Subject: What would happen if an RA were destroyed mid-mission?
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Posted on: 2022-06-06 17:37:52 UTC
Would the agents be able to get home? Would they have to wait for backup? Would they be stuck in the fic? Has this happened before in a mission?
—Ls, curious.
In "Cosmic Love," the agents' RA takes an Avada Kedavra for the team, stranding them in the Word World. Since one of them is a witch, they attempt to Apparate through a plothole to get back to HQ. They make it... eventually... but they would not recommend it. Waiting for rescue is definitely a saner choice. {= )
~Neshomeh
HQ sent aid out to them. I’ll see if I can dig up the link.
... but yeah, they'd be stuck. If they had a communicator of some sort they could call for help (might be a fun way to launch a cowrite); otherwise they would just have to hope someone at the DIA* or something noticed they were missing and came to get them.
I have a long-in-progress mission where the RA gets damaged and the agents have to avoid portalling around in case it goes for good, but I don't think I've ever broken one.
*I think it exists only in my memory now, but Artemis' first DIA story with Black and Irvine had them going into a mission to rescue the agents. I don't think it was from a busted RA, but it would definitely be part of their role. If they found out about it.
hS
"The Misadventures of Talia," innit? Talia has an RA (she thinks of it as a "portal generator") that's on the fritz, and Makes-Things warns her to avoid using it, but of course she does anyway and of course it fails at the worst possible time. {= ) And yeah, Black comes and helps her out.
~Neshomeh
Black and Irvine's first appearance definitely started in the DIA offices and had them sent out to get someone. Apparently Artemis had a very specific view of what their job was!
hS
I’m thinking of having that happen on one of my missions. Not anytime soon, though. And yeah, that’d make for a great co-write. Could be fun. And, given that CADs explode so often, it’d be interesting to have something else break for a change.
—Ls
but thankfully the agent team also has a TARDIS. :P
...so they’d be stuck in a bit of a lurch.