( @scout ) text -- sept 10th, early afternoon.

[skittering]

wall's gone on the north and east. dunno if it's gone-gone or just moved.

would take too long to scout it all myself. looking for people who can cover ground fast, aren't stupid, good memory for landmarks or can keep good notes. maybe sketch a map.

say something or meet at the shore. leaving in an hour with or without you

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@bombshell

[bombshelled]

I'm not like super good at remembering where fucking trees are or whatever but I can try to see what things look like from above.

[skittering]

don't care about trees. want roads. rivers. big places without trees. buildings if you find any

and dangers. most important

[bombshelled]

ya ok, that I can do.

if you hear a bunch of explosions, don't freak out or anything. it's just me.

[skittering]

okay

( possibly a mild reaction for that kind of statement, but whatever explosions she might cause aren't really his problem.

he'll be here, waiting for her report. )

[bombshelled]

[ Later that day, she comes back with an image. She's sketched a rough aerial map of the area on the back of a newspaper from the gas station, with landmarks labeled as best as she can. ]

there's a town on the other end. looks abandoned, all the buildings are falling apart.

[skittering]

( give him a minute to look over this map, parsing out what he can from it. )

town's drawn the right size? ( tuuri, the family's skald, might know enough to ask if it's drawn to scale. lalli doesn't, but that's what he's asking either way. )

[bombshelled]

fuck if I know, I didn't use a ruler or anything.

[ Look, she was spitballing it from the get go. Take what you can get, okay? ]

text - un: song.zichen

[snowflicks]

I would be willing to help

getting a comprehensive map is a good idea I will share any findings through here if that is easiest

[skittering]

okay

what's your route

( even just where he's starting and which way he's going, so lalli can try to aim other people somewhere else. )

[snowflicks]

there's a road heading east from the gas station

it seems like a good place to start

[skittering]

if the road turns are you following it

( or just heading due east either way? )

[snowflicks]

I plan on continuing east until I find the barrier

he's so unhelpful i'm sorry

[skittering]

okay

It's okay lalli ur still a good boy

[snowflicks]

I will let you know what I find

[Action]

[coolmotivestillevil]

[ He doesn't answer - because he didn't see it - but he shows up after about half an hour. Jaskier is keeping up his duty of informing him about the happenings around this little community. No need to learn how to handle the weird little box.

Not that he's about to say anything now, either. It should be obvious enough why he's here, he thinks, when he stops in Lalli's general vicinity and offers him a nod in greeting. ]

[skittering]

( this guy again.

sure. fine. okay.

lalli huffs out a breath, glancing off to the general westward area across the surface of the lake. )

I'm finding that wall, following it north. Want to track the new fence. Couple of others said something, don't know where they're going yet.

( that's the extent of the collective plan so far. it's pretty open-ended. )

Looking for roads. Rivers. Buildings. ( anything semi-remarkable enough to be considered a landmark in their limited cage. ) Which way are you going? ( even just vaguely. he's trying to keep people on different routes so they cover more ground faster, find dangers sooner. )

[coolmotivestillevil]

[ This scenario is at least considerably more reasonable than burning mustard ice cream. It also helps that Geralt isn't in a shit mood and thus doesn't go out of his way to try to find something stupid in this plan.

It's a perfectly fine plan. Spread out, find landmarks, compare notes. And since it seems they're stuck here together for the foreseeable future, they have little choice but to work together.

Unfortunately. ]

If you're going north, I'll go south.

[skittering]

( to be fair, he burned the mustard itself. the ice cream was just a catalyst.

the logic seems sound. )

Need a report when you're done, or it's pointless. ( which leaves the obvious question: how will they connect up again? if the guy doesn't use his phone. )

[coolmotivestillevil]

[ Oh yeah. Well, that's still weird.

His lips twist slightly in a grimace. That's sensible, but he doesn't necessarily want to invite the guy to his cabin or anything, so ... ]

Could just meet back here.

[skittering]

When? ( it makes sense, plan-wise, but he's not just going to stand here and wait for him. he has his own scouting to do. )

@brick.master

[backpacking]

how could a big fucking force field wall move?

i want to go.
i'll be there.

[skittering]

dunno

can come here to the lake or just go scout. up to you

[backpacking]

coming to the lake.

how big a group do you have?

just apply a big 'fuck grad school' stamp to all of these late lalli + wei wuxian tags you're gettin

[skittering]

no group. few different people taking different routes. three or four so far.

no worries!! i'm obviously not a paragon of speed, lmao

[backpacking]

got it. sounds good.

anybody tried digging under it yet? i bet that's too easy, but i'd also feel like an asshole if no one thought of it and that was the magic answer

[skittering]

under the wall? don't know.

saw a kid teleport outside. collapsed as soon as he got out. haven't seen him since

[backpacking]

teleport? jesus.
did everyone else but me get cool powers when they go here, or is everyone just from worlds where that's normal?

text; un: sadi

[singularwidower]

I plan to follows the road as far as it will go, and to investigate its branches. I would like to see what kind of things are connected to what amounts for civilization to our captors.

[skittering]

( the other guy already plans to head east along the road. at least this one's following the road if it curves. hopefully it does, or else that's two people on one route and that's pointless.

he doesn't say of it anything either way. )

okay

tell me what you find. landmarks. buildings. especially dangers

[singularwidower]

I will let you know.