RE419S | audio | Day 7

[aluminumandash]

[ Rust's voice comes over the walkie, urgent and forceful. ] Anyone in the area between the concrete structures where Martin and me were held—that's the foothills with, ah, a river to the south and the jungle ten hours to the west of the northeast coast, check in right the fuck now.

[ He thinks to type the rest out—some semblance of a record, something for people to refer back to for the while it's around—but five minutes punching little keys and he can't take it anymore. So his voice returns, matter-of-fact. ]

Officer de Guzman's dead. [ If anyone was hoping for a eulogy, it's not fucking happening. ] Took an arrow to the shoulder then was executed, from the sound of it, likely with his own firearm. He was in the region I just described, about a kilometer away from a wood cabin with no defenses or occupants he could discern. Guessing he walked into some kind of a trap. [ He concludes, irritation seeping into his voice. ]

Much as I hate to state the obvious, circumstances compel me to say: do not seek out the cabin. Hell, I'll say it twice: do not seek out the fucking cabin. You find yourself in an area suspiciously quiet and bereft of animal activity, turn around and go back the way you came.

The individual who killed him had a message for us. It follows.

[ After a short delay: ] The next animal I find here will die a much slower death. Tell your friends for me.


OOC: Replies subject to even more robust threadjacking than usual from Lalo!

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VL121R | text

[meadqueen]

ヽ(　￣д￣)ノ

DI481O | text

[salamanca]

^_^;

was wondering when youd show up

[meadqueen]

I didn't know there were so many of these. I'm glad you're all right.

(*^‿^*)

[After the public breakdown the clowning sort of makes sense - it's good to see he's at least got some pride, even if he goes about it in an odd way.]

[salamanca]

hey, thanks! never been better, chica! :) :P my cell phone's battery recharged itself by magic, soooo... id say thats worth dying for. ;);

if u don't know what a cellphone is, it's like a walkie but it can do a lot more. mine can tell me the directions and it has a light on it.

XD

hey! maybe we should sign these so we know everybody's names and not just their callsigns. what do you think?

-ben

[meadqueen]

[Another L for the electricity fandom honestly]

Oh, I have a lamp too! For my radio. It ports [she's trying, okay] in the top.

It's good to have something of a lodestone, though. (*￣▽￣)b

I thought that people wanted us to say our names less often?

[Not touching the dying for battery life stuff. He's a coward, he doesn't mean it]

[salamanca]

yeah? whoa. sounds like your radio is fancy. congrats. did senku teach u how to port? he seems like a good kid.

yeah it's convenient. not as magnetized as a real lodestone but anything helps, right? _^°^_ that's mountains and a sunrise. i made it just now.

si si ur right. silly me. see this is why i need all the help i can get. im such an airhead ha what would i do without help

[meadqueen]

Yes. We found it in one of the longhouses, so the people here before us may have used these often.

[She’s also got a goofy blue case with a palm tree on it]

I agree, it's simpler than marking the direction by the sun. Are you heading to the airfield?

[salamanca]

You guys have any idea why people left the longhouses yet? Better not be a carbon monoxide leak. (Ask Senku what that is.)

Yeah. Maybe not right away. Gonna catch some waves. Hang ten.

[ Another joke she won't get. ]

Hey, bet they don't have surfing where you're from. When you're from. You'd like it though. Ask Senku to make us some surfboards. One for him too if he wants. Should be easy out of just wood.

I'm bringing booze. When I get there, we're getting hammered and going surfing. Practice yelling "hang ten!"

[hyakuoku]

[ There's a lot he could say but he's a pragmatist and he doesn't really do emotional reassurances, especially not in text, so he hones in on the one thing that stands out all of a sudden. ]

Your phone recharged itself? When?

Also western characters are inferior when it comes to emoji, just so you know.

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
φ(︶▽︶)
(^˵◕ω◕˵^)

[salamanca]

[ That's more than okay, Senku. Lalo would much rather have an emoji spam party and discuss practicalities like when his phone recharged than have a gooey emotional discussion about his feeeeeeelings any day of the week! ]

Don't know, man. I woke up and it was on me, fully charged, time reset to the same time it was when I first washed up here. Wish I could be more help, but's all I got.

Is there a Japanese science emoji? Little guy in a lab coat?

[hyakuoku]

That's exciting. Did anything else reset? Any other minor injuries, tears in your clothes, state of cleanliness?

This one has a magnifying glass, which is about as close as I can think of off the top of my head:
(╭ರ_•́)

[salamanca]

Everything seems like it went back to the same way it was when I got here. I'm talking, the exact same. I'm telling you, it felt like I went back in time!

I like him! He's dignified.

(づ ͠°ꔢ °)づ
Look, this one is you! Explaining!! Excited!!

[aluminumandash]

Stomach contents, hydration level?

[salamanca]

Detective! <3 Are you worried about me? *_*

Like I told our little scientist man: it seems like everything went back to the way it was when I first woke up here. I'm guessing that means everything.

RE419S | audio

[aluminumandash]

[ We interrupt this exchange to bring you the voice of No Fun Ever: ] Repeat which areas of the island are to be avoided.

[meadqueen]

Why, are you my father? My husband?

[aluminumandash]

Just someone who heard a guy get shot within the past twenty-four fucking hours.

[meadqueen]

Do not trouble yourself on my account! If I find myself in trouble I will call someone else.

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[aluminumandash]

Jungle 10 hours W of NE coast. Foothills further inland with river to S.

[meadqueen]

[She doesn't even really want to go up there but the idea that even here men can decide where she can and can't go is too much to bear]

Received.

[salamanca]

Ayyyy it's the 21st century!!! You're a liberated woman now!!! Your husband can't tell you what to do!! Girl power, right?

[meadqueen]

He can tell everyone what to do.

[salamanca]

ha! yeah bc im real police he's just the fun police

[meadqueen]

Oh, don't be mistaken! Police or no, none of you can compel me to do anything.

[aluminumandash]

Pretty fuckin rich coming from the man whose cause of death was not listening to me.