VL121R | Text | Night 20

[meadqueen]

Zam is gone. I do not know what happened - she was here last night, but no one has seen her since. Some of her items remain here, but her call sign has disappeared.

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text | DI481O

[salamanca]

I hope you don't mind if I ask what she left behind? Was it anything she came here with?

[meadqueen]

Her shoes are still here. Why would she have left without her shoes?

[Sorry dude, she's in distress. This might take a minute]

[salamanca]

[ It's cool! Lalo is used to dealing with people in crisis! Usually it's because he himself caused the crisis, but hey.

He has all the time in the world. ]

I know this is alarming. Shit, I'd be losing my shit too.

Would you like to switch to voice or is text easier for you?

[meadqueen]

Text, please.

[She was just nearly struck by lightning, her voice is shaking too much for audio]

She can't have died. She was getting better.

TO994M; text

[cactusy]

Where were you when it happened?

[salamanca]

[ They can stick to text, then. ]

Tell me exactly what happened.

text | KD201D

[obeir]

[ After quickly reading through the replies, K's at a loss. Zam's just... gone? Without a trace? It doesn't make sense. And of course this would happen when he's stranded halfway across the island, and unable to maintain his nightly watches at the airfield — the combined guilt and worry weigh heavily on him. It isn't hard to imagine how Randvi must be feeling, knowing how personally she also takes the safety of those staying at the airfield.

Apparently others have vanished as well, and the details of their circumstances sound even less certain. ]

Had anything happened that may have upset her the night she vanished?

[meadqueen]

It hasn't been easy with everyone confined together for days like this, but I can't recall anything bad enough to cause her to wander barefoot into this storm in the middle of the night.

[obeir]

She can be impulsive but I don't think she'd be that foolish if she had any choice in the matter.
The details don't add up either.
Maybe she was returned to her home universe by some means?
We'll keep an eye out for her on our return trip. The storm can't last forever.

[ He hopes. ]

[meadqueen]

She may be impulsive but she's so good-natured, I can't imagine her taking this kind of risk out of frustration.

I tried to find her, but the storm has destroyed any tracks she may have left and lightning struck the field.

[obeir]

That's why I'm assuming whatever happened must have been beyond her control.
Beyond any of our control. Don't blame yourself.

[ Because he figures Randvi could stand to hear that right about now. And he means it, even if he's having trouble taking his own advice. ]

You went out in this storm. Are you all right? There's more than just rain falling.

voice-to-text; SH442K

[sharktrash]

Had she wandered off like others suggest, I don't see why that would make her callsign disappear. It didn't when people died.

If we can get dropped into this place just like that, [ he snaps but of course that doesn't get picked up by text, ] we should consider the possibility that the same force can pluck us back out whenever it chooses to.

Mere speculation, of course.

[meadqueen]

I think they do disappear when people die, but I'm not positive.

[She’d noticed Shaw’s missing but hasn't one hundred percent confirmed she was dead then]

I suppose you're right, though. We don't know how the magic works.

[sharktrash]

We should try to confirm it.

[ Which means, watch the network while he goes on the raft adventure, love! Since they're probably going to die. Oops. ]

[meadqueen]

[Okay FINE she will supervise your stupid death - you're lucky that acting like this is really Norse so she's used to it]

We will see. How is your group faring in this? With the lightning I've been worried.

BT612L; text

[ichoosefight]

That fits the pattern. I think Sameen's disappeared when she died.

[ SORRY SHAW but also, not really sorry. ]

[meadqueen]

She died again?

[Somehow the disapproving tone is apparent even through text]

I’d wondered if that was what happened.

YL078T | Text

[doomcame]

We can keep an eye out for her on our way back, once we get moving again. She couldn't have gotten far in the storm. Maybe she's holed up somewhere nearby.

[meadqueen]

Her shoes are still here. I don't understand.

[doomcame]

I'm sure there's a reason.

[Her head is SCREAMING "SLEEPWALKING" but she doesn't dare put that word out in public herself.]

The important thing is to remain calm. Once the storm passes, we can get a better idea of how many people are missing or hurt, and how many people can be sent out for them.

[meadqueen]

I don't want to lose anyone else. If you can look for her, I'll be grateful. She has no shoes and her right arm was recently amputated at the elbow.

text; TN811N

[hyakuoku]

[ Obviously he's been reading all of this, but he knew about Zam's disappearance. ]

I think shark guy is right. If we can just get dropped here then it's ten billion percent likely we can get taken away again. I don't like it. Maybe there's a way to prevent it, but we have to know what the thing is that brings us here in the first place.

[ Also WHY DID YOU GO OUT IN THE STORM RANDVI but he's not going to put her on blast about that on this post while she's still upset. ]

[meadqueen]

If I knew that she was home safe, I wouldn't want to prevent that, but we don't know anything.

[hyakuoku]

I didn't say I thought she went home safe. I said whatever brought us here could theoretically take us away again. There's not a way to know until I figure out what is doing that and how it works, though if someone's already gone I don't know if there's a way to check up on them. Maybe the Glencolans or whoever has a list of people who have been here and where/when we come from.

This mystery gets more mysterious all the time.

[ He's Senku, so of course he finds that exciting, but he's also aware real people are being affected by this stuff. ]

[meadqueen]

[She tries to take some comfort from that. They'll figure it out]

If your foolish plan works, be sure to ask them.