[OPEN LOG] EMERGENCY DRILL

[cdr_ryuuzaki]

It is 0200 UTC. A loud wailing emergency siren pierces the quiet of the sleeping base, waking you up instantly (or not). In your bleary-eyed state you realize this is the evacuation signal you’ve all been trained to recognise. Time to go!

Notes:
- Only dept heads were told about the drill, but they only knew that it would be held, not when
- The only ones who know the full picture are Byodoin and CDR Ryuuzaki
- Everyone has gone through the safety training and ideally knows to evacuate to the designated outdoor location… right?

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B3 – Labs, Med Bay, and storage

[cdr_ryuuzaki]

Don't leave patients behind!

... also please secure the Special Containment area.

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[chickens]

The sudden siren and all the lights in engineering suddenly turning on woke Niou up from his light doze and he groaned, sticking a pillow over his face. Either the promised drill... or an actual evacuation.

He could hear the night shift workers going through the motions of shutting down the engineering labs, and he managed to get out of his loft, pulling on a sweater and shoes over his pyjamas. And then sat down

Evacuation involved all the lifts shutting down due to the emergency, and climbings the stairs from B3 was just not an option. If it was a drill, he supposed he could just fail.

And if it was an actual evacuation... Niou closed his eyes and let his mind wander through the various things that could have gone wrong with the base. Maybe he should have stayed in his loft.

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[sanada_g]

After making sure his roommate wasn't about to be left behind during the evacuation, Sanada quickly made his way to engineering where he suspected Niou would be. It didn't hurt to come down here and make sure all of the engineers were following the protocol for this particular evacuation signal and wrapping up final procedures before heading to the stairs.

Sanada greeted the engineers he saw and shouted out a few commands before marching up to Niou's door and giving it a firm knock. "Niou, time to evacuate." He had promised to carry him up the stairs to safety if it was ever required after all.

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[chickens]

Niou was scrolling through the messages on the communicator - oh ho ho, some late night conversations had been happening that he had to catch up on - and he looked up at the knock on his door. "It's fine, Sanada. I'm prepared to just die here from whatever calamity it is. Evacuate with the rest of them." He reclined back a little bit more in his chair.

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[sanada_g]

Sanada frowned at the response. That was not what he had wanted to hear. But at least it seemed like Niou was alone and he wasn't about to walk in on anything unseemly.

Sanada used his override code to let himself into Niou's office, took one look at Niou and sighed. "This was not the plan we agreed on."

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[chickens]

"This is not the Rapture, Sanada. I'm not being asked to climb stairs to heaven, it's just stairs up to the ground floor." Niou just looked amused. He glanced up and down Sanadda and his grin just widened. "And if it was us journeying up to our eternal life... that's a great outfit for it. I approve." The yukata with boots was a hilarious combination.

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[sanada_g]

"If you trust me to carry you to whatever the Rapture is, then you trust me to carry you up a few flights of steps," Sanada said. He crossed his arms over his chest as Niou looked him over and tried to glare him down. It wasn't very effective on Niou but it would at least show him he wasn't impressed. "I was sleeping. And I'm not staying in this. We're changing into our nanosuits. We're going to make sure engineering is clear and then we're leaving. Together." He was not above dragging Niou out of engineering if he had to.

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[chickens]

"It's the end of the world, kind of," Niou said in half-hearted explanation. And then sighed, pushing himself up out of the chair. "Yeah okay, fine, let's evacuate." He grabbed his emergency nanosuit from his office and then stared at Sanada. "Go get changed in your own space, I'm not getting naked in front of you. And then we can do a sweep of engineering and you can victoriously carry me up the stairs the evacuation point."

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[sanada_g]

Sanada gave an annoyed huff, like he was going to change with Niou anyway. His suit was still in his office anyway. "After you're changed, sweep your designated area, I'll do mine, and we'll meet in the main lab." They could confirm everything was set in the right mode and then head up the stairs. Sanada hated the thought of being the last one up in an evacuation but being an acting co-department-head meant that they had expectations to secure their area.

Giving Niou a final look to make sure he really was going to change and do the sweep and not just give up and wait for death again, he headed to his office to get changed.

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[chickens]

"Yeah okay." And with Sanada on alert about the whole thing, it wasn't like he could just get away with embracing his fate again. Niou sighed and went over to his blindspot corner to change and he was sure that if anyone was looking at the camera would see the occasional limb poking out from it.

Reluctantly suited up (and with a coat on top for decency), Niou snatched up his tablet and swept through one half of engineering, sticking his head into all the spaces to see if anyone was in there. Thankfully empty." He headed to the main lab to wait for Sanada.

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[dr_inui]

Inui made his way quickly from the rooms to the labs, using his height to push his way through the evacuating residents on the stairs as he went in the opposite direction.

Secure the special containment area, check on his more volatile experiments that they wouldn't cause a meltdown, and then he could evacuate. Inui ran through the most likely causes of evacuation and estimated that he had likely, approximately 1 hour and 12 minutes until his life would be in peril. And if it was significantly shorter than that, then there was little hope anyway in terms of chances of successful evacuation.

1 hour and 11 minutes, he told himself as he entered the labs, turning on the lights and heading for his experiments.

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[spaceninja144]

Byodoin had warned them about scientists and their skewed priorities, and he hadn't been wrong. Hiyoshi had been tasked with checking that areas were clear and properly evacuated, and he was just finishing his sweep of B3 when he was alerted by radio of someone entering the science labs instead of exiting.

Well, he'd see about that. Hiyoshi was on Inui's trail in a flash, and he announced himself the moment the other man was in sight, closing the distance as he spoke. "Sir, the base is evacuating. Leave your things and come with me."

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[dr_inui]

Ah, he had not factored in the possibility of security trying to chase him out as he monitored the time. "I will be following you in ... 14 minutes, Petty Officer Hiyoshi," Inui said, going to turn off some of the machines that he could safely do so. "Given the volatile nature of some of these experiments, it would be unfortunate if the lab's power shut off or the ventilation failed." And if it was a drill, then at least he knew he had done the correct things. "If you wish to be helpful, please go secure the special containment area. We wouldn't want the live specimens in there to get loose."

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[spaceninja144]

Hiyoshi didn't know anything about the nature of Inui's experiments, and he didn't need to. Scientists always thought their experiments were more important than they really were. Hiyoshi's job was to ensure everyone was evacuated safely, and you better believe he was going to see it through.

"All necessary machinery is hooked up to backup power, and the special containment area has been secured remotely. Please come with me, I have been authorized to use force if you do not comply."

He was within a meter or two of Inui now-- close enough to engage Inui if that was the route he chose.

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[dr_inui]

"And I will comply, in... 13 minutes," Inui said easily, swirling the solution in the round bottomed flask quickly. "I advise you not to use physical force suddenly on me, Petty Officer," he said, glancing at Hiyoshi again. "There are a number of chemicals here that will react with the metals in the lab in a highly explosive manner. Which would significantly shorten the time frame the base has to get to safety."

Ah, he needed to grab his notebooks from his office as well on the way out.

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[spaceninja144]

"Thank you for the warning." But it wasn't going to slow Hiyoshi down. Hiyoshi would try not to break anything on purpose of course, but anything chemical Hiyoshi had to be aware of was one Inui had to be aware of too, so without the scare aspect they were still on even footing.

Hiyoshi reached to grab Inui's wrist-- with luck, the man would give in once Hiyoshi called his bluff.

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[dr_inui]

Inui paused, looking down at Hiyoshi's hand on his wrist, his swirling of the chemicals stopping. "Remove your hand from my person immediately," he said with a frown. There was no bluff at all, Hiyoshi, that had been Inui being casually informative. "You are not a trained chemist and are lacking in appropriate PPE." Thankfully Inui's glasses were specially designed to double as lab-appropriate glasses.

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[spaceninja144]

"That wont be a problem, I'll be leaving shortly." Along with Inui, one way or another. Inui got one final warning-- "Place the flask down," --before Hiyoshi twisted Inui's arm behind his back into a compliance lock.

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[dr_inui]

Inui was just deeply unimpressed by this whole thing. "I can't put the flask safely down without both hands free, it needs to be clamped into place" he said, shifting slightly to test the strength of the hold - very impressive, Hiyoshi Wakashi, Inui noted it down in his mental file of Hiyoshi. "Let go."

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[oshitari_kenya]

Kenya had been on night shift when the alarm went off. He immediately got into high alert and did a sweep of medbay, making sure everything that needed to be off was off before making sure all the patients could escape. Unfortunately, there was one unfortunate NPC with a broken leg. Knowing the elevators would be off, he got the patient on his back and started running for the shuttlebay.

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[sws_mizuki]

Mizuki was done telling people what to do on B2 and was now telling people what to do on the stairs to the ground level. He'd found a recessed area so he wouldn't be in the way, and was calling out (somewhat useless) reminders over a loudhailer.

"Proceed in an orderly manner! Make sure you have your nanosuit and helmet..."

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[oshitari_kenya]

Kenya had remembered to get him and his patient into their nanosuits and helmets, so when he spotted Mizuki, he let down the visor so Mizuki could see who he was. "Mizuki-san! Could you possibly let someone know I have an injured patient coming up to the shuttle?"

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[sws_mizuki]

"Mr. Oshitari!" Mizuki was very concerned that Kenya had an invalid on his back. "Of course, I'll get you priority! Do you need any help?"

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[oshitari_kenya]

Kenya smiled brightly, noticing Mizuki's worry. "His keg was broken before the evacuation. I just couldn't leave him in medbay." Mizuki-san was always so kind! "Just the call should be fine! I've got strong legs!"

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[sws_mizuki]

"All right," Mizuki nodded and smiled to Kenya. What a brave and dutiful nurse! He made the call and arranged things with the shuttle bay, then picked up the loudhailer again. "Please make way, casualty coming through!"

...though strictly speaking, the injured patient was not a casualty of this evacuation.