posted at the start of night 003

[hyakuoku]

[ Senku posts this at nightfall. ]

It's pretty clear from the talk of drones and communication ability that we're not living in primitive times or the dark ages on this island. Or if we are, we're forced into it.

Randvi and I made a pretty exciting find, though. The village she was talking about looks to be some kind of resort area. There's a hotel, or maybe apartments. Hard to tell since it's all burned out. I'm thinking hotel, though, since there's a restaurant and pool area. It's all messed up and shitty now, but I bet it was nice when it was up and running. How long ago that was…I'm not sure yet.

There's an airstrip and some hangars northwest of here. Found a sign in English that said "Warning: Restricted Area." It had another language, southeast Asian. Tagalog? Indonesian? I'm not entirely sure, but it's not a language I speak. I assume it said the same thing, considering the sign. For some reason, the writing wasn't translated automatically the way the words we say to each other or write on the devices seem to be. Interesting, right?

Here's another weird thing. I could see that there were some plugs in the floor. Simplified, but still...I ten billion percent guarantee that some kind of tech plugged in there before. But I couldn't find even one scrap of wiring anywhere. We could probably get the floor up and investigate if we had tools, but I don't currently have anything like that, and I don't have the brute strength or reverse engineering ability to do it.

One of the little house things here has solar panels. I think there's power to it, but we couldn't actually get in. I'll work on it. Those little houses had the plugs I was talking about, too.

So this kind of luxury resort space…what the hell happened here? I didn't find any corpses or blood or what have you. Some old tinned food and an empty beer bottle.

[ It sounds like he's done, but after a moment, he adds: ]

Oh. One more thing. Any of you guys aware of an animal that could chew a shark into pieces? Yesterday on the beach I found a shark fin with tooth marks in it. Whatever ate a shark, I don't wanna meet.

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[sharktrash]

Hatchet, knives, and wire. [ And also these guns. But hey, knives are basically emergency screwdrivers too. ] Oh, and a pointy stick.

[ Saving best for last and all that... ]

[ Okay, that gives him an approximate idea where they are. He guesses he'll be heading there later, but he'll wait to hear whether Martin was safely rescued first before turning away from his path. ]

I'd say at least three meters, but could've been more. Couldn't see all of it in the water. Had some really weird gangly legs, though. Might be pretty tall if it stands up.

[hyakuoku]

Those are way more useful than what I have so far. I'd like some screwdrivers but with knives we could probably make something…

[ Wait, a THREE METER WHAT ]

Three meters? In the river?

[ He laughs, because he's Senku and that's how he is. ]

Good thing I didn't try to swim in a river earlier. I might have been dinosaur food.

[sharktrash]

I'll try to head there next. Can't make any promises though. Fuckin' jungle.

[ YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT SENKU ]

Yup. Uh-huh. 'Nd yeah, that's when I decided not to cross the damn river.

[hyakuoku]

Good luck. If you find any fruit or meat or useful scrap metal, or glass, or cool rocks, we could use them. Well, the rocks, it depends on what they're actually made of, but sometimes you get lucky with rocks.

There are apparently other weird ass creatures in the jungle, though, so watch out.

[sharktrash]

...Really? What're you gonna do with rocks?

[ He... may have run into some ores and just left them laying there, oops. :) Maybe he'll try to backtrack through the same path. ]

What kind of creatures?

[hyakuoku]

Depends on the rocks. Any kind of metal ore is potentially useful, though iron is probably my number one, especially since someone was hoping for ink...I could probably make that with iron. You'd be amazed what you can do with rocks, though. There are too many possibilities to randomly list. But rocks are ten billion percent useful. You find something shiny that makes sense to carry, bring it to me and I'll see what I can do.

Though we'll need something to break them. Maybe Randvi's hammer...I'll ask her.

So far I heard about glowing deer, but if there's weird shit like crocodinos too, I imagine we're gonna be pretty shocked by something else sooner or later.

[sharktrash]

I'll keep that in mind.

[ Assuming he doesn't die during his latest endeavor. ]

If not, the backside of an axe is a free hammer. To an extent, anyway.

...See you in a few days, if all goes well.