [action brackets], probably doesn't matter. Go, go, go!))

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[champions_legend]

Leaf'll arrive not long after talking with the troll, though it's not the sound of running - but the clatter of hooves that announces her arrival, along with a loud neigh. Leaf vaults off the animal's back, recalling it into it's pokeball before heading inside, the natu still on her shoulder. Mostly for moral support, but also just in case she needed to defend herself.

"Pyrope-chan? A-Are you here?"

[terezi_pyrope]

That sound stirs her attention to the outside, and when Leaf enters, it's a surprise in that it's not someone else. At least in her opinion--either way it makes her tense a little less but not much more since they're already all in a precarious situation. One in which it's become clear someone out there is hoping for their deaths to come of it.

Terezi pops up from underneath the desk and smiles just a little. "Yes I am! Looks like you brought companion or two as well. Is one or two of them able to help search?"

[champions_legend]

"Yes. Naty's the only one who'll fit inside." Leaf pushes the strangeness of all of this away for now. She's here to help, not stare or wonder at the choice of words to refer to her pokemon. Once the whole situation is dealt with, she can start asking her questions. "What are we looking for?"

[terezi_pyrope]

It's how she certainly dealt with all of this.

Terezi begins to move towards where they keep the prisoners in the office, but judging by the lack of noise doubted there were actually any. Terezi replies, "A 'terminal' of some sort. I don't know if you're familiar with anything with that kind of technology, but it should stick out in a place like this.

If it helps the terminal would probably have a lot of keys, like on a regular computer I'd imagine."

[champions_legend]

"Oh... l-like something they w-would use at the docks t-to track ships." Leaf nods as she follows the younger woman. She'd know a computer when she saw one, but anything helps when looking for something. Though, from the sounds of it, it's more than likely one of the older models, at least by her standards. "The terminal houses some of the umm.. programs, correct? Though, if this is anything like home... I-I believe this place w-will have multiple computers."

[terezi_pyrope]

As they enter the section that houses the jail cells, Terezi nods, and although she's making assumptions herself about the terminal, it probably looks close to what they both expect. "Well, all the terminals we have to find number six in total; they're just spread out in this case. So you're possibly right about the many computers.

We also need to activate them at the same time--I assume if we don't something bad will happen or it just won't work."

[luministimods]

The two young women will not find any such terminals in the jail cell area as no panels pop out of the walls the moment they walk in, but thankfully, they are closer than they think. There is but one more area to be examined...

[terezi_pyrope]

"Well, that was a bit fruitless. Maybe there was something we missed. We're in a place of justice, though, so it should be a bit more straightforward..." With that Terezi heads to the direction of the private office, walking right in, and wondering if it might be in the sheriff's bathroom. Anything is possible right?

[luministimods]

Anything is indeed possible, and now that they were in the private office, something did change. There was an audible "click" in the room, as though something had opened, but not in the bathroom.

[champions_legend]

As soon as she heard the click, Leaf started to look around, setting the natu down too with a soft 'see if you can find the noise.' She didn't expect that the bird would be much help, but at least it was another pair of eyes looking.

"If that is the case, then activating them all at once will be trick..." Leaf chewed her lip at that.

[terezi_pyrope]

"...Which I think we have covered, the timing I mean." Terezi replies as she begins to tackle rummaging through the other side of the room, and anything in the way (which may have been papers on the desk or otherwise) would be knocked aside. She mutters all along, making a note on how it's become a bit more difficult to breathe, "Either way, we're a good enough team that I don't see any of us making a dumb mistake or something. I just hope the rest of us are the same."

[luministimods]

The knocking aside of papers doesn't yield anything, unfortunately, except for papers the Sheriff will have to pick up at some point. If he comes back, that is.

But there is something they will see. It's subtle, but between the cracks of one of the filing cabinet drawers, there's a soft glow that can be seen. If someone tries to pull it open, she'll discover that it isn't latched and is, indeed, the object that clicked open a few minutes before.

[terezi_pyrope]

At the first prickles of vanilla sparkles in her vision, Terezi turns her attention immediately towards that direction and will be that person who's opening the cabinet. She's not going to take her time here with herself and everyone else's lives on the line.

[luministimods]

Once the cabinet is open, the glow from within reveals a terminal! It is a foot wide and looks like it can be removed from the holder that's propping it up. The screen itself shows a field of stars, but that soon turns black with simple white letters that read:

"To access this terminal, your choice is a simple one: A or B.

"Answer correctly, and you may proceed.

"Answer incorrectly, and you may not live long enough to regret it."

Then two buttons appear onscreen, one with a bright A on it and a B on the other. Both pulse gently as they wait to be chosen.

[terezi_pyrope]

Choices A and B. Somehow, when she reads this after the terminal opens up with it's shiny, delicious colors all over, it makes Terezi become reminded of a certain choice at a different place, and time. The consequences of them were much the same: Choose the right one or die.

However hard Terezi had searched, she only came upon two choices she could take, and that was either to stay her hand or to stab someone she once called her sister in the back. She had looked very far and quickly into the possibilities, but they all, for some confounded reason ended up only resulting in two outcomes. She didn't understand how that could be possible, but she hadn't the time to have think any further, or even discover the one possible outcome where she didn't have to do one of those two. One in which she could have still stopped Vriska, without her ending up dead on the floor, and one in which she could have every one of her friends live.

The moment she moved towards a choice, her finger hovered over the secondary of the choices. However, a flash of outcomes flashed before her eyes as if she had real sight again, only this time she didn't have to decide whether or not she had to kill anyone.

Paradox space has spoken.

Terezi chooses A.

[luministimods]

The chosen button flashes for a few seconds, then the whole screen goes black as though it were thinking...

It's black for a good minute before another screen appears that reads:

"To reset Life Support systems, press when ready."

Then a single button appears, waiting to be pressed. It seems the terminal won't say whether the choice was right or wrong. But once the button is ready to be pressed, it will work without fail.

[ooc: To make things easier, we can assume Terezi and Leaf waited for the others to find their terminals before they pressed it.]

[champions_legend]

Leaf won't wait around and she presses the button as soon as she can. Hopefully, that will be a enough.

She doesn't want to think about what will happen if it's not for a number of reasons, the most important being that she doesn't want to die at all. "H-Hopefully... If not..."

She casts a glance in the direction that she last saw her natu, eyes narrowing with a dark scowl. Of all the times not to have taught the thing teleport. She shakes her head - she'll have time to look through the TM's she has later.