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!))

Comments

[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.