[ video ] nor any drop to drink

[hypoxic]

[It's a softspoken man on the network tonight, one presently struggling to cope with a world of disappointment and anxiety. There's some stammering at the start of the message, but as he collects himself enough to share information, his cadence relaxes and grows more confident. This isn't about him right now. It's about everyone else.]


Pardon me -- if I could have everyone's attention for a moment? I'm sure we've all gotten a glimpse of what's gone on. I've some reason to believe that this might be a particular incident related to -- well -- that's not important. But I'd like to urge everyone to be mindful of the level of air presently available to you. As long as the number of available rooms continues to be infinite, it ought to be possible to make it through without incident as long as we stay in motion as necessary, provided that the doors continue to resist the rules of water pressure upon opening. I've done some calculations using what we know of the average unclaimed room. I believe that humans ought to be able to sustain themselves without incident for about eight hours without incident, though this is most likely variable for those of you with alternative physiologies. With that in mind, we may wish to consider that longterm planning might be an element to our survival. We may have to make efforts to organize our activities and movements to ensure we can all stay prepared for the week ahead of us.

[He pauses to take a breath, squeezing his fingers into his palm before continuing.]

Please be aware that since the oxygen-to-square-footage ratio provided is a rough estimate that may be impacted by people collecting together in groups, vigilance will also be important when it comes to recognizing the early signs of oxygen deprivation. If you notice an increase in heart rate or shortness of breath, please consider setting yourself into motion sooner rather than later. The same applies if you're with others and notice dilation of the pupils, or that they've started to display visible motor impairment.

I also hope that we can utilize the network to communicate distress when needed. I'll be in touch with a few of you soon with regards to some plans for relief and rescue.

Let's see if we can't all make it out of this in one piece, yeah?



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Text to Peter Parker

Your webbing is water-insoluble. How much do you have on hand?

Please tell me that the answer is "a lot".




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Text to Philip

I hope it isn't gauche to contact you this suddenly, but I believe there might be some need of you soon.




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Text to Steve Rogers

Can I count on you?

[It's a highly loaded question.]

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[OOC: I think I'm also going to use this as Fitz's catch-all for the event this time around, so feel free to throw action-sized stuff in here too if we've discussed anything that ought to take place later on.]

Comments

pre-post action; for Daisy and Jemma

[hypoxic]

[Fitz and Jemma move as a unit. Before anything, they'd scrambled for one another, only to make a quick decision about the other part of their team. They all but barge inside (Is it rude to use a bit of C4 to bypass a door lock if there's an emergency to justify it?), fairly waterlogged and tense. Even after the door is properly shut, Fitz clings to Jemma, clutching a fistfull of her soaked blouse in a hand that refuses to unclench.]

People are going to die if we don't pull ourselves together. So we need to settle this and we need to do it now.

[He really hopes Daisy isn't the sort of person who likes to sleep in the nude.]

[morethan084]

[Well one sure fire way to wake up is to the sound of an explosive. Heart hammering in her chest, Daisy quickly sits up and looks towards the door to see Fitz and Jemma there.]

What? What are you talking about?

[Her voice is ridden with sleep, making it pretty damn obvious she had no idea anything was going on. And, no, she didn't sleep in the nude. Perv.]

Did you use an explosion just to get into my room?

[video + text]

[jivitadana]

[Since talking was going to take up more oxygen than necessary, Minato typed out his message instead, but kept the video function on.]

Thank you for the warning.

[This event really would require a lot of coordination.]

Sleep might be an issue for anyone who needs it.

[Without anyone or anything there to wake someone up. Events lasted for at least three days, and the last time there was an event with lack of sleep? That didn't go over so well with some people. Not to mention the issue of proper supply of food since the closets stopped working.]

[text]

[hypoxic]

[Coordination is something that they've been sadly lacking. Perhaps this will remind them to set aside pettiness.]

Agreed. We might need to keep a buddy system in progress and communicate the intent to rest.

If we can manage to fall asleep under circumstances like these, of course.

[video]

[punful]

do you think, uh...do you think something as small as a cat will be okay in one of the rooms for however long this takes?

[video]

[hypoxic]

[Oh, no. Pets. He hadn't considered pets. (Odd, that. He's usually rather invested in the wellbeing of small creatures)]

I'm not a specialist in feline anatomy, but I believe that their rapid respiration rate might be some cause for concern. I can't provide an accurate estimate for how long the cat might have, but I believe that the symptoms I described ought to be common to most mammals. If you notice that the cat is panting, or appears disoriented at all, it might be a sign to move it.

[And then he's busy sketching on the back of old notes, because the idea of moving a small animal through an underwater maze is traumatizing to think of. He presents a sketch of a fishbowl-esque design, one with an open bottom but wide enough top to provide a short-term air pocket.]

Given that it isn't likely that it will understand if you ask it to hold its breath, a contingency travel arrangement might be necessary. You're capable of constructing a rudimentary diving apparatus, yes? Do you have the supplies you'll need, just in case?

video;

[trigeminalheadache]

[ Caitlin looks concerned, but not panicked. Which is good, because she's feeling a little panicked. ]

I'd just like to add that the closets don't seem to be working. If you don't have any food already in the room you're in, don't panic. While it may be uncomfortable, the average human can survive for three weeks without eating. Though that may vary if you have an enhanced metabolism. [ She's talking about you, Barry Allen. ]

Just remember to stay hydrated. And ignore the irony of needing to hydrate while trapped in a room by flooding.

video; -> private

[hypoxic]

[Her message is for everyone, but his reply to her isn't. He examines her face carefully, as well as the tilt to her head and smaller mannerisms. Which Caitlin is here today? How much should she be trusted?]

And you? Are you doing well?

video

[directed]

While you aren't incorrect, Dr. Snow, the nature of our situation is doing to demand that people be able to move from room to room, potentially over significant distance.

[In other words, while she is trying to keep them calm? Rip thinks it better to make sure they're aware.]

It's going to be a bit more than uncomfortable given the whole of our circumstances.

video

[boilover]

If you're choking on magical hallway water all the time, does that count as staying hydrated? Like if you swallow it.

[Just curious. May as well poke the doctor while they're around.]

text;

[radiopalkiller]

Can this wait? I'd like to finish watching Hunt for Red October before I've got to swim to a room without big screen TV.

text;

[hypoxic]

[Cute, but Fitz isn't about to acknowledge the dismissal.]

No it cannot.

Your psychic abilities were capable of doing quite a lot during that one event. What is your reach normally like?

text;

[sorryitasedyou]

[ Well, this is just a whole new level of weird. She's standing at her door, staring at the seal and the way the water's moving behind it. She needs to make light of the situation because she's definitely freaking out for more than one reason. ]

I always wondered what it would be like to live in a reverse fishbowl. Can't say I'm a fan.

The food in the cases down in the coffee shop should be good for at least the next two days if anyone can get down there. There are also cans of whipped cream and shit if people can MacGyver little air tanks or whatever.

text;

[hypoxic]

[These are important things. The water in the halls might be filterable with enough boiling, but there's no telling what's in it otherwise. But that's not the only point of concern to this message.]

Are you and Jane all right for now? You're with someone?

OTA video + text for Fitz

[saved]

[Public Video]

If anyone needs help, if you feel like you're going to suffocate or can't make swim anymore, let me know. Send me a message somehow. Tell me where you are. I'll be swimming around to rooms to check in on people, but I'll be faster if you get me a message.

I'll get to you. I promise.

[What do they say about making promises you can't keep, Peter?]

[Private text to Fitz]

[The truth is shortly after Christmas, Peter exchanged a memory for a whole carton of those webbing cartridges. He was running out after almost a year. Whatever the memory was, he knows it's worth losing it if it means he can save someone here today because he has a whole bunch of webbing.]

I have a lot, yeah. A whole carton of it.

What do you need? Because whatever it is, I'm in.

private text

[hypoxic]

mobility is going to be an issue for a lot of people. if you leave a lead of rope along the halls, people can pull themselves along it more efficiently than swimming outright.

I've a few rebreathers from just after the announcement if you're comfortable moving around in these conditions.

[morethan084]

[Daisy had been filled in on Fitz's plan for her and this guy named Peter. It sounded simple enough so Daisy was willing to do it, obviously.

What she isn't expecting is to see some guy in a suit. Was he actually serious with the mask considering this was a small place and she's pretty sure people would put and two together?

Whatever. Some people liked their privacy.]

Peter, right?

[video]

[agentxthirteen]

[ "A particular incident related to" ... something. He's a SHIELD agent who hadn't known Peggy was dead, which means - as of their last conversation, at least - she comes from a later date than he does. And she's almost certain she would have heard of massive floods in most places in their home world.

Which means this is either something that happened to him on a highly localized scale, or happened to someone he knows here in Wonderland, and he doesn't want to throw them under the bus.

Given their previous meeting, she has no expectation that he wants to hear from her, but she has to make the offer nonetheless. ]

Let me know if I can do anything to help with your rescue and relief plans.

[video]

[hypoxic]

[If nothing else, Fitz has expressive features. That much was obvious the last time they spoke. He's been formal and businesslike in his reports, but his expression grows dark as soon as he sees Sharon's video feed. It's a bit like every muscle in his face decides to clench at once at the sight of her.]

I'm only doing what you and yours refuse to do, Miss Carter.

[Miss, not Agent. The pejorative is clear, from someone who loves SHIELD as deeply as he does.]

Action;

[easily]

[Rebekah has been able to get from room to room with better efficiency than most -- it probably helps that she can't die and she has supernatural speed on her side. still there are a few (or many? it's hard to tell) close calls and she remembers being stuck in a coffin drowning over and over again, unable to do anything to stop it. water would fill her lungs and she would choke and she would die and wake up and do it over and over again until Elijah finally found her in the bottom of the ocean. needless to say, this event has left her a little on edge and the closets aren't providing her any blood which means she's going to need to feed on someone sometime soon.

It's with all this in mind that she runs into Fitz. She had seen his message on the network but hadn't bothered responding. Mostly, she's trying to locate her siblings and the few friends she has here. Or that boy who let her feed on him when they were stuck in hell. At least this is a familiar face, she supposes.]

Someday we'll have to run into one another when this place isn't messing with us, assuming that's ever true.

Action;

[hypoxic]

[It's bound to happen, given the frantic way people are crashing into any safe spaces they can find. Peter's been trying to mark the still-sealed rooms and the ones that have gone useless, but there's only so much he can be expected to do. He's on the network when she arrives, surrounded by diagrams and schedules and tapping furiously to keep pace with placement. Daisy's been on duty for too long; he'll need to wake Peter soon to make sure she can have a break.

He looks up at the sound of entry, smiling gently at the sight of a Mikaelson face. Even without the pull of Compulsion in him, hers is still a welcome face.]

That's my fault, surely. I'm afraid I don't get out much when circumstances don't force it from me.

But what of you? Have you been getting on well?

[Video] I hope this works?

[mettatonvevo]

[The revelation that he could not leave his room due to a giant wall of water initially was a bit frightening but nothing too unsettling. Perhaps he and Mini could bunker down for the majority of the event. But... his pet rabbit, he realizes, needs air. And when time is rewinding at random intervals, he might need an exit plan.

But. Metal. That's a problem.]

Do you have any calculations for how long a robot could swim through this water before getting overwhelmed and water-logged?

[A nice way to discuss potential robo-death!]

[Video] it totally works!

[hypoxic]

[The presence of a robot with a dilemma is unexpected, but hardly out of the ordinary for Wonderland. The kinds of questions that have come in are full of all sorts of issues he hadn't planned. Why not an android?]

There isn't really a blanket answer I could give... One assumes that there's a great deal of advancement placed into your construction, given your sentience at all... Do you happen to have more data regarding what's been done to waterproof you?

[This is the oddest conversation already. He's trying to act natural.]

all the unfinished threads \o/ - end of second day/early third oops

[bravejemma]

[This event has been hard. Not just psychologically (because how is she supposed to ignore they're sealed in their underwater death tomb basically all over again?) but physically. Being able to stay in a room for only a certain amount of time and surviving on whatever they could find had taken its toll. Oh, the sleep deprivation wasn't as extreme as the Christmas event, and hunger and thirst were her old friends from the dusty alien world where the rock had spit her up.

Of course, being keyed into Fitz was not doing much for her sleep patterns either. He's on his device and trying so hard to make sure everyone could get through this. He has Peter and Daisy out helping. She somehow doesn't doubt that if he could, he would be outside too.]

You're supposed to be sleeping.

o7

[hypoxic]

Couldn't doze off.

[He is supposed to be sleeping. It's his turn, and he'll need to take his turn if he wants her to have a turn when they switch rooms. But instead, he's tapping away and whispering instructions as he had been before laying down. There's just so much to do.]

Peter's been finding corpses. People are having accidents, or just not listening.

[text]

[assembles]

[ Steve knows a loaded question when he sees one. He can practically see the uncertainty and doubt in the typed words. It's true that he hasn't been the hero that everyone's expected lately, but that doesn't mean he isn't going to do everything he can to pull his weight this time around. ]

Like you mentioned, alternative physiology. I'll be doing everything in my power to make sure people make this through without the worst happening.

[ Oxygen deprivation is one of the more horrifying ways to go, from what Steve understands, and no one here deserves that. ]

It's good of you to set the rules for people. I don't think a lot of that is common knowledge.

[text]

[hypoxic]

It's something I happen to have a lot of knowledge about.

I'd like to spare others from developing similar expertise, if it can be helped.

I pulled some equipment from the closets after the cat spoke. There's some diving equipment in my quarters.

[He sends that, then quickly follows with another:]

If you want to.

[The captain most likely thinks he's obligated, as if he owes a favor. And perhaps he does. It's complicated.]

after the flooding receeds - private text

[directed]

[Rip returns to this post out of necessity alone, ensuring his response is private before he types in a single letter to the contrary. He only has a few words at best, and at this point, there is no knowing whether or not those words even be remotely close to correct.

He has to try, however. He has to know, for his own sake and sanity, that the infliction upon him now is temporary.]

It belongs to you. [This event; it’s from Fitz’s world, from his experience. Hence the reason for his broadcast. Yet without the context Rip’s mind cannot express, who knows if Fitz will understand, or consider this the ramblings of a madman?] The past is yours.

private text

[hypoxic]

[Based on the network activity alone, it's quickly become apparent that the oxygen issue didn't end with everyone unscathed. People suffered. People were affected in a way that didn't end when the event passed over them.]

I believe it might have been taken from a memory of mine, yes.

[He recognizes the tortured half-constructed ideas and the struggle to have them be understood. He even makes an effort to restate the question in his answer as well. When he was going through therapy, it helped to re-learn how to recognize proper speech.]