towerofanimus | Aww, Sollux's first power outage

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Aww, Sollux's first power outage

Characters: Sollux and YOU!
Setting: Library, near computer terminals
Format: I'm going for prose, but will follow your lead.
Summary: Techie over here has his first power outage, and he's not happy about it.
Warnings: Language due to a very angry Sollux.

Sollux had never really had a power outage before. It never really happened to him, because frankly he doesn't trust his city's power grid and uses his own energy. Somehow. It's a sub-effect of apiculture networking, okay. So when the Tower's energy fizzles out, the annoyance he always feels when dealing with this aggravatingly primitive (and yet stubbornly resistant) computer terminal pretty much bubbles over.

"Dammit!" he yowled at the computer, pointedly ignoring the little 'Silence is Golden' plaque on the wall. (So ironic. Dave would be proud.)

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Hello angry voice in the room. Mercedes was more freaking out than p.o'd at the moment. Usable electricity wasn't exactly a thing where she's from, so she'd never thought it would simply stop working.

She sounded frantic! "Has something terrible happened?"

If someone else had come in here, Sollux didn't notice it, which would explain the random squealing from somewhere in the room. After sending some more glares at the computer, he stood up and quickly located the source -- but this time the human had wings.

"Well, we're sitting in the dark for one thing," he grumbled. Though trolls had developed a good sense of night-vision since they pretty much lived in eternal night all the time, it was still quite an inconvenience.

A bit after the power had went out, there was a faint hissing sound in the library, as well as something akin to growling.

And footsteps. Erratic, stumbling footsteps.

Dave is very proud, and he decides to show how proud he is by shouting back at the top of his lungs.

"HEY SHUT THE FUCK UP SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO FIND THEIR WAY AROUND IN THE DARK WITH SOME FUCKING SHADES ON IN HERE." Screaming for silence. Classic irony.

And of course he wouldn't pull his shades off even if he couldn't see shit.

"THEN TAKE THEM OFF!" he shouted back, the irony/hypocrisy practically dripping from his voice. Seriously, you couldn't see anything with sunglasses -- or at least the troll equivalent of them, handy for keeping the retina-burning sun out of one's eyes -- even if you weren't sitting in the dark.

...His shades didn't count. They're prescription.

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Oh great, now the computer was making weird noises. This human technology is awful, really it is. Who makes a computer to give off growling noises?

...And then Sollux realized that it wasn't coming from the computer.

He turned his back to the terminal, looking around. Monsters. How many times had they come in and totally screwed him over? Many times. Obviously he didn't care what they did to these crappy human computers... but he had just realized that he left his throwing stars in his trunk.

This should be interesting.

"I'LL SHOW YOU MINE IF YOU SHOW ME YOURS!" This was actually slightly amusing, though he had been in the middle of something of DIRE importance on his own computer.

And he lost all of his work in the process. All five minutes of it. Whatever, nothing in this stupid tower involving technology looked very reliable anyways, so he couldn't rely on the power staying out for too terribly long. Did that even make sense? No, it didn't.

You are so lucky that Sollux hasn't caught up on that area of human childhood subculture. So lucky.

"WHERE ARE YOU, EVEN?" Seriously, this line of computer terminals just keeps going and going and going. So much effort spent on lame technology. If the whole place weren't so primitive (that is, resistant to his attempts), Sollux would probably take it upon himself to upgrade them all, if only because he can't stand the state they're in now.

Edited 2011-08-08 16:38 (UTC)

"LIKE I'D TELL YOU, EVEN IF I KNEW THE FUCKING ANSWER." Yeah, he was lost as shit because this stupid library was huge as fuck and all the noises tended to echo, he couldn't even tell where this stupid guy's voice was coming from.

"HEY INSTEAD OF YELLING LIKE A LAZY FAT FUCK, WHY DON'T YOU DO SOMETHING TO, I DON'T KNOW, FIX THIS SHITTY TOWER'S POWER OR MAYBE LIGHT THE PLACE UP OR SOMETHING. SET THE WHOLE PLACE ON FIRE FOR ALL I CARE."

Dammit. Who the hell is this guy? (Where the hell is this guy? Freakin' echoes.)

"WELL FUCK, IF THE ENERGY GENERATOR AROUND HERE IS AS 'ADVANCED' AS THE COMPUTERS IT PROBABLY SET ITSELF ON FIRE ALREADY!"

There was a thumping noise, like someone running into something. "Gghhhrrraaaagh!" More footsteps - faster this time, but just as clumsy.

Another thump. louder this time. "AARRGHGHGHGH!"

Then there's a very loud crash and clattering - the floor may even shake a bit.

Oh fuck. Oh fuck.

It was at this moment that Sollux realized that he had nowhere to back up to -- since the crappy computers were in the way. But it sounds like the monster got distracted by something, judging from the clattering and random shaking of floor.

Slowly, Sollux reaches for the stool he had been sitting on a few minutes ago, hoping to use it as some kind of improvised blunt weapon.

If Sollux is looking in the direction of the noise, he might see a faint flash of purple light.

There's another crash, as whatever made the previous noise is knocked into a wall.

"Grrr..."

More footsteps.

Unfortunately, Sollux was occupied with grabbing a stool at that instant, so he saw no such flash. He did, however, pick up the crash and subsequent shaking of the whole damn place, as well as the footsteps which were definitely coming towards him.

Shit. Shit. Shit.

He really wanted his shuriken right now.

The footsteps continue, accented by faint, shaky breathing.

Said footsteps stop just in front of Sollux. Thankfully, the creature's just as blinded as he is by the power outage, so he can't see the troll.

Don't move, don't make a sound, maybe he'll go away...

"What in gog's name is that?!"

Someone hasn't watched enough horror movies. All he can see of the creature is a faint area where the darkness is deeper than normal, but if that was what was making the noises...

e is ready to fight with his big, mighty, wooden blunt weapon. And he is probably going to lose.

The question brings a grunt from the creature. It draws an arm back, and swings it at the source of the voice with a snarl.

"Does this happen often with this power source?" She is, by fear and instincts, heading toward the grumpy voice slowly, unable to see and very much in a jitter.

Stupid electricity and its not working! "This is troubling..."

"How should I know? I've only been here a few days..." Slowly, his eyes are adjusting to the darkness, and he is looking around, trying to gain his bearings again. His eyes had grown adjusted to the light, but thirteen years of being nocturnal had its benefits, and it's ever so slightly becoming easier to see.

Eventually he catches sight of someone standing nearby. Wasn't a troll (there was obviously a distinct lack of horns), but... holy crap does she have wings?

Sollux's fighting instinct (and darkness vision) kicked in at that moment, and despite being scared out of his wits, he swung the stool blindly at where he thought the creature was coming from, seeing the lump move and lunge like it was about to attack. Hopefully it would knock the bugger out.

Congratulations, Sollux. You have managed to break a leg of the stool, and piss off the already-irritable dinosaur monster. Its head rolls around a bit, then it lets loose a bestial roar, throwing a punch at the troll.

Wuh-oh.

Sollux can't react in time, and ends up taking the punch right to his chest. He is pretty much thrown backwards onto the table; the only thing preventing him from falling down on the other side are a couple of computer monitors blocking his body's trajectory.

Kicking it, he knew, would be a bad idea, so instead he tries to get to his knees on the table, preparing to use the computers in whatever way might be necessary -- including blunt weaponry. Not like they're good for anything else anyway.

The beast moves forward, and is stopped by its waist bumping the table.

It reaches down, feeling the structure there, and growls. The purple light happens again - the armor on its thighs moves back and combines, expanding into a heavy tail. The creature spins around, swinging that tail to strike the table.

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Aww, Sollux's first power outage

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OOC: IT IS ON

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OOC: YOU BET IT IS

OOC: IT'S ON LIKE MULEBEAST KONG.

OOC: GROSS.

OOC: YOU MENTIONED IT BRO.

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OOC: Fun fact: put off this tag to make an appropriate "...uh oh" icon.

Excelleeeent.

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