YL078T | Voice | Night 009

[doomcame]

[Taissa has woken up in a new place much farther than ever before. It's too warm, even for night. The tropical trees growing just inland of the beach only confirm that this is considerably south of New Jersey. Her clothes are soaked through and she doesn't remember being in the water. Was there a shipwreck? There must be other boats nearby. The coast guard, or somebody, should be out there.

She picks up the only thing outside of herself that she has found on the sand so far. It looks like some sort of emergency radio. She listens to only a snippet of a message before calling out herself, but it sounds enough like military jargon to give her hope of timely rescue. She attempts to sound calm through her shock and confusion. Loud and clear.]

Hello? Who am I speaking to? This is Senator Taissa Turner. I seem to be lost and in need of assistance.

[Also in need of a quick transceiver tutorial, clearly.]

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[2199]

Please use callsigns on this network, Yankee-Lima. It isn't a secure channel. [Does she have the authority to make this call? Mind your business.]

Could you describe your location? Over.

[doomcame]

[Well, it sure sounds official either way.]

I'm on the beach. The part that... reaches out, like a small peninsula. There's a treeline not far from here. And mountains in the distance.

[She has a feeling that's not very helpful, but there's not much that can actually see from here.]

[2199]

[Hmm.]

What is the tallest vantage point you can see from your current location?

[doomcame]

I'd have to enter the jungle. [Words she never expected to say in her life, for sure.] I can only see the mountains from here, there's nothing close.

[2199]

Do not enter the jungle.

Do you know how to find cardinal directions by the position of the sun?

[doomcame]

I do. I have... [Ah, shit, she pauses to look up Chloe's callsign.] Alpha... Peter... [?? She doesn't know the entire military phonetic alphabet up that far.] heading in my direction and if she doesn't arrive by daylight I plan on trying to meet her when it's safer to travel. Should the two of us report to you afterwards?

[2199]

Alfa-Papa. [She corrects automatically.] You don't need to report to me unless something goes wrong. I'm attempting to do a threat assessment of the area.

[doomcame]

[Okay, no, she is not calling someone "Alpha Papa".]

I'll let you know if we find anything then. Thank you.

[desperate_times_right]

[Good call. If Chloe’s head gets too big they won't be able to walk. But still. 😏]