[log] oh boy it's another bunker mingle [open to bunker peeps]

[phaseshifter]

Characters: Anyone in the bunker. I have no idea who's around I'm gomen
Location: The bunker and its immediate surroundings
Date: Days 386 - 394? That's a lot of days but it's been a while geez (lmk if you want me to add a day on or something)
Summary: Bunker people do... bunker things. In the bunker.
Warnings: Add them to your subject lines!



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day 386

[spoileralert]

Computer repairs. Chips and other small parts are held in place with screws too small for a standard screwdriver.

[ Steph hasn't done a ton of exploring in the bunker. She's still on a kick of taking care of herself first and worrying about things other people are already working on second. At least she already has a micro-filter mask, even if the electronic component doesn't work. ]

[plaguenurse]

[Diana starts a little at the sound of another voice. Realising quickly that it was a response to her musing, she sputters.] Oh, I mean...

[She looks away from Steph and back to the screwdriver she's holding.] I was just thinking...that there was something here we were supposed to use them for. Like...a puzzle.

[Her voice falls a little as she explains. Norfinbury and the Decision Game are similar in a lot of ways, but Norfinbury was a real town, unlike the underground shelter that Zero controlled.] Sorry, that probably sounds crazy.

[spoileralert]

I'm from Gotham. We have villains that literally build their crimes around riddles. [ And then there's Steph's dad, whose whole shtick was leaving actual clues for the cops. ]

In Norfinbury, though, they're more likely to be useful somewhere else. All about the fetch-quests, right?

[plaguenurse]

Oh, right, um, superheroes. [Diana is a very curious and open-minded person, but man, there are a lot of strange realities to keep straight in Norfinbury.] I guess that makes sense... I didn't come from a place like that, but--

[Her expression changes, worried as she turns the explanation over in her head. She ultimately dodges the details.] ...we didn't have something if we weren't supposed to use it, you know? And this town does have a lot of weird security measures...

[spoileralert]

[ Steph nods her understanding. ]

Probably we should take one of each size and hold onto them. I wouldn't mind the chance to dismantle some of the equipment around here...

[plaguenurse]

Yeah, I was wondering if maybe there were parts around here that we were supposed to use... It would really be nice if we could build a computer to go in that one room. [That is, the room with a keyboard, mouse, and monitor--everything but the computer.

She chuckles a little at herself, flicking her nail across the head of the screwdriver.] That would be pretty convenient, huh? [Too convenient.]

[spoileralert]

Awesome as that would be, we’d have to put it together in a house with heating. Or maybe one of the bathrooms with hot water. You can’t wear anything that might conduct static.

[plaguenurse]

Oh, really? [Diana seems genuinely curious.] I didn't know that! I don't really know a lot about computers. I guess--the static could damage the parts or something? [That makes sense, now that she thinks about it.]

[spoileralert]

Yup. Beyond repair, actually, and pretty easily. Way lower levels than the human body can even feel. I’ve never built my own machine from scratch but I’ve done plenty of my own upgrades.

[plaguenurse]

Wow! I had no idea they were that delicate. I wonder how they ever managed to install all the computing parts in Norfinbury. [Not just the tablets, but the nanomachines, the cleaner spiders, all the parts in the houses that are on a curfew...

Her eyebrows furrow a little.] Well, I guess it didn't always snow here like this before... [But it's still Alaska, so it probably snowed a lot anyway, right...? For some reason the climate of Alaska wasn't a priority in her middle school geography classes.]

[spoileralert]

They probably didn't. They'd have shipped them here from a factory in whatever static-resistant casing they were going to be installed in. That's how it's usually done.

But they may also have had a climate controlled factory somewhere, I mean, it's not like we've seen the whole town yet.