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Day After Doomsday, Thursday, Per 2

Class began with something unexpected. Rather than an introduction from Hardison, a voice was heard from Cecil's radio.

"Hello?" It was a man's voice. He sounded tense, maybe even scared. "Hello, I don't know if anyone is still out there, if anyone's listening, if anyone's alive still to listen. This is Jeremy, at First National Bank of Fandom Town, over on Unicorn Street. We've been hiding in the vault since those--those things arrived. There are six of us. We're--we're awful hungry. It's been a few days since we've had anything to eat. If you're out there...if you can hear us...please help? Again, we're at First National Bank of Fandom Town, on Unicorn. I hope you can hear us. My name is Jeremy and there are six people here in the vault. We're weak and we're hungry and we're scared. If anyone is still alive out there, please help. Hello, my name is Jeremy, we're in--"

There was a loud squelching noise and the broadcast stopped.

"Well," Hardison said, stepping into the sudden silence. "There's that. Your radio's still working fine, so the problem's likely on their end. But there you have it. The first definitive proof that there's intelligent life still on the island. The question is, what do you make of it? More important, what are you gonna do about it? You got plenty of options, but each options is gonna have an affect on the group as a whole. This seems like the kinda thing you might wanna discuss."

"Now, as for last week, some folks realized that the noises comin' from the bathrooms was the water pipes. They were able to learn that the water's shut off to the dorms. This could be somethin' as simple as a watermain broke or somethin' or it could mean that someone's turned off water here deliberately. You don't know. Elsa's keepin' you supplied with fresh water for drinkin', bathin', an' for the garden. No one's presented me with a plan to turn the water in the pool into somethin' drinkable, but it's enough to keep the toilets flushin' manually an' to keep the dorms clean if you're so inclined. Raven found some cleanin' supplies, but..." He looked around at the dorms which were definitely a bit worse for wear, so no one had mentioned doing any actual cleaning. "Y'all might wanna start puttin' 'em to use, just sayin'. Or not! Maybe you're looking to Oregon Trail it up in here an' see who dies of dysentery first."

In which case, keep on keepin' on.

"One thing. Food's gettin' tight. Most of the scouts are on food detail, but gardens can only grow so fast an' you got some pretty heavy competition in the top predator category. You got a greenhouse goin' an' that's cool, even some seeds an' things to plant in there, an' Hanna's been able to smoke an' salt a lot of what you do catch to make it last. Congrats, the food you have right now is gonna last till Week Six if you keep tight rationing, but huntin' is pretty much gonna take up most of your time if you wanna add enough to get to Week Seven, leavin' you no time for other scoutin' pursuits. Looks like y'all have got some choices to make."

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First Contact!

There's a lot going on today, it seems!

After it's over, no amount of hailing will get anyone back to talk to you. So, with just the information you were given, you have to make a decision.

What are you going to do about Jeremy and his five friends?

If you want to take any action at all in regards to the broadcast, someone has to tell Hardison what to do. How you decide who and what is your own business, but Hardison needs instructions in this thread if you want to do anything at all about the people in the bank.

Even without the broadcast, there's a lot to talk about. Unless you want all your scouts to focus on nothing else but food for the rest of the class due to diminishing returns, you're gonna run out of food on Week Six and that's assuming you keep strict rationing. The dorms could use cleaning. More and better weapons could be found or made. More information could be gathered. Over the last week, Raven found a map of the sewer system under Fandom. It's not the tunnels, but it's something! Does that affect what you decide to do?

Basically, you have a LOT of things to do. What do you want to do, that's the real plan.

Figure it out. Talk to one another.

Edited 2015-05-28 08:18 (UTC)

Remember, the more information you give Hardison, the better the odds you'll be able to accomplish what you're looking to do! Also, Hardison will not program anything that involves other people, unless those other people are present and agree! Nobody can 'send scouts or volunteers' to do something; if you want a scout to take care of something for you--ask one. You can't tell Hardison you'll be sparring with another student unless that student also comes up and says so. Basically, if your plans involve other people at all, Hardison will refuse to add it to the program until he knows everyone is onboard.

This is, of course, not true for things that involve other people that no one else knows about. That will be resolved on a case by case basis, depending on the amount of detail in the plan and any steps other people are taking to thwart such behavior.

Not to make anyone paranoid or anything!

In all her blue glory!

Hanna Heller

In all his...hacker?...glory.

This is the class I was most excited about since I app'd the class.

WHAT DO YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOO?

"I want to at least try to get to the bank, and those people, and help them," Hanna said quietly, looking around at the other students. "But I do not know if it is possible to do so. If we can come up with a plan, that would allow us to get there and back to the dorms, then yes."

Raven Darkholme

"We don't even have enough food for ourselves, here," Raven pointed out. "Much less six extra people. Who are too weak to hunt and add to the food supply."

She didn't necessarily not want to help the people in the bank, but someone had to be practical about it.

Edited 2015-05-28 13:56 (UTC)

Jasper Dent

"I think it's time we start thinking seriously about how to get rid of those things out there. We're obviously not going to be able to just hole up here forever, and we've got some good information now about what they do and how they behave. Picking them off one by one isn't going to help us. Is there --" She looked around for Cosima and Tali ~~if they were there.~~ "Is there someway we could make a bomb?"

Then she looked for Elsa.

"Or freeze them out."

It was a glorious blue, wasn't it?

Raven was here and pondering that radio broadcast. Maybe it was a trap. She was maybe hoping just a little that it was a trap.

Jasper found himself standing stiffly, arms crossed and lips thinned into a sharp line. He hadn't expected this kind of decision to be tossed into the mix.

Couple thousand go missing every year...

The words were out of context but they were still ringing loud in Jasper's head. "That's a lot of risk to take on that little of information," he finally said. "Not that I know a ton about bank vaults but I have to wonder where their water is coming from where that's not a concern. If there are people out there, who's to say they aren't being coerced into saying this to get everyone into one central area?"

He shook his head. "I wouldn't send anyone. Too many question marks, not enough information. We'd be better served routing our scouting resources to food so we can survive. Maybe they can hold out till later. A bank vault's pretty secure."

Jasper hadn't really been helpful last week (bad weeks happened) but he was trying to be more focused this time around. He'd been doing demonstrations of weapons here and there, focusing on knives and other blunt objects, to those who wanted it.

But cleaning was one thing Jasper knew and knew well. He'd cleaned his father's crime scenes for years. Blood and other fluids that no child should have to clean so he grabbed a few of the cleaning supplies and went to work on that.

"If we're gonna stay healthy, we should clean this place up a bit," he stated, looking around. "Make this place nice and cozy."

That was a joke.

Tali'Zorah

"Do we know if the broadcast is real?" Tali asked immediately. "Or is someone faking it somehow? I'd try to trace the signal, but we don't really have the equipment."

It was kind of sad that she was immediately suspicious, but SOMEONE, AND WE'RE NOT NAMING NAMES, SHEPARD, HAD A HABIT OF RESPONDING TO FAKED DISTRESS SIGNALS.

"I think it could be worth checking out," Raven said. "They might have more information than we do, and if it is a trap, we can learn from that, too. We'll learn these things are smart enough to lay traps like this, or that there's some other threat out there we need to worry about, too."

"You want to send out people into a situation where the information we have is 'help help, we're hungry?"

He shook his head. Maybe it was cold and maybe that was Billy's influence but it felt right. Smart.

"If it is a trap, what are we going to learn if we're caught in it and people end up hurt or dead or whatever? It's hanging a lot of resources and energy on 'if'."

"Nothing I've seen of the creatures out there shows them having the sort of intelligence and group behavior to make a trap like this," Raven said. "Which means if it's a trap, and we approach it carefully, we find out more about the threats we're facing when we go out hunting and getting the food we need. And what we'll face when we eventually try to leave."

"Doesn't seem practical," Jasper answered, shaking his head. "You said yourself we don't have enough food for ourselves. So, what's your reason for wanting to go? Information gathering? You just gonna go and then leave those six people there when you have what you need?"

"My first thought was faked," Jasper admitted, "but I don't know how to figure that out. A radio signal happens out of the blue and then dies very dramatically. Just seems a little too perfect for me."

But, he had no bleeding heart and he had a lot of paranoia.

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