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[warriorscribe]

Indeed - nothing was quite as I was used to. I'm lucky to have a time traveler as a friend, or I wouldn't have known what to do with any of this.

[He laughs at himself, yes, but really, he probably could have figured it out. He's not afraid of the unknown and experimenting with new tools.]

[standing_waters]

A time traveler? Huh.

*That's not really something he's heard of. At least not actually traveling backwards.*

Yeah, I guess that must have helped.

[warriorscribe]

...I'm sorry, I know this must not be very helpful. Is there anything else about this place you feel you need to know more about?

[His past is largely unimportant in the face of teaching newcomers things they need to know.]

[standing_waters]

I read through the guides...but is there anything you'd want to share past what's in those?

[warriorscribe]

I admit it's been a long time since I've read the guides.

[This is...awkward.]

Ah, this might have been overlooked - Something you'll want to put above most things is more carrying space. The more food you can carry, either the longer you can travel before you need more, or the more you can eat at once, without having to worry about space for resources.

[standing_waters]

That makes sense.

*And sounds like common sense, but it wasn't bad to mention.*

Are these backpacks all we have to carry stuff in or is there something else?

[warriorscribe]

[Well..."common sense" isn't always so common, especially to the disoriented and the scared, of which this town has plenty. He felt it might be worth mentioning.]

They're all you'll be given, but it's certainly possible to find or make more. The things you find in buildings tend to be things you'd expect to find there, but it's entirely possible to find something that certainly wasn't there when you last checked. The administration distributes these items for us, though why they are left to be found rather than given to those who need them directly doesn't...ah, doesn't cast them in a particularly flattering light.

[standing_waters]

Interesting...I wonder whey they'd do that.

[warriorscribe]

We are meant to work to survive. They may be attempting to keep us distracted from something more pressing - finding a mystery they don't want us to find, perhaps. Or they wish to see how we go about it - an experiment. As if there aren't enough accidental survival stories...

I'd thought at first they couldn't reach out to us more directly, but that's certainly not true.

[standing_waters]

You mean because of the spiders?

[warriorscribe]

Well, I suppose so, but even without those, doctors have requested medicine and it has simply appeared in the next place the recipient looks for it.