Contact Twenty Five [ Video ] Around Noon.

[rapturescreed]

[This video is made around noon today, and when it turns on, sirens are going off; bright flashes of light from the police cars stationed around what can be seen as the Newcomer Community Center.]

There's been a bomb threat at the Newcomer Community Center. I suggest that everyone stays away from the block for the next few hours. [Raul turns the

Comments

action/voice;

[topslug]

[ Yako's voice is faint, but it grows louder as she steps closer to the NV. She theoretically should have evacuated some time ago, but she's never been one not to poke her nose into things. ]

A Halloween prank? [ Hmm, those bags of candy sure sound attractive right now though... ]

action/voice;

[rapturescreed]

A very unfunny Halloween prank. [He is so fucking mad.]

Did you evacuate the building?

action/voice;

[topslug]

Yes sir. [ She glances up at the building; a few locals have already come to ogle at the spectacle in the way of nosy bystanders everywhere. ]

It's a good thing there weren't that many people to begin with. Still, a real bomb would probably have taken out more than just the NCC.

action/voice;

[rapturescreed]

Luckily this happened during the day, when most everyone is away.

[He sighs, rubbing the bridge of his nose.]

It would have taken out the NCC, the clinic, and the entire block.

action/voice;

[topslug]

I'm not sure what's worse-- that someone thought this would be funny, or that people consider us worth sending bomb threats to.

[ She smiles in wry sympathy for the headache that's probably starting up. ] Do you want any coffee? I could whip up a fresh batch to thank the officers for their trouble.

action/voice;

[rapturescreed]

We've been getting bomb threats since we first opened up. It's nothing new, but this is a step too far.

[He nods.] Coffee would be nice. It might take them awhile to finish, and get everyone off the scene.

action/voice;

[topslug]

All right. I'll start the machine up, then.

[ And so she disappears for about fifteen minutes or so, coming back out with a tray of faintly-steaming styrofoam cups of coffee to offer the remaining police officers, who seem alternately amused and annoyed by the whole thing. Raul, of course, gets an actual mug of the stuff. ]

What now?

action/voice;

[rapturescreed]

[He takes the mug rather gratefully.]

Now we wait. And clean up once they are done.

action/voice;

[topslug]

Are we keeping the NCC locked down for the rest of the day?

action/voice;

[rapturescreed]

Yes, we are. I don't want anyone not involved with the NCC stepping into it.