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Heyyy everybody. I'm the LH Keeper. I know you guys probably got some questions for me but like sit tight first OK? I promise I'll answer eeeeverything you wanna know in just a sec. There's a couple things I wanna say.

The first one being, hi! I'm Robin. It's SO good to finally get to chat with you all, like jeez I've been hella bored over here. That party you guys just put on looked really fun. :( I'm sad I missed it! But that's kinda how it goes when you're the Keeper. Rastus said there's been a lot of talk about like fulfilling our roles and stuff, and this is mine! I'm in the lighthouse because it let's me do a bunch of stuff to manage the town and help keep the world safe, but it means I'm stuck out here all by myself and I don't get to do the fun stuff I want to do sometimes. Which is why I'm so so SO happy that you guys and gals got me hooked up to the network again! Thank you so much!!! ❤❤❤

Oh right, and you guys have had a lot of questions about what I'm protecting the town from, haven't you? Me and Will talked and he's super sure it's best if HE gives you the skinny on all that since he said he would and he wants to make good on his promise, you feel? So he's gonna do that after the ferry gets here so all the new people can get the info too. Sound good? Sorry you gotta wait just a liiiittle bit longer but there's something else I think we should talk about first...

The forest spirits are still reporting the numbers so I don't know exactly how many we're up to yet but... A lot of people went missing and probably died from how things went down after the party. I'll put all the names in the next bulletin (sorry I didn't do one this week btw! things have been kinda crazy...) but if you want to ask about your friends and stuff in the meantime, I'll do my best to tell you what I know. Maybe some of them will come back? We just have to wait and see.

But... you guys probably saw this in that post Rosinante and Riku and Peter did, but just in case you didn't: Captain Winters died, and so did Five. I didn't see what happened exactly but I saw the spirits starting to come for them all and I tried to stop them but they didn't listen. They get really angry about people coming to the lighthouse or me trying to leave, even the ones that are usually really nice.

I hope they'll both come back but I don't know if they will, so, just in case... Winters would want you all to take care of the town for him and move on you know? He won't be around when the ferry comes so make sure you all fill the new people in on what's happened and how to survive here. All that really important stuff he's been telling people is up to you guys to spread around now.

*BIG SIGH* OK WELL I don't want to end on that super negative note but now I'm all sad sooo ask me questions and stuff, and Will will tell everyone about what I'm keeping the town safe from real soon. It really is nice to meet you all!!

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Glad we succeeded in getting you reconnected. Looking forward to hearing from Dr. Ingram.

Do you and your lighthouse ever serve the functions of a standard lighthouse? Monitoring water traffic, for example, or maintaining any sort of observatory? I'm interested in what else is out on the lake.

Oh Rosinante! Hi! Thank you so much for helping out and I'm glad you made it back safe. Are you okay?

Uhhh sort of? Will will talk more about that later, but it's my job to keep an eye on just like any traffic that's out there, like the ferry mainly. I've been doing this for a long time and I've never seen anything ELSE out on the water but I guess maybe it's worth exploring? Could be reeeeeally dangerous to get that far away from town though.

But there IS one thing out there that isn't exactly on the water, exactly, but they'll come to us eventually. Soon I hope! Once things quiet down. You'd probably get along with them.

I'm fine. Just trying to keep the others safe until the spirits decide to stop.

We're working on our own boats and I do intend to head out as soon as we have something with a functional sail. You don't happen to have maps over there, do you?

Good. Thank you. ❤

Oh wow really? I guess that explains why I keep seeing people out on the water. Let me know before you go OK? That sounds really dangerous.

I have maps! But they're of like the town and stuff, not really the lake, so I don't know if they would help you all that much.

Care to tell me about why it's so dangerous so we can be prepared?

There's a lot of the town we probably don't know about yet, though we've been pushing into the woods as far as we safely can. We only recently found a way to the village across the river, and a few other old wrecked bridges. Anything you have might help.

The only way to come back to life if you die is if your lantern can be repaired. It's tough to repair a thing that gets lost at sea. Not to mention all the water makes falling overboard practically a death sentence, no matter how good a swimmer you are.

Oh, yeah, you guys have just scratched the surface of what's out there! I COULD just give you guys the map to the whole place, for sure, but I've done that in the past and people get way bored way quick. It's like using cheat codes in a game. It's more rewarding to make your own way, I think.

But before you flay me alive over not being forthcoming enough: If you want to know where stuff is because you need resources or something, let me know and I'll point you in the right direction. Like, if you guys hadn't found the village before I got back online, I would've thrown you a bone. Everyone cramming into the Invincible sounds MISERABLE...

No more dangerous than usual, then. I've spent most of my life at sea.

This isn't a game and we're not here for our, or your, entertainment. People have died because you and the others were holding out on information. Holding back is going to make you the enemy of this town very quickly and puts us all at needless risk.

Wait WHAT?? I never said it was a game! It's like, basic survival! Giving yourself goals and stuff to do is really important!

You and all these other people keep saying I'm withholding stuff, but bitch where!!! This is the first time I've even gotten to talk to you guys, and there's only like ONE thing that Winters didn't tell you. And Will's gonna tell you soon.

If there's stuff you want to know, try asking questions instead of yelling at me!

Did you not just compare this to a game moments ago? I see it in plain writing.

I'm also not yelling at you. You said you had a map but were going to withhold it. That seems like a needless risk to our safety, when we should use any resource we have to be able to plan accurately against future attacks. So if you want a question: would you please share your map?

A comparison isn't literally saying it's a game! It just kind of works like one, and it's not like I designed it to be that way. But whatever.

I'm not sharing my maps. They won't help against the real dangers out there anyway, and it really IS important to keep the mind busy when you're isolated like this! Trust me, I know aaaaaaall about that stuff.

And by the way: The forest spirits don't usually attack like this. Their brand of violence is reactive. As long as you stay out of their way, they'll stay out of yours.

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