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

Comments

[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

[skittering]

what part

[inventoried]

[ Great question! ]

nm
I can mark trees

[skittering]

okay

[inventoried]

is it like a circle or what

[skittering]

fence? rectangle. longer north/south than east/west.

easy place to start is by the road, across from gas station. walk straight off the road, run into it in three or four steps.

[inventoried]

Ok

un: daddy.issues

[hedoniste]

What sort of mostly dead?

[skittering]

illness.

starts with a rash. ends with corrupted spirit, twisted body, voices in your head.

there are safe zones. quarantined.

[hedoniste]

Close but no cigar.

[skittering]

what

[hedoniste]

Just comparing armageddons.

[skittering]

different how?

[hedoniste]

A different illness. And no quarantines, no safe zones.

[skittering]

what kind of illness?

don't thing there were safe zones everywhere. iceland, finland, sweden, norway. denmark kept a city alive but the rest is dead. everywhere else is probably dead. don't have any word otherwise

[hedoniste]

Essentially, the flu on steroids with a flawless kill record and no treatment or vaccine. I was visiting the US when it started and I got stranded in what was left of Derry, Maine. We didn't have any word from anywhere else, either.

[skittering]

from where before?

rash had a vaccine. killed the host before the rash could spread.

[hedoniste]

Vienne. In France.

People were just trying to get out of urban centers, and I don't know how helpful that was now everything is dead air.

[skittering]

don't know france. where from finland?

didn't help with the rash. silent world cities are full of corpses. worse than corpses. dangerous.

[hedoniste]

Western Europe.

Yeah.

[skittering]

don't know europe.

this earth might be different. paper said 'more of an apocalypse' but didn't say an illness did it