INCOMING MESSAGE (NON-KIDNAPPED CHARACTERS ONLY)

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A CALL FOR HELP

▶ SUDDEN TRANSMISSION

On the 13th of October, the network flickers online and several messages pop up. Outsiders will probably recognize the usernames attached to them.

@ KIJYO

castle in the fog
skulls
watching us
sacrifice
help us

@ GOLDILOCKS

wolf kaiju
Promises protection
Found broken radio

@ BANKERBOY

🦸=❌
🐺💀🔨=less fog
👹=🦇🐺
🧑‍🌾=💩!
🏰=☠️!
go toget

@ ONESTEPFORWARD

We're okay for now. Careful of purple flowers. -🦆

Some Outsiders might notice these usernames to be Lucy/Kaede, Taryon, Nanami and Malkuth respectively. The messages end there and there will be no way to contact the senders or anyone who has gone missing. While Outsiders in the town will be able to use the network to speak to each other, the reception will be spotty and the messages might be delayed. It might be more efficient to simply meet up in person.

▶ AFTERWORD.

The messages from the kidnapped characters are out! Thank you everyone for participating! Non-kidnapped characters may use this log to have discussions (or do whatever else might be relevant). As previously mentioned, after the 7th, they will not be able to contact any kidnapped characters, and their messages to each other will be spotty or delayed (which can make for funny shenanigans if you prefer). It is probably much easier to organise an in-person meeting, but we will leave it to you to do what you like. The townsfolk convene at the church for their daily prayers and worship at about 12 noon every day. Outsiders may use this time away from the townsfolk to have more private discussions.

We have put this up early to allow people more time to thread in it, but ICly it is going up on the 13th and will lead up to the Kaiju log on the 15th. These messages are also delayed. Whether or not the captives actually are 'okay' is up in the air ...

All tags on this log are worth 2 points and will count towards October AC.

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Comments

@hearse

[wheft]

The one time she gets to be useful, and she just had to be vague about it...

Purple flowers - does she mean heathers? Why didn't she just tell us ANYTHING ELSE. Useless.

Anyway, we can't waste our time here. We need to get out there NOW.

[yormama]

She may not have had time, Miss Ishmael. We'll get a proper answer out of her once we find this castle.

@HTKRIZO

[hitokiller]

yeah
so shut the hell up

[wheft]

Okay. Fine. So what are these flowers, then? Answer quickly, Izou.

[hitokiller]

obviously bad ones
if she thought it was worth SAYIN'

[wheft]

If she didn't have time, the least she can do is tell us something more substantial! Like how to get through the fog?! She's more efficient than that!!

[yormama]

Mr. Nanami's text covered that I believe.

🐺💀🔨=less fog

It looks like they discovered the fog will lift if those skulls are broken.

@rubber ducky

[curingidiocy]

Given the other messages, she likely does not have the answers you seek. We have only one course of action illuminated by them: destroy the canine skulls.

@mr. viper

[penaltypoints]

Is the type of flower relevant? A warning to avoid purple ones suffices.

[wheft]

I don't know much about flowers, but...

Back in the City, there were these ones in the moorlands we'd visited in T Corp. They stand out in particular because T Corp sucks away your ability to see color unless you're able to pay for it. They're the only purple things we could see for miles.

[penaltypoints]

[ Now isn't the time to wonder whether Elijah ever saw those purple flowers — or to linger on the relief of seeing Malkuth's recognizable username — and Yesod focuses on Ishmael's reply. ]

In that case, we can presumably conclude that these are not the same type of flower. Unless you experienced harmful effects of some sort in the moorlands?

@greatvalue

[newphew]

IF we know what it is and what it does we can use them to our aDvantage,

[penaltypoints]

That is a fair point. Does anyone among us have the necessary expertise?

@rodya

[axethrows]

Ishmael.
A warning over something is better than nothing, hm?

We got a lead so let's go crack some skulls in.

[wheft]

At this rate it won't just be wolf skulls I'd be bashing in.

[axethrows]

Good thing we got plently of skull bashing experience to show off to everyone!

We'll get to that castle soon and show 'em.

[immortalpoet]

if you lose your head you will actually lose your head ishmael

she may have been stable at the time with no drastic apparent danger or had no time. regardless this is what we are working with. you yourself are wasting precious time being angry at someone who is in same circumstance as them all

[wheft]

Or she's already used to the shit she'd seen there. Someone like her would've seen much worse in the City after all.

And I can't stay calm. Not until I see him again. You know our luck when it comes to these things is horribly dismal, Vergilius.

[immortalpoet]

and yet when you and the rest write observation logs it isnt as if you treat your subjects banally do you though you too are used to the shit the city has to offer

regardless. focus ahead. we won't know until it comes

@hottie, private.

[transmit]

Not much else to do with the information now that we've interpreted what meaning we can from them.

So, you're right.
Let's concentrate on what we can do.

[ and. not obsessively pick anymore fights!! read: let's get her the hell away from the network ]

private;

[wheft]

[ takes a deep breath. no use reiterating what she'd already told people and what she'd already been told several times in this post already. ]

Let me know if the three of you are ready to set out, then.

[transmit]

[ exactly

they're going to find more productive ways of venting out her anger… probably… ]

Give me a second.

[ He's typing up a message… ]

Ideally we pivot to something like this.

@shiro

[cranekin]

Do we know what flowers she's talking about?
I haven't noticed any that stand out to me.

[wheft]

I don't fucking know!! Why don't you ask her?!

[cranekin]

Eh? So it could really be anything?
But maybe we can keep an eye out for any that we see.