[network] @LINK, day 24 [open]

[tapferkeit]

Food stays if you put it in cupboards.

Leaving it out makes it vanish.

Tried it both ways. Zelda's worked.

@lelric it works your idea works

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@Spoiler ; text

[spoileralert]

This is the best news I've gotten all week.

[tapferkeit]

It's great news.

We're trying the snow tonight, but the cupboards work.

[spoileralert]

Have you tried anything besides food?

@crescent; audio

[lancingintherain]

[Well well, if it isn't her blond pointy-eared rude buddy from her very first day! She'd thought about him off and on since they talked, and she's very glad he's apparently ok and not dead or something. She goes for audio, since it's easiest to use while she's walking through the snow on her Search For Useful Stuff And Especially Soap.]

Link! It is Link, isn't it? That's wonderful—that's excellent.

[the whistling wind might clue him in that she's outdoors, but her voice is still intelligible over the sound.]

@link; audio

[tapferkeit]

[ Intelligable her words might be thanks to the whistling wind, but he can make out the tone. It causes a smile to come to his face, especially when he puts the voice to the id and knows who it is. She was working close with Al, from what he knew, and was sensible when they'd spoken. She knew her stuff. ]

It's good news. You can put some supplies by when you get in tonight.

[ His voice might be a bit muffled, but he's indoors, so it can be made out a lot more readily. ]

@crescent; video

[lancingintherain]

I certainly will! There's not much left to set aside, though, to tell the truth. We've been searching for more food, but...

[she trails off with a sigh and an implied shrug, but then perks up:]

Well, I haven't only got bad news—Link, look!

[she turns on the video, which only shows the steely gray sky and the snow-dusted brim of her hat.]

You remember Alphonse's message about snowshoes, don't you? He's lent me his pair.

[freya, turn the stupid camera around]

@ishtar; text

[prochronistic]

do you think it works with more than just food?
like... clothes too. or other supplies.

it could be good to have some things set aside for later, just in case...
you never know when you'll need a good sweater.

[It's definitely sweater weather outside...]

@LINK; text

[tapferkeit]

We tried with food but you can try with clothes if you have spare and let us know.

We can't put any of these by we need them.

[prochronistic]

i'll give it a try next time i find something that isn't in my size

it's really smart of you to be trying things like this out!
good thinking
:)

[cloneprincess]

So setting up waystations with the restocking supplies will work, then, it's just a matter of getting it set up.

text; @LINK

[tapferkeit]

Yes it could make things a lot easier for people wanting to find out about the place.

No need to worry about food if it's there and they could say when they take anything from a building on the network.

whoops! @lawbringer, text

[cloneprincess]

Do you know how reliable it is with other supplies?

text - @claytonator

[dr_unconscious]

[So it's not until a bit after lockdown when Clayton actually gets around to extensively checking the network and responding to things, but once he does he's very happy he did. What an excellent development to return to!]

That's good news! Al, if you're reading this, I take back all the mean things I said about you.

Please let me know if this works for other items/hiding spots ASAP. If it does, I could set up medical stations--remove the risk of travel or time without basic treatment.

text; @LINK

[tapferkeit]

[ Someone focuses on one part of this comment - at first, at least. ]

Why did you say mean things about Al? He's nice.

[ Clayton he'd thought better of you. ]

[dr_unconscious]

[Link.................]

[Clayton really needs to learn to stop telling jokes around this guy.]

Mean things? What mean things? I've taken them all back, so it doesn't matter anymore.

[okay now he's just being an ass for the sake of being an ass]

text, @Enoch

[warriorscribe]

[Something had really brightened Clayton's day all of a sudden, so of course Enoch had to go check it out.

And this is excellent news indeed.]

What an incredible find! So whatever cleans up after us doesn't check inside of things. I could save things that might be useful to someone else for them to find instead of hoping I encounter them!

text; @LINK

[tapferkeit]

Yes it's really useful.

Just try testing other things too first.

Maybe stay two nights to make sure.

text; @standardissue

[deus_ex_phs]

What do you mean, food vanishes?

[Sorry, but this sounds slightly insane to someone who's still pretty new.]

text; @LINK

[tapferkeit]

You can find different things in the houses every time you visist and some things vanish too.

We needed to see that it stayed and it does if it's in something.

@Engineering

[prosopopoeia]

Why was this even a topic of debate?

@LINK; text

[tapferkeit]

Because not everything stays in shelters.

text; @dreamsnhonor

[heroproceeding]

wait what do you mean by that? sure it'll disappear if you leave it out and someone spots it. same as if someone finds it in a cupboard.

[ Sorry, Link. You're gonna have to be a bit more specific. ]

text; @LINK

[tapferkeit]

No one was in the house and the things I left out were gone but the things Zelda put away were still where they were.

Same happens to other supplies we were testing to see how things we put down could stay.

audio only; @LELRIC

[armoured]

[Al can barely contain his excitement, which is why he hasn't bothered with the cumbersome task of trying to type. His voice is barely suppressed joy, and he's gripping the tablet so hard that it is creaking under the pressure.]

That's wonderful! That's going to make things so much easier here, making sure supplies were available in other places than the stores is going to make such a difference.

audio @LINK

[tapferkeit]

[ He gives a rare sound for Link - a small laugh. He's relieved, too. Setting up waystations would make exploring for things so much easier. ]

I think we have to make them part of the place and they stay.

[ It made sense to him. When Zelda had added to the cupboards, the food stayed put. When he'd just placed stuff on the counters, it'd been swept up. He'd definitely put them there to be taken later. Zelda's could have been looked over or stumbled into by a random search.

That made a lot more sense to him, especially considering how he'd found some stuff here before. ]