Scene #6051: A Ruined City 3: Water, Water Everywhere

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Kotone Yamakawa	Earth Ameri-Russio Alliance Hawaii - Kahului Water Treatment Plant This mission was simple the water treatment plant which used to remove salt from seawater and provide water for the old city, along with cleaning up black and grey water had been long idle. The problem had been pinpointed there were a number of errors with the system from what Colonel Heller had been able to discern also there'd been some odd readings, but with it being a civilian installation? It did not poessed as an advanced sensor suite as a military one would have had. The transport chopper hovered over the old water treatment plans and the noonday sun was shining down upon everyone as Kotone was the first one out of the transport chopper, she made a three-point landing cracking the old concrete under the weight of her cyborg body. She was up on her feet and heading in. <<All we know is the plant seems idle, and mostly intact. There have been some odd readings deeper in the plant near the intakers, we need to retake the control room and check out those reading before we start anything up.>> With that Kotone was cloaking and going in on point the old plant loomed before them showing only sign of the ravages of time, not war from the looks of it. To those new to the operaiton they had been informed of the pretty decent pay rate, bounus for recovering military hardware and Heller didn't care so long as they didn't have an record on his world.
Zerrawn	It wasn't so much the pay that brought the Sith Lord Zerrawn back to the action, but rather the future potential. This world could become a decent trade partner to the Sith Empire, so it made sense to ensure it an easy negotiation. Once more letting himself decend from the transport with no concern for a zip line or other slowing method, Zerrawn already had his lightsaber in his hand, and his shield generator active. <Let's do this.>
Corona Arclite	She's not two steps after Kotone out of the chopper, but it takes Corona a bit longer to reach the ground and with less of a noisy impact thanks to the steam-jets on her boots softening the descent. She pauses a moment to adjust her hat and make sure it's strapped on properly. "Outta one adventure and rawht into another, huh?", she remakrs to Kotone with a bit of a smirk as she unslings the large hammer from her toolbelt and lets it rest on her shoulder. "Let's go see what's gunkin' up the ol' water works." For now, she was mainly here for potential need of mechanical support to get the plant running.
Kupot	There are times when you need a street ronin. Someone who despite their differences, will always do what must be done. Besides, it's not as if the Watch pays well and being a liberator doesn't pay well either. Kupot lands in a similiar three point landing, but the ground doesn't break. Lighter cybernetics, 3 feet tall. "Why does he kupo the need for combat runners on this?"
Orchid	One of the things about municipal utilities is that they tend to be built on a tighter budget than many other things. This forces the designs to be optimized, and means that the design has to go out to bid, the plans published on the internet for contractors to see. All this means that while the design plans Orchid found may not be completely accurate to what was built, they should be a good starting point. In any case, Orchid isn't going to take fall damage for a measly thirty foot drop, and is able to just step out of the helicopter and land on her feet. "In addition to the control room, we may want to find the lab," she notes to the others. "But that should be near the control room anyway."
Twilight Sparkle	Unlike the others who simply leap out of the chopper, the purple pony who has accompanied them disappears in a twinkle of purple and white before reappearing on the ground in a similar way. "It is an area that has been in anarchy for a while, and there have been signs that someone in the city is working against us. While it seems unlikely that there will be much in the way of danger here we must be ready for armed resistance, be it from automated systems or local militia." she responds to Kupot after she stops staring a bit at the unusual creature. She soon starts after the others, heading toward the control room.
Kotone Yamakawa	That would be a very good question, why the Kupo does Heller need combat grade elites? Kotone is quick to reply. <<This city was warzone when I was a child and it really is Corona.>> She then adds to Kupot. <<Welcome to the crew.>> She's heard of Moogles before but has never seen or met an actual one before. She shimmer and cloaked going on ahead, and shockingly there's no automated drones or anything, just the clutter of decay and a fast education, several old LCD displays come to life on likely backup solar power flashing an evacuation order dated back to when Kotone would have been a toddler. The route to the control room thanks to Orchid is pretty easy to find and then they find the body slumped up by the door, it's somewhat old but there's still some tattered dries flesh and signs of cybernetics, the center torso is cored too oddly not by weapons ...fire.
Corona Arclite	"Cuz it's better to pay for 'em and not need 'em," Corona adds to the explaination, "Than not have 'em when sh--" she pauses a moment, remembering she should probably keep her language a bit more proper in the presence of certain purple eggheads. "--slag hits the osolator blades." At first it looks like the former might be true. She tilts her head at one of the screens for a moment. "Welp, there's still some power com'n from somewhere." She glances down at her analyzer. "But not much. Not 'nuff to crank the place back up, for sure." And then it becomes more obvious it might be the latter that's true. ".... Someone left a mess. An' didn't care if it was found event'ally."
Zerrawn	Zerrawn narrows his eyes as he walks along with everyone else. He keeps spinning his saber idly between his fingers. "Indeed...Though we should likely expect we are not alone..."
Kupot	Kupot glances at Twilight Sparkle. His brow furrows. FLASH BACK The moogle stands by nearly twenty men, all dead, Kupot with his sword drawn. A horse, bathed in their blood, whickers with hysterical mocking madness. NOW His head turns back to the case at hand. He taps at the LCD display. "I should be able to kupo this if I can find a more significant terminal."
Twilight Sparkle	Twilight's ears perk as Corona alters her choice of words, and she smiles a thank you. When Kupot looks at her Twilight blinks before offering a smile and a wave of a forehoof. The general decay is to be expected, but Twilight is caught quite off guard by the sight of some poor cybernetic soul cored right by the front door. She looks away and tries not to look as they pass him or her. "...why would someone kill a water processing plant technician...?" she wonders quietly as they proceed forward.
Orchid	"Then we've got three or so information systems experts," Orchid says to Kupot. She examines the display. "At a guess, this is an information board," she says. "As in, no control access to the main plant network. But it does indicate that at least some of the control system is working."
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa looks at the body for a moment and then to Twilight "Could be someone coming to loot here. I'm not jacking into a corpse like that. I have no idea of the state of the implants." She'll get up and move on ahead. "Kupot having you along gives us a lot more options with how wired up my world there is." Orchid's maps would show they are very near the control room. "I'll take a few people and we'll check out the part of the plant that Colonel Heller found the contacts in. I'll leave those of you who want to handle the lab and the control room too. I'll keep in touch as well." She'll turn on the network and head off. To those who go to check out the Control Room, they will find the door locked, but either by hacking or breaking the door they will be able to get in. The worst thing that has been in here are rodents of various sorts. None of which are sticking around from noise of the group's entry. Good news! One of the darkened terminals is flashing like it might be awaiting a manual reboot. Kotones group would head deeper and deeper into the plant, as they do? A stench of rotting fish and other sea matter would be apparent also there are as they reach a lower level, bodies, not of people but of large sea life, like something, dragged them in here after they died and they are heavily eaten.
Zerrawn	Zerrawn opted to go off with Kotone. As they go into the plant, the stench hits first, then the sight of the bodies. He walks up and starts to examine the remains. "Hmm...Something nasty was through here..."
Corona Arclite	Corona won't be so good for the fancy shmancy wired up stuff so she turns to follow after Kotone. And it doesn't take long for her muzzle to crunch up. "Good grief, that stentch is worse than fresh sulfur! It smells like something di--" Oh look, dead sea life. "--Nevermind." Corona pauses, poking one of the corpses with her hammer. It flops over, revealing were the body has been gnawshed upon. "This.. is like the stash of a predator. Lotta big varmints on Brimsteel do similar."
Kupot	Kupot will take the control room. He nods his head to Kotone, then makes off in that direction. He takes his time, as there is no real need to rush, no sense in running about. The door is easy enough for Kupot to hack, pulling out a cable and plugging into the door. The cable plugs into a small jack at the base of his ear. For a moment, his black insectile glass eyes flash, then the door opens with ease. Kupot presses in further to do the same to the terminals. No signs of life. A simple enough job.
Orchid	Orchid is going to the control room. "Now, from what I can tell, this place has an isolated control network, but it's likely there are some breaks in the lines." Orchid is doing her hacking a bit more directly, opening the main control panel to examine the workings and wires within, using some of her smaller drones to climb into the conduits, and explore the plant that way.
Twilight Sparkle	Twilight Sparkle may be the least technologically inclined of those present, so she likewise follows after Kotone. At least for a short distance. When that smell hits her the pony comes to a complete stop and even backs up a bit, covering her muzzle with a folded foreleg and shuddering as she fights down some gagging. She has never really been exposed to such a thing before. "...I think...I'll go up and see if I can help with the control room..." she says, though even if none of the group hears her Kotone's group would soon realize there is no pony with them and Orchid's group would find that there is one with them. Twilight takes a few deep breaths of the much cleaner air, then coughs a bit before looking to Orchid. "If you can isolate the damaged circuits and wires I should be able to repair them fairly easily."
Kotone Yamakawa	Hunter Team Zerrawn would feel something hunger, cunning, something was watching the group and considering. There was something down here all right. Kotone keeps moving, looking about and looks to Corona and she nods. "We don't have creatures much like yours, most of the large land animals are sadly only in Zoos if they still exist." She takes a moment to narrow her eyes some more and look around. "This could explain why no one's tried to take this place over..." Kotone does not fault Twilight for leaving for the control room, she does look concerned though. "Err carnivores are not common in your world are they. I think that would be wise and your repair abilities would be a boon. Kotone and her companion move forward past the carnage and might hear, see or sense some movement. "We're almost at the main water intakes..." Control Room Team. Kupot gets to work and is able to get the terminal online, there's damage to many of the systems there are errors all over the place, there's a number of damaged consoles in here that could use Twilight's aid in getting online. Orchids drone would explore and find cabling some lines do lead out but not to the control systems they are to a separate network. There's also breaches here and there where Vermin have chewed up the lines. On Kupot's end, he'll find the water intakes are issuing a clogged warning along with Biohazard warnings to boot.
Zerrawn	Zerrawn feels something eyeing him, and he pops his saber. The crimson blade illuminates his form, revealing his hooded face and an armored form under his cloak. "We are being watched..." He growls out, eyes immidiately scanning everywhere.
Corona Arclite	Corona's ears are already perked at the sides of her head, sensative hearing in full drive. Especially without any loud machinery to drown out other noises down here. "All the more reason to be careful," she murmurs to the others, switching her hammer for the shotgun that had been slung across her back. She pumps it once, and the glow of the pulsarium core casts a faint blacklight upon her face. "Iffen somethin' was draggin' its meals in from the sea, the intakes would be where it's comin' through."
Kupot	Kupot pulls the cable back and lets it retract. He turns his head slightly towards Orchid. "Biohazardous object is kupo the intake." He shrugs, "We will have to kupo it by hand."
Orchid	Orchid is trying to deal with the hardware, and is directing Twilight Sparkle. "These relay coils, here, here, and here. I could try replacing them, but I'd like to see what your magic can do." Meanwhile, her drones are running replacement wires, as they attempt to map the network of conduits, particularly any ethernet cables they find.
Twilight Sparkle	Twilight studiously follows Orchid's directions, and while it takes her a moment to see just how to direct her magic for each component once her horn starts glowing any part she is directed toward is fixed in short order. Wires stretch and fuse back together, consoles seem to disintegrate in reverse, broken screens are soon as good as new. She doesn't even seem to have to know just how something works to put it back together. She even takes the time to fix the chairs if they need it. It might take her a little while to get the whole control room up and running again, but she can easily get the basic systems up and running again in only a few minutes. "How's that?" she asks Orchid after the basic repairs are done.
Kotone Yamakawa	Hunt Team. Kotone nods to Zerawn as she readies a pistol rather than her assault rifle, in close quarters the smaller weapon was a better idea n her mind. The Sith Lord's mind reaches out with the force and he finds it a half dozen things are watching them in two groups of three, it's clear these things were setting up to ambush however thanks fo his abilities with the force? He can pinpoint and permit them allowing the group to get the first strike in. It seems they are located closer to the intakes as Corona has surmised and she's ready. Room Team. Kupot keeps the crew up to date on the blockage and he will find he might be able to locate a manual purge system that is located closer to the intakes, and her repairs may bear fruit once the cables are hooked up a decent number of the error warning go away and several more systems light up. Repairs are needed but more of the plant's systems are back online thanks to her. Twilight's own actions will make the laws of Physics of this world weep and there's nothing said forces can do as the control room is restored to working order even a pair or long forg0otton meals are now whole and fresh /again/ as is some of the coffee in the coffee mugs left behind by the crew. With this, all the warnings for the control room itself are gone. Now comes to how do they get the biohazard purged out of the intakes.
Zerrawn	Zerrawn smirks softly as he picks up on the creatures. "I sense them...this should be easy. By the intakes." He says, throwing himself into the battle with a nice force charge.
Orchid	"Perfect Twilight, thank you," Orchid says to the unicorn princess wizard. "Now let's see what this lets us do." She goes into the control system. She's looking for the distribution system sensors, those devices spread throughout the pipes that go throughout the city that, in basic terms, tell you how quickly water is flowing through the pipes. She's not expecting the whole network to be working, but if some of it is, that could be the basis for later infrastructure work. "Something by the intakes, yes, but where does it go..."
Corona Arclite	"Dirty varmits," Corona mutters, adjusting choke partway on Forgesweeper. Don't want it scatterblasting too wide and doing damage to the machinery. "Good thin' ya brought some exterminators with ya, Koto." She lifts the weapon up towards one of the intakes Zerrawn didn't charge headlong towards and opens fire towards the hiding spot with a conical burst of superhot plasmoid energy. Pulsarium generated plasma is akin to both fire and electricity, so it's like getting shot up with intense electrical burns.
Twilight Sparkle	Twilight smiles at the thank you. "You're welcome!" she says, then looks over Orchid's shoulder as she works. "If you can pinpoint the blockage I should be able to get in there and use my magic to clear the blockage." she says to Kupot and Orchid. "...although, if it is a biohazard I suppose I should locate a proper biohazard suit first." She starts looking around for any indications of such safety equipment.
Kotone Yamakawa	Combat Team Zerawn catches one of the creatures off guard charging into it with his light sabre cutting the thing in tow, the other creatures get into the mix the strange tentacles thing have beaks almost like a squid and tentacles along with powerful limbs hinting to a semi-aquatic existence. Kotone never has seen anything like them and she calls out shooting. "These things are not native! A darn good thing I did." Corona meanwhile get into the mess firing with her shotgun blowing another of the things away and the smell of burnt flesh fills the room starting to fight with the smell of rotten flesh. Kotone takes down the third one, at this point the remaining creature turn an run, this is too much for them and they make their way through one of the intake pipes they are fleeing. Control Room Team. With Twilight's repairs to the control room and Orchid getting a number of the cables online. The network as Orchid expects is a mess there's a few intact lines to major old residential areas and the harbour district as well but there's a lot of work all sort of signs of damage mostly from age rather than fighting. Though a lot of it may just be blockages. Twilight will find the suits but they are for big shock humanoids as humans are the name of the game on this world and the only players. With the creatures chased off, it should be simple if an unsettling matter to clear the pipes and hopefully restore whatever grate which was used to keep things /out/. Also given Kupots skills it should be a small matter with help from Orchid and maybe Kotone if needed to at least fix the software issues the place is having.
Zerrawn	Zerrawn brings the saber around, slicing off whatever tenticles were still trying to touch him. "Well...that certainly explains what happened here. We'll need to send a group to get rid of these creatures. Let our captain friend know about this."
Corona Arclite	"Why is it always thin's with tentacles and crud?" Corona complains to no one in particular. "Either some sorta invasion, or mutation, or whatever." As the remaining creatures flee out of the intakes Corona stows her shotgun and bounds over to the machinery to find the controls. "There should be an emergency shutter or some such... Close it off so they can't get back in here and cause more problems." Hunting them down can come later.
Orchid	"Probably wise," Orchid agrees with Twilight Sparkle. "I've got a bag I can put my hair in, but past that I'm fairly easy to clean. Still, we need to get the rest of the system working before we can fully evaluate the distribution network. Hmm..." Orchid trails off, thinking of robot fish. A map function, a tracking beacon... mind you, pressurized water tends to go through more narrow pipes.
Twilight Sparkle	Suits for humans only? Well, that's no surprise. But, with her magic it is a simple matter for Twilight to alter one for pony use. Her horn glows and one of the suits reshapes, then in a jiffy she is suited up. It is still going to be gross, but at least she won't be able to smell it! "Well, while you guys figure out the mapping and get the system up and running I'm going to go and try to clear the intakes. Forcefully reversing the flow should do it, don't you think?" she asks Orchid and Kupot before trotting out. She heads for wherever the intakes hit the reservoir inside the facility and with a powerful push of magic she tries to force whatever is blocking them back out the way it came.
Kotone Yamakawa	Combat Team Kotone looks to Corona for a moment and has this pained look on her face. "Bioweapons have fallen by the waysid ein favour of things like my body. I'm betting these things are ... from the multiverse. My world has been unified for almost half a decade now if not longer." She looks about for a moment longer. Corona would find a cut off shutter and with Twilight on the way to clean the crude out of the pipes it should be simple enough though it is an experiance Twilight would not want to think on very much and with that? The plant is secure for the moment. Mission Clear