TO994M | day 2 | night | audio | private to BT612L, DI481O, JK002N, RE419S, TN811N, VL121R

[cactusy]

[For those who can see this message, congratulations, Shaw has seen your network activity and decided that your call sign is worth making a note of. She has a little mnemonic for your first three digits and everything!]

Heard from LO4 - Martin Blackwood. He talked to a guy over his walkie who's been here longer than us, but has access to a different radio network and is "forbidden" from contacting ours. The intel I got was kinda sketchy, but, uh-- actually, lemme just read it. "SU818C. Name Sol. On island before us. Can't talk much. Forbidden. Will stay in contact with Sol if alive tomorrow. Wants to help. On different network, but some access to us. Called something 'guardians'. Drones in Scripture, maybe. Cult, maybe. Power not supposed to be on".

[She pauses, clearing her throat.]

He had some kind of aversion to talking about it in full public view, so I'm not doing that, but LO4 said I could pass it on privately. Personally, I think it's pretty damn likely we're being monitored across private and public feeds, but this Sol could know something we don't, I guess.

Any of you got any clue what to do with this?

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[trialbyliar]

[He's not included in this message, but he's hanging out with two people who are and he is absolutely eavesdropping. Know that he is whining and making a fuss to them about being excluded while making note of all this information.]

[meadqueen]

It could be that the boy I spoke with yesterday was right about this being some sort of trial by combat.

I’ve discovered human-caused damage at both settlements I've explored. If these people are compelled to harry whoever is abandoned here, we’ll need to be on our guard. I'm not sure I would trust a message from one of them reaching out.

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[salamanca]

Wow! Scripture, huh?

Call me cynical, but I am not sure how much trust I want to put in mysterious, faceless people who "want to help." But a lead is a lead.

Did Martin say who made first contact? Did "Sol" reach out to Martin first, or was Martin able to reach "Sol" while attempting to call for aid?

You know, I've been thinking a lot about the power situation myself.

RE419S | text

[aluminumandash]

You know cryptography?

[hyakuoku]

There's no frequencies that reach outside this island. Believe me, I tried. So it's ten billion percent likely we're being monitored, but we'll just have to deal with it for now. Maybe we can figure out how to hack these things eventually and create our own encryptions, but they don't seem like cellphones or laptops so it might be trickier. Nothing we can do right this second, though.

You've noticed some of the callsigns spell things, right? So is S-U-8-1-8-C just some arrangement, or does it spell something that gives us a clue? That's not a leading question, by the way, it's a real one. Sub…what? But it could be something else.

That aside, power not supposed to be on. So there's a power source! If there's a power source, there's a way someone could theoretically access it, if we could find it. I wonder if that would allow us to control other things. The drones. This "unauthorised transport" I've heard of. Something else we haven't seen yet. If wherever Martin is is electronically locked, then we'd need to access that power source.

[ There's that thinking out loud thing again. ]

JK002N; voice

[metalicarus]

There's military codes we could use or cyphers we could decide on. Hard to do here if we're being monitored. Probably safe bet there's cameras in the trees and crap like that, but this is a good start.

I've dealt with crazy scientists and being the subject of 'experiments' kind of like this, if that's what this is. Knowing why they want us is the key, until then we adapt and find other ways to communicate.

BT612L; voice

[ichoosefight]

I think that until all of us have a reliable source of food, water and shelter we should focus on that, stay out of sight, and trust no one. As far as I can tell nobody is trying to kill us yet, but we were brought here against our will. That makes this enemy territory. We should act like it.