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Soooooooo, funny story... I'm alive. 😬 And I got my tablet working again, so that's pretty cool!!

I know everyone's gonna ask what the heck happened, but honest answer? No idea. I remember the ground started to feel kinda funny during the storm, and I was trying to get out of the lighthouse cos the spirits were freaking out? But like, idk, I guess I like hit my head or something??? I woke up in the woods with the WOOOOOOORST headache and a bunch of spirits and none of my crap to get in touch with anyone. >:[

Anyway, you guys have probably noticed by now that the lighthouse collapsed. :/ That super sucks for like a thousand reasons. I dunno what we're gonna do about that, but as far as *I'm* concerned, I got my old lantern back and I fixed up my tablet. So the good news is I'm not stuck in the lighthouse anymore, buuuuut the bad news for you guys is that I don't have access to any of the equipment or records I was using to help out. I'm just a normie again!!!

All in all I feel like this development is probably like super duper bad since I can't get in touch with Dr. Solis OR Rastus OR Pluto and all our useful crap is out of commission, but...... We'll figure it out, right? I'm gonna try to stay hopeful??

But uhh so that's the status update on me! What's been up with you guys?

[ooc: hey folks! i just wanted to note real quick that robin isn't an npc anymore! i'm just a player and robin's just a pc, so she's not gonna be any help with plot-related stuff anymore, rip. but i'm looking forward to diving back in and playing with you all again! ❤]

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Nope... We communicated through old timey telegram stuff. :/ Sorry.

I'm ok on food! Sorta. I haven't been eating a lot but you don't really need to so it's not a big deal. If you guys can use the supplies then by all means, especially if food's running low.

What do you mean the spirits weren't messing with you??

Yeah, it's a good thing too. Guess some people don't sleep well, or at all. Thankfully there's enough water. We'll make it work.

Couple weeks back the librarian spirit wrote a bulletin post like the ones you used to do, only it was barely readable. Said something about them finding you and taking care of you but since we hadn't heard anything since, it made me wonder if it was true.

Awww that's super cute of them!!! The Librarian has always been a good egg... a little weird, but all spirits are I guess, lol.

[There's a pause.]

Oh man, ok I just went and found it. How... confirmed are those obituaries?

Confirmed enough. Haven't found any of those people since the flood but we recovered a couple of broken lanterns. It's... a big loss.

Yeah, no fucking kidding. :/ Especially with Rastus and Dr. Solis... like, jeez! That's kind of got me freaking out a little bit because like what do we even do now! It's like, there goes the experts??? Since we can't get in touch with Pluto either??

How many of you guys are left in town? Like idk rough estimate?

Pluto would have noticed things went wrong by now, right? No lighthouse means no items, no people, no activity at the portal. If she doesn't show up on time with answers then we have even more to worry about.

If the obituaries are right then that puts us at around half the people we had before the flood. Maybe around 30.

Yeah, she's on top of this stuff. She should definitely know by now that the lighthouse is toast, so if she COULD get over to us, I feel like she would've by now. :/ Maybe the station took damage or something and they can't spare the resources right now?? Or maybe they know something we don't and are laying low...

Idk, I guess we just need to keep an eye on the beach? I don't like not having a view of everything!! Even in the dark it was really handy!

oof. 30 isn't TERRIBLE but that's a lot of people lost... Unless, has anyone been rounding up the lanterns? Maybe that robot assistant knows a thing or two about lantern repair.

Here's hoping, but I hate having to sit around with my fingers crossed.

Don't know much about the robot itself, but I figure we have people who can go have a look at the equipment there and make some sense out of all of it. Even if we can't manage as well as Dr. Solis did, something's better than nothing, and we have necessity on our side. So that's something. There's a lot you can do with enough willpower. In the meantime some of the lanterns I think got moved to the school. Town Hall got pretty wrecked in the flood so we made a new memorial area for things like that.

Someone even managed to find Cpt. Winters' picture in what was left, so he's still with us in spirit. Might have one or two of Rastus' feathers there now too.

Edited (wow wrong word go me) 2020-06-17 04:45 (UTC)

Omg you really think there's people in town that might be able to figure out lantern stuff??? That kinda stuff always seemed waaaaaay complicated to me and I thought it was like idk otherworldly sci-fi kinda tech!! The kind of science you see in movies and you just go "Wow no heckin clue how that's a thing but I'll just go with it because it's a movie!"

But I guess a lot of you guys SOUND like you're from movies or something, so maybe lantern stuff is more familiar to some of you? Either way I'll be really impressed if anyone can figure it out!

:( Captain Winters!!!! I miss that guy. I'll have to check out the school sometime it sounds like. I've never actually been there before.

I'll take your word for it about movies. Books, I guess, would be the same idea though.

And you're right, there are people here who are far smarter than anyone I've ever met before. I'm sure some of them can put their heads together and come up with something brilliant even if none of them on their own are anything like Dr. Solis. Besides, whatever happened there left her notes intact. Just got to make sense of them.

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