Event: Consolidation Theory, Part Four and Five

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Characters: red-marked characters and their new friends
Location: ???
Date: Morning 354, Morning and Day 355
Summary: A quiet morning and a confusing morning, or maybe they're both, or maybe they're neither.
Warnings: gore, psychological horror, warn for specifics in the subject lines

Part Four OOC Post
Part Five OOC Post

Comments

[warriorscribe]

If I had something to write with I could make something basic. But if I had something to write with we could pass notes with the help of someone else.

[A pause. Does he need to write it? His own language had very different rules between written and spoken forms (one of the many reasons contributing to widespread illiteracy, though the sheer lack of everyday need for reading made up for it after Babel made things both more and less complicated), but English is much simpler in that regard.]

Ah...there are twenty six letters. Since I can see you, you could use as many fingers as the letter you wish to use to tap on the floor, with one or two open palms preceding it to denote past ten or twenty respectively.

[0thingsonmymind]

*He considers for a few moments than uses the given code to tap out a message.*

Okay

[warriorscribe]

[He actually smiles for the first time in what feels like ages.]

I can understand. What were you trying to say before?

[0thingsonmymind]

How many people. How may are new.

[warriorscribe]

How many? I'm not sure. I've seen five new people. I've heard at least two more. I'm not sure we managed a proper count before...whatever it was happened.

[Hiding in his bathroom isn't going to help that matter very much but if his presence can hurt others...]

[0thingsonmymind]

I wonder if there will be more tomorrow.

*That would probably be bad.*

[warriorscribe]

I certainly hope not. The people here have gone through enough as it is, without having to worry for anyone left behind being brought down here, as well.

...I assume we are somewhere below the town again. It's where they always seem to take us, when we know where we are.

[Aside from the tower, that was the odd place out. But he's not mentioning that thought aloud or dwelling on it. He's had enough reminders of that already, and he needs to refrain from breaking while they're stuck here.]

[0thingsonmymind]

*He nods. More people would be bad.*

There is a lot under nor fin bury.

*And very little of it seemed good.*

[warriorscribe]

I wonder if that's where the town hall will lead. It seems to be where everything that maintains the town might be found.

[A nice place to live on the surface, powered out of sight from beneath the earth itself. It's kind of like the power plant on a larger scale.]

[0thingsonmymind]

It must. There must be a connection between there and where admin is.

[warriorscribe]

It's strange how we've learned so much but many of our most pressing questions aren't any closer to being answered.

[A pause.]

...What do you plan to do when we find it? What do you hope for?

[0thingsonmymind]

Answers

*That narrows it down.*

[warriorscribe]

[Good enough for him, really.]

I hope so. If we don't find answers there, I don't know where else we could look.

[0thingsonmymind]

Dig deep?

*That was a thing for awhile, wasn't it?*

Something is down.

[warriorscribe]

I'm not sure we have the time or resources to reach it by brute force, but you're certainly right. This place, potentially. That place where we made repairs. Possibly the white maze...

Miller, by his own words, lives somewhere underground.

[0thingsonmymind]

*Finding Miller...yes, that would be worth it.

He nods.*

[warriorscribe]

He has supplies. Heat? He must be better cared for than we are.

[Taking his means of harming others, that may depend on finding him in person and who knows how that would go, with his static minions and his control over the nanomachines?]

[0thingsonmymind]

*He nods eagerly. Heat. Heat was important. Occasionally he forgot what it was like, but even here was warm enough to make things a little better.*

We can get what he uses to watch and control

[warriorscribe]

[After decoding the message, Enoch lowers his head, struggling with the thought. Taking it away from him would be good, but...]

...I don't like the idea of us having it, either. It should be disabled if it's safe to, should we find it.

[0thingsonmymind]

Many will disagree.

[warriorscribe]

Unless it can make the sort of changes that will restore our taken powers, I don't think many will want the ability to control one another to remain intact.

[That's the only reason he can think of that Brian would say that. If it could restore their powers...]

[0thingsonmymind]

Some will. But I meant control town and spiders.

[warriorscribe]

Do you think he really has all of that? I would think most of that control is in Eve's possession.

[Miller has some control, but Eve had control over those things from the start, he's sure. If he can be sure of anything in this state.]

[0thingsonmymind]

I think he has access. Admin could probably block him. Maybe.

*He had to have SOME access to bring them all here.*

[warriorscribe]

Do you think so?

[A pause.]

No, I...the spiders must be hers. Do you believe Miller is responsible for the cult?

[What he's getting at is, the robed static figures came instead of the spiders...]