LOG | DAY 003 - 006

[lonelynotforsaken]

WHO: Martin Blackwood, Jet Link, Kokichi Ouma, and Lalo Salamanca
WHAT: Jet arrives to save Kokichi from a drone and discovered a severely dehydrated Martin and unconscious teen. Later, Lalo arrives with a cooler of water and food.
WHEN: Day 003-006
WHERE: VII.C.25 and the surrounding areas
WARNINGS: extreme physical distress, unsanitary conditions, potential character death
NOTES: None

Based on the search by Jet on Day 003 and everyone's later searches on Day 004-006.

Comments

[trialbyliar]

Kokichi's sitting against a wall by this point, going through more of the messages he'd missed on the walkie-talkie while giving his ankle a rest for a bit. He glances over to the man as he's addressed. Martin looks rough, but at least he's alive. Thank fuck for that. None of this was in vain.

Not that Kokichi's looking for any appreciation. He's happy to let Jet take all the credit as the hero here.

"Nah, I totally wanted to get electrocuted and drugged!" He doesn't even bother with the peppy act just for one moment, affected sarcasm dripping from every word as he rolls his eyes. "Obviously I got caught."

[lonelynotforsaken]

Martin doesn't respond to the sarcasm. That's very easy to let roll off his shoulders when his boyfriend used to be the king of sneering remarks. It's especially easy right now when he can't summon the will to care. "How? I thought... people were hiding?" His ability to gauge time is also all over the map. "When did you get here? I... I saw it come in... sometime?"

[trialbyliar]

Kokichu sighs heavily, dropping his head back against the wall.

"We were hiding, buuut...whoops, I slipped! So the drone spotted me and I got snatched right up." He shrugs. "Dunno how long I was out, though. You'll have to ask Mr. Jet about that."

[lonelynotforsaken]

"Okay." That's it for... a bit. Martin isn't breathing quite as hard as he had been when Jet found him in the cell, but it's certainly still irregular. He summons what will he can to add. "I should have shorted out more. Sorry."

[trialbyliar]

Kokichi rolls his eyes heavily. "It's a good thing you didn't. I mean, it sounds like the zappy parts of the drones are what got the cells to open. You'd have been preeeetty screwed if they were all totally broken before we got here!"

There's a mess in the corner from his investigation of one of the drones – though "investigation" in this case means more "heavy-handed dismantlement". Not for the first time, he misses Miu. Her terrible personality aside, she'd probably have been able to take these things apart properly, or at least made good use of the parts scavenged from them. He could have given her all this scrap and she'd have managed to put together a taser or something to better deal with any similar locks moving forward.

Not that she'd have been likely to help him at this point. He did get her killed, after all.

[lonelynotforsaken]

"Lucky you got here." Very lucky, in fact. A few more hours, and Martin suspects they would have found a corpse in the cell. There... still might be one soon. He really doesn't want a teenager to have to deal with that. Maybe children can be just as awful as adults, but Martin's only human, and that looks like a beat up, skinny kid to him.

"Anything useful?" He flops a hand toward the bits of drone.

[trialbyliar]

"Nnnnope! Unless you're a genius inventor and can do something with those parts." But he's not holding his breath. Presumably, that kind of useful skillset would have been mentioned by now. "It's a real shame, too. I really wanted some of those insta-knockout drugs. I could have a loooot of fun with something like that!"

Or, y'know, have a good defense in case of emergency.

[lonelynotforsaken]

"No." To both of those things. Please don't be a menace when he's dying Kokichi. "What about the computer?" That doesn't seem to be in pieces, which is probably a good thing. He's tech savvy enough for some light hacking, but much more than that and he's well at a loss. Certainly on the hardware side.

[trialbyliar]

He's a constant menace to everyone, and you're not dying. Suck it up.

"Nada. No clue anywhere, no particularly worn keys..." He blows a raspberry, shrugging heavily. "It's super lame. I really wanted to see what kind of dirt they had on that thing."

[lonelynotforsaken]

Martin huffs out a harsher breath. "Of course." Irritation. All of this, some potential answers at their fingertips, and they have no way of accessing them. "Sol called the drones 'guardians'... how many characters for the password?"

It might not be important. But it might be very important.

[trialbyliar]

"No idea! I'm not gonna just type stuff in randomly. I mean, what if it was rigged to self-destruct after too many wrong passwords or something?"

He's acting dramatic as always, but the worry is sincere. Not necessarily about surprise explosions, of course, but he wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of failsafe in place that'd wipe the computer completely clean if someone tried to get into it too clumsily.

[lonelynotforsaken]

There's a moment of silence. "Okay. Yeah. That's fair considering... all this." Disappointing, though. He struggles to think for a little bit. "What about the drones? They're... they opened the doors automatically. Is there any way to... plug them in? Maybe a direct interface would... bypass the password?"

[trialbyliar]

Kokichi shrugs.

"Didn't notice anything like that," he says, dismissive. "Besides, I don't think they're smart enough to be using a computer. They're obviously not, like, real AI, y'know? Otherwise the drone wouldn't have settled for just grabbing one of us when it found me and Mr. Jet and Mr. Ben. It could have stunned and knocked us all out and then just made multiple trips. I bet the programming's more like if you find someone then grab them without accounting for situations with more than one target."

apologies for the delay! rl moving is nearly complete

[lonelynotforsaken]

"Not... intelligent AI. Sure." Martin doesn't know nearly enough about this to have more of an opinion. Maybe Sasha would. The real Sasha? He still can't picture her, years later, just the thing that had taken her over. But he thinks the original Sasha was interested in computers.

"Maybe there's a clue to the password in what Sol was telling me. He's, um... he's someone here. Maybe on another island. When I didn't think I was going to make it out, I-I just started calling different callsigns. Sol answered. They mentioned some sort of religion that the drones were part of. I didn't get much, though. I don't think Sol has the password, but the religion his friend follows could be something to follow-up on.