alivingweapon
10 December 2017 @ 11:08 am
[ For a few moments, the only sound on the open audio channel is the whistle of wind, and the occasional click of a geiger counter app open in the background. Someone has finished searching the super shitty building they woke up in and ventured outside.

The tone of voice is not terribly impressed. In fact, she sounds almost annoyed. ]


What planet am I on?
 
 
John Watson
[The second part of the message is OPEN. The first part is SEMI-CLOSED to anyone with access to the Shadownet - a text only app created by Winter. Winter is an NPC that you'll read about in the Survival Guide, but the basic primer is that she's a Russian AI who has been periodically contacting the Snowblind characters and trying to help them to some extent. She has been encountered in multiple events and aided characters in making private messages actually private.

Please see this post about Shadownet distribution. These are also characters who currently possess Shadownet. Anyone traveling with these characters will likely be able to read messages on Shadownet through their travel companions. We're working to get more copies.]



Shadownet Access Only
@dulcedeleche
Winter, it's John. Finally getting you some new information. It's been rough lately. It's always rough, but moreso than the usual, I think. We seem to be stuck at the high school. If there's anything you can do to help, we'd really appreciate it. We were able to get the classrooms open, but inside it's just... nothing. Like whoever was making this world forgot about that piece. I think it might be under quarantine like the building where the converts did those surgeries on the 'sinners.' I don't know what you can do, but anything you can think of after reading this and looking at some of the attached information would really help. Bullet points, as usual, covering Day 290 through Day 308. Others are welcome to fill in the finer details, of course.


Open to Everyone
Hullo, everyone. Dr. Watson here with a summary update of recent happenings. For anyone new, an archive of my previous summaries can be found HERE. I'm heading to work with a patient at the moment, but I'm also available for medical consultation as one of the medics here. Please let me know if you need anything. I'm running an on-again, off-again blood transfusion service for those with severe MN Poisoning. It's only a temporary reprieve from symptoms, but blood transfusions from healthy donors have proven to alleviate MN symptoms for up to two weeks.

Additional Information )
 
 
Magenta Magenta
10 December 2017 @ 04:16 pm
Y'all ever hunt?

[The audio is undercut with the sound of wind and snow crunching underfoot, though Magenta's voice is at its typical terrible volume.]

I mean, it's not like I have. Not animals, anyhow--big game huntin' is its own real thing, and I never really got into it. A culture. It's stupid. Hunters turned killers fancy themselves experts, but they spend so much time out in the goddamn woods that it doesn't fuckin' matter. There's no real human element to it. People aren't deer, and you can't work 'em the same way you can work a deer through a couple acres of forest. Hunters are awful at it, but they think they're the greatest. Can't fuckin' stand it.

[He pauses for a moment, before evidently remembering that he actually meant to say something.]

--Oh! My point is, though: I'm lookin' for anomalies, and I thought it might be an idea to map where they get seen. Or...someone else can map it. I don't know how to work all of this technology as well as any of y'all, but I could at least know where to expect. Patterns.

It's somethin' real smart hunters use: they block out big sections of...y'know, wherever they are, the fuckin' forest or whatever, and they mark each place they first see a deer, or a turkey, or what-the-fuck ever. And I get that the anomalies are...random, and all, but maybe there's some rhyme or reason to it! At least somethin' I can look over. Deer collect 'round streams, maybe these weird fucks collect 'round certain houses. I'm tryin' to snag one, but I've had no luck. Last one I saw was back...mm, you know, back when everyone got poisoned.

So I reckon my real question is: what's the last anomaly you've seen, and where? Or if there's somethin' similar to my idea--I sure as hell haven't heard of any. Stay safe 'n warm, unless you're House.