VL121R | Day 2 Morning | Text

[meadqueen]

I’m southwest of the mountains, near the shore. There's an abandoned village here.

A central square, strangely paved, surrounded by several metal longhouses and an odd tower at one end. It's been abandoned for quite some time.

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[meadqueen]

I’m going to try and scale the tower in a bit. See if I can get a better idea of my location.

[hyakuoku]

Don't die.
But if you make it, I wanna know what you see.

[meadqueen]

Don't worry. This should be the easiest thing I've done since I arrived.

[He doesn't need to know that she fell climbing something else yesterday]

[hyakuoku]

Oh yeah? What happened to you since you got here if that kind of thing is EASY?

[ I wonder if we can handwave somewhere in this convo that they have a similar one to the one we did on the TDM just to get that outta the way. ]

[meadqueen]

[Yeah, I think everything there is fair to handwave into this conversation]

The beach I arrived on was cut off by the tide’s arrival and I had to climb a cliff face to escape.

[hyakuoku]

[the thread in question for anyone stalking the network ICly ]

Well after a cliff I guess a tower seems like a walk in the park.
Still, don't die.
Let me know if there's anything interesting you can see, like a boat that might have crashed somewhere. Boats in this case might be made of metal, not wood.

[meadqueen]

I’ll do my best.

[It's an hour into the midday block before she messages again]

I’m at the top. No boats, but there’s another settlement near me.

[hyakuoku]

[ He's probably resting somewhere on the shore trying to swim closer to this settlement at this point. ]

You didn't die! Ten billion points for you, Randvi.

[ He's a brat but he is genuinely glad she's okay. ]

Boats would have been too easy but I had to check.
What do you see in that other settlement? Signs of life? Or...how do I put this.

Do you see any metal things that would be a long, thin metal rod sticking straight up off the top of a building? It might have other thin rods sticking off it at horizontal angles or at diagonals. It might look like an abstracted weathervane to you.

[ He's talking about an antenna but there's no way she'd know what that is so he's trying, here. ]

Something like that might indicate a communications center. I'm trying to get to where you are but it's slow going.

[meadqueen]

Points?

[Probably not important]

[Weathervanes are hot new technology in Scandinavia at this point so it's not a bad comparison]

Not that I can see from here. I think there was something like that in this tower, but someone’s torn it apart already.

It looks like several small thatched-roof buildings - perhaps the houses I was expecting to see here - and a large tower. It's bigger than the one I'm in now, almost like a fortress.

I think I can get there from here in an hour or so.

[hyakuoku]

[ He doesn't bother explaining the points thing. Rip everyone who has to put up with his dumb shit. He's just like that!

About an hour before nightfall he answers again: ]

I finally made it to your village. Your tower. I can't climb it like you can, but when it's light tomorrow I bet I can find some absolutely fascinating things here. I might have more context for some of it than you will, considering the time difference.

[ He hasn't even told her about the petrification and all. :') ]

[meadqueen]

[Not even the weirdest thing someone is going to say on here this week; don't worry about it]

[When Randvi answers this time, it's audio and she's on the move]

Are you near the longhouses, or where that terrible bog is?

[Not a fan of the gross pool]

[hyakuoku]

[ audio works for him. ]

I can be near the bog - I'd call it a pool, I can explain later - in a few minutes.

A shame it's so...polluted. I need a water source sooner rather than later. Or something to put water in, anyway. We can boil river water to make it drinkable if we get a fire going.

[meadqueen]

I was just over there - I'm headed back to the longhouses, northwest of your location. You should be able to reach it in an hour.

I've set up a device to catch rainwater, but I'm not sure how well it works yet.

[hyakuoku]

I'll meet you there. Sounds like there's a place to sleep for the night.

I might be able to improve the design, depending on what materials we find. Probably not tonight in the dark, but I'm good at improvising.

[ He probably sounds like he's bragging but he's also not wrong. ]

Do you have food? I have five little fruits and some mint.

[meadqueen]

Some pods of wild peas. I also have a metal container that purports to contain fish, but I'm not sure how to open it.

[hyakuoku]

I have some sharp metal wire and a shark's tooth. Betcha I can rig up a can opener to get that open.

[ He's done weirder! ]

[meadqueen]

I would be interested to see this, but please try not to destroy my fish.

[hyakuoku]

Definitely not gonna destroy your fish, just cut the top off the can. Might get a little messy is all.

[meadqueen]

I was starting to wonder whether I’d need to strike it with my hammer, which I’d imagine would be messier.

[hyakuoku]

Let's save that as a last resort. But I'm sure I can work something out.

[ Though now he wonders how big a hammer we're talking. ]