reefnet | posted at the start of night 003

[ 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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Bigger shark?

[ Sounds like an attempt at a joke, but the person on the other end is too despondent for it to land. ]

I've got some tools. [ And also some brute strength. He may not be the most ripped guy on the island but he's athletic and he's got a physical ~~day~~ job. He also knows a bunch of languages in varying degrees, not that he expects whatever text it is to be helpful; probably the same thing as in English and they're just in the south Pacific somewhere. ] Where are you, exactly? You found my sign earlier, right?

[ He's... still planning to get to Martin, but he's getting rescued? Maybe? And this new area does sound like something worth investigating. ]

I saw somethin' like a cross between a crocodile and a dinosaur in the river two days ago. Pretty big. Think it could've been that?

Yesterday I killed a tiny deer with glowing spots. Wherever we are, we're not dealing with normal Earth fauna.

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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