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Stephanie Brown ([personal profile] ichoosefight) wrote2023-05-15 04:31 pm

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cactusy: (I am in the mood)

TO994M; voice; day 5, night

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You know Schrödinger?
cactusy: (I'm not finger-pointing...)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
This is me entertaining your stupid multiverse theory. Which is definitely a sign that I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, by the way.
cactusy: (basically a clenched fist with hair)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
There isn't proof for it.
cactusy: (#deservedit)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You want me to pretend for a little bit? 'Cause I can fake it okay, it's just draining.
cactusy: (who's giggling and why)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
You seriously think not wanting to be wrong is the issue here.
cactusy: (oh‚ wake up and snort the coffee)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, maybe you should work on your social skills. Might help you read people better.

I want us all on the same page. I don't really give a crap what you think of me personally, but we need to be able to work together effectively.
cactusy: (I'm not finger-pointing...)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I called you, didn't I.
cactusy: (I'd rather study death)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
This is why I hate teenagers; they have no life experience, but they still think they know everything.

Are you going to tell me about the multiverse theory or not.
cactusy: (well‚ I'm over it)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Tell me more about it" is the question. Everything I already know has been filtered through technonerd-speak.
cactusy: (hey‚ I shot myself in the knee too)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
And you're saying you know this for a fact. You've experienced it?
cactusy: (I am in the mood)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
What's he like.
cactusy: (this planet both wipes and sucks)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a gap of a few minutes between this response and the next, as Shaw takes a breather to wonder why she'd expected the answer to be no.]

And is he one of those superheroes you were talking about?
cactusy: (voodoo is still an option)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
So-- wait, you're saying there are people with powers?
cactusy: (hey‚ I shot myself in the knee too)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Where I'm from it's all fiction, remember?
cactusy: ("claim rewards"?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought it was impossible too until I experienced it. No, wait, I guess--

[She pauses again, for a much shorter period this time, and when she speaks again the frown is audible in her voice.]

I knew about computers running situational simulations in theory. I didn't know people could have their consciousnesses put into them.
cactusy: (this planet both wipes and sucks)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Cryostasis" as a concept exists to part gullible rich idiots from their money.
cactusy: (voodoo is still an option)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
-- Okay, you know the idea of cryogenics is more than just sticking someone in a walk-in freezer, right?
cactusy: (I am in the mood)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, maybe a loony with an industrial meat locker and too much time on his hands who ends up on national news when the cops raid his place, but--

-- This is getting off-topic, too.
cactusy: (oh‚ wake up and snort the coffee)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-01 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
If the multiverse is real and we're -- somewhere else, how do you suggest we handle it.
cactusy: (they're already wounded)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
So... nothing that's incompatible with anything I've actually said, 'cause you made up the "everybody go kill themselves" thing in your head.
cactusy: (basically a clenched fist with hair)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Seven thousand.

I said I died seven thousand times - and change - and it stopped meaning anything after a while. That's not the same thing.
cactusy: (I am in the mood)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
You're writing off the possibility that I'm right, aren't you?
cactusy: (this layer of bullshit keeps me warm)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Are you willing to keep the possibility in mind going forward, especially given the fact that we come back to life after we die, something that isn't explained by the whole multiverse thing?

Or any of the other possibilities that I've heard so far.
cactusy: (cures include coffee‚ cheeseburgers...)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Clones aren't far out there to you?
cactusy: (I am in the mood)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Not in the "popping a fully-grown human with the original's memories out of a vat" kinda way.
cactusy: (#deservedit)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shaw makes an unhappy, pissed-off sound in the back of her throat.]

I can't believe I'm even entertaining this.
cactusy: (I'm not finger-pointing...)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You are the most annoying person here.
cactusy: (I'm not finger-pointing...)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not the word I'd use.
cactusy: (#deservedit)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Annoying".

"Bull-headed".

"A crappy decision-maker".

"Would've been kicked out of Parris Island on her ass".
cactusy: (are you aching to be murdered?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shaw snorts, and very nearly leaves the conversation there - they seem to have reached something of an understanding so there's no reason not to.

It's the memory of It's what a hero would say that gets her to stay on the line.]


You would've liked some of my old teammates. Too bad you got me instead.
cactusy: (she misses me a lot)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I bet you wouldn't.

[She draws out that last word, almost sing-songing it.]
cactusy: (this layer of bullshit keeps me warm)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-02 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not really doing friends these days.
cactusy: (I am in the mood)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-03 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Working together, communicating, and being on the same page is a good idea. We don't all need to be in the same place for that.
cactusy: (I don't talk trash‚ I talk smack)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
-- Any of you guys good with field medicine?
cactusy: (I'm about to take two weeks off)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
In an environment like this, when it comes to stuff I'd have to be there in person for, medical skills are basically the biggest thing I have to offer. And I'm used to working with actual medical supplies. If you're as good or better suited to patching people up with vines and mud than I am, then I'm redundant. My time's better spent working to break us out of here.
cactusy: (I'm waiting for someone)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Don't knock mud. Keep it away from open wounds, yeah, but you can use it to cool a fever in a pinch.
cactusy: (you think I can't handle low sanity?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Same.

Poor social skills? Too reckless?
cactusy: (did you bring any wolverines?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
You made a deal to what?
cactusy: (this planet both wipes and sucks)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
... Huh.

If this is fake and you only exist to mess with me, I think they're giving us common backstory elements on purpose.
cactusy: (I'm about to take two weeks off)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
-- Yeah. Okay.
cactusy: (are you going to shove it up your butt?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
I was pissed off at the time. It's, uh-- been a while, though. Had a lot of different jobs since. Including taking orders and not asking questions.

Can't really picture you even trying to do that.
cactusy: (this planet both wipes and sucks)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Honestly, being kicked out of her residency had mattered a lot to Shaw too, in its own way: even now, there's a part of her that still internalizes the idea that she isn't truly fit to save people. But it's not an easy thing to voice, and so she doesn't try.]

So what now? Freelance?
cactusy: (they're already wounded)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you... stage a hostile takeover?
cactusy: (this planet both wipes and sucks)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Not my thing. Seemed like it might kinda be your thing, though.
cactusy: (sure‚ that may as well happen)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-05 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, you also came on kinda stupid.
cactusy: (our big beautiful future cemetery)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-10 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Not sure I'd call any of this "getting through to me". If anything, I got through to you and got you to calm the hell down.
cactusy: (good‚ just bleed all over the place)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-10 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
You weren't, huh.
cactusy: (this planet both wipes and sucks)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Assuming you found me at all, which wouldn't've been a guarantee.
cactusy: (I am in the mood)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Why be annoyed about something you were only bluffing about doing?
cactusy: (until you sweep too much under the rug)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
You're a reckless idiot, and even if you're a good tracker, this place is big.
cactusy: (I'd rather study death)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
You could be the best tracker in the world, and there's still no card you could have that would make that a doable plan.
cactusy: ("claim rewards"?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
I'm trying to tell you there's a difference between knowing what you're doing and being invincible. You obviously think you're the latter, and that's what's gonna get you in hot water.
cactusy: (murder in my heart)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
When have I ever said I'm invincible? The death thing doesn't count.
cactusy: (I don't talk trash‚ I talk smack)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
"I came back from being dead" isn't the same thing as "I can track someone down, by myself, in who-knows-how-many square miles 'cause I'm cute and plucky".
cactusy: (I don't care if it keeps me alive)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't matter in the real world. To us, while we're in here-- yeah, sure, okay, it was some crappy phrasing. You gonna harp on it forever?
cactusy: (I don't care if it keeps me alive)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
That's because you're nineteen. Try not running on pure spite once in a while.
cactusy: ("claim rewards"?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Your prefrontal cortex is literally underdeveloped.
cactusy: (this is how I wanted things to be)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I don't get nightmares.

And I don't think your experiences don't count.
cactusy: (murder in my heart)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Medical fact, but okay.

Just because you have a teenage brain doesn't mean awful things can't happen to you. And before you say anything, it doesn't mean you can't do big, consequential things - good or bad - either. It just means that when you do those things, you're gonna be really annoying about it.
cactusy: (basically a clenched fist with hair)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
If they're dedicated contrarians, maybe--

Seriously, you think I'd be having this circular-ass conversation if I had anything better to do right now?
cactusy: (they're already wounded)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. Even people at home didn't try that line.
cactusy: (it's an old proverb I just made up)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Not interested.
cactusy: (I don't care if it keeps me alive)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
It sure is. I've always worked well alone.
cactusy: (our old friend‚ this fucking bullshit)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I know how to work with people. I'm actually pretty good at it.
cactusy: (did you bring any wolverines?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Believe it, sister. I was even a Marine once.
cactusy: (they moved to prison)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Come on, you think you're the only one who can contain multitudes or whatever?
cactusy: (I am in the mood)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a poetry quote; it means-- you know what, never mind.

Don't worry, I'll keep coordinating and sharing what I find. I'm just going to be finding it alone.
cactusy: (who's giggling and why)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-06-11 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You could not even if you tried.
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VL121R | text | Day 6 Day

[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Hello. Was it you who wrote of taking down the small deer earlier this week?
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Aside from the unusual colouring, did you notice anything odd about it?
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cw: some dead animal talk

[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
When you prepared the meat, was there anything strange about the hide? Were the organs identifiable?

I've captured a small pig-like creature, and it doesn't seem like it could have ever been a real living beast.
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Re: cw: some gross dead animal talk

[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you may still have noticed. This creature has fur growing directly from the bone of the skull, and internally it seems as if it's been constructed from a child’s drawing.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Alright yeah, carving the meat with a stick changes things]

I see.

I'm worried. I don't know what's possible. Are the animals here all constructs? Are we?
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. What she believes about false memories might be better for all of us. There's no one else here like me. If the things I don't understand are locked inside me somehow and we can liberate them

[It's a thought she doesn't even know how to finish]

This creature has no heart that I could locate. If we are all constructs built for the amusement of someone else, what if I don't have one either?
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
What if whoever you really are is a better person?
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I would sacrifice this one to free the other, if she was happy. Why suffer for a fiction?
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
There’s no good reason to believe that whoever is doing this to us is rational.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know her well, but my impression is that harm to others - especially harm that she blames herself for - is worse than harm to herself. I assume you noticed this as well.

[Yeah, she saw all of your I'm going to RUN OFF RECKLESSLY into the JUNGLE stuff]

If I wished to hurt her, putting her in a place where everyone but her could die does not seem such a poor plan.

Would it truly take more work to create a convincing fiction than to kidnap a person from so far in your world’s past? What purpose do I serve to whoever is doing this?
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, I doubt that there's a single target either, but I can see why she thinks it's her.

[However, if Shaw is right and her captors have contacted her with demands, melting into the jungle and not telling anyone isn't exactly out of the question for her, so how would they ever know?]

It scared me, seeing something like that. Not just a foreign animal, but an artificial one. I don't think this is a dream.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
And if that is why it seems we can't die? Being a poorly made doll of myself seems worse than being some stranger’s ghost.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Many people here are weaker, aren't they? There are things they can no longer do.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
If we’re as poorly put together as this pig, it does. I'm amazed it ever lived.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think these people care that much about what happens to us? If we can't survive long in these bodies they'll give us new ones.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-10 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel strange but I'm not used to this kind of weather.

[Also she fell off a cliff but that's probably not important]
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-11 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
I think I've changed my mind about wishing that I was one of you. It seems exhausting.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-11 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
All of you airplane people, speaking your secret languages and insisting very authoritatively that some bizarre things are real but other equally bizarre things could not possibly be so.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-11 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Randvi’s grudge against airplanes specifically is kind of outsized considering she's only even known about them for five days. One of the first times she’d worked up the courage to reach out everyone had told her that her observations were wrong, this was a place for planes, and then she’d looked around for huge metal birds like an idiot but of course there aren't any.

It's a bit like how Senku keeps trying to tell her how much better electricity is than fire even though electricity sucks and doesn't work and she's had like five successful fires just on this island.

The first time she sees a plane she's going to be furious that they're real.]


They both absolutely sound crazy, but I had hoped to not be alone anymore.
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1/2

[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-11 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Is it truly better to ignore the possibility and then be blindsided later?
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2/2

[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-11 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Also I believe the aim in combat is to avoid being hit.

:)
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-11 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[It does mean something, that her life matters to someone who has no obligations to her]

I just wish

The life I left behind when I was taken here, there has to be more than that.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-11 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[For like the next two years in her own time, some truly wild sci-fi bullshit is going to happen around Randvi that will have her wishing that her worst problem was being trapped in her little room while everyone else gets to live, but unfortunately she doesn't know that yet]

That's true. In some ways, I feel like I'm waking up.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-11 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Parts of it are. I've not spent so much time in the open air in years.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-12 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Too much to do.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-13 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Running a settlement requires a great deal more paperwork than you'd think.

I'm not permitted to leave the settlement without an escort, and inside the settlement there's rarely a moment's peace. I felt tethered to my table even when I wasn't beside it, and now the tether’s broken.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-13 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
I need my own wife, I think.

[It's a joke, but a lot of what’s on her plate are the unfun parts of ruling that Sigurd doesn't want to do]

But yes, you're right, we must survive this first.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-13 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I did have an apprentice for a while, but I'm not sure I’d do it again.

[A sweet, earnest Saxon boy only a couple of years Steph’s junior, he’d been murdered by one of their Norse allies soon after he’d left her village. Even now, he sits heavy in her heart like a stone]

I know that you all understand each other, and thus expect to be understood. I fear that as we progress here, I'll be left behind.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-13 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I know you understand, but to me it's not old. It's my life.

I know you can't halt everything to explain things to me, but it's not just how things function. What is “automated”? What kind of damage should I expect a gun to do? What is “egghead”?

I'm afraid that any code people make to keep out eavesdroppers will cut me off as well.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-13 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

So when people speculate that the defences here are automated, they think they may be following an old plan on their own?


[She’s not going to address the gun thing but no wonder Senku had been so afraid of them]

There is nothing that will make you contemplate your own mortality like people quoting an old poem composed centuries after your death.
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-14 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
And they'd be following a plan that didn't anticipate no living wardens in the jail. I see.

Is there someone here who’s not obnoxious?
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[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-06-14 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[More hardships caused by electricity - these people love making problems for themselves and calling it convenience]

To be fair, I count myself among them.
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SS572S | VOICE | M010

[personal profile] 2199 2023-06-27 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Bravo-Tango-Six-One-Two-Lima, this is Sierra-Sierra-Five-Seven-Two-Sierra, do you copy? Over.
2199: (show me the way to shake a memory.)

[personal profile] 2199 2023-06-27 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You said you were making a map, correct?
2199: (it must kill to eat.)

[personal profile] 2199 2023-06-27 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
...Is that feasible, when the walkies delete information after a certain amount of time?
2199: (show me the way to shake a memory.)

[personal profile] 2199 2023-06-27 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It's... a good system, but analogue backups are still the most reliable. One of the... peoples of Easter Island [Nope, she doesn't remember the name-] They used banana leaves. Easy to carve into, to fold. The natural rivets of the leaf made lines like a notebook.
2199: (my rider aground.)

[personal profile] 2199 2023-06-27 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. I haven't seen any either. I'll let you know if I do. I'll try other leaves in the meanwhile.

Someone wrote SOS in the beach. Have you seen that?
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[personal profile] 2199 2023-06-27 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I see.

It may be worth establishing locations of interest-- unique landmarks. When someone comes near it, they should radio in. It will give us a sense of the size of the island, should someone see two or three.
2199: (it must kill to eat.)

[personal profile] 2199 2023-06-27 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hearing not a bad idea from a ninteen-year-old is... unique.]

Do you know the shape of the island? Its size? Every little bit helps, Bravo-Tango. We are in no position to let a plan go because it will not be perfectly implemented.
2199: (of the beasts.)

[personal profile] 2199 2023-06-27 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
You're good at estimating distances. Not everyone is. If something were to happen to you, your files-- well, I suppose your... friend? Kilo would have half the map...

[She's clearly thinking this through in real time. Basic training only covered so much.]

How many bunkers are you aware of?
2199: (i fell back)

[personal profile] 2199 2023-06-27 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. I think an imperfect solution may have to stand until a perfect one can be found. But I bet you know how common perfection is outside of textbooks.

I'll check with them. Personally, I believe mapping the island-- if it even is that-- to be the current achievable priority.
2199: (it must kill to eat.)

[personal profile] 2199 2023-06-27 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Not a team player, then.]

Of course. I'll speak with those you mentioned.
cactusy: (it's an old proverb I just made up)

TO994M; audio

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-08 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shortly after this comment--]

How are you doing on supplies, field medic?
cactusy: (do you have anything for rope burns?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-08 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It disappeared from the list?

[Huh.]
cactusy: (good‚ just bleed all over the place)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-08 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Died again. My stuff didn't reset this time.
cactusy: (this planet both wipes and sucks)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-09 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
And I'm guessing saying "quit it" isn't gonna do diddly.
cactusy: (I'm waiting for someone)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-09 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
That just outs you as a rookie. Anyone with a perfect record doesn't have much of a record at all.
cactusy: (I know what you're thinking)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-09 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Died here yet?
cactusy: (I woke up today and chose violence)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-09 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Dead ones, maybe.
cactusy: (do you have anything for rope burns?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-09 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
How big is the group now? Is everybody gathered at the airfield?
cactusy: (are you going to shove it up your butt?)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-09 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Any word from them yet?
cactusy: (I'm waiting for someone)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-09 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Good; that's a nasty one.

Cohle said he and de Guzman went looking for me; you know about that?
cactusy: (I am in the mood)

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-08-12 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Bears. There's more than one of them.
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cs: LO431Y; text (Day 32ish)

[personal profile] lonelynotforsaken 2023-10-26 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, Steph! I remember you saying you found a weird door in a mountain on the north side of the island.
I want to look into it a little more.
Do you have any landmarks we could use to try to pinpoint it?
lonelynotforsaken: art by <user name=everchased site=tumblr.com> (srs | focus down)

[personal profile] lonelynotforsaken 2023-10-26 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, we’ll need to backtrack for that, then.
Still looking for a good spot for the waystation, but we’ve found some tools up here!
A hammer and spanner
The normal kind
And there’s a saw blade we found.
Decentish condition, but it hasn’t got a handle.
Edited 2023-10-26 18:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] lonelynotforsaken 2023-10-27 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

Oh. I'll try to make sure we stay well clear of that.
I definitely don't want to run into the Hunter.
They're creepy.
lonelynotforsaken: art by <user name=everchased site=tumblr.com> (srs | turn away)

[personal profile] lonelynotforsaken 2023-10-28 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Being murderous is pretty creepy!

We'll try.
You keep safe, too, Steph.
Thanks!
Edited 2023-10-28 19:52 (UTC)
desperate_times_right: (face forward)

Day 35

[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, you good????

Did they kill you or did you disappear?
desperate_times_right: (Default)

[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok.

Are you safe? I don't know where we are but I can try to come get you.
desperate_times_right: (Default)

[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't. But if somebody hurt you you don't have to stay there.
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[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Last time we talked that's where it sounded like you were at.
desperate_times_right: (consider)

[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. If I thought it was safe there I wouldn't be out here.
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[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Hard to talk shit if you're dead.
desperate_times_right: (sidelong closer)

[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Other thing then? Someone disappeared right in front of me.
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[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine, whatever. I was just worried.
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[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't want you to be trapped there cause you don't want to go it alone. It sucks out here too but at least no ones threatening to cut you up.
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[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think going it alone in a big city and going it alone in a fucked up jungle are the same thing.
desperate_times_right: (thought)

[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-04 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah I do, and you're still talking about it the way I used to every time I had a bad boyfriend.

Glad you're good though.
desperate_times_right: (:[)

[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-05 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
… Happy to hear you're not hurt?
desperate_times_right: (Walk)

[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-05 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Evasive, that's all.
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[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-05 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
It’s whatever now but if I'd disappeared for a week at your age I wouldn't have wanted to talk about it either.
desperate_times_right: (side scenery)

[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-11-05 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Feels a bit weird to say “any time” but still. Be safe.