Day 196 : Start of the "Sickness Inside" plot

[bastionpc]

Who: Nathaniel (NPC) and everyone else who wants to be involved
Open: Open
When: Day 196
Where: Near the monument --> Out on the Skyway
What: Nathaniel needs a radio tower. He's enlisting the help of others to get said radio tower
Format: any
Warnings: Dead body discovery in the radio tower threads. Mentions of throw-up when Zulf joins the Okumura group.

This is the post for everything related to Day 196 of this particular event. The starter is in the comments, and important threads will be linked here as they are made.

Important threads:

START: by the monument

At the radio tower and the surrounding area

Regrouping

Meanwhile, at the Bastion...

Comments

START: by the monument

[bastionpc]

[Early on Day 196, Nathaniel will call for everyone to meet by the monument, as he has something important to discuss. He also happens to have a bag with him, in which are some very important things.]

Alright. Remember when we went to the observatory, and we found some blueprints for a beacon? Well, I've spent the last few weeks working on some prototypes, and this is what I have.

[Out of the bag he pulls out a few small, wrist-watch looking devices, which appear to have a compass of sorts for the face.]

They're not working yet, but they can be set up to receive radio waves, and will point in the direction of any tower sending out a signal that this thing is set to receive. With this, we should seriously cut down on the number of people getting lost on the Skyway.

The only problem is that we need a radio tower to make these work. The small ones I've been experimenting with just don't output a strong enough signal for these things to pick up at a distance. It would take a core to build a brand new tower, and we haven't come across any cores in a while. We could wait until we find another one, but there's no telling how long that could take.

However, I have another plan.

[That's when he pulls a large red sensor out of the bag he has, and offers it up for everyone to see.]

These sensors are set to resonate with the Bastion. If the senors are activated and someone uses shards to get the Bastion to do the "retrieve land" function, it'll pull in whatever the sensor is attached to. Each one only does a small amount- one could maybe bring back a small box. But, if we use a lot of them at once, we could get something much larger. Like a whole radio tower.

So the idea is that we go out on the Skyway, attach all these sensors to a radio tower, and then ride the tower back to the Bastion. Then I can finish setting up these compasses, and the Skyway will become that much easier to navigate.

What do you guys think?

The radio tower + surrounding areas

[bastionpc]

[Just as Nathaniel had said, the trip out to the site is mostly uneventful. With the group of people going, the land easily rises up beneath their feet to form a land bridge over to the floating chunk of land separate from the rest of the Skyway.

Interestingly enough, there are some Peckers around, but they are mostly sticking to one area, back behind the small building. They seem to be mostly ignoring the group of new arrivals.]

Alright, those of you who are going to help me put up sensors, let's get to work. The rest of you, can you scout out the area and make sure it's safe? If you find anything useful you can toss it into the grass at the base of the tower, and it'll go back to the Bastion along with the tower.

Regrouping

[bastionpc]

[Once everything is done, everyone should come in here to discuss what to do next.]

Meanwhile, back at the Bastion...

[bastionpc]

[Guess who has been reading a book near the monument all day?

Said person is also suddenly frowning thougthfully and looking up from his book.]

...Say, Anna, Did Nathaniel mean 'seven hours from when he asked' or 'seven hours from when they left'?