Communication Tower Shenanigans

[namisan]

Who: Anyone!
Broadcast: Not...yet. Working on that part??
Action: The Comms Tower
When: In the day or two after that zuper zecret broadcazt.

[A mingle for any and all people on the ground making their way toward the comms tower, and all science and tech wizardry that happens thereafter.  For any who can't follow coordinates on land, a light rain will spring up around the tower's general area after the first handful of hours has gone past, as per this broadcast here.]

Comments

[alwayscomeback]

Nope, fortune favours the brave, and all that.

[He nods, his hand rubbing the back of his neck- feeling it there. ]

I wonder if we could make some kind of scrambler? Like the one that's here, blocking out our communications- maybe we could fashion one that scrambled the augments. Of course the problem there is that we could risk hurting ourselves in the process- they are stuck in our heads.

[namisan]

Makes me wish my captain were here. He's immune to lightning and electrical attacks, but I bet the augment would still be vulnerable.

[Benefits of being made from rubber. Weirdo.]

[alwayscomeback]

Huh, actually come to think of it, Zuko had that and we never thought to try it. Though...he more channelled lighting than anything else, so maybe not.

If only we could get one. Just by itself, not attached to a person- then we could test it without hurting anyone.

[namisan]

...if we ever get the chance to ask the Interceptors, I wonder if they might have one.

[alwayscomeback]

There's a good chance, right? They had to break out of Atroma's control somehow. I'd say reverse engineering an augment is the best way to go about that.

[namisan]

I'll say. And they drove you into a nebula that one time. They've gotta be invested in helping out.

[alwayscomeback]

Yeah, still not a big fan of that part, but it did cut us off from Atroma for a while. Maybe there is a trick to it, without, you know, completely shorting out everything.

[namisan]

And without too much risk to one of us.

...and without destroying any way of our going home. But I guess that's why we need to learn more about the augments themselves.

[alwayscomeback]

Exactly. We need more information before we can move forward, sucky as that thought is.

[namisan]

Well, gotta start at the beginning. I guess we can't do much of anything until we talk to the Interceptors again. And before that, getting off this stupid planet would be ideal.

[She doesn't want to think too hard on the possibility that she might never go home.]

[alwayscomeback]

Ugh, tell me about it. I am absolutely done with crazy cannibal world. I'm giving it a half star rating. Would not visit again.

[namisan]

Half a star is generous. [She grins wryly.

But also. She has eyed off the poisonous terrain a whole bunch.]

...I have to wonder whether something here sent them mad.

[alwayscomeback]

They only get that because there's food here I can hunt.

[That is literally the only reason. Also it's a miracle he hasn't poisoned himself yet.]

Yeah, it seems a little...weird. That they'd just turn like this.

[namisan]

I wouldn't normally think the poison on this planet would be connected with others we've been to, but the Atroma don't seem to believe in coincidences. Sure hope they don't expect us to solve the problem here. In these circumstances.

[alwayscomeback]

Usually we can get to the bottom of it, but this is a little much even for us. I know they love the drama, but seesh. Give us a little something to work with here.

[namisan]

I guess they're probably getting enough drama from the whole crash landing thing.

[alwayscomeback]

One thing I've learned from my time here is that Atroma never get enough drama.

[namisan]

...you know, good point. I shouldn't tempt them.

[alwayscomeback]

That'd be a wise move. Don't give 'em what they want.