TO994M | day 2 | morning | text

[cactusy]

Found a stick that was whittled down to a point at one end. Any of you want to cop to making this and then leaving it behind, or should I assume it was made by some other group of kidnapping victims who passed through here at some point?

Volume's off, btw. Text or bust.

[She's hiding from a drone right now and is not looking to risk noise detection.]

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[hyakuoku]

Interesting find. There aren't that many of us that have actually spoken up on this network, so it's possible it belongs/belonged to someone that we haven't heard from yet. But your other guess could be right too. I mean it's obvious that other people existed here at some point based on the bits of things here though whether they were shipwrecked or kidnapped or what, who knows.

Are there drones where you are too?

[ He's been paying attention to the network, ok, he can keep up. ]

[cactusy]

Have you come across anybody in person?

And yeah, there's one pretty close by.

[hyakuoku]

Not yet.

What does this thing look like? Do you know if it's armed?

[ He knows this is probably a pain to type but whatever, he's asking anyway. ]

[cactusy]

[There's a gap between responses here, as she can't actually see the drone when the question comes in and she doesn't bother to answer until after it comes into view.]

About a yard wide, four rotors, grabbing claw at the bottom. No noticeable weapons.

[hyakuoku]

That's much bigger than I was picturing when you said drone.

[ Thank god this convo isn't out loud because part of him is like EXCITING! But part of him is like WOW WHAT THE HELL. Inside you are two wolves, etc. ]

Grabbing claw. I assume for grabbing people, but maybe not JUST people. Animals?
But that begs the question what they want with it at all. Are the people controlling the drones the same ones that brought us here? What's the point in such a thing?

If we could build something to overload them, an EMP or to fry their circuits with electricity, maybe we could get one and take it apart to see what else it can do. But for now with limited resources we're pretty screwed.

[ Voice to text means his habit of thinking out loud puts this there for other people to see as well. ]

It also begs the question of their range, how many of them there are, and what exactly happens when they catch you.

[ He DID hear Martin's post, but after that, who knows? ]

[cactusy]

If we could start marking them somehow, we could count them. That's assuming they all look totally identical. I've only seen the two so far.

[hyakuoku]

I wonder if there's any sort of ID mark or number on them, but that might be too small to see from far away.

[cactusy]

My guess? There is. But capturing one is going to be a hell of a job.

[hyakuoku]

Yeah. If I can find some more electronics then I can build something to overload them. EMPs are a lot harder to make and I doubt I'll find the materials for that here but never say never.

Guess we'll have to make it a goal to capture a drone.

[ He's enjoying this plan even though it's insane. He's also not anywhere near the danger, but his mind wouldn't change if he were. ]