((Being a dosy sod i forgot to mention the blackout is city wide))
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((I've lost the address to NHU forums, I used to like sneaking around there, what was it again?))
Firearm came home last night and let out a mighty yell of anguish - he had set the VCR to tape Stargate: Atlantis at 8pm. He looked at his armoured blaster suit and thought about hunting down those who had doomed his night-time viewing and roasting them in a hellfire of his own creation...
Then he just shrugged, remembered he could download it, and went to the pub...
Beet was hard at work trying to work out a way to neutralize a recent and updated group of Paragon Protectors when the supercomputer shut off, restarting itself. Beet sighed, leaning on the desk, creating a new program in his head which tells him to save what he's doing every 30 seconds..
I am the Blaster, I have filled the role of Tank, Controller and Defender
Sometimes all at once.
Union EU player! Pip pip, tally ho, top hats and tea etc etc
In the Campbel residence in Croatoa, Ben and Rebecca sit snuggled together on the sofa as the lights flicker momentarily before the backup generator kicks in.
The giant grumbles.
"Looks like the city's grid's down, sweetheart"
"Going to go check it out?"
"No point. Probably some Lost landing on a power line somewhere, shorting it out. Besides, your more important, Beccs."
Rebecca smiles and hugs his massive arm tighter.
Red Commissar was in the New Russian Embassy still under construction, filling out some paperwork with several other Russian Heroes. The lights went out, but a seconds later the Emergenacy Generator packed in and they went on again.
Jame's Stone was in an abbandoned office all alone just firing arrows, as usal, into the local hellions when the ligts dimmed, a smell of barbicue came over him, then a flaming light alit and he fired an explosive arrow into the new darkness all he could see was Hellfire&destruction "Whatever happened was going to be the last thought in his head" is the medbay still up?
{Huntington Manor, 4 December 2007, 7.55pm}
Richard Huntington Sat in the dim study that he claimed as his own on the
ground floor of his manor house, fingers flickering across the keyboard of
his desktop computer as he worked frantically to improve the design of the
latest generation of battlearmour for Amy to test. The vectored
thrust/anti-grav unit was functional, but he needed to improve the overall
shielding effectiveness, and there was a shipment of prototype exoskeletal
'muscles' designed to reduce the user's exertion that was due to arrive
tomorrow.
A holographic representation of the armour flickered in the air in front of
his desk, mostly ignored by him as he peered intently at the monitor
directly in front of him.
"Helena? See what impact we'll have on the shielding ratio if we strip
inner-arm and -leg protection to six milimetres and use the resultant mass
reduction to boost the power of the field generators."
There was no response for perhaps three seconds, as Helena calculated and
adjusted the armour.
"There will be a 0.75 scale reduction in physical protection as a result of
the strip-down. The additional shielding increases the scale by 1.02. This
is sub-optimal. Calculations indicate that eight milimetre protection
provides the most efficient result with the latest generation shields."
Richard's eyes narrowed for a moment before he nodded. "Do it."
The hologram flickered as the proposed changes began, then the image
vanished completely for an instant before returning.
Helena's voice broke across his own as he started to ask what had happened.
"Emergency power supply active. Fission pile now providing full domestic
and defense supply. Interruption in normal power supply from Terra Volta.
Unknown cause. Power now restored to optimal levels. Maintaining emergency
supply for 24 hours, as per standing instructions."
Richard reached for the telephone on his desk, muttering to himself. "I
wonder what that was..."
The wisdom of Shadowe: Ghostraptor: The Shadowe is wise ...; FFM: Shadowe is no longer wise.
; Techbot_Alpha: Also, what Shadowe said. It seems he is still somewhat wise 
; Bull Throttle: Shadowe was unwise in this instance...; Rock_Powerfist: in this instance Shadowe is wise.; Techbot_Alpha: Shadowe is very wise *nods*; Zortel: *Quotable line about Shadowe being wise goes here.*
*There is a massive power blackout for a few seconds at 8:00pm today*
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((this is part of story plot for the NHU, but help yourself