R1 DEADLAND

[lockdownmods]

[it’s strange, for the people who were already dead, the shift in scenery is sudden and complete. For those who have just arrived? It’s like you’re back where you left?

How strange.

But if you ever need her, you can always reach out to the guardian of this place.]

LOCATIONS
Note: locations lag a week behind the living counterparts

Comments

[preconstruction]

[ he holds his hand up - palm flat - they can do it palm to palm, too. ]

Try to send me something.

[supportrole]

[ All right... Let's do it. He takes a breath, and tentatively touches his palm to Connor's.

(Heh, this kind of reminds him of when he taught Hollyleaf how to high five.)

He's not really sure what to imagine, and should have thought about this some more beforehand; so for a while, maybe he's legitimately just sending the memory of touching a cat's paw.

But-- Okay, maybe this will work. If he wants to be successful, he feels like he should probably use something he has strong feelings about, and this whole thing is kind of making him think about how the Phantom Thieves might go about changing hearts, so...

He imagines holding a red card, a little smaller than a postcard, with a dorky looking drawing on the front. The message on the back is pretty long, but it's one he knows by heart after rereading it as many times as he has.

Probably kind of an unsettling message out of context, or even in context, but hey. Maybe that part won't get transmitted anyway?? He really doesn't know how this works. ]

[preconstruction]

[ it's definitely A Lot. but connor gets it, though it takes him a moment to say anything while he processes it. ]

It sounds like you were wrapped up in some intense things back home.

[supportrole]

Huh? So it actually worked? What did you see?

[ was Hollyleaf's paw a part of it ]

[preconstruction]

[ unfortunately no too bad about the paw ]

It was a calling card.

[supportrole]

[ boo :c ]

Yeah, it was! That really is pretty cool.

[preconstruction]

[ next time!! ]

Yes, I think so too. Let me share something with you, now.

[ it's nothing emotional, it's some important(?) data ]

[supportrole]

Whoa! That's-- what is all that?

[ And why do the dates stop with his birthday when it hasn't even happened yet... is he going to double-die on his birthday like AI ghost Shakespeare???

It does say "success", though... ]

[preconstruction]

It's something Lucian found and shared with us. From back when James, the headmaster, used to work in the physics lab. It's easier to share this kind of complex data over a connection like this.

[supportrole]

Oh, that's the stuff you guys were talking about at the meeting before? So these are dates from some year in the past, then?

[preconstruction]

That's right. The last entry was 15 years ago.

[supportrole]

Wow, that was like... my second birthday, then.

[ Relatively speaking; he doesn't know what year they're supposed to be in right now. Anyway, that's a relief. ]

I guess having all the data doesn't necessarily ensure that you'll understand what it means.

[preconstruction]

Unfortunately not. I don’t quite understand it, myself.

[ but he’s working on it!!! ]

But as more of us look at it, the better chance we have of figuring out what it means.