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[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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@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?

[sunmon]

[ kaz brekker. but she hadn't known him. not really. he'd known her, which was different and more startling. but she has a lie to sustain. ]

No.
I only saw the outreach group gathering their belongings from the abandoned lockers.

[lifetothefullest]

[He's not totally sure he believes that because her story would require paying a lot of attention, but who knows. Maybe she just pays that much attention.]

Got it. I don't know if it's the same case here, but in the last places I was it was just sort of random; we never could figure out exactly why it happened in either of them, it just did, and it sucked. Sometimes they weren't gone forever, though.

[sunmon]

They weren't?

[ alina, picturing kaz stomping out of the chrysalis covered in goo and demanding his cane back like some kind of ghost. ]

[lifetothefullest]

Sometimes; there were usually two different cases. In one, someone would disappear for a week or two and then return, often remembering both their time in that place and new events from wherever they were originally from. In the other scenario they could be gone any length of time, but when they returned they usually only remembered their own world.

[sunmon]

We should make sure that the outreach group waits at least two weeks before cleaning out seemingly abandoned lockers, then.

[lifetothefullest]

Good idea, if we can convince them to pass up potential supplies for that long.

[sunmon]

Maybe non-essentials only?
Like, if it's food or time-sensitive, they can take it.
But personal effects ...