(OPEN) COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD @ STARTER BASE

[shuckit]

▶ WHO: Everyone!!
▶ DATE: July 9th 2015
▶ WARNINGS: none thus far
▶ SUMMARY: A place to share your ic infos, if you please! Thomas is a freaking busy body, and he wants to get all the clues about this place gathered up, so he's going to start writing stuff he's found/woke up with onto a wall in one of the labs, and leave notes around the compound for others to do the same.



[ in one of the lab rooms, you'll find a message (possibly with more messages) scrawled on one of the walls (literally ON TO it, with either pen or a marker). it reads: ]



[ because thomas is super good about being specific. and communicative. but basically, that's what he's posting here - notes. clues, useful information, curious things - information. the advantage the gladers had in getting out of the maze was that they were united, and cooperating for the same goal. thomas doesn't know anyone here, and only has maybe two pieces of what's a much larger puzzle. he needs the rest.

so, around the compound, you'll find scraps of paper that have been taped or pinned to walls (or written directly onto them) that read in the same handwriting: ]

SEE LAB ROOM [[ ROOM NUMBER HERE ]] FOR INFO

IF YOU FOUND SOMETHING, WRITE IT DOWN

[ again, he is awesome at being verbose. if your character decides to investigate the room, they'll find thomas's notes already pinned or written onto the wall, plus whatever is left in the comments below. thomas himself will likely be around more often than not, reading things, scrawling stuff of paper, looking contemplative, or being passed the fuck out in a corner, if they want to bug him. ]


[[ ooc; okay so thomas is a nut, and also i thought we could use an icly set up means for characters to share the clues they woke up with/stuff they found/whatever other information about stuff going down. if you want, put up a top level for the actual note your dude/dudette is leaving, and idk people can tag into it if they want to seek your character out and bug them? or write notes under the note you left? idefk, let's do stuff, go wild???


PS, IF YOU WANT THE TL;DR VERSION OF THIS, i tried organizing an IC list that Thomas would have made over here. It's not perfect, so don't consider that like end all be all, but thought it might help. ]]

Comments

post it

[controlledvariable]

yup

post it

[shuckit]

mind if i check some coordinates?

post it > action?

[controlledvariable]

[in answer, Steph just leaves a post-it note with the time on it, and will be there at that time to let Thomas borrow her map.]

action!

[shuckit]

[ thomas is there when she comes by with the map, at the time she'd left, giving a short wave as she comes into the room. ]

Hey.

[controlledvariable]

'Sup.

[She doesn't bother with a wave, just gives Thomas a nod before holding out the map.]

I've got maps stored on my iPhone, too, if you need more detail.

[shuckit]

[ da fuq is an iPhone. are there uPhones? thomas contemplates this for a moment of blank staring. and promptly moves on. the world is weird. ]

Yeah. That'd help.

[ he assumes? he doesn't know what she's talking about or what extra details her batPhone would tell him. whatever. moving to the message board, he taps the note Kieren left - coordinates from the VIPER business card. ]

This. I wanna figure out what's there and how far away from us it is.

[controlledvariable]

[She's just gonna head over to a bench to smooth the map out for Thomas to check the coordinates.]

Hopefully it's not too far away, but I know a guy who can help if it is.

[thx supes]

[shuckit]

[ tugging the note off the wall, he brings it over to the map, and starts to search for them. latitude first, dragging one finger down to the point he's looking for, and then longitude... ]

Here. Portland? [ doesn't ring any bells, really. he remembers countries, regions - more specific names than that have been lost on him. ]

Okay, so... Where are we on this? [ 'California' is what he got from it, basically. ]

[controlledvariable]

Yeah, Portland, and we're here.

[She points out where they are, then does some math in her head, frowning at the map.]

Depending on the roads, it'd be about a ten hour drive.

[What is "normal speed limit"]

[shuckit]

[ he's chewing at a thumbnail as she points out where they are in comparison, looking over the various roads on the map, and the scale.

ten hour drive. if they drive. ]

Your guy who can help - how fast is he?

[ there's also the not-rocked-powered-horse that hazel has, but frankly, that's a little too weird for him. ]

[controlledvariable]

He's younger than I'm used to, but he could probably still break the sound barrier.

[She doesn't know this Superman's limits this well, but - still.]

But I don't wanna use him as a chauffeur too much, not if it's a distance we can make without help.

[a beat, and:]

With a motorbike I could probably do it six or seven hours.

[Especially if it's a good bike.]

[shuckit]

[ thomas nods for a moment, signalling that he'd heard her, and rolls it around in his head for a moment. eventually, he sighes out. ]

Thing is, that's seven hours there and seven hours back. [ a beat, thomas watching her. ] It'll be dark by the time we're trying to get back to the base.

[ he hasn't run into any huge hordes of the things outside yet. thankfully. that doesn't mean they aren't there. ]

We don't want to get stuck out there, with them, in the dark.

[controlledvariable]

I spend most of my nights out there.

[She says it like it isn't a big deal, because it isn't; Bats are supposed to protect people, and she can't do that from safe behind the compound walls.

If anyone gets caught out after dark, or doesn't realize the dangers when they're outside, she has to be there to help.]

[shuckit]

So you got a death wish?

[ blurted out before he thinks to activate the filter between his brain and his mouth. yeah, that's thomas. his social graces are impeccable. he ducks his head, looking down to the map. ]

Sorry.

[ mumbled, before he clears his throat, and tries to clarify. ]

It's not something we should be actively trying for. I know some other people. I can ask around.

[controlledvariable]

[It doesn't bother her; so you've got a death wish isn't the worst thing someone's said to her.]

Better I'm out there in case someone needs help.

[And she just - shrugs.]

There's also Flash, he can run fast, but I dunno if he can take anyone with him.