[Even when she's expecting it, the violent shaking through the remaining walls and the accompanying burst of sound is terrifying, and Betty instinctively ducks at nothing. She won't have time to see if the lines were really broken as she'd hoped, but the drop in pressure that allows her to manipulate the flow controllers is a good sign. So is the brightness outside.
Well, not a good sign, exactly, but the predicted one. Without the energy mesh and whatever other technology was involved on the user end, the activated portion of the plasma will diffuse, making the dark and cool basement both very bright and very hot. The plasma will be pumping out of the burst tubing, both the recently ionized input, and what made up the former body of the repelling force field. Upstairs, field will be weakening and falling apart. Down here, they're going to need to get out before breathing, blindness, or boiling becomes a problem.]
Done! Time to go!
[She shouts as much from adrenaline as to be heard over the hiss of vaporizing water. A little more distantly, there's an unaccounted for second crash overhead. Aside from that, there isn't any way good to know this, but cooled plasma along auxiliary lines builds up in the unoccupied classrooms and sealed off spaces overhead. Not much about this is super great, but it would get much much worse if they try to pass through one.]
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Well, not a good sign, exactly, but the predicted one. Without the energy mesh and whatever other technology was involved on the user end, the activated portion of the plasma will diffuse, making the dark and cool basement both very bright and very hot. The plasma will be pumping out of the burst tubing, both the recently ionized input, and what made up the former body of the repelling force field. Upstairs, field will be weakening and falling apart. Down here, they're going to need to get out before breathing, blindness, or boiling becomes a problem.]
Done! Time to go!
[She shouts as much from adrenaline as to be heard over the hiss of vaporizing water. A little more distantly, there's an unaccounted for second crash overhead. Aside from that, there isn't any way good to know this, but cooled plasma along auxiliary lines builds up in the unoccupied classrooms and sealed off spaces overhead. Not much about this is super great, but it would get much much worse if they try to pass through one.]