<strong>Tokyo</strong><br/><strong>Time:</strong>1:40 - 2:10 PM<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>All<br/><br/>When it began, it didn't happen all at once. Rather, for a solid half hours things would slowly but steadily get worse.<br/><br/>Junction boxes electrical transformers, on buildings and electrical poles, exploded in showers of sparks; some caught on fire, and across the areas of the city that still had power anything plugged into an outlet without a surge protector shorted out and died. The blackout spread from dozens of locations as the electrical infrastructure was explosively dismantled, until just after 2 PM the entire city went dark; any place without its own generator lost power entirely, as the electrical stations themselves finally went offline.<br/><br/>While none of the many electrical fires were threatening in and of themselves, landline phones were completely nonfunctional. There was no way for emergency response teams to even<em>know</em>where they were, let alone reach all the locations. Traffic soon became completely impassable as the traffic lights either went out or burst in showers of glass and sparks.<br/><br/>The citizenry of Tokyo hasn't started panicking, certainly, but confusion and concern are spreading. Anyone outside will overhear enough snippets of conversation to infer all of the above information; nobody knows what to do, or who to contact, or even what's going on. Still, the average person has faith that the government will do something about this, perhaps send in disaster relief teams until the power's restored. Most people are concerned primarily about getting in touch with friends and family, though that's proving difficult as the congestion in both the roads and sidewalks thickens.<br/><br/>Caine actually gets to someone on the other hand of his phone call, only for them to explain that they're looking into--<br/>And then the phone dies.