Lights Flashing

The site of the recently restored Braddock Lighthouse. Aircraft hangars and other X-Men facilities, including a Cerebra unit and the Danger Room have been constructed around the foundations of the lighthouse.

Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Fri Mar 15, 2019 4:47 pm

The workshop in the Point was going mad.

Every screen, every computer console, everything was flashing. Pulsing. Now quickly, and now slowly, and now quickly again. A pause, and the pattern repeated.
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Postby Narrator » Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:37 pm

The signal spread out, now taking over computer terminals and consoles outside the point, heading across campus. Even Will, not connected to the network, found his eletric diodes flashing.

Flashflashflash. Flash Flash Flash. Flashflashflash.
Flashflashflash. Flash Flash Flash. Flashflashflash.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:43 pm

Nailah has stopped in the hallway of the mansion between classes, looking at her phone flashing.

"What the... Is anybody else getting this?" she asks, looking around at the other people in the hall.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:24 pm

"Yeah," Tereza says, thumbing irritably at her phone, then looking at one of the informational monitors on the hallway wall. "Looks like some sort of network-wide thing."
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:27 pm

FlashFlashFlash. Flash Flash Flash. FlashFlashFlash.

Pause.

FlashFlashFlash. Flash Flash Flash. FlashFlashFlash.

Then there was some static, coming out of anything with a speaker.

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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:34 pm

"Wait. Is that... morse code?" she wonders before a staticy voice interrupts her train of thought.

"Yes, hello! Who's there? Do you need help? You're breaking up!"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:36 pm

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xxxxxxxxiers University.  What's going oxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:38 pm

"Yes, this is Xaviers. I don't know what's going on, you called me. Or... all of us, I guess?"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:40 pm

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xxxxxxgnal is faint.   This is Xaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxtop your attaxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:42 pm

"You. Are. Breaking. Up." Nailah says slowly and loudly as if that would make the signal clearer somehow. "Who. Is. This?"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:49 pm

"Was that 'stop your attack'?" Tereza asks, frowning as she listens to her own phone.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:54 pm

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xxxxxverloading our system.  Repeat: This is Xaviers Unversity.  You are overloading the crystals.  Stop your enchxxxxx
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:03 pm

"But we're not attacking anybody. Are we? I'm so confused. What crystals?" she speaks the last part directly into the phone.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:07 pm

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zzznder the lighthouse.  This is the Autonomous System for Heuristic Learning, Intelligence and Exploration.  Maldon is protected.  Stop your incursion or we will be forced to take countermeasures.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:10 pm

"Was that surrender the Lighthouse? We're not attacking anyone. What are you talking about?"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:12 pm

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Dimensional Incursions.  Increasing at a geometric rate.  Threatening the universal cohesion.  Potential catastrophic consequences.  A collision would potentially destroy both worlds.  Turn back now.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:32 pm

"Uhm... what?" Nailah follows almost nothing of that, but it sounds bad enough to make her nervous anyway. "We're not... doing anything. We're not even in the lighthouse right now. Is this about the ghost tiger in the dorms? I don't think it's us doing that!"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:37 pm

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You are experiencing dimensional incursions as well.  We do not know it's source.  The lighthouse is the key.   You must stabilize your dimensional constants before it is too late.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:47 pm

Tereza looks at Nailah, "Just like Ashlie was talking about the other night. Something's going on. Although, if this is affecting the network, we should probably check on her."
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:07 pm

"Yeah... Fudge, this is all way over my head. What's the lighthouse got to do with any of this?"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:49 pm

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Lighthouse is the key.  Go there, go down below, and reset thzzzzzzzzzz


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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Fri Mar 15, 2019 10:04 pm

"Well, it's something," Tereza says, "I'm headed to the lighthouse. You coming?"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:54 pm

"You bet!"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:54 pm

"Come on then," she says as she runs down the hallway.

*** One running screen wipe later ***

Despite the dash across campus, Tereza enters the lighthouse a little more carefully. "Hopefully things are okay down here."
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Sun Mar 17, 2019 2:45 pm

Tosh ran in at about the same time.

"You guys got all that too, huh?"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:35 pm

"Yeah. I think everyone got it." Nailah says as she pokes around the first floor of the lighthouse. "Although I don't think I 'get' it cause there's nothing here."
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:18 pm

"The message said to go down below? Maybe it's on one of the sub-levels?"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:31 pm

"That would be my guess," he said, bringing out his scanning device to check for dimensional disturbances.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:37 pm

The dimensional disturbance detector was detecting dimensional disturbances.

Specifically, a large space below the lighthouse was going crazy, with a massive amount of confused signals, larger than anything seen to this point, firing left and right.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:42 pm

He perked up. "Oh! Oh! I know where to go!"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:45 pm

"Lead the way, Science-Man!"
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:51 pm

"I... umm... hope you don't mind swimming," he said, heading to the beach.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:52 pm

"I'm really not dressed for it," Tereza says irritably.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:28 pm

"This is no time for convenience! The very fabric of reality is at stake!" Nailah proclaims before amending "Apparently."
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Toshiro Narumi » Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:38 pm

At the beach, Tosh told them about the crystal cave as he stripped down to his shifting suit.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:39 pm

"Great, a cave full of crystals," Tereza says, pointing the palms of her hands towards the ground as ice ripples up her legs, covering her in a close-fitting 'suit'.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Mar 18, 2019 12:03 am

"That can't possibly be comfortable..."
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Mon Mar 18, 2019 12:06 am

"More comfortable than sea-water soaked clothes and more pleasant for the two of you than switching to fur."
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Narrator » Mon Mar 18, 2019 4:38 pm

It's a cold and wet, but thankfully short trip through the waters and up into the cavern.

What opens up in front of them is a large cavern, filled with a faint glow and the thrumming of electronics. Thick pipes run along the ground, carrying water towards the enormous super-computer that fills the back half of the cavern. The rest of the cavern is empty, a thick layer of dust on the ground and all around them they can spot the jagged edges of crystals protruding from the walls, ceiling and even the ground. As if larger extrusions once reached into the room but have been shattered. Here and there tiny fragments still lie on the ground.
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Re: Lights Flashing

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Mon Mar 18, 2019 4:53 pm

"Well, it certainly looks like there used to be crystals here," Tereza says, morphing the ice into something a little more like armor.
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