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staysilent2021-05-08 12:57 pm
staymods) wrote in staysilent2021-05-08 12:57 pm
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GAME START!
Nightly Visitor
It hasn't been that long since your arrival to this island, and everything is still new. Each day brings new surprises and more questions than answers, and there seems to be no easy way to find out anything about this world. What little outside contact you get from the radio or your Friday visitors certainly isn't helpful in any meaningful way.
Unfortunately, the questions will only continue to pile up. Because eventually, after a week or so of being on the island, anyone who stays out late will start to hear strange sounds outside. They're almost animalistic, in a way, but they will not resemble the cries of any animal that you might be familiar with. This is Something Else.
They're not close to the Town Hall though, and the sounds seem to be coming from the North, but that is about all you can get without further investigation. And investigation may be necessary, as the noises will return night after night, starting right at sunset and tapering off as the sun starts to rise. Whatever is out there, it's nocturnal. And it sounds desperate.
What will you do? Will you talk to others and make a plan? Will you try to search for the source of the strange noises? Will you look at day, or during the night? Or will you use the radio to call for advice?
Unfortunately, the questions will only continue to pile up. Because eventually, after a week or so of being on the island, anyone who stays out late will start to hear strange sounds outside. They're almost animalistic, in a way, but they will not resemble the cries of any animal that you might be familiar with. This is Something Else.
They're not close to the Town Hall though, and the sounds seem to be coming from the North, but that is about all you can get without further investigation. And investigation may be necessary, as the noises will return night after night, starting right at sunset and tapering off as the sun starts to rise. Whatever is out there, it's nocturnal. And it sounds desperate.
What will you do? Will you talk to others and make a plan? Will you try to search for the source of the strange noises? Will you look at day, or during the night? Or will you use the radio to call for advice?
You can also use this space to play out any prompt from the test drive meme, or anything else you may want to do.
Everyone can do a search and get some plot information once per character. This can be done either solo or in pairs, so there can be some overlap to make sure everyone gets a shot at getting plot information. If A and B form a search party at night, then that will count as both A and B's searching. A could then help C make a radio call and get some information that way, but B and C could not then subsequently do another search (as B and C would have been involved in a search somehow already).
This post will be open to investigating until May 24th, 2021. At that point, no further mod responses will be given. Even characters who app in after game start can come in and investigate, so long as it is before May 24th.
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[He stops, because maybe Faust doesn't realize he's doing a magic thing? It means Rin will be snooping later, at least.]
-er. I uh. Heard some noises outside and I was gonna radio call to see if that's normal out here.
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[Nice of him to pretend it didn't happen, because that's exactly what Faust is going to do.]
Those noises... so that's still happening.
[Asking about it seems like a reasonable enough request. Too bad he doesn't know how radios work or he might have thought to try himself.]
Very well.
[He opens the door the rest of the way to let Rin inside. His opened sleeping bag and the rest of his clothes and accessories are on the floor off to the side somewhere, but he hasn't otherwise made himself at home.]
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Also Rin has no idea how to use the radio, but it can't be that hard, right? He'll just go up to the radio and slip the headphones on.]
Er...is this thing on?
[There's static, because it has to be tuned to the right wavelength before calls can be made. But he doesn't know that part.]
I don't think it's working. It's all static.
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It sounds like you know more about it than I do.
[Which is to say, he's not going to be much help, sorry. But he'll come over to take a look at what he's doing.]
My world doesn't have things like this, at least not that I've seen.
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I mean, we've got these yeah. But they're really old and only some people know how to use 'em.
['Some people' not being Rin.]
You don't see a guidebook around here, do you?
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[He didn't consider looking for such a thing, especially since he's just using the place to sleep anyway.]
I'll take a look.
[Rin is free to either keep fiddling or help him search, since he doesn't ask for help.]
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But there is a guidebook! I'm saying this now instead of switching to the mod account. It's all in Finnish but luckily they all learned Finnish when they got transported to this world.]
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[After glancing inside he dusts it off a bit before bringing it over to Rin.]
I believe this may be what you're looking for.
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[He will take that book and start to flip through it!
...he has no idea what any of this says!]
...Okay, plan B: are there any nerds on this island?
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...Is there something wrong with the guidebook? I could take a look, but I don't even know how this thing works without magic.
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[He does offer the book back to Faust though. Rin can't even blame it on being from the past, he's just plain book-dumb.]
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I'm not familiar with most of these terms... but it seems there's a number of steps you have to follow to properly use a "radio." How unnecessarily complicated... but I suppose this is the best humans can manage without magic.
[Just getting in his occasional shade toward humans.]
Do you know what this means by "setting the correct frequency?"