<strong>Name</strong>: Narrator<br/><strong>Location</strong>: Selima's loft<br/><strong>Time</strong>: 12:33 pm<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>: Shadowfox<br/><br/>Sometimes Inspiration comes from the weirdest of places.  A couple of stories below the one you are reading is a boring report about the city council agreeing to this year's budget for sewer maintenance with only an inflationary increase.  Obviously the paper had a couple of inches to kill otherwise it would probably have made it in.<br/><br/>But it sets you thinking.  About the network of tunnels under the city with entrances to each house.  Then about how, in a way, that network is a bricks and mortar analogue for the television, electrical, wi-fi- etc networks.  Then about what similarities they shared and what the analogues for each is.  Then about what the sewer equivalent of an EMP pulse would be, an effect that would shut down the network.  Then, finally, it occurs to you why a watch you've been working on isn't working.<br/><br/>It's not, as you first thought, a flaw in the design.  It was a one off thing - of course it was! - as you were testing it someone was modifying the<em>Apokalypsi </em>of the city.  Deliberately or not, its hard to tell.  But what is certain is that two days ago someone activated a machine that had the result of sending a pulse through the city's communications infrastructure.  To what purpose?  Deliberately?  Who?  More unanswered questions than answered.