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[badlydisarmed]

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Hello Etraya, a few of the newest arrivals are originally from wherever we told you we're from, but before coming here we were in Etraya's sister city, Solmara. Solmara has overthrown their AI and is ruled by a woman named Alrys. She sent us here on a recon mission to steal supplies, and while some of us were considering it, upon arrival we decided not to.

I can't speak for the others, but I know for a fact if Alrys got wind of what this place is like, she'd start a war. I'm not interested, not because I'm kind and noble (I'm not) but because making two whole cities miserable would be stupid.

Aurora has been informed of everything, but in the interest of transparency I'm letting the rest of you know too.

We will be answering questions but only if they're not stupid and you're super nice about it. Keep in mind we're probably gonna get tortured then killed then tortured again for snitching. 😃❤️🥳👍🚀🦈

PS: Any magical healers out there?

(The PS is not included on the things we will be answering questions about)

Comments

[ascarylady]

Rushing in is as bad an idea as giving her long enough.

You four just admitted to being sent here to fuck us all over and now you want us to rally as an army? Come on.

[theroadwarrior]

Being assumptive.
Never said I wanted to go back.
Better to prepare here, because she’ll want from here regardless.

[ascarylady]

You may not have, but your buddy sure did.

How did she get you into Aurora's list of people to pull in? Was that sign from her, too?

[theroadwarrior]

He’s his own person.

[They’ve got their own reasons for wanting to shoot her in the face.]

Didn’t get to know much of anything. Was dragged into her shit near the end of my year in Solmara. Kept to myself until she finally found me.

[ascarylady]

I'm going to have to get these details out of "she was my commanding officer" suicide guy, aren't I?

[ Great... ]

[theroadwarrior]

Mm. Probably.
Alrys keeps plenty to herself, though.
Wouldn't benefit her to tell people how she did things.

Didn't care anyway, wanted nothing to do with her.

[ascarylady]

How did it play out when she finally did come for you?

[theroadwarrior]

Lived on the outskirts when her people caught up to me.
Took my supplies, my bike. Denied me rations. Starved me out.
Either you join her, or you go hungry.

[ascarylady]

Smart way to do it.

So, they dragged you out, forced you into this mission, but what about getting back? What was the plan?

[theroadwarrior]

Not sure. She wasn't specific.
She never bothered to tell me how we'd be getting in either.

But they knew I wanted my things back.
Best way to get them would've been to succeed.
And if I failed, I'd be a small loss.

[ascarylady]

Way too much "not sure" as an answer from you people.

Can't say I like that.

[theroadwarrior]

Can separate us from you all you want, we're all the same.
You just got luckier where they dropped you.

[ascarylady]

No, you're right. We are.

Just wish you could give me a better picture of Solmara part from "it's shit." It is what it is, I guess.

[theroadwarrior]

My picture of Solmara was avoiding the people there til I couldn't.
Maybe her point was to send people who couldn't tell Etraya much.

[Anyway.]

I can offer a map.

[ascarylady]

Might be right about that. It'd sure be what I would do.

[ A map, though... ]

You know what? That is the best thing I've read all day. A map is exactly what I want.

[theroadwarrior]

Don't wanna hear any complaints about it, though.
Hand drawn, not 1 to 1.
Just enough to get you where you need to go.
One of the few things she didn't take off me.

Been meeting at the cafe for anyone who wants to make their copy.

[He's an asshole sometimes, and he'd literally rather do anything else but have to meet people, but he's not so awful that he wouldn't give them all a general map of the place endangering Etraya as a whole.]

do u wanna continue as an action thread or handwave the meeting? :|a

[ascarylady]

A map is a map.

[ Why would she complain? ]

I'll swing by the cafe.

[ Which she will set out to do right away. A map on hand would be useful, provided he lets her know what's what on it. After all, one person's map may only be legible to the person who made it. ]

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[imperatour]

And what's your plan? Kick them back?

[ascarylady]

[ Can't believe the camaraderie of the "one-arm club" was so short-lived. ]

Considering they already know all about us here? No. That would fuck us over just as fast.

[imperatour]

Could strike first.

[ascarylady]

Not without getting eyes on Solmara first.

[imperatour]

Heard once about scouting machines. Used them in old wars in my world. They operated them remotely. Someone could make some.

[ Please excuse the wastelander scavenged together description of UAVs. ]

[ascarylady]

[ Hm. Okay, that earns a longer-than-usual pause before she types anything back. ]

Etraya does have enough machinists to make that potentially feasible.

Question remains about HOW to send anything there, much less anyone else.

[imperatour]

That I don't know. Think they woke up in the hospital, same as everyone else. How they got there... Well, how do any of us get there.

[ascarylady]

Fair question. We don't know that even without this Solmara nonsense adding to the confusion.