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There have been greater concerns, unfortunately. We discovered it the day before Martin reported the oncoming storm.

My map room is near the back of the longhouse here. I can show you.

Edited (Missed half the tag lol) 2023-08-10 23:39 (UTC)

[ He makes a vague noise of acknowledgement, not entirely convinced but accepting that explanation for now. ]

Go ahead.

[ What's "please" and "thank you"? Never heard of them. ]

[As Randvi approaches the small office at one corner of the hangar, she flips a switch on the device attached to the top of her radio to power an LED flashlight.

The office itself is a bit cramped, with a beat-up couch where she sleeps off to one side. Papers spread out on the desk are clearly the described map - though I don't think he can read English or Norse so its writing will remain a mystery for now - and next to it sloping metal shelves hold all manner of bizarre junk including piles of scrap electronics and a tusked skull with fur growing out of it. A small bundle of lavender is hanging over the desk to dry]

Here. This is what Senku, K and I have discovered, with additions from Steph and Jet in the north.

[ He follows her at a small distance, apparently pleasantly surprised when there is, in fact, a map. He indeed does not know any English or Norse or any normal languages, actually, aside from his world's weird version of Fantasy German, so the scribbles tell him nothing. ]

[ He does have experience reading maps, though, so at least he should be able to interpret the drawings themselves. If there are any things that look like landmarks on the map, he'll point at them and ask her what it is. ]

[ (Speaking of which, has she not shown it to Squalo? Is it still missing the volcano?..) ]

[I’d assumed he was too busy with his raft project, but sure if he took a second the volcano can be on there too.

She's obviously more familiar with the stuff in the general airfield/resort area, the caves and cliffs to the west and the enemy rivers than the rest of it, and a few of the things people found (Steph’s huge metal door) are hard to describe, but she walks him through it the way she’d walk scouts through her map at home]

I don't have much on the area to the east of us yet.

[ So are these all the landmarks he would be aware of after looking at the map? Airfield, resort, caves, cliffs, enemy river and huge metal door? Or is there anything else marked down? ]

[ He does at least seem pretty receptive to the explanations. It must not be the first time for him, either. ]

Hm. Have you heard from anybody who has been there?

[Both jails are on here since Jet saw one and Steph saw the other. Also Steph’s sinkhole, Jet’s hot spring, and the office building Jet’s crew saw on their way here]

Callsign HE412T has been there I think, but he makes a lot of references and it's difficult for me to understand him.

[ He might want more details on the office building, especially if she mentions the cliffs nearby. It just seems like a very precarious place to put a building. ]

[ That aside, he makes a noise of understanding. ]

You could ask the kid in a dress who looks like a leek. [ That would be Senku, obviously. ] He seems quite familiar with the radio dialect.

[She probably knows more about the building now since Jet is back but that search is still ongoing so just assume he will Learn Stuff]

Yes, he makes posts for me sometimes so we can skip the part where everyone talks about what I could mean.

[ Good good, the rest can be filled in later as long as I know what he can know Stuff about. ]

I meant to parse what He-Four-Twelve-Tea is talking about. But that's good.

[ At least they have a translator for the weird text speech nonsense! ]

I could go east.

[ After the storm, that is. He'd been thinking about doing more exploration, he just wasn't sure which way to go but the shape of the island is kind of coming together in his mind now. ]

From what I understand, there are a group of locals out there who speak a strange language which isn't translated as speech is among us. It's based on a dialect of English I don't know, but Senku can likely teach it to you.

I don't have to speak with them. [ He thinks he should be able to scout the location of the village without alerting the inhabitants, but then, who knows what kind of weird bullshit technology they might have. ] But I'll ask him.

[ And anyway, surely those people are not the only noteworthy thing on that side of the island. ]

The only other group of people living on this island shoot us on sight. I want to stay on at worst neutral terms with the people to the east.

They survived a crash of one of those vehicles, I think.

[ Okay, well, that sounds more like his world, actually. ]

...Do we know where this other group lives?

[ He'd hate to wander into their midst by accident. ]

[ The other news has him raising his eyebrows slightly, part surprise part disbelief. ]

The-- flying ones? That sounds unlikely.

[ The airships usually only had to be hit once to explode killing everyone inside, it's hard to believe enough people could survive something like that to, apparently, start a village. ]

To the east as well, but further north in the foothills. [In a bit of a sour tone] RE419S could probably tell you the exact location.

[Listen, you are preaching to the choir about how fake airplanes sound]

Senku says they can carry hundreds of people at once.

...Right.

[ So only one person knows that? Again, suspicious. But maybe he will call him... ]

[ And they totally do, don't they!! ]

Hundreds?

[ Excuse you, an giant airship can have, maybe, like 30 people or something. You would need a ship for hundreds. What is it with this place and weird vehicles? ]

There is a cabin near the river here [she doesn't know the exact location, but gestures to a small area on the map] where a hostile individual lives. I would recommend avoiding the foothills entirely if you can.

Hundreds! Senku told me that one of these airplanes could take my entire village across the sea - a voyage that takes us weeks and carries great risks - in a manner of hours. The ones supposedly housed here were smaller.

[ He frowns, taking it into account, but avoiding the entire foothills sounds a little impractical. ]

...

[ Okay, he can believe them flying across the sea, but mere hours with hundreds of people? That's a little wilder. Which he'd be inclined to suspend his disbelief for, as it's not that out there, if it wasn't coming from a guy who's weird in every which way who hates pants and has leek colored hair. ]

He's not... [ subtly gesturing around his temple to indicate INSANITY, ] ...is he?

No. He can be a bit… exuberant, but I believe him. Things would have been much more difficult for me if he hadn't come here.

It doesn't mean he can't be helpful. But good to know.

[ Maybe he's too quick to trust her opinion, considering the two seem to have nothing but good things to say about each other... but she's seemed reliable so far. ]

[ Anyway, that's that then. Moving onto the next thing. He holds up his walkie. ]

...Do you know how to send a message in writing on this thing?

[Listen, when you've decided to buy the 'diseases are caused by tiny animals getting into your blood' thing, you've got to believe everything]

I think he enjoys sharing his facts too much to lie about such things.

[Oh yes, the radio. It's honestly a bit of a relief to find someone else who doesn't know much about it]

You can dictate a message to it using this button [she indicates a button on her own radio - he can't read it but it's in the same spot], which is easiest but inconvenient if you're trying to avoid making noise. Otherwise, you can press the buttons here to make your chosen letter appear.

[The version of Norse that Randvi uses has way fewer runes than later versions so it's way easier for her than for everyone else]

[ Gross. That's why you constantly lather everything with soap obviously. ]

You may be right.

[ Senku certainly talks a lot, and it would be exhausting to lie as much... then again, he definitely knows some good liars who could make quite the speech. ]

[ He watches the explanations with a frown. He can't read the symbols on her radio, but he recognizes the ones on his own. How odd. Did somebody personalize these bloody things before dropping them off on them? Does that mean that their arrival was preplanned? This had to take some time and resources. ]

So you just gather words one letter at a time?

[ That's not too different from writing, at least the way he does it, in neat printed letters. He tries to poke at the buttons, but since he's not holding down the "talk" button, it doesn't work. ]

...It's not doing anything.

Yes. The space is the strange symbol that looks like a smile.

[Oh, oops. It had taken her a while to figure out the talk button on the side, too]

You need to push this “talk” button first. To speak, you hold it down the whole time.

[ He tries to hold the button down and type at the same time and frowns. ]

That's cumbersome.

[ But it can a fair price to hide one's voice, he supposes. ]

What's the protocol for this? Do I write my name at the end?

[ He wouldn't want to stand out from all these radio letter writing weirdos-- and of course he's thinking about it as he would a normal letter. ]

These people love to make things more difficult for themselves and call it convenience. If you're alone and not concerned about being overheard, dictation is much easier.

It is not necessary to sign. The “call sign” - mine is VL121R - is unique to your device and as far as we know it cannot be hidden or altered. Thus far, no one else here can read runes so if you are receiving a message from VL121R you can be certain that it's me. I use it to identify new arrivals here.

If you are using text you can also make images - K does this often - or faces. I suppose they're meant to indicate a tone.

[This guy has only made one face the whole time she's seen him - perhaps :/ or -_- - so perhaps he wouldn't need that, but he should know]