text -- july 6th, afternoon. (un: @feral.forest.gremlin)

[skittering]

lalli hotakainen. night scout. day scout too, i guess.

scouted the fence. invisible. won't shock you if you're not stupid. if you know someone stupid and want to help them, find something bright and mark the trees along the way.

gas station's south. nothing else here but that and the houses. no real danger yet.

don't think they're lying about time and going back where you're from. couple of us came from somewhere else and it worked that way there, too. everything stopped while you were gone. won't remember it when you go back.

probably aren't lying about death, either. last place were were in could bring people back too. but that was magic. this is

something else

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un: @bad.at.drawing

[inventoried]

what last place?

[skittering]

( oh good, the most complicated question anyone probably could've asked. he's sorely tempted to ignore it, just for the sheer quantity of words it would take to probably explain.

let's see if the simpler version will fly. )

called asgard. people there from different places like this. nothing like here, though.

from earth, before that. different earth than this one i think

[inventoried]

[ Someone had to be the guy. ]

Ok
sorry
this is my 1st time

[ ???/??¿¿? ]

[skittering]

okay

( belatedly he realizes he's doing the thing again, not being patient with people, and he sighs inwardly and - )

do you have food

[inventoried]

The house has food in it so I guess
I don't know who it belongs to

what was different about earth?

[skittering]

your house now. your food now. said so on the papers.




you mean the earth i came from?

klaus says his earth is mostly still alive. ours isn't.

haven't seen enough of this one to know which earth it's closer to.

[inventoried]

[ Several minutes go by until Luke offers a conclusion; ]

that doesn't make any sense

un: daddy.issues

[hedoniste]

What sort of mostly dead?

voice; un: sole.survivor

[casner]

[ a] fuck this username
b] fuck texting ]

You know for sure it's a fence?

voice IF HE MUST

[skittering]

( the voice is quiet but firm - picture an introvert on a mission - and has a distinct finnish accent. )

No way through it that I found. Or over it. It's as tall as I can throw a rock.

Didn't try digging, though.

( he fails to point out that the pamphlets called this a 'containment zone', because if this conversation is running on skepticism about what they've heard, he can align with skepticism. )

he must, i'm afraid

[casner]

[ not skepticism, per se, more in pursuit of further details. to wit: ]

So it could be a dome.

[ he files the accent away where such details always go, his own identifiable as canadian to probably no one but another canadian, cadence not entirely dissimilar. perhaps less an introvert than a borderline-misanthrope, but the result presents itself nearly identically, no small talk, no extraneous information asked or answered. ]

[skittering]

( ....yeah, it could be a dome. lalli bristles a little, because what's the difference?? but, he grudgingly admits, there is a difference - at least to people like klaus, who can lift themselves up into the air. )

Could be. Haven't checked.

[casner]

Do you know someone who can?

[ because, yes, since people can do all kinds of bullshit things here it seems worth a shot. ]

[skittering]

Can ask Klaus. Hang on.

( give him a couple of minutes, he's literally going down to the basement to hunt klaus down and ask him. )

Says he'll try. What's your name? Can tell you what he finds. ( since he's not going to try right this minute or anything. )

[casner]

[ graham doesn't know who that is, or why he could feasibly check for a ceiling, so to speak, but again: he's had a month that makes him slightly...slightly less skeptical of more things in heaven and earth, horatio, etc etc. ]

Graham Casner. While we're at it, the gas station stocks some spray paint, if you get any other offers to track the fence.

@angry.virgin

[legbreakings]

I know an idiot.

Thank you for scouting and the information you shared. It is very helpful.

[skittering]

( he squints at the name, then the message, then the name again.

okay then. )

then tell your idiot not to run into the fence. or tell them to do it. depends on how much you like them.

( and since this stranger was so tolerable and appreciative, ) saw something out the south fence, too. felt it, too. didn't have time to stick around and look.

no immediate danger. just keep an eye out.

[legbreakings]

[ Yeaaah. Thing is, the jury's still out on what he is going to do about it. Right now he only knows "yes, I have an idiot who would do that." ]

I'll think about it.

I'm going to take a look at the fence myself as soon as I can, maybe I'll be able to make out more of what is wrong at the south fence. If I learn anything, I will get in touch with you.

What I have to share is, avoid the center of the lake. The pamphlet lies. While the water near the shore seems safe, the middle of the lake is dangerous. My boat was sucked down and I barely escaped.

[skittering]

( lalli may or may not have just echoed a disgusted 'it lies' aloud and under his breath. don't mind him, he just hates when the rules are changed and he wasn't informed. )

okay.

okay.

hurt?

[legbreakings]

[ Huh. That one's not very chatty, are they? ]

I'll be fine. I'm just angry.

[skittering]

( he can be. not often, but when it's important or helpful. )

fine or stubborn? ( he knows the type. he is the type. ) my idiot heals wounds.

un: @lipless

[halfface]

i've got a few questions if you don't mind:

- how much of the fence did you scout? if you covered the entire perimeter then that's really impressive.
- is the topography pretty similar all around the areas you saw?
- where were you before if you were somewhere else? if you know where somewhere else is, do you have any idea about where this is in relation?
- mostly i'm curious about your overall experience with this. you sound like a vet.

i probably have way more, but these seem like the most important right now.

[skittering]

- all. scouts run fast.
- flat woods the whole way except the south end. then flat no woods
- before this was asgard. supposedly a tree world with other worlds as leaves or something. before asgard was the earth i came from. don't know how it fits with this.
- this isn't a question

( lalli is decidedly not considering the name @ lipless at this particular juncture. )

[halfface]

❰ good, don't ❱

- that's impressive
- good to know, thank you
- that sounds so unbelievable but also i know it's true. the backstories of people here are certainly all over the map.
- sorry, i guess that one was more conceptual. specifically: you've been in a situation like this before, so how long? did you make it out to where you're originally from, or just landed here? where ARE you originally from?

there's a lot of little questions all about one big thing, you know?

[skittering]

how long - 9 months

did i go back - no

where before - born in finland. earth. right before asgard i was on a ship in the

( give him a second to figure out how to do the dumb letters )

norðursjór sea on the way to iceland i think.