RE419S | Day 3 | Night | Audio

[aluminumandash]

[ After dropping out of radio contact at the beginning of night two, Rust's voice comes crackling over the channel almost a full day later. ] Alright, I'm gonna make this quick. [ True to his word, he's speaking at a more rapid clip than usual, some of his words running together. He sounds focused, but without the intensity that tends to accompany it—he's running down a list. ]

Drones—least five altogether, though they go out in shifts—are patrolling the beach to the northeast. Jungle too, but they're more of a threat out in the open. Assume if you can hear that unauthorized transport announcement you're at risk. You hear a mechanical hum, you find cover and you stay still.

You don't know what a drone is, picture a worker bee without the queen. Or a cattle prod untethered from human conscience. They're metal, airborne, and, once they catch sight of you, very fucking fast. If they grab you, they'll electrocute you, drug you, and toss you in a tiny cell.

Animals don't like 'em either, and out here, if the animals don't like it, you don't like it.

Questions. Anyone here with medical knowledge or supplies? Anyone who knows about planes? I'll take practical or theoretical.


[ Threadjack away! Sorry this is like 3 infoposts in one! ]

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[salamanca]

[ "You don't know what a drone is, picture a worker bee without the queen. Or a cattle prod untethered from human conscience."

PFFFFFT.

The sheer magnitude of the eye roll Lalo just gave reading that horseshit was almost enough for him to physically strain something. Almost.

The voice that comes over the walkie is quiet, like someone in pain. ]

I'm afraid you're too late, Detective. Too many of us know all of this by now. I...

[ He trails off. His voice shakes.

But wait. A thought occurs to him. It's too good to be true though. Has to be. ]

Where are you now? Safe, I hope...

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[aluminumandash]

[ Bluntly: ] In a tiny cell. You?

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[salamanca]

[ AHAHAHAHAHAHA IT IS TRUE!!!! hahaha eat shit, cop. if you're so smart why are you in jail!!! ]

I... I...

Is anyone there with you??

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[aluminumandash]

[ Certainly not because he tried to slam an automatic door. ] Nope. What's up?

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[salamanca]

[ HAHAHAHA. ] No reason. Don't worry about it. Just trying to get an idea of how many people they've taken...

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[salamanca]

[ Something occurs to him. ] Last time I had an idea of your location, Detective, you weren't near the foothills. That's still the case?

[aluminumandash]

[ A sneer in his voice: ] Why? So you can wring your hands over it?

[salamanca]

[ There's a pause. ] Well. Guess I deserved that.

[aluminumandash]

[ He's not gonna argue with that. ]

[salamanca]

[ A heavy sigh. ] This means there's more than one facility, though. Goddamn it.

TO994M; voice; day 4, morning

[cactusy]

Medical knowledge, yes; medical supplies, no.

[aluminumandash]

We're seeing all these markers of habitation, I figure, you know, there's gotta be something. Even if it's a burned-out husk.

What kinda training?

[cactusy]

Emergency medicine. Went to med school, did part of a residency, did a little field training in the Marines. None of that involved situations where I had literally no supplies at my disposal, though.

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[sharktrash]

I can amputate a limb and I've been on plenty of planes. Does that count?

[ How well that amputation would go afterwards is anybody's guess though. ]

[aluminumandash]

[ Rust didn't bother to listen to Squalo's introduction—not beyond the first twenty seconds of barely coherent yelling—so he doesn't make the leap between a missing sword and amputations.

It's still a weird fucking thing to say. ] Notice you didn't have to ask whether catching cold would qualify you as a doctor.

How'd you go about deciding to amputate?

[sharktrash]

[ What? ]

[ It takes him a moment to connect the dots, then he snorts. ]

You didn't specify for an aircraft engineer. [ He points out simply; the closer equivalent here would have been asking whether anyone knows anything about colds, which, yes, catching one would qualify in that case. ]

Infection or irreparable damage, I guess.

[ "I guess"... surely inspires confidence, doesn't it? ]

[aluminumandash]

No I did not. [ He agrees in his languid drawl. ] Walk me through it.

[sharktrash]

You chop that sucker off, put pressure on it, 'nd find somebody who's good at stitching shit up.

[ well that's. ]

[ certainly one of the walkthroughs of all time. ]

[aluminumandash]

What're you using? For the chopping.

[sharktrash]

Sword. Don't have one now, so the axe'll have to do.

[ :) ]

[aluminumandash]

[ Rust allows a slow curl of envy into his voice. Some of it's even real. ] Bullshit you have an axe.

[sharktrash]

[ He's unsurprised, because he would totally be jealous if someone else had an axe and he did not. He's also not to worried about this guy trying to steal it, because ha, good luck getting close to Squalo while he has an axe. ]

Sure do. Picked it up from a tree.

BT612L; voice

[ichoosefight]

I know very little about planes and very much about emergency care.

Any idea what they drugged you with?

[aluminumandash]

No. Out twenty hours, ah, puncture wound right by my hip, no side effects near as I can tell. I'd like to know the dosage too. [ He'd also like to not have unknown substances coursing through his system, but that ship's sailed. ]

Yeah, I can do wilderness-type shit. [ Just for the benefit of anyone listening. ] Won't be pretty but it'll keep your insides in. That what you mean?

[ichoosefight]

That. But also my Mom is a nurse and I've learned like, half of her job.

[aluminumandash]

Well, then we're lucky to have you. [ It's sincere; it's also a slight softening of his manner. For all that that's discernible over a walkie. ] Have you had cause to use it?

[ichoosefight]

[ Wow, okay. Now he's starting to really worry her. ]

Hey, I live to serve.

I've had to use it way more often than I'd like, and only on myself about half the time.

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[hyakuoku]

I know about both things, possibly more about planes in a theoretical sense, but it depends on the kind of medical knowledge you want.

[ SORRY he's just like this. It's probably insufferable! But his tone is matter-of-fact. He just knows a lot of stuff. ]

Did drugging you make you unconscious? Just stunned? Very sick?
The drones, was there any sort of beam of light indicating range of vision? That might be too much to hope for.

[aluminumandash]

[ Like he's said this before (he has, but he's less tetchy about answering purposeful questions): ] Unconscious about twenty hours, no notable side effects. Looks like it was injected into my side near the hip.

Ah, no on the drones. They've got some lights come on at night, but nothing bright enough to navigate by.

I'm looking for medical knowledge as pertains to our current situation. Planes, someone who knows their way around a cockpit, navigation systems.

[hyakuoku]

Most sedatives I can think of immediately would give you something like a hangover, or have short term anmesiac effects. Without being able to analyse the drug itself, I'm not entirely sure what it is. Heavy duty sedatives like rohypnol or anything in the benzodiapene family would be my immediate guess. 20 hours is a long time, though. Hm.

[ He's also not a medical doctor or anything, so this is somewhat outside of his area of expertise; he knows what he's read about, but his brand of science is decidedly not this. ]

I wish I could get my hands on one of those drones. I could take it apart a little and see how it worked. If we knew that, we could better plan how to counteract the others, not to mention use some of the parts…

[ He's thinking out loud a little, don't mind him. ]

As far as the drug goes, without analysing the chemical makeup of it, it's hard to say what could counteract it, too. I'm not a doctor in any sense. I've read a lot so I know some stuff, but it would be better if we had a real medical doctor. I don't think we do. But I do know first-aid and wound treatment care if we need it. I know a lot about what kinds of plants we could use in lieu of 21st century style medicine. I'm just…far away from most of you, which might not be the most helpful in your current situation.

Planes, though, I know more about. Well, more specifically I know about spacecraft, but navigational systems aren't that different, right?

[ RIGHT? It depends, probably. ]

Things like radar, sonar, and basic controls, I know how those things work and have flown a plane a little. Not a very advanced plane, though.

[ He says everything so matter-of-fact like he just expects people to believe him. It doesn't occur to him that he sounds unbelievable, but he's not a liar and he doesn't exaggerate, so Rust can take it however he wants. ]

Do we actually have a plane to fly?

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[metalicarus]

[Typing is a mess right now, but voice is fine, even if it sounds a little rough.]

The three drones here are out permanently, saw to two of them myself.

I'm an air force pilot and know about as much, practically, as a rocket mechanic. Did you find some wings on this rock?

[aluminumandash]

Good man.

Hah. [ More vocalization than laugh, sharp. ] Found a busted-ass cockpit right off the shore. Commercial, enormous, been there a long time. Was wondering if there was a chance of recovering anything, flight-path-wise.

[metalicarus]

That's kinda promising. Means planes fly by here at somepoint.

But, no, only if the blackbox is still intact or even kept in there. Depends on the plane. Maybe if one of the pilots were chatty with a diary, but I'd assume you'd have found something like that.

Just the cockpit, though...did it look like it was broken off or shorn off?