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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[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?