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!

Comments

[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!"

[meadqueen]

Presumably they left when there were no more planes to care for.

┐(￣ヘ￣)┌

[She might have to ask Steph about surfing later]

I would not mind. It can't be healthy to drink so much water.

[salamanca]

Do you think planes leave on their own? Sorry, that sounds rude. But I'm curious! I want to hear everything you know about planes.

A girl after my own heart. <3 That's what I'm talking about! What's your poison, mi bella?

[meadqueen]

Drones leave on their own. I've heard it said they're like birds, or ships. But even so, not all shipwrights sail.

Normally we drink ale or mead. Saxons love their wine, but it's too sweet for me. At home, Tekla makes a mead from apples that will knock you into next week.

[salamanca]

Planes are different. They're kind of like drones but much, much, much bigger, and people can ride inside of them. Think like a house in the sky. One person steers the plane, or two people. A plane can't leave without a person piloting it. Make sense?

Yeah? I've never had mead from apples. We have something called Goldschlager in my time. Sounds like it does the same thing.

[meadqueen]

I’m still not certain that you're not all mocking me for some reason.

I've never met a brewer like her - after every festival my day is occupied trying to find where all of the warriors had passed out the night before.

[salamanca]

Uh-oh! Pack it up, everybody! She found out about our secret plan to convince her that planes are real! It was nice while it lasted.

Kidding, kidding. ;)

HA! She sounds like a jewel. If she ever arrives here, I would love to meet her. :D I make a mean White Russian. It'll knock you on your ass. But it sounds like she's got me beat!

[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!!

[hyakuoku]

So it's like if you respawn at the last checkpoint. Wild. I wonder if you had lost something on you if it would be regained this way.

I wonder if you dropped something and someone picked it up, if they would still have it, but you would also have it.

[ Another time that it's good he's doing this in text because he is absolutely deranged about this. He doesn't want to toy with anyone's life but THIS IS EXCITING OKAY! ]

I guess I'll accept that emoji representation. I told you western emojis aren't as good!

[salamanca]

Ask Kokichi! Me personally, I don't trust him to tell the truth, but maybe if you tell him it's for the greater good, he'll help you out.

He jacked my phone after the batteries ran out. I have it back now. Ask him and see if he's got a copy too. See what he says!

[ This is the last text he's going to send on the topic, though. Sorry, Senku. As much as he appreciates you for at least not babying him or pitying him, talking about this at all is harder than he'd like to admit.

You know what isn't hard, though? Emojis! ]

can u do a viking? like ur friend. a japanese one?

[hyakuoku]

Maybe I'll ask him, but I doubt I can rely on his answer.

A viking...hm.
Not so much, but this one has a sword. Close enough?
(ಠ o ಠ)¤=[]:::::>

[salamanca]

Yeah, that's kinda the problem with him. You can't trust anything he says. Just blah blah blah blah but it's all lies. [ ALL OF IT that means if he tells you lalo is less than 100% heterosexual THAT'S A LIE TOO!!! ]

haha yeah man close enough!! that's great!!! who invented emojis?? do you know?

wish i could thank that person :D

[ it seems like the kind of thing senku would know tbh, since senku seems to know so much about everything ]

[hyakuoku]

[ The good news: Senku doesn't give a shit, Lalo! He has never once considered anyone's sexuality and never will. But he would catch on to that VEHEMENT PROTEST if he saw it IRL. ]

Yasushi Wakabayashi invented this style, or at least is credited with it. They're called kaomoji (it means "face characters). I don't know about the western emoji/emoticons though.

[salamanca]

yeah! you're so smart, man! i fucking knew you would know. (✦ ‿ ✦) hey, when i get to you, can i make a request?

[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.

[aluminumandash]

[ No mention of the cattle-prod assault that supposedly occurred just prior to de Guzman's arrival. Noted. ] Worried about you every which way.

[salamanca]

[ ahahaha fuck you ]

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