synopsychic | Jaunt Week 2

Hey, guys! It’s Prompto! Totally made it down, safe and sound.

-=he’s sharing his vision, which is currently and underwater scene, which so far seems fairly normal for the sort of place they’re in=-

For anybody that didn’t get the memo, I’m using my robobody to sneak underwater back to God’s Isle to get a better look at things since…. I didn’t get a really good chance while we were there.

Gonna keep the connection up since I figure it’s the easiest way to share the info. Underwater Livestream, yo! Haha!

((This network post is essentially going to be running for hours while Prompto makes his way underwater back to the Isle, feel free to poke him at any point in the journey!))

[i: the bay]
-=prompto has rigged a personal underwater propulsion device so he’s not going a slowly as he could be, but not so fast as he would miss things. At first it seems like the bottom of a normal bay, rocks and plants and colorful fish that he’s delighted about. glimpses of himself here and there reveal a four armed, metal body.

he does babble randomly as he goes, interrupted by a shriek! when some needlefish start getting aggressive. It’s lasts a few moments until he remembers that he is made of metal and therefore difficult to injure. And also not food, so they lose interest soon enough=-

Yeah! You better run! Jerks!

-=he shakes a mechanical fist at the offending fishes=-

[ii: mirpur sakro]
Woah…

-=soon, prompto pauses as he comes across what looks like an old highway sign written in alphabets he doesn’t recognise (Sindhi, Urdu).

there appears to be a whole city at the bottom of the bay. it’s hard to tell how big it had once been since most of it is rubble and eroded away. colorful schools of fish make their way through the rotting buildings and futuristic cars that can been abandoned.

eventually he passes by a large billboard, pausing to get a good look at it. RESIDENTS MUST EVACUATE TO THE KARACHI CITY DOME BY- It’s old and incredibly warn, but only the date is too faded to properly read.=-

That’s not ominous or anything.

[iii: god’s isle]
Damn…

-=prompto is still some distance away, but even through the water he can see the outer towers up on God’s Isle continue down into the bottom of the bay, securing it in place. the central tower doesn’t appear to continue under the water, though the entire underside of the island itself is made or pristine metal plating.

as an oracle, he could tell from the start that the whole thing was a machine. it’s how he could head directly here and not go off course underwater. he needs to actually touch the machinery itself to get an actual infodump on what it is.

he’s quieter now as he makes his way closer. luckily there doesn’t seem to be any fish versions of the midge spy cameras, so he’s able to make it right up to one of the towers=-

Here’s goes…

-=he reaches out to touch the tower, and his connection to the network fickers and statics out a bit as he draws the information into his mind so it can download right into his data disk. the connection doesn’t break, but his vision blanks out for a few long moments before he’s blinking back to himself again=-

Woah! Okay. So, uh… it’s doing a lot of things. Monitoring the whole area, kinda like an outpost? It’s not the main control center. There’s a toxic atmosphere it’s keeping out, and making sure the air in here is clean. It’s controlling the camera bugs, and there’s even a transport dock.

Should.. I go inside?

-=he hesitates a moment as he deals with some spikes of anxiety=-

I should probably go inside.

[iv. espionage]
-=after circling around to where the underwater dock is, prompto susses out a maintenance hatch and twists it open, then slowly pushing it open so he can swim through and slowly close it behind him. He keeps close to wall of the pool, peeking up out of the water and switching his vision to infrared to see if there are any people moving around before moving to the ladder to get up out of the water.
he looks down at himself as water spills from his metal body=-

Haha, whoops. Should have brought a towel! Or twelve.

-=switching to green night vision he starts poking around in the storage are he finds himself in=-

There’s rations here! And medical stuff!

-=he starts taking some of the medicine, looking at the labels for anyone who’d know better=-

Not sure what this, but if it’s helpful maybe we can portal back and get more? I don’t have all that much space so I can’t take it all.

-=he does vanish some of it into his hammerspace/armiger anyway. Then he heads over to a large set of doors and touches the control panel=-

It’s an elevator that goes up to that main tower. I can probably get around the security system. There might be some clue up there about what's really going on!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

...do you think you could get a blueprint of the entire place?

If we can destroy it and build a new one, identical hardware but god-free software, maybe it'll give the locals a bit of a hand. Keep them from being completely under the space bastards' thumbs.

[Okay wait, what?]

You think we can build an entire new super science bunker?

Sure, why not? Might need to kill me for it, I can't work underwater with hooves, but if there's already some framework for us to start with...

[Ah. So this is some giant superpower thing, and not just a ridiculous overestimation of the average person's abilities here.]

Well, for one, giving bronze age people highly advanced technology is a recipe for disaster. But even if you did want to go that route, why bother using the same design as the hidden space overlords? Or hidden center of the earth overlords, or underwater overlords, or whatever. If that's something you can just do, build technobunkers that look like islands in the space of a few weeks with very few supplies, then why use their plans?

[Unfortunately, Eliot has a natural tendency to sound incredibly snide, but in this case he really is trying to figure out what the reasoning is behind the suggestion. Does this person know something they don't about the island?]

I'm not saying we give it to them, if they can't understand it. Just...

Look, I was made for trying to advance shitty all-powerful world conquering space bastards, alright? So if this is anything like I'm familiar with, then this tower is only going to have exactly what it needs to have to function indefinitely.

[That may not be an entirely correct assumption but it is just that: an assumption.]

And if we can replicate that, so that they can't control it but it still benefits the people living here, how is that not a good thing? I could probably get it up and running in like a week or two, tops. They've clearly already got parts I can salvage to get it done even faster.

Edited 2019-05-25 22:09 (UTC)

Unless you can do this in a couple hours, tops, somebody's gonna notice and come stop you. They got sensors trained on this planet, and not a lot of places we can go to get away from 'em. Then we'll be in deeper shit than before cuz the station people will know they got somebody down here with our skills.

Hold off on any ideas like this until we've dealt with the source, okay?

[Probably it's a good thing Riddick is ready to fight Bismuth on that. ~~since Yukki's not here to~~]

[Also, she hadn't known about the sensors.]

A few hours would be enough for a shitty decoy... [she's only half serious] ...but- fine, ugh.

The bigwigs tend to frown on that much interference, anyway.

Bigwigs frown on everything, that's why they're up the top. They aren't the ones who have to worry about small picture stuff like local organics.

Yeah, but they have a way of punishing the local organics for well meaning actions.

[Eliot pauses - he's not actually objecting to helping people or fighting the power, and he realizes he might be arguing just to argue at this point, because the idea of recreating a secret island machine base seems so weird and ridiculous to him. So he corrects his aim - this person hasn't done anything to get on his bad side. He's just worried about Prompto.]

I think there are probably ways we can increase quality of life that are a little less dramatic and scream "Come stomp out the rebellion!" a bit more subtly. I love flamboyant gestures as much as the next man, but maybe not the way to go here.

Sorry, sister. I've been on stations like the one up there.

[Probably. His space stations were probably a lot crappier.]

I know what kind of shit they've got going.

I have too, you know. I'm just not used to there being civilians on the side to need to worry about.

Yeah? I guess I didn't figure you light-made types had the same kind of space stations us meat-types had.

Can't imagine there's that much of a difference. Everyone uses big-ass light-speed-capable ships to transport their armies around, right?

...actually, the Diamonds have non-standard ship designs. Blue and Yellow's are giant arms and Pink's is a pair of legs.

Okay, that's pretty weird. Was there somebody who had a body and a head to go with 'em?

But not everybody's ships are big, and not all of them can do lightspeed. Most of the ones I've flown and traveled in weren't any bigger than that tower on the island you wanna take down, and a lot were smaller.

Already got one!

And no. No no. Don't do that! If this thing gets destroyed, we'll all be dead in like.. hours.

Jaunt Week 2 | Day 1

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