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[UPDATE] Scarlett Kite - 21 Aug 06 - Unsulk
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cassandra
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 		[UPDATE] Scarlett Kite - 21 Aug 06 - Unsulk
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Category: me, 04:29 PM

Well, I've weathered a weekend with my aunt and uncle, and I have to say, it hasn't been as terrible as I'd thought it was going to be. I had a talk with my Aunt Annaliese about curfews and adulthood, and she intervened with my uncle just in time to save my Saturday night. Now I just have to call and let them know when I expect to be back so they don't fret and lie awake all night. Still tiresome, but at least liveable!

And! Even better! I managed to find out at least something about that blackout last week! Smile I went out with some friends to Cervantes, and Margot's brother's friend was there with us. His name is Emory, and he spent most of the evening trying to chat me up, and - wait for it - he works for the electrical authority! So of course I used my charm and feminine wiles to get some information out of him on the blackout. Violet isn't the only one who knows how to flirt, you know. Doesn't hurt that Emory is very tall and very, very clever. Wink

Anyway, he told me this is all super-top-secret internal stuff, but it turns out that the reason it took them so long to get power up again is because most of the safety mechanisms that keep an "excessive draw" from taking out the city had been disabled somehow, and they had to go round resetting power stations and reconfiguring them manually. So whoever ran whatever massive piece of equipment it was that caused the blackout, well, Emory says they knew ahead of time it wouldn't run off the normal electrical grid and somehow cut out all of the system's failsafes intentionally!

I do wonder what exactly could need so much power. Of course I'm hearing that same "wormhole to Earth" business that everyone else read in the paper, but I'm not even sure what to think about it. I'd ask my dad, but I'm not sure he'd tell me straight, and anyway, I haven't even heard from him in days and days now.


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 		Re: [UPDATE] Scarlett Kite - 21 Aug 06 - Unsulk
cassandra wrote:
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I'm not sure he'd tell me straight, and anyway, I haven't even heard from him in days and days now.


Dum da dum dum...
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So whoever ran whatever massive piece of equipment it was that caused the blackout, well, Emory says they knew ahead of time it wouldn't run off the normal electrical grid and somehow cut out all of the system's failsafes intentionally!


Do we have any idea about what kind of security is around these types of grids? To what extent would this require a large amount of help by someone on the inside? That's the vibe I'm getting from this anyway...

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Do we have any idea about what kind of security is around these types of grids? To what extent would this require a large amount of help by someone on the inside? That's the vibe I'm getting from this anyway...


You would think that with how much they depend on power for their keys and such the security would be very tight. Nonetheless, if the bad guys have moles in the Academy and elsewhere, it goes without saying they could plant one in the electrical authority.
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 		Re: [UPDATE] Scarlett Kite - 21 Aug 06 - Unsulk
mac_monkey wrote:
cassandra wrote:
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I'm not sure he'd tell me straight, and anyway, I haven't even heard from him in days and days now.


Dum da dum dum...


*Macavity calls in Joe Friday and his partner . . .
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 		Re: [UPDATE] Scarlett Kite - 21 Aug 06 - Unsulk
mac_monkey wrote:
cassandra wrote:
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I'm not sure he'd tell me straight, and anyway, I haven't even heard from him in days and days now.


Dum da dum dum...


I did suggest to Scarlett and Violet that they should smear some of that radioactive tracer onto Sente whilst they had the chance.

Did they listen... oh no...
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