day 005; SH442K; voice

[sharktrash]

Heeey scumbags!

[ As usual, the scratchy voice coming out of the comms is just too loud for comfort, and will probably prompt anyone listening to turn their volume down. As usual, he sounds a little too cheerful for their dire circumstances. ]

Anyone else getting shot at? Kidnapped? C'mon, I'm about to die from boredom here.

If this was really some kinda simulated Battle Royale you'd think the death matches would have started by now, right? 

But noooooo, it's just some fuckers sneakin' around and dronebombing the place.

Terrible vacation, really. Good fuckin' thing I didn't pay for it or I'd want my money back, yeah?

[ ... ]

Hey.

If you're still listening, congratulations, you might not be a fun-hating twat, so you get to hear my actual message.

Found another airplane, or part of airplane, in the mountain range. This really huge-ass fuselage, got "PacAir" printed on the side.

There might be some luggage in the compartments or salvageable electronics behind the boards, but the whole thing hanging in this really fucked up way and nothing on the inside looks sturdy enough to climb. Maybe if anyone's got some rope, someone could descend from above and check it out that way. Maybe enough people would be able to flip it, but I dunno if it's worth that kinda effort.

And there's also -- check this out -- a volcano. Doesn't look like it's been active for a while, there's a mineral water lake in the middle now, but it's weirdly warm. Don't know shit about that so I can't tell you if it could be heated from the sun or if it's coming from below, but hey, that's something to consider. 'Nd animals have been making their way here, so it's not poisonous. Probably. Smells kinda like sulfur though.

Volcanoes are usually in the middle of islands, right? Might not be the case here, but I'd say it's... in the southern part of the mountains? Can't be sure without a map, but there's more further north.

Guess that's it for now. Ya eggheads might be able to make something from this, right?

Oh but I wasn't fucking kiddin' about this place being boring, so if you've got any fun stories ya wanna share, I'm all ears. Only so much jungle noises one can take instead of a normal conversation, yeah? I'm a people person, you know. Honest.

Anyway! Headed toward some sus shit next, wish me luck.

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voice | HO125E

[trialbyliar]

Wow, sounds like the stage is set for the requisite hot springs episode! And we haven't even done the beach episode yet! Sheesh, we're falling behind...

[He seems to be in standard Kokichi form and not at all feeling the effects of the dronenapping or imprisonment or injury. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?]

audio | callsign TN811N

[hyakuoku]

[ He listens because he's nosy and what else is there to do? This guy is rude as hell, but like Senku told Shaw: he knows this type. He thinks Squalo is a lot smarter than he might sound at first blush. ]

Hey. Shark guy. You should be really, really careful around that volcanic water area anyway. Sulphuric acid will kill you in seconds. Sounds cool, but it's not exciting at all. If we had some silver ore we could test for it but until then, you might wanna steer clear without a gas mask. Animals aren't smart enough to avoid shit like that either.

[ He's not the fun police but he has absolutely seen what this stuff does. He has sulphuric acid in his pocket, actually, but his friend had almost died when they'd tried to get it. ]

I think volcanoes tend to be in central locations on islands, yeah. So a plane crashed somewhere near the volcano…I wonder if it's due to that? Or if it was shot down, or malfunctioned. I found a piece of steel in the bay but it didn't really tell me anything. All the suitcases lying around and stuff...well, who knows.

[ He does that laugh thing. ]

If I had one of those drones, we could send that to explore for us, maybe pick up some electronics. What a pain in the ass to have to do it the slow old-fashioned way, huh?

audio | callsign: DI481O

[salamanca]

Don't volcanoes make islands? You know, they KA-BOOM! and the lava pushes up, up, upppp through the water until there's an island! Right?

[ You're the scientist, Senku. Translate his Normal Person-ese into Smart Science Guy-ican. ]

audio | callsign: DI481O

[salamanca]

Hey! I hurled everywhere! Barely managed not to get it on myself. How's that for a fun story?

[ Seems like one Squalo would enjoy, anyway! ]

[hyakuoku]

Yeah, that's right. It has to do with magma escaping the earth's crust. Eventually it cools and forms land masses, though not all of them turn into something habitable. It happens when one of the plates wayyyy down deep in the earth subducts — basically gets underneath — another. Water gets in, then the plate moves upwards and the mantle melts into magma.

That's how the islands I'm from — Japan — formed. They usually form over the subduction plates. Not all islands do that precisely; the Hawaiian islands formed a little differently, away from plates, in volcanic hot spots instead.

But yeah, either way, that's how we get volcanic islands. With the mountains here it was always likely this was a volcanic island. But there's not usually just one, so I wonder how close we are to any others in this island chain.

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[aluminumandash]

[ Joke's on Squalo, Rust'll listen to all sorts of drivel if it contains an intimation of potential violence. ]

How close could you get to the plane? No sign of the passengers? [ Remembering who he's talking to: ] I mean their remains.

not here!

[salamanca]

[ eavesdrops on this conversation in asshole ]

[salamanca]

Ayyyy, so I do remember something from high school! Look at me! [ Lalo is so, so, so proud of himself. ] Do I get any points for that?

So what does this mean? [ You're the scientist! Tell him! ]

[sharktrash]

"Episode"? You think this is some shitty reality TV?

[ Sorry he doesn't watch anime... ]

[sharktrash]

[ Weeeeeeeelllllllllll about that. ]

Too late for that, chief. But hey, now we know it's not sulfuric acid? Tastes kinda like stale mineral water, actually.

[ Oops he touched it and tasted it. What could possibly go wrong?! ]

...think you could reprogram them?

[ Jet has supposedly smashed some drones up so they're... probably still there... he could possibly steal one? ]

[sharktrash]

[ Hmmm.... it gets an amused snort from him, but honestly, what is this amount of effort. ]

That's more of a fun fact, honestly. Where's the build-up? The dramatic exposition?

[sharktrash]

[ that's one big asshole if it fits all three of them AYYY ]

[sharktrash]

[ Oh no. He's hearing information he doesn't deserve! The audacity! ]

[ Luckily, Squalo has no idea about that. ]

Funny you'd ask that. There's no trace of 'em. Zilch. Kinda creepy, honestly. Like, if animals or bugs picked 'em off, you'd still see some bones around or an arm hanging off a seatbelt, but no. It's like they all just vanished. Or walked off.

[ He sighs, scratching his cheek. ]

'Nd I actually got inside it, but it's standin' vertical against a cliff so you'd need to climb up to check everything. 'Nd the footholds don't look sturdy with all the damages to the floor. Maybe once I feel like starving to death with a broken spine is an improvement over my current situation I'll go back there and try it.

[trialbyliar]

You don't think that's possible? I mean, in my expert opinion, when you wake up in a strange and deadly new location with no idea what's going on, it's gotta be for someone's entertainment.

[Arguably, he is in fact an expert in these situations. But he's also the boy who cried wolf, so no one could be blamed for dismissing his bullshit.]

[trialbyliar]

Jeez, you're slow.

[Hey look, here's your favorite person popping in to interrupt.]

There's a pretty obvious answer for what might've happened to the passengers!

[sharktrash]

Uh-huh.

[ Feel free to share with the class before he hangs up, Bolognese Boy. ]

[sharktrash]

I did suggest that before, but nobody seemed to agree.

[ Like, in his first post he alluded to it being some kinda Hunger Games ripoff, and instead, apparently, people think he's an idiot now. But this waste of space says the same thing and it's suddenly supposed to be obvious and sensible? Go to hell. ]

[trialbyliar]

[Send him to hell yourself, motherfucker.]

I guess people just value my opinion more than yours!

[trialbyliar]

There are mystery people on this island shooting people with arrows, right? And a whole plane's worth of people missing without a trace...? Doesn't it logically track that the people with the arrows are our missing passengers?

[Duh.]

Ooor I guess the arrow people could have kidnapped and eaten all the passengers or something, but these things have gotta be related somehow! Oh, and of course that's all assuming those mystery people aren't just some of us secretly hunting the others down and blaming it on someone off-network.

[sharktrash]

[ MAYBE HE WILL. ]

Good talk. Hope the drone gets you again.

[sharktrash]

Dunno how many passengers usually survive a plane breaking in midair and smashing into solid rock, but my bet would not be on "most of them".

[trialbyliar]

Mmmaybe it's all set dressing? Like, whoever stuck us here just put the plane there to explain the locals for the show backstory and didn't really worry about the details?

[That makes more sense to him than any kind of supernatural bullshit, anyway. He's not into the weird superpowers/multiverse/whatever nonsense like some people here. Being gaslit into believing some batshit worldbuilding is, unfortunately, more par for the course in his experience.]

[trialbyliar]

[ lol ]

Hahahaha, how rude.

[sharktrash]

Didn't look like it. [ He's more inclined to believe some supernatural bullshit, considering it was a thing back home, but ghost ships were still a stretch back there. ] Though I guess whoever has enough funds to pull off something like this might as well have an actual plane or few to sacrifice just laying around.

[sharktrash]

[ flips off the walkie ]