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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[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

[hedoniste]

Finland is in Europe. Look at you, learning every day.

I'm not sure what kind of illness any of whatever the fuck this is would help.

[skittering]

they said it's for elder gods. don't know any gods that want blood. don't know what they do if they don't get it. could be illness apocalypse as easily as anything else.

[hedoniste]

If it is, that's stupid as hell.

[skittering]

dunno an apocalypse that isn't stupid.