[TEXT] @CLARA4; EVENT: With Me All Along [open]

[candlebot]

EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACTIVATED 5 MAY
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Hello!

This message has been automatically transmitted to the Beacon town network. If you are seeing this message, it means Dr. Maridel Solis has been absent from her laboratory and has not reset this safety protocol in excess of [THREE] days.

I have been instructed to inform you, residents of Beacon, that this means you must exercise extreme caution as post-mortal revival and lantern reconditioning tasks are not currently being performed.

Based on the outcome of last scheduled task: [0205XXXX.PORTALEXPERIMENT] I anticipate these tasks will be resumed in [NEVER] days. Thank you!

>>CLARAv4.1

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RESUMING: SEARCH AND QUERY FUNCTION

also it is very lonely here :(

Comments

[arsarcanum]

uuuh i'll probably leave that to someone else, but yeah sure! we won't do anything that'll get you in trouble in case she comes back, promise!

i don't know what that means, but as long as it doesn't take too long, you should give it a shot!

[candlebot]

ok!

[20 minutes later:]

see attached!! wow i hope this helps!

[Attached is - well, it's less a picture, more a three-dimensional model, in that it can be rotated and indicates some amount of depth in areas with enough light to see by. The model shows the night sky with a nearly-full moon and stars, which are not significantly different in any way from the stars currently visible over Beacon, as well as quite a lot of trees piercing up into the night. To the west and south is indeed a lot of blackness, as if something distant blocks the stars, while to the east and north there are stars visible farther through the trees, though they too are blotted out closer to the horizon by - you guessed it, probably more trees.

But when rotated down, the image shows the warm glow of a torch inside a cozy wooden cabin, though the interior is not completely visible at this angle. The cabin itself appears set into the ground, for with the door open, large stones covered in moss and lichens are visible at what looks to be shoulder-height from the point of view of the robot. The roof of the cabin is also just visible at the ground level and it too is covered in plants.]

[arsarcanum]

that's so cool
that's so COOL clara!! omg
yeah i bet this is gonna help a lot! now we know what we're looking for :D

[ he's going to spend a literal age just playing with the model and spinning it around before - right, he should, uh, probably tell someone who knows how pathfinding works. ]

btw what happened to the cabin when the flood hit? it was a lot of water... are you waterproof? are you okay?

[candlebot]

i am ok! since the house is set into the ground most of the water went right over the top!

a branch hit a window and broke it but i cleaned up! the door was blocked for a little while but i think some of the FOREST SPIRITS picked up the branches in the way

[arsarcanum]

so... the house is waterproof like a submarine?

oh hey that's good! less to do once we get there.

[ Maybe once they get back in touch with Robin (who is still absolutely 100% alive thank you), the forest spirits can tell them where to go! ]

by branch, do you mean a branch branch or the torch? the one you were talking about with kuai

[candlebot]

sure! something like that! not really because the water did get in but close enough!

a branch branch! there is also [1] torch here that came in through the window with the water! wow it must have come a really long way huh!