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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[metalicarus]

Dinosaurs? Mechanical or made, obviously, but I've seen it before. Scientists with too much time and money on their hands.

Once I've got some strength back myself, I might be able to try a hand at the brute strength and reverse engineering, depending on what's going on with it.

But if you find tools of any kind, I'd owe you big to borrow them.

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[hyakuoku]

That's an unexpected answer, but at this point, why write it off?

[ Hold on. ]

Wait, you've seen dinosaurs? Where you're from or here?

[ He's fascinated with the idea that scientists could make dinosaurs, though the mechanical ones are less interesting, probably. ]

The plugs are all in the floorboards, but sealed in. I don't have any kind of brute strength, but there's also nothing to grip. Maybe prying it up would work if you were really strong. No tools really yet but I'm hoping to get lucky looking around here the next couple days.

[metalicarus]

Back home. They were fake and on some island, not like...running about.

And I'm strong but not that strong, even at my best I'd need a crowbar or something. Kind fits with a theory I'm mulling over, though, so thanks for that.

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[salamanca]

What's your theory?

[metalicarus]

You want it in person or in text? Call me paranoid.

[salamanca]

In person might be better.

[hyakuoku]

Sounds like something out of a movie.

[ He's seen Jurassic Park, ok! ]

We'll find something we can leverage, I'm sure. In the meantime, what's your theory?

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[metalicarus]

[He hesitates while he considers if this is something worth being overheard or not. The NSA part of him says 'better safe than sorry.]

Hold on a sec. Gonna message you one-on-one. Just in case.

Got some intel recently that got me thinking underground generator. Maybe more than that. I think it's rain water based, If I'm right.

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[hyakuoku]

Rainwater based? What makes you think that?

[ Though now he's going to look for signs of something like that at the resort too, just in case. He likes to be thorough! Wouldn't want to miss something. ]

The lack of wiring above ground is pretty strange, though there were obviously things plugged in. I was considering whether there could be an underground power source or whether more runs on or once ran on solar than I thought, but I don't have enough conclusive evidence to form a whole theory yet.

[metalicarus]

You definitely sound like a scientist.

[No, he did not answer the question. HE's still considering...especially if this guy's a scientist.]

[hyakuoku]

I would sure as hell hope so, considering that's what I am.

You didn't answer my question. Decided not to trust me based on that?

[ There's a whole rant here about TRUSTING SCIENCE, probably. ]

[metalicarus]

Historically, Scientists have rarely been a good thing in my life and I still haven't ruled out a new batch being behind this place.

So yeah, I'm wary.

[hyakuoku]

Right. Dinosaurs.

I've dealt with some pretty messed up uses of science too. Science is neutral. It's how you use it and what you do with it, like any kind of knowledge, that makes the difference.

It's hard to prove anything to anyone over the network. You need evidence that I'm not out to harm you or whatever. As for me, I'm operating from a place of assuming that since we're all trapped here, we all want the same thing: to get the hell back where we came from in one piece.

My current goal is to get us there, every one of us, even if it means having to crack the code to accessing multiple dimensions to do it.

[ It's probably good for Senku that this is in text because he would sound like a lunatic out loud. He finds this multiverse thing so exciting. This whole place is a huge puzzle to solve and he thrives on that, even if it's scary and weird and awful too. ]

[metalicarus]

[It...sounds a bit like a lunatic right now. He's known Too Many Enthusiastic scientists that were so sure they were right and more than a few who thought they were doing right.]

I've got no issue with science, it's the people who obsess over it.

Or who're looking to maybe break the reality we're stuck in on the off chance it won't then mess up wherever we're headed.

Don't gotta prove anything to me, doc

[hyakuoku]

I don't have one millimeter of interest in breaking reality. Like I said, I want to get everyone home where they belong.

Just SENKU. That's all.

[metalicarus]

Yeah ok and best intentions never go wrong.

Good luck Senku