01-13-2022, 08:53:36 AM
Pinky and the Brain (mostly the Brain) have a plan. It plays out as follows.
Wind Turbines are installed, and backup batteries. Nothing immediately explodes or goes wrong, so clearly that portion was a good plan. Aside from the issue of having to cart the huge wind farm parts up the mountain to install them, which ends up meaning the whole system is chewing through backup batteries while the windfarm is slowly brought online. Ultimately, double the estimated backup batteries are used before the wind farms are providing enough power to keep the PATS running. Getting a goat to go up to check on everything was a really clever idea. Using a goat, getting to the top is easy, if a little bumpy. No injuries result. The grappling gun idea is where things come apart a bit. The towers are thousands of feet tall, and the grappling gun only goes out about a few hundred feet. It also damages a transmitter pack near the top of the third tower by accident when the hook snags and disconnects some wires. At least the sparks won't start a fire, because of how wet it is. Soaking wet, the duo go to the office to get the printouts, and manage to sneak under the door. No need for explosives, apparently. Though getting the printouts out is somewhat tedious, considering the fragility of the paper used for the printouts, and how much care needs to be used to get it under the draft excluder without tearing it.
George has his plan. That one plays out this way.
He decides that hooking up the system to the general power grid is a good idea. A row of power poles, all the way up the steep mountain side, are installed, the wires stretching high into the air. The backup generator works fine. Everything's working, though those power lines might be a little dangerous. An off-road truck is taken up the hillside. It manages to do fine, until it fails to make a sharp turn and hits a rock. It still functions, but he has a whiplash injury now. Then, George decides to take a helicopter to the tops of the towers and... the power lines he installed come back to cause problems. The helicopter slices right through them, tangles the rotor, and crashes into the second tower. Luckily, the tower stands, and George survives almost uninjured, but he has to climb up the rest of the stairs and ladders manually for the remaining towers. Pain and miserable, soaking wet clothes ensue. George finally arrives to pick up the printouts, and begins attacking the door. That, at least, works fine. The printouts aren't kept particularly secure, and no one really questions him, and soon, the door is open, the wall is splintered, and George is soaking wet, miserable, and in possession of the printouts. He has to walk to deliver them though, because the helicopter is currently stuck in the lattice of tower two.
Wind Turbines are installed, and backup batteries. Nothing immediately explodes or goes wrong, so clearly that portion was a good plan. Aside from the issue of having to cart the huge wind farm parts up the mountain to install them, which ends up meaning the whole system is chewing through backup batteries while the windfarm is slowly brought online. Ultimately, double the estimated backup batteries are used before the wind farms are providing enough power to keep the PATS running. Getting a goat to go up to check on everything was a really clever idea. Using a goat, getting to the top is easy, if a little bumpy. No injuries result. The grappling gun idea is where things come apart a bit. The towers are thousands of feet tall, and the grappling gun only goes out about a few hundred feet. It also damages a transmitter pack near the top of the third tower by accident when the hook snags and disconnects some wires. At least the sparks won't start a fire, because of how wet it is. Soaking wet, the duo go to the office to get the printouts, and manage to sneak under the door. No need for explosives, apparently. Though getting the printouts out is somewhat tedious, considering the fragility of the paper used for the printouts, and how much care needs to be used to get it under the draft excluder without tearing it.
George has his plan. That one plays out this way.
He decides that hooking up the system to the general power grid is a good idea. A row of power poles, all the way up the steep mountain side, are installed, the wires stretching high into the air. The backup generator works fine. Everything's working, though those power lines might be a little dangerous. An off-road truck is taken up the hillside. It manages to do fine, until it fails to make a sharp turn and hits a rock. It still functions, but he has a whiplash injury now. Then, George decides to take a helicopter to the tops of the towers and... the power lines he installed come back to cause problems. The helicopter slices right through them, tangles the rotor, and crashes into the second tower. Luckily, the tower stands, and George survives almost uninjured, but he has to climb up the rest of the stairs and ladders manually for the remaining towers. Pain and miserable, soaking wet clothes ensue. George finally arrives to pick up the printouts, and begins attacking the door. That, at least, works fine. The printouts aren't kept particularly secure, and no one really questions him, and soon, the door is open, the wall is splintered, and George is soaking wet, miserable, and in possession of the printouts. He has to walk to deliver them though, because the helicopter is currently stuck in the lattice of tower two.
I am the They who says it!