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Post by raine on Apr 10, 2007 19:25:16 GMT -5
Unknown to the rest of them, Raine had successfully snuck into the room while they were inversed in their conversation. She raised her eyebrow slightly when she heard the word kachow reach her sensitive hearing. She was lucky that she had black clothing to blend in with, making her a master of stealth.
'kachow? what kind of word is that?' She thought quietly while trying her best not to make a sound. Unfortunately a sneeze from the dust reached her nose and was unsuccessful as she sneezed loudly. "Achoo! Oh crap..."
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Post by elizar on Apr 10, 2007 19:31:19 GMT -5
"I dont know a lot, but I know how to watch a scrambled image." He went over to one of the monitors he saw. "But there is something off. NCIS focuses on humans, but all I can see -" He points to two blurred shapes in the TV. "- That's cars. I don't reconize this scene, but the audio tells me that this is the episode when DiNozzo gets framed for murder."
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Post by ebonyviper on Apr 10, 2007 19:31:58 GMT -5
But just as soon as Delfina had mentioned going to the radio room to see what was up, Shadow loped off in a different direction.
"Shadow," Delfina called, chasing after her dog, "Come back."
Delfina didn't want to lose her husky in the darkness of the cavern. After a good chase, she found the dog standing in the middle of a deserted chamber staring at something strange in the middle. It looked... crystalline.
"What is that?" she asked the empty air.
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Post by Evangeline on Apr 10, 2007 19:32:59 GMT -5
Tamara sighed in exasperation as she heard the sneeze, and knew its source. "Raine! What are you doing here?"
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Post by raine on Apr 10, 2007 19:36:00 GMT -5
Raine scowled a bit "Nothin..." She then crossed her arms. "Just wanted to explore a bit, yeah? Ain't nothin' wrong with bein' curious..."
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Post by JustJones on Apr 10, 2007 19:36:26 GMT -5
* OOC: Right, I'm off to bed. Feel free to puppet Sid, peeps *
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Post by Dr Frankenstein on Apr 10, 2007 19:38:12 GMT -5
Martin had his laptop logged on a server console session. He launched lynx (a text-mode browser that does not support images) to google a bit about NCIS.
"Yep. You're right. That's today's episode."
He quickly ran through the pages and stopped short. He though like he has seen the word "hoodache" in one of the ads. But he continued. He often misreads words.
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Post by ebonyviper on Apr 10, 2007 19:40:25 GMT -5
Delfina slowly stepped forward, cautious of all the broken glass laying all over the place. The object looked very strange and it was not a part of the natural cavern itself. It looked somewhat... alien.
"Stay back, Shadow," she said to the husky, "I don't want you getting hurt."
Shadow obeyed and stood at the entrance and acting as a guard. She'd bark if she sees anyone coming.
In the meantime, Delfina approached the object with caution, her eyes riveted to its strange shape and unnatural glow. What was it? Was this the cause of the shockwave? And just what the heck did it just do?
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Post by Evangeline on Apr 10, 2007 19:45:17 GMT -5
Dawn turned around and followed Delfina to the chamber. "It looks like it was broken or something." She came up to the fine wire cage that contained the crystalline shards.
Sid, peeking through the radio room door, couldn't help another crack at Raine. "You really ought to get a pie in you, Raine. You could use the meat on your bones."
Tess leaned over, studying the semi-scrambled images. "And no emergency interruptions of any kind... so nothing happened here."
"What do you mean?" Tamara asked as another one of the "geek squad" worked on the satellite receivers to unscramble the signals.
"We crossed over." Tess answered, unequivocally.
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Post by elizar on Apr 10, 2007 19:46:12 GMT -5
"Hey, google this 'ka-chow!' thing. I have never heard it before." He asked Martin as realizing they had internet connection. He kept his eyes on the screen, hoping to see a scene change.
"Crossed over?" He asked as catching that. "Is that why we heard this tardis sound and the shockwave and light?"
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Post by raine on Apr 10, 2007 19:48:30 GMT -5
((by the way, Raine does have a slim frame, but that's because of her height. she's not anorexic looking. she's actually quite strong))
Raine's eyes glinted dangerously but she smiled icily. “I see you haven’t dulled your tongue a fraction, Sid.”
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Post by Evangeline on Apr 10, 2007 19:54:57 GMT -5
"I think I got it." The A/V technician, a solidly-built Ute man, slapped a receiver back into place and hitched it up.
One of the channel feeds, the NCIS broadcast, unscrambled.
"Ka-Chow WHAT?" the tech, whose name was Ed Littlestar, answered in response to Aron and Martin.
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Post by ebonyviper on Apr 10, 2007 19:55:04 GMT -5
"It sure does," Delfina nodded, sweeping a finger against the broken shard.
It felt extremely smooth to the touch, as if it had been rubbed down that way and it must've taken an expert to create something like that. This was no mere artifact. It looked more like an alien device. That was when Delfina found the button which she assumed activated the device.
"Oh, God," Delfina gasped in horrid realization, "What did this thing just do?"
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Post by elizar on Apr 10, 2007 19:56:51 GMT -5
Aron literally jumped away from the screen in shock. "I knew that DiNozzo owned a Mustang, but I didn't know he was a mustang!"
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Post by Dr Frankenstein on Apr 10, 2007 20:00:55 GMT -5
Martin quickly left the text-mode server session to switch to Opera, what one would call a normal browser.
He also tried to check his e-mails. Did not work. That was like his account disappeared. He muttered to himself: "Damn... can't seem to get through my shop's POP server..."
Not knowing too much what to do, he ran a Google image search for 'Ka-chow'.
"Wow... the guy who does this nascar picture manipulation is pretty good... look... there's no face missing, he even photoshopped the people in the steps!"
He showed his laptop — a tablet computer in fact — to the people in the room.
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