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[This text post comes after a few hours of radio silence following Dirk's first messages.]

Surprise, I survived.
"I told you so" etc etc.
Turns out the locals are pretty chill, all things considered.
I've learned their language and they have accepted me as one of their own.
By which I mean I'm cooling my heels in one of their longhouses for the rest of the night after they explained their whole Lost-adjacent dogma to me.
And I learned some shit you folks will probably be interested to hear about, judging by the fat wad of nothing y'all were able to tell me.
Key takeaways:
One, this particular group of natives speaks Morse code.
Tongue clicks for dots and hums for dashes.
Might wanna brush up on it if you don't feel like getting speared should you have a run-in with them.
And two, the people responsible for whatever this is are somewhere to the southeast, presumably on another island.

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You didn't seem like the type who was going to die too easily.

Morse code, though? Exciting!

[ Lucky Senku, he's fine at Morse code. ]

You find out where these Morse code clicking people come from or is that too much to hope for?

[Doesn't everyone know Morse??? They're totally normal.]

Like I said, they're locals.
But their ancestors are a different story.
They couched the whole thing in ancient myth, but to put it in more straightforward and irreverent terms, there was a plane crash and a small society was birthed from the survivors.
No idea how long ago, but at least a generation or two, and potentially way more than that.
People don't talk about shit that happened to their grandparents the way these guys do unless said grandparents were intentionally fucking with them.

[ Senku, awake and staring at the device, is definitely making some deranged mad scientist face. This info is so juicy. It's exactly what he wants to know about the people here. Maybe he'll go talk to them himself in a few days. ]

So they DID come from the plane crash, but these aren't the immediate survivors. But why Morse code and not a spoken language? I can only assume the original survivors didn't have enough common language to communicate. Though there could be a more sinister answer here, too, something about avoiding being overheard. Maybe a combination of both.

Does this mean everyone onboard actually survived? That would explain the lack of bodies at the wreck shark guy found.

I'm not sure about the geography of wherever you came from, but my basic idea of where we are if we're on an Earth like mine is Indonesia. Which puts us in a group of islands, rather than one just somewhere alone. I could still be on track with that. Wonder what it would take to get us to that other island.

But it also gives me another thing to think about. These people don't seem to be immortal. How many extra lives do we actually get here? Just one? No one has died more than once yet to find out as far as I know. If you're born on this island do you not get ANY extra lives? Bum deal.

[ Yes he does absolutely conceive of this like a video game, though he doesn't agree with Shaw's simulation theory. He just compares real life to video games anyway. ]

Or, is the extra life thing only triggered by certain kinds of death? Meaning we could all still get old and/or die of natural causes. Bullets or whatever don't count as "natural" in this case.

[Oddly enough, he's following the mad scientist babble just fine. This guy gets him.]

I don't think they all survives the original crash.
There was definitely mention of many perishing.
But the survivors might have retrieved the bodies, and any remaining evidence could have been lost over a long enough amount of time exposed to the elements.
And some kind of conditional immortality exclusive to inter-universal arrivals would also check out.

[That's how it worked for godtiers in the game, after all. But even as down as he is to kill himself at any given moment, he's not ready to jump to testing that shit while all other powers seem to be currently offline.]

Getting to the other island might be a bit trickier, though.
Apparently the Glencolans – the local's word for the people responsible for this shitshow – have tried to get back here multiple times and always failed.
Something about a whale and a song.
No idea how literal that is.

Then I wanna know how many survivors there were. They may not know, though, and forensic evidence is going to be pretty thin generations removed on a tropical island, especially if they went and retrieved bodies and all that.

They mention what they do for food and water btw? Or anything about the facilities that clearly aren't theirs like where the drones and the jail cells come from?

[ Senku isn't about to jump to testing how many extra lives they get either, not without the fallback of a working Medusa, but he's not sure they can get that thing working here. ]

Glencolans? Wonder where that word came from. Is it an organisation? Location?

What the hell did these people do to reality? I assume they can hear us on the network. Maybe they can read this. But they don't or won't answer us. I don't think it's can't.

I found a game a little while ago, just some old ass Snake game. It had a callsign in all the top scores. Wouldn't answer me when I talked to them but I finally managed to get one of the top scores. Next day they'd beat my score again. I can't get a high enough score to try this again. Is that person a Glencolan or something else? Is that Sol person that Martin spoke to a Glencolan or something else?

How many different groups of people are we dealing with here?

That thing in the cabin that killed Ben doesn't sound like a Morse code plane crasher. More like a miniboss. Maybe that one is more like us, displaced from who knows where and when.

[ He's only spinning theories like this because most people he does this at don't really answer. Even if Dirk doesn't answer either, it's fine. What else is Senku doing at night when it's too dark to do much else? ]

Whale and a song. I don't have one millimeter of an idea what that means. If shark guy goes through with his raft idea maybe we'll find out soon enough though. Might work both ways.

not here!!!

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