text | un: lance

[lifetothefullest]

Hi everyone. I haven't met that many of you since I've been mostly busy with the aid station, but I'm Lance.

I've done this whole 'waking up in another world' thing a few times now and in every one, there's been an issue of information getting lost. The more scattered our knowledge and experience is, the more difficult things are for everyone involved, and that includes the Adamant survivors who are kind of along for the ride in terms of whatever weirdness is surrounding us being here. So the more we know, the better for all of us.

It'd be helpful if we had access to the crew's information, but since we don't our best option is to collaborate and share what we do know with each other. Being as aware as we can of the situation will help us coordinate any future plans, and if we happen to find out something that the crew doesn't know themselves, record-keeping will help them too since they can access this network.

So far, I'm aware of public discussions about sharing things learned in conversations with the Thessyx, doing a headcount, and mapping the Adamant. We should probably also compile what we know about the animals and plants we've dealt with, things learned during scouting or exploration trips, and anything else we can think of that might be helpful.

However, I know from experience that keeping track of all this information can be kind of a big job, so if anyone is interested in handling organizing a portion of it, please feel free to say so. We'll just want to be sure that all the records are public and easily found by anyone looking for them.

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text ↪ un: romanoff

[dissemblance]

Possibly a wild and outlandish question, but have you tried asking for access to their information?

[lifetothefullest]

No, but if you think that's a viable option and would like to give it a try, I'd be interested in hearing how it goes.

[dissemblance]

Me? Oh, no, no, that was definitely not me volunteering. I'm not that kinda girl.

But I know a guy.

（ paging @s.wilson and @s.rogers to the floor... ）

text; un: s.wilson

[unclesam]

what kinda game of telephone we playing here? romanoff asking lance asking romanoff asking wilson and rogers to ask captain childe, am I getting that right?

[dissemblance]

I'd say you've more or less got the spirit.

To be fair, you could just wait on Rogers. Your business if you want to jump on that grenade.

[lifetothefullest]

Are they friends from home, or people you met here?

[dissemblance]

Friends from home.

Known them for years now.

text; un: s.wilson

[unclesam]

what exactly do you want to have access to? 'cause "everything" is rarely a request that flies, so let's make this list a bit more concrete, and I'm happy to see if I get the door slammed in my face on it.

[lifetothefullest]

Information about the dangers we may face outside of base camp--wildlife, environmental hazards, and so on--seems like it should be the priority, although any maps of the surrounding areas would also be useful. It'll benefit both us and the Adamant crew if we know what we're dealing with when we're trying to help with supply runs.

@ian.fowler (DM)

[wittingly]

I'm taking this extroversion as a sign that my part time job being your therapist is extremely effective. Maybe open up a competing practice. That's probably good for the economy or something.

[lifetothefullest]

I'm a little concerned that this is what you're considering extroversion.

But that aside, please do; unfortunately a lot of people here need therapists, and as far as I know there are none amongst the Adamant survivors.

[And so he's really thinking about offering to help, even if he also knows all the reasons that would be a terrible idea.]

[wittingly]

Watch out, I think my patented method of "have you tried smoking weed about it" might be a more popular option than your "have you tried actually dealing with your problems?" approach.

But seriously, how are you?

[lifetothefullest]

I'm sure it probably would be, but you might end up with a serious shortage and then where would everyone be?

As well as can be expected, I guess. You? And how you feel when you're stoned doesn't count.

text; un: indy

[nonscriptum]

I can start compiling some stuff for you, make it a little easier when you organize it. You’re way better at doing that in a coherent, layperson-legible way than I am

[lifetothefullest]

That'd be great, thanks.

I'm pretty sure you'd be just fine at the coherency thing yourself, but I also know that's less fun.

[Than doing the version full of salty comments, which he won't say directly, but /points to eyes, points to Nate]

[nonscriptum]

[ Oh, he knows. ]

Considerably. Elena used to call my system "controlled chaos."

[lifetothefullest]

Sounds like she was being generous, as usual.

[Also, joking aside, it's good to see Nate mention Elena and Lance makes a little mental note of that. But remaining on topic--]

Did you already have something to work on compiling?

@astarkov

[sunmon]

Sam and I are planning to collaborate on our own maps of this place, so we can add those to the notes.
Is there a way to make the notes easily accessible in these messages? Or should we find a way to keep a paper record?
Varric would probably gladly volunteer.

[lifetothefullest]

I'd appreciate that, thank you.

That's a good question; I presume there's an easy way to share information through files, but I'll look into it and find out for sure. Either way, if it's possible to keep paper records too that might be a good idea, especially if something happens to the network.

[sunmon]

People have begun disappearing.
Did you expect that to happen?
Is that why you mentioned information getting lost?

[lifetothefullest]

Partially, yes. It happened in the last few places I was, though information also got lost simply because it was so inaccessible or no one knew where to look.

Did someone you know disappear?

@scales

[cryptoherpetology]

I've been keeping field notes on the wildlife and what plant life I can identify. Knowing someone else has somewhere to put it is a bit of a relief.

I'm not a veteran of this sort of thing, but I have what you might call a family history of it.

[lifetothefullest]

That'd be great, thank you. Anything you have could really help.

Family history?

[cryptoherpetology]

I'll send the digital files your way, and you can stop by the aid station when on duty if you want to see some of the originals. I didn't scan all of my field sketches, especially for things I could get photos of.

By all accounts, my grandfather disappeared into another dimension. Or reality. We're not really sure about the exact details.

[lifetothefullest]

Okay, perfect. I can stop by the aid station in a little while.

[He's done for the day but it's not like he has much better to be doing.]

I'm sorry to hear that. I wonder if it is related, though; it does seem like there's a pattern of people who know each other showing up in these sorts of places, at least to some extent.