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[standing_waters]

*There's a slight delay as he tries to prove the gudie wrong re: powers and fails. He has a slight edge of disappointment in his voice when he replies but is trying his best to hide it.*

Kesara's pass?

*There was a pass mentioned but it was a different name. But things being named more than one thing wasn't very odd.*

Sure. You know morse code, then?

*He includes a picture! Once again straight up copied from the description The following is written on the dining room floor in morse code: Duster, Day 124, Gwen, Melengar, Ratibor, Blackwater, brideeth. Beneath that, also in morse code, is "House annoying. Incredibly annoying."*

[swatsflies]

[ He's curious about why he sounds disappointment, but then the image of the morse code comes in. Zell snorts once he gets to the last part. ]

Yeah, I do. I shared someone pictures of morse code from a book. Looks like he was practicing.

[ Sounding pretty amused by that. ]

It looks like a list of names and insulting Dr. Grinch Hotstud. Nothing new. [ He was almost hoping maybe Riley left them something. Oh well. Still a little worth it. ]

The pass is also called the tunnel or H-s-i-a-o-k-e Pass. [ Spelling the name out because he knows it doesn't look like how it sounds. ]

[standing_waters]

Huh. Glad it came in handy, then. Is morse code something people use a lot here?

Dr Grinch Hotstud?

*He mumbles out 'Hsiaoke' a few times, pronoucing it differently each time. He's not sure which is more correct.*

Is that Kesara's name, or is it something else entirely?

[swatsflies]

I don't think it's very common. [ A pause. ] Duster wrote that. I sent him a picture of morse code from a book.

[ So it came around. Zell listens as he tries to sound out her name. He knows he's been corrected on it before, but it's still hard to get right at times. ]

Yeah, it's her last name. She was one of the best explorers here.

[standing_waters]

I see, I won't have to ask you for the book, then. Heh.

*Was...meaning she wasn't here anymore. That was a pity, but at least she was remebered.*

What else did she explore?

[swatsflies]

She explored everything. Mostly the school and she found the tunnels. Man, she actually figured out we needed to dig under the wall.

[ From the tone of his voice, she's pretty impressive. ]

She got us further along in this whole mystery by talking to ghosts and trying.

[standing_waters]

Its too bad I won't get to meet her. But at least I can learn about her and keep her memory alive.

[swatsflies]

Yeah. Planning on sending her all the updates as soon as she's back. She would want to know everything.

[standing_waters]

*That's right, the guides said people came back here. Well, it was usually good to keep being optimistic.*

I'm sure she'll be glad you did.

[swatsflies]

I hope so.

[ He got pretty off topic. Whoops. ]

I'm beyond her pass and in the Industrial area. Wouldn't recommend it unless you're into vending machine food.

[standing_waters]

What kind of food is available here? Does it differ much by area?

[swatsflies]

Yeah, it does. Which can suck at times. The best place is downtown because it has a grocery store. There is nothing in the ice tunnels, but the entrance as a fast food joint with chicken nuggets and hamburgers.

[ Even if the guy can't really see him, Zell is counting down with his fingers as he lists each place. ]

Then there is the school lunch and the convenience store food up in the residential area.

[standing_waters]

I think I'm kinda by the school. I was going to head over that way.

*Because there should be delicious hot water near it.*

Hopefully school lunches can't be that bad.

[swatsflies]

They can have fruit snacks and ice cream.

[ Healthy for growing snowbos. ]

[standing_waters]

Not sure about ice cream but at least the fruit snacks sound good.

[swatsflies]

Some people haven't ever had ice cream. Isn't that weird?

[ Same with fast food and a lot of other things. ]

If you're lucky, you can find all kinds of good stuff there.

[standing_waters]

I don't know, it hasn't really be around all that long and I'm sure in some parts of the world--uh, my world--its not available much.

I'll skip the ice cream, but hopefully I can find something good.

[swatsflies]

There's pudding and apple sauce. Oh! Cake and pie, but you might have to hit up the clown house for that.

[standing_waters]

*He chuckles.*

Well, I hadn't really been thinking of desserts, but I guess if I'm going to be stuck in a snowy hellscape I might as well look for something good.

What's the clown house?

[swatsflies]

Sometimes it's the little things that help make this place a little better.

[ Or big things in Zell's case with Jim. ]

It's a house with a bunch of clown nick-knacks and a life sized one. It's pretty creepy, but the cake was good.

[standing_waters]

That's a good way of looking at it.

Huh...clowns never really did anything for me but a lot of them at once...its weird, at the very least. But you say there's cake there?

[swatsflies]

There was devil's food cake when I went. Ecks found pie after she fixed up some of the clowns.

[standing_waters]

So the clowns are nice. Maybe I'll hit it up.

[swatsflies]

Creepy, but yeah. Nice. Oh, but the Joker isn't. He's on the guide and he was brought here like the rest of us. He seems to have a thing for doctors here.

[standing_waters]

The Joker? Like the playing card?

*Batman was a comic in his world but that's not what his mind goes to at first.*