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.]

Comments

[ichoosefight]

...What do you mean?

[ They've said plenty that shouldn't be said on an open channel, but most of it is information that doesn't have to be said for the kidnappers to have it. Locations, names, landmarks... ]

[desperate_times_right]

Surprised you've got anyone on your ass about radio discipline after all that accusing people of fucking whatever that was going on yesterday.

[ichoosefight]

Oh, that.

[ She is very Not Involved. ]

I mean, that seems like a pretty good reason in itself, doesn't it?

[desperate_times_right]

Just saying! Worse crimes than not using call signs.

[ichoosefight]

Agreed.

But we *are* in a "hunted like animals by unknown parties" situation, you know?

[ The whole security deal is kind of important, actually. ]

[desperate_times_right]

Okay, yeah, but I'm just as dead if they think my name’s AP.

[ichoosefight]

It's just something to think about, you know?

Who's listening, I mean, not the callsigns.

Honestly if I was being properly careful I'd have ditched the comm as soon as I found it.

[desperate_times_right]

I thought about it, but it's the only way to get information on what's going on around here.

[ichoosefight]

I was more worried about not dying. But I figure if our kidnappers are tracking us, the comms are probably the least reliable way.

[desperate_times_right]

Do you remember how you got here?

[ichoosefight]

Not even a little. You?

[desperate_times_right]

I fell in a river, then I woke up here. I thought those two things were connected, but it doesn't seem like something you could accomplish from psych class.

[ichoosefight]

The chances of washing all the way down a river and then back up a beach are pretty low too.

Easiest answer is that we were drugged, enough to wipe out a few hours of memory, then dumped here just close enough to shore that we wouldn't drown.

[desperate_times_right]

Yeah, well. I've always been lucky.

Okay, but dropping us on an island to be killed by crossbow guys is way too much work. Like, last time these guardians were trying to kill me I was there to steal their shit.

[ichoosefight]

That's what I'm hoping to find out. As is stands all I know is that someone wanted us here. With no other clear motive, I have to assume it's for kicks. The Most Dangerous Game, or whatever.

[desperate_times_right]

Okay, and they somehow snatched a kid right off campus and an American politician instead of just offering people money if they win like a normal supervillain?

[ichoosefight]

Are you kidding? Kidnapping is free. And most of those creeps would enjoy it more this way.

[desperate_times_right]

The island, drugs, helicopter, and crossbow guys aren't free.

Doesn't feel self-congratulatory enough for me. In my experience those guys never stop monologuing.

[ichoosefight]

I know the stuff they broadcast online, sometimes they'll pick an unwilling target. They have commentary like it's a football game, and make money running bets. I guess it's more entertaining when we're running around like rats in a maze than when we know what's going on.

That really doesn't track, but it is a possibility.

[desperate_times_right]

And what, the guardians are for if we get too buddy-buddy since we didn't get explicit instructions? I guess.

[ichoosefight]

Or to kill us if we get voted off the island, probably.

[desperate_times_right]

Thought you said no one died yet.

[ichoosefight]

I don't think I said that.

[ It's definitely not true. ]

[desperate_times_right]

...Okay, Obi-Wan.

You said one person got hit and lived.

[ichoosefight]

I think I said one person got shot, and she's alright now?

There was kind of an in-between step... when she was dead.