- Location
- Attached to a wall
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Remember the friendly words on the cover of the most famous traveling guide; DON'T PANIC!
Dragon Summoning
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Panic
E.I.G.
Robo-Bird
- Pronouns
- It/They
Zalan, I hate to say this, but you have been out of it too long and probably chose the wrong place to take a job.
[X] Rapidly review emergency response information you remember, history lessons on "the old days", and use both to determine how likely you can even get inside of the shelters now that it has been this long without getting attacked. Add in a bit of comparison to how defensible your room is compared to those shelters, and how less risky that is compared to the shelter defenses targeting you.
[X] Rapidly review emergency response information you remember, history lessons on "the old days", and use both to determine how likely you can even get inside of the shelters now that it has been this long without getting attacked. Add in a bit of comparison to how defensible your room is compared to those shelters, and how less risky that is compared to the shelter defenses targeting you.
- Location
- MN
[X] Maybe you should head to the shelter... you know just to be safe.
Also that flame about your head has reappeared. Is that bad? You said something about bursting into flames so it does have me worried.
Also that flame about your head has reappeared. Is that bad? You said something about bursting into flames so it does have me worried.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Maybe you should head to the shelter... you know just to be safe.
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
That last image is so adorably "everything is going wrong". It's funny and cute and also RIP reality.
[X] Escape to somewhere over 100 kilometers distant ASAP.
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I never would have thought that it would be about how WE are summoning people rather than us being summoned. 
- Location
- The Middle of the Howling Wilderness
So, apparently the engine we built is what's letting people even begin to grasp the severity of whatever high-energy physics nonsense they're cooking up? I hate to say it but despite Zalan's myriad failures he might actually be better at his job than these other goons.
- Location
- MN
I honestly feel like this test(?), project(?) was sabotaged. Normally things don't get this bad unless someone tweaks a few things.
Now though I'm most worried about being chased down the hall by some guy wearing an orange hazmat suit and wielding a crowbar.
CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
- Location
- Somewhere
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] P A N I C
[X] Time to isekai yourself out of here! Hey, if the engine can get shit shipped here, why not set yourself up to ship youself elsewhere? Drug yourself up, then tweak the engine to portal yourself to a vacation paradise.
Just saying, you don't wanna be here when shit hits the fan or staying within the same plane that you've (arguably) just exposed to extradimensional hazards.
Just saying, you don't wanna be here when shit hits the fan or staying within the same plane that you've (arguably) just exposed to extradimensional hazards.
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- Location
- The Middle of the Howling Wilderness
[X] Do these assholes know how long you worked on this analytical engine? Get in the comments and explain to everyone that your program is flawless
WhoTheHeckity
But no one ever asks HowTheHeckity
- Location
- Murica 🦅
[X] P A N I C
guys the analytical engine didn't cause this, it just predicted what the results of whatever they're doing in the lab will be. this isn't zalans fault, if anything he's the reason they're getting any warning at all.
- Location
- MN
the only thing we did is create a device that lets everyone else KNOW just how fucked we all are. It didn't cause the situation, only brought to light the severity of it. And it's so sever that they're having a hard time believe just how horribly fucked they are so are currently going through the stage of denial. Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance are still on the way... or are already here since it has been over an hour since they hit denial.
Uh, note Zalan is not a student but a staff member and that evac was students only.. and his program definitely shouldn't give false readings this badly, so yeah its an emergency, that he's expected to help with.
[X] For good or ill your part of the staff...which means you need to help where you can. check the use log for the engine, just enough to see if someone did anything profoundly stupid or any blatant faults are then.... well at that point your not going to get more done with the engine, so might as well report what you got to your boss as damage control, maybe even deliver the results to the office directly? Might give you better perspective of how bad the situation is.
[X] For good or ill your part of the staff...which means you need to help where you can. check the use log for the engine, just enough to see if someone did anything profoundly stupid or any blatant faults are then.... well at that point your not going to get more done with the engine, so might as well report what you got to your boss as damage control, maybe even deliver the results to the office directly? Might give you better perspective of how bad the situation is.
[X] For good or ill your part of the staff...which means you need to help where you can. check the use log for the engine, just enough to see if someone did anything profoundly stupid or any blatant faults are then.... well at that point your not going to get more done with the engine, so might as well report what you got to your boss as damage control, maybe even deliver the results to the office directly? Might give you better perspective of how bad the situation is.
- Location
- Somewhere!
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Is an intern really staff?
Maybe? Pretty sure he gets fired at best if he runs to the hills
Update 9: Absolutely No Flashbacking
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Zalan thinks back to his early-
No there is no time!!
What matters is that invaders from a thousand planes used to come from outside the world, and people here used to be snatched out of their lairs by evil wizards. During the late Mythic Age, dragons put aside their differences and built powerful magicks which capture the mana produced by the sun and use it to protect the world.
That was long enough ago that they don't bother inoculating young dragons against binding rituals anymore. Zalan feels suddenly grateful to his mom for being stubbornly old fashioned that way. Forever will he cherish the insane fever dreams.
Presently, he's certain the shelters are far more defensible than his lair and not designed to attack students. (Not even grad student interns...)
It's not his fault! All his damn machine is supposed to do is generate reports!
Really good reports! Adaptive reports! Oracular reports, even! But that's it!!
From what he's pieced together, this is the Dynamics division's fault. They're the ones running some big project ("Portal Dynamics"?) he hasn't even been allowed to look at. Zalan's deep-contemplation engine isn't directly connected to them, but once he got it working, it had enough instrumentation to glimpse the shape of the problem slouched over the future.
In fact, if he'd worked faster, it might've given enough warning to shut down their project before it got to this point.
Which means that it is his fault, actually...
That elixir is still active?
Zalan doesn't think he's in actual danger of acute injury (at least not from that), but it can't be good for his emotional state. Or heart rate. Hyperventilating a little, too. On the bright side, it should keep him as alert as possible right now.
(The fact that he lost consciousness before it fully wore off is worrying. How tired was he? How tired is he? He can only speculate.)
The dragon feels suddenly skeptical of this advice. If he'd responded to this alarm by panicking, he'd have probably reached a shelter by now.
Indeed, if he'd panicked hard enough early enough, he could have been halfway across the world and crying into a bowl of noodles while Tieran-Sha offered sagacious advice.
aaaaaa!
Zalan bounds towards the door, then pauses. He races around the lair and grabs a few personal effects he doesn't want to lose, and a few things from the kitchen, and stuffs them into his Voidspace inventory he instantiated earlier. He opens the door again and breaks into a dead run down the arcology corridors.
He takes a wrong turn, realizes he's accidentally headed towards an exit instead of a shelter, doubles back, accelerates again, and then nearly collides with a dragon wearing high-visibility gold.
"...Zalan? Are you... alright?"
oh god it's Tieran-Sha
Zalan's heart leaps at the sight of his friend, then fills up with embarrassment at the thought of how he must look.
"I'm looking for stragglers," Tieran-Sha explains. "I tried contacting you, but did not receive your reply."
His voice is calm, clear, and firm. He was in the Silverdrakes. This isn't the first time he's gone searching for people too stubborn or careless to evacuate. Zalan burns at the thought of being one of them.
"Right! I- meant to check," Zalan stammers. "I'm sorry. I've been dealing with a lot in a short amount of time."
"Well..! I suppose I can see that."
help
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- Location
- Seattle Metropolitain Area
[X] Oh my god he's dreamy, kiss hi- I mean, ask Tieran-Sha where you should go and then go there.
oh no he's still hot
[x] yeah if you don't know where the nearest shelter is, now is not the time to be too proud to ask for directions
also, you know, express that you're glad he's okay and that you're glad to see him even if you wish it wasn't under these circumstances
[x] yeah if you don't know where the nearest shelter is, now is not the time to be too proud to ask for directions
also, you know, express that you're glad he's okay and that you're glad to see him even if you wish it wasn't under these circumstances