forum Superhero Roleplay [Closed]

Started March 06, 2018 by @Imperfect_Autumn group

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(Lol. Yeah, it’s nice, but there are a few kinks that need to be worked out.)

Avery glanced up the shaft, hearing her name, though it was faint. Was that… Dylan? Gosh, they’d left him! He was probably wondering where the heck they’d gone!

“Dylan? I’m not breaking anything, gosh. Well, I’m not the one breaking things… Kaz, Vaughn, and I are in the service elevator. It fell,” she called up, hoping he could hear her.

Vaughn ran his fingers through his hair with a huff. He looked in the shafts direction before looking up. He hoped that it would still work so that they could get back up to the first floor. “See if you can get it working again from up there?” He added.

Dylan heard nothing but a faint reply coming from the living room. When nothing there seemed out of place, he went into the maintenance closet, and noticed that this time there was little in the way of floor, replaced instead by an elevator shaft that seemed only to lead to oblivion.

Welp, Dylan thought, this looks like fun.
With no ladder or rope, his only option was to rig up a way down himself. Thankfully, the steel elevator cables seemed to hold firm, making it a simple task for Dylan to create a track-based mini-elevator of his own from the darkness below.

Right before he started to descend, Vaughn's voice echoed up from below, "See if you can get it working again from up there?"

"Can't Kaz give the whole place a jolt?" Dylan responded.

Vaughn looked over at Kaz, arching a brow in question. He sure hoped so. They either had to bring this back up to the first floor, or get the doors open and see if there was anything on the other side. And if so- what?

“If he can’t… I could try getting back up there myself to look at it,” Avery mused, looking thoughtful. If only she had a pocket version of Oscar, then she could just have him scan to see what the problem was…

"You're asking the former mechanic of a ship whether or not he can fix something? Please," Kaz scoffed, a slight grin on his face. "Just give me a second, I'll get it fixed," he said before beginning to look for an access point

"In the meantime, I'm on my way down." He said.

Putting both hands on the form of the elevator for both confidence and support, Dylan urged it down the cables until he was with the others, where he dismissed the elevator.

"It's nice and dark down here, huh?"

Avery sighed and rubbed at her forehead with the palm of her hand. “Dylan… You probably should have stayed up there. We don’t even know if we can get back up…”

"We can, and we will, even if I have to carry us up there myself," Kaz huffed. Though his eyes widened when a panel popped open, and he grinned as he began to go through some wire

Vaughn turned to look at the doors on the other side. “Kaz, do you think you could open those?” He asked. He normally would have just pried them open, but he didn’t want to cause more damage to the elevator.

"Uh, yeah, just give me a second," Kaz said, fiddling with a few wires before connecting a few and sending a jolt through them, causing the doors to open with a ding

Avery blinked and raised her eyebrows when the door opened. “Well… All right, then. Shall we explore?”

"Yeah. Let's go find something dangerous. Ya know, because that doesn't happen on the daily."

Dylan raised his right hand, letting light shine from it so he wasn't tripping over wires and boxes.

"So what would be in an old Robot's lab?"

"All kinds of things. Got a friend of a friend who is both a robot and has a lab, and it's full of weird shit," Kaz commented

“Plus, we might find something useful,” Avery said with a shrug. She glanced between the three guys, her eyebrows raised slightly. “So… Who’s going first?”

Avery spoke, and Dylan strode in.

Nothing happened, and internally he was grateful. The others filed in behind him.

Dylan was good as a programmer, but he didn't know hardware. It was very clear that this robot did. All sorts of complex machines were active, lights blinking, and the sound of cooling fans filled the room. And no dust, no grime or dirt. She frequented this constantly.

“Well, this is certainly something. I don’t think I’ve seen this much tech in a room since I visited NEST Labs,” Avery mused, impressed, as she stepped in after Dylan.

After making absolute sure that nothing was going to kill him, Dylan sized up the machines. Lots of processing power, along with some other dohickeys that looked more like toys than actual equipment. As he surveyed the room, something nagged at the back of his mind, but he couldn't put a finger on it.

"Is it just me or is something missi– oh!" Dylan waved his hand across the room, both indicating and proving his point with light, "There's no terminals anywhere. No monitors."

“So it’s not for security. But it is a robot… Maybe she just had the feed sent to herself?” Avery suggested with a shrug. She walked farther into the room and looked around, keeping an eye on the others as she did so.

"Times like this, I wish I had cell service," Kaz huffed, lips pursed as he looked around at the machines. This type of stuff was more suited for some of his friends who made robots, not him

(Lol.)

Avery hummed her agreement and picked up a small box. It fit in the palm of her hand and looked like it could be made out of steel or a similar metal. There were a few marking on the outside, two to three per side, but none that she recognized. Each one was made up of dots and dashes, though some had a wavy line and an empty circle.

“Anyone know what these symbols are?” she asked, holding it up.