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.

Comments

[cactusy]

wandered off into the storm, maybe

[meadqueen]

Without her shoes?

[cactusy]

you said she was getting better. was she sick? feverish?

[meadqueen]

No. Her arm was amputated before she arrived here, but the wound was clean. She was getting stronger.

[cactusy]

then we shouldn't rule out foul play as a possibility.

[meadqueen]

I don't know. There are five other people sleeping out there. No signs of a struggle. Why not kill all of us?

I tried to look for her out there but any tracks are long gone.

[cactusy]

we don't have a solid idea of who our enemies are or what their motives are, do we?

[meadqueen]

No.

There was no blood, her bedding was not disturbed, her shoes are still here but everything she arrived with is gone. I don't know what it means.

The one out there who has killed us fires a warning shot first.

[cactusy]

the first time i was killed, i was attacked by multiple people from multiple directions.

i'm saying we don't know enough about the situation to assume there's no reason for them to have taken her, or for them to not have gone after everybody. you guys should start lookout shifts.

[meadqueen]

Yes, you're right.

[K had been doing that, but of course he's not here right now]

To come here in this

Lightning struck very close.

[cactusy]

how sturdy is the shelter?

[meadqueen]

It is old, and there is not much that we could do about any loose roof panels, but we reinforced it as best we could once Martin spotted the storm over the sea. Senku checked and it is grounded against lightning strikes.

[cactusy]

good.

keep checking in. maybe try to get kokichi to stick closer to the group.

[meadqueen]

What about you, are you safe?

[salamanca]

What the fuck are you doing?

[ Come on, lady. He's not even a real cop and he knows this isn't helpful. ]

[cactusy]

i'm not trying to upset her, but it's a possibility, especially if she was sick or not thinking straight.

[salamanca]

Don't you think we should get all the information about what happened first before we start scaring people with "possibilities?"

[ It's lucky Randvi has a good head on her shoulders and is unlikely to fall apart — perhaps something Shaw was counting on as well — but on someone else, a comment like that could have rendered them hopelessly panicky and useless for getting Lalo info here. ]

[cactusy]

she could be in danger and she could need help. the fact that something bad might have happened to her is a sign that everyone else who was with her could be in danger too, and needs to be extra alert. this isn't a time to prioritize trying to soothe people and make them feel safe. they're not safe.

VL1 seems like they're handling this just fine, by the way.

[salamanca]

Speculation, without real information to back it up, is not helpful. If you want to help someone who's in danger, you need to find out why they're in danger first. That means we get all the facts, narrow down what actually could've happened. We don't know who's in danger because we don't have enough information to know who's in danger.

I mean, doesn't sound to me like this person wandered out into the storm on her own. Does it to you?

Si! She's a trooper. What about you? Still hanging in there?