AUDIO POST.

[emori]

[A woman's voice, it seems. Confident and maybe a little smart-assy. There's five seconds of silence before the audio post starts.]

What's with the beeping? Does it normally do that? I was told it's a distress call. Shouldn't we do something?

Comments

audio

[smithandwesson]

I mean. If you want to.

Or you could just set it to mute. That's what I've been doing.

[It's annoying and persistent and this is exactly why a mute button was invented, right?]

audio

[emori]

It's the right thing to do.

[She can't believe she's saying that. Six years ago she would have set it to mute, too.]

[smithandwesson]

It could be the right thing to do.



It could also be the stupidest thing to do. For all you know you could be walking into a trap with how this world tends to work.

[Yeaahh, he's a little bit cynical. Can you blame him though?]

[emori]

How does this world work, buddy?

audio

[timedaughter]

Yes, we definitely should. [She sounds very approving. Good on you, Emori.]

It's coming from a place called Dranbu. Heard of it?

audio

[emori]

I'm new here, I have no idea where anything is.

But we should.

audio

[timedaughter]

Same! There seems to be a good handful of us newbies, yeah? I've tried asking around and all the natives seem to think this is serious, but no one seems to be very specific about where to find this place. They're reclusive, apparently. I think we're going to need a map.

[emori]

You want map duty?

[mofi]

We shouldn't do anything.

[emori]

John, how can you be like that? What if it were us?

[mofi]

It's not us.

[emori]

Not a survivor's move?

[romancekiller]

I was getting something like that from my device too. I don't know what it is but I've never seen it do anything like that before either.

I definitely think we should try to look into it though.

[mofi]

Negative.

[romancekiller]

Fine, you don't have to but that's what I'll be doing.

[mofi]

Can't exactly do that if Emori's leading this rescue team.

[emori]

Get a team together.

[mofi]

Stop.

[romancekiller]

Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. It looks like there are already quite a few people interested and I know a few others who would want to help too.

[darraig]

[A younger girl's voice responds, once she figures using the devices this way. Clementine is hesitant, considering for a moment before she speaks.]

A distress call? That's what it is, that noise? Shouldn't we go try find them to help then? Do we know where they are?

[It would be easy. To say it isn't her problem. To let others handle it. But still, if it were her or one of those closer to her out there sending the distress signal, she would want to hope someone would help.]

[emori]

Is that you, Clementine?

Yes, I think we should. Someone above mentioned where they might be. I think if we get a group together, we could do something.

[darraig]

It's me. Yes.

I'm....still not sure how I feel on groups. But I guess in this case, that's probably a good idea. Others might know better on directions and what to expect, at least. In comparison to me.

[Even simple supply runs, she's seen those go bad. Knows those are risky. Let alone responding to someone apparently in trouble somehow. This was potentially dangerous. But she isn't unused to that either, given things back home, in her dealing with survivors and walkers.]

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[bellare]

What did you have in mind?

Re: audio

[emori]

Getting a group together. Safety in numbers, in case whatever is causing the distress is still there.

[bellare]

[ this is probably a super bad idea but... ] I'm in. ETD?