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[lonelynotforsaken]

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[The message goes out late enough that most people might have already fallen asleep for the night. It will be there in the morning, though. Martin is in pain, he's having trouble sleeping because of it, and people should definitely know about the boar. Even if it was just trying to defend itself in fear... Martin's not feeling his most sympathetic toward it right now.]

Hi, everyone!
I wanted to mention a conversation I had with Sol recently and also issue a general sort of warning.

Warning:
The boars around here are skittish and will potentially charge you.
If you have any food out, please make sure it's hidden as well as it can be.
The one I encountered was trying to eat our fish at the airstrip.
We can bring it into a hangar.
If you can get your food up into a tree if you're out in the wilds, that's probably best.
Boars naturally root around in the ground for things.
Or, if you've got a hard container, you can maybe put your food in there.
That's what I'll be doing for the waystations to try to dissuade anything from eating what they shouldn't.

Sol:
For anyone who doesn't know, Sol is one of the people on a nearby island.
They're probably one of the Glencolans that the PacAirs told us about.
They have strongly advised against trying to get across the ocean to their island.
There's something they call 'the trench,' which is where some sort of giant creature lives.
I think it's probably the whale god that the PacAirs believe in.
I know there are plans to maybe try rafting out, but I don't think that's a good idea.
I think a better plan is trying to get one of the drones we have reprogrammed and operational.
Then find anything like a camera and fix it to that so we can try to get photos or video.
Even someone's mobile if it still has a charge might work.
Jet also found a whole big hotel to explore.
There are a couple of places we could look for more and better supplies.
Just so we can be safe instead of risking people's lives.

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[meadqueen]

[Randvi’s on watch at her camp with Jet and Jade so she sees this right away]

A boar so close to the village? I'd been searching for game trails nearby with little luck before the storm.

Was anyone harmed?

We should consider having spears available near where food is processed. I wish I had been carrying my bow when I was taken.

Those young men wish to die at sea ardently enough that I doubt we can dissuade them. Do you think they’d be inviting retribution on the rest of us?

I admit, I'm afraid of the drone. Would someone else be able to wrest power over their orders away from us as we have done?

[lonelynotforsaken]

I got a little banged up.
But I'll survive.
Don't worry about that.

I think part of what the Pacairs seem to have said indicates there might be retribution.
We could send an envoy to their village to ask, though?
The way Sol was talking, anything that tries to go over the trench will get killed.
Even flying things.
But I still think it's safer to test with something like the drone, rather than people on a raft.

It's definitely possible that someone else could take over control of the drone, but if it's just one and it's on limited battery power, there's really only so much damage it could do.
Especially if we take out any potential weapons functions before turning it on.
Which I think would be sensible.

[meadqueen]

I have spoken with Senku and Squalo, and they are unconcerned about their own deaths. If that is the threatened consequence I don't think they'll mind.

It would be smart to open dialogue with the other people here who are not hostile either way. They may be open to trade for some of the goods Senku creates.

I know that Senku is careful with the drone but after everything it's difficult not to be nervous around it.

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[wingbound]

[ Huh. There's bacon literally walking into their camp? ]

[ They should really work on crafting something to hunt with, it seems. ]

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[timaeus]

I'd intended on trying to cross the trench one way or another, but I'm down to fuck around with one of those drones.

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[obeir]

Are you all right?
And how big are the boars?

I already made a couple sturdy spears for fishing — roughly sanded shafts with sharpened ends, no blades — but they should be serviceable for hunting boars if anyone with a strong arm cares to try. I left them propped near the communal tools at the airfield. I could also make some for your waystations if they'd be useful.

Do you think Sol can be trusted?

That would be a good use for the reprogrammed drones. Unfortunately I believe Senku is also wanting to personally test the resurrection process here.

[lonelynotforsaken]

I think they should be a lot more concerned.
Especially after what we talked about with callsigns vanishing from the network and not coming back to it.
And if you're going to get yourself killed, it should be for a good reason.
Just to see if you'll come back to life isn't a good one.
Especially if they're doing this on a raft.
That we then lose as a resource.

I'm not sure I really understand Morse code well enough to talk to anyone in it.
Or just... be a diplomat at all.
But I'm sure there's someone who'd be good for it.

And that's fair.
Out of the risks, I just think that's the better one to take than the raft.

[lonelynotforsaken]

It's here at the airfield, if you want to take a look at it.
And there are a couple of bunker-style buildings in the middle and northern parts of the island where they came from originally.
There's probably scraps and things like that still in there.
Or, like I said, the hotel Jet found might have stuff that tourists left that we could repurpose.

[lonelynotforsaken]

I'll live.
I think my pride's hurt more than anything.
It wasn't even that big.
Like, I've seen giant bears and dinosaurs and sharks and shark-creatures.
And it's a little pig that takes me out.

[Is he a joke to you, PacAir/Vast whale thing?]

Oh, that reminds me.
I checked on your weir at the river, and I'm really sorry.
It got washed away. :c
I have other fishing supplies I've been using for things, though, that I can leave at the base.
Except maybe one thing?
Just so we can catch food along the way.
Save more for the waystation.
I think I probably need to heal up a little bit before trying to go boar hunting.
But if he need to do it, then we need to do it.

I think Sol is giving me as much information as they feel safe giving out.

[Which is to say that he trusts them to a point, but certainly not implicitly.]

Some of the stuff I've asked about they've avoided answering, and I'm not sure why.
But they've been kind to me.
And as far as I can tell, they haven't lied.
When they say the trench has a giant monster whale in it and that's what the PacAirs call a god... that's enough corroborating evidence I'm willing to take them at their word.

I think someone should try to talk Senku out of that, then.
All that brainpower, I'm sure they could get through.

[And god, he wishes smart people weren't so utterly dumb sometimes.]

[meadqueen]

You would have to speak to them about that. As long as they die well, my only concern is that we don't fully understand the mechanism of return, which this could help us do.

I built the raft for this purpose. If necessary, I can build another.

I don't understand it at all. Senku taught me to say enough to hopefully avoid my death should I run into them alone, but for me it's two new languages. K might be a good fit for diplomacy.

[lonelynotforsaken]

Maybe my idea of 'dying well' is different.
But going off and doing something you've been told is going to get you killed when there are other options on the table to get the information you want...
Doesn't seem like it's dying well.

[meadqueen]

It isn't something that I would do myself. I don't want to lose my heart.

Perhaps you can speak to the others when the rescue party returns.

[timaeus]

I'm already on my way over to the airfield.
With any luck and provided this island isn't much bigger than anticipated, I'll be there in a day or two.

[Senku successfully lured him over with the promise of those drones. Also, Jade should be there.]

Does your group have any tools?
It'd make the whole endeavor much easier.
I can only do so much with a broken sword, however awesome said sword was.

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[hyakuoku]

You guys all know that I can read all the conversations right?

[ Showing his hand that he DOES read all the conversations but he's not worried. ]

1. The only way to understand the death respawn is to keep doing it. I would never risk someone else's life and not my own.
2. Is this trench only in the direction of the Glencolans' island? There's a lot of other ocean out there to look at. We don't HAVE to go there.
3. Hell yeah I wanna fly a drone out over the water. We need a power source though. I can make one but I can't charge it from nothing. We should try to build a hydropower station. The river is unpredictable but it could still work.

I'm not ENTIRELY unreasonable but I wanna see what the parameters are. No whale can be everywhere at once.

[lonelynotforsaken]

Yes.

[That means he shouldn't have to repeat himself.]

1. There is absolutely no reason to try to understand that, not by getting yourself killed.
What are you testing for?
When it breaks?
When someone comes back wrong?
In the end, that just gets people killed for the sake of curiosity, and I don't think that's a good enough reason.
I also happen to--['know,' he doesn't type]--think people dying repeatedly isn't going to be good for their mental health.
Even if you wake up, you've still died.
Haven't people been traumatized enough?

[Jon might disagree, but he's not here right now.]

2. My impression from my conversation with Sol is that it's big enough that they thought going anywhere on the ocean was a bad idea.
I'd suggest asking the PacAirs.
3. Sure, that sounds like a great idea. When I get back from setting up a couple of waystations, I'm happy to help out with it however you need me to.
Maybe we could repurpose some of the solar panels we've seen around the island.
That hotel probably has a wealth of supplies if we can figure out how to get up to it safely. Jet's just one guy. I don't think he could have explored everything.

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[timaeus]

I don't think it's as big a deal as you're making it out to be.
I've died repeatedly and I'm fine.

[ and clearly he is the picture of great mental health ]

[lonelynotforsaken]

You're someone with superpowers from an apocalypse with aliens.
Who also apparently hops around universes.
You are so far from a normal person yardstick you're not even in the same postcode.

[timaeus]

[He gives that a moment of genuine consideration.]

Well, I can't argue with that.
Fair enough.

[ichoosefight]

Whale God, maybe. Kraken, almost definitely.

Somehow I get the feeling that's not going to stop Squalo though. I think we've all told him he's 100% going to die, he doesn't seem to care.

If it needs to be climbed I am so in on Mt Hotel II

[lonelynotforsaken]

[...]

Lose your heart?
Like literally?

[meadqueen]

Yes, like the animal.

It may have been reconstructed improperly. I don't want that to happen to me.

[lonelynotforsaken]

I've found a coin we can probably use as a flathead screwdriver in a pinch.
And a full set of those little IKEA tools for furniture.
If you have IKEA...
They're the ones that you stick into a hexagon hole and turn, rather than a proper spanner-type thing.
They're not great for super delicate parts, but they might be useful for some things?

Give me a few minutes to head over to the stock room and I can see what else we might have.
There's a lot, but I don't think we have much that'll help with fiddly electronics just yet.

[lonelynotforsaken]

Sol called it the PacAir god, which I think was a whale.
Unless they've... forgot what a whale looks like?

I get people wanting to experiment or explore to see what we can find, but we haven't even fully explored the island.
It just feels premature to go off sailing into the ocean when we have no idea where we are relative to any mainland.
I like Squalo.
I don't want him to die, either.
Because there's no guarantees the revival that worked for other people will work for him.

But hotel, yeah.
That's a lot more fruitful, I think.
There has to be a lot of stuff tourists and maintenance workers and stuff might have left behind.
Tools and things we could use on those drones.

[timaeus]

Those are called Allen wrenches. They're not just IKEA things.
And yes, I'm familiar with IKEA.
None survived the flooding, of course, but their assembly instruction booklets are the stuff of legends.
Sacred texts of ancient memetic fuckups.
I've always wanted to see one in real life.

[hyakuoku]

1. You don't think there's a reason to understand the respawn thing? Disagree.
You know those reasons are why I don’t just go around asking people to die. Shark guy has his own thing. Anyway, I wanted to explore how far we could get and whether we could get to this Glencolan island thing. Looks like we can't, but like I said: there's more ocean than that. I'm not planning to die on purpose! But if it happens, I'm sure I'll learn something. I died once before and I'm fine. Unless someone comes along and explains it to us, no other way to know.

[ Unresolved PTSD isn't "fine" but whatever, right? ]

2. I guess we could pay a visit to the pacairs. I'm gonna ask Leopard about it when I meet them but I don't know if they actually know anything or if they just stay up near the volcano and talk to gods. And play video games, apparently.

3. If we can find some damn TOOLS we can build something that generates hydropower. But finding things like saws and axes hasn't gone well. Making them is a pain in the ass and to make saws I'd have to not only build a forge but find iron. I don't think anyone wants to take weeks to get shit done but sometimes that's how it goes. As for the hotel, Randvi and Stephanie went up it too. If there was something stable at the top we could conceivably make a pulley system, something for people to hang onto, but I'm not so sure there is. Have to just risk it and hope the reward is good.

[ JUST LIKE WITH THE OCEAN THING, SEE. ]