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[trickswithsticks]

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The areas turned out to be residential, and every home Leah tried had a personal computer. None, however, had any electricty coming into their (twin round pin) mains sockets, so trying to find people online was out, even if she could use a foreigncomputer with no access software.

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So instead she started collecting batteries and settled down in one of the more secure first floor flats to pull apart a hifi system and construct a useable Short Wave radio. This she tuned through miles of thick white noise while adding a transmitter.

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The morse code transmitter is easy. It's a few days and a lot of cannibalised electrical appliances before she perfects a battery powered motion device that will keep the SOS code on a loop on a fixed frequency, but she manages that.

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That channel stays open while she starts building a new radio.

[OOC: very much open, but please do not tag if your character would be able to locate and rescue Leah. I want to keep her lost for a while]

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[13th-doctor.livejournal.com]

A reply comes - in morse.

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? DE TARDIS K

Which, as someone familiar with morse, she should recognise as shorthand for 'calling unknown sender, this is TARDIS, listening'.

The narrative would like to reassure readers that further communications will not be spelled out.

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

Oracle has two satellites under her control by now. A French weather satellite and an American "weather" satellite. She's trying to bring more online, but it's slow going with everything else going on.

That's why, while she picks up the signal almost as soon as it starts transmitting, it takes more than two hours to get a transmitter in range to send something back.

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message received
location?
situation?

Someone is out there, and they need help. Barbara hopes she's able to get a team to wherever that signal is coming from (somewhere in Europe... she thinks... she really hated having so little equipment).