[stonecast, the info sharening]

[thegoofball]

[Hey there, Enso, it's ya boy Lance. Or ya stranger Lance, he hasn't exactly been a social butterfly on account of abruptly disappearing.

But, anyways, he is here, on your rock, laying down his dulcet tones because a discover has been made.]

Sooo that new island, right? With all the nothing and the flowers? [You know the one.] Had a little search party and found a letter - or more like a diary page, really? Keith [who you might hear int he background, or you might not, we're doing it live] thinks it's pretty important.

[There's the careful rustle of paper, as Lance doublechecks the scroll.]

Some of the writing at the bottom got damaged, but whoever wrote this was evacuating their home - some place called Tempide - because it was being swallowed by the sea? [Or it was something else that had the side-effect of raising sea levels.] Or collapsing, which they say had happened before.

They ended up at a temple which - might be somewhere on this island? We found this at a dock.

[There's a brief pause, because what do you really...say when you're dealing with something like this?]

There's more, but I don't really know what it means. But somebody else might find something that explains more.

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[deathfindsaway]

[He has no idea who this is, but he knows the name Keith, so fuck it.]

I found one of the robots still working. Or well, close enough to it. It talks.

[thermalwind]

What have they said so far? Anything you can make out? [And here's Keith, serious as ever.]

According to this journal page, they mentioned something about knowledge left behind.

[thegoofball]

A journal is a diary!

[Do you hear that? That's the sound of Lance not adding anything of value to this conversation.]

[despairing_hope]

That's very nice to share something so important.

[There's a pointed pause.]

But utterly useless if you don't share the exact contents of what was important. If it's something written, read it so we can know what it says. You're summary is pointless and not helpful at all.

[thermalwind]

Oh. It's you again. Hi.

He was getting a summary out so people could pause what they're doing. We still have no idea how safe this island is.

Ready?

[thermalwind]

Keith reads the letter out loud in as clear a voice as he can manage..

[despairing_hope]

Thank you.

And though I understand summaries being useful, they're only useful for recapping or when you have more pieces. They're useless when trying to put things together. It would be better to state that he found something interesting and then say he will share it after knowing people are listening.

But, I suppose I can forgive. Some people are just not on the right level as others.

ota | laurent predicts next month's lottery numbers (it's "DEATH")

[crosslaced]

First off, I want to go on record with the opinion that this is likely another Horrible Disaster Island. The last one with flowers? Flowers were poisonous. So everyone- even if you’re the best explorer around back home- if you go there, this island will try to eat you or jail you. Probably both. Expect it.

[Here’s Laurent with a very optimistic weather report! But let’s be real, we know he’s right.]

Second. You. [lance it’s you.] Transcribe that letter onto the message board in the Storyteller’s Temple. ...please.

[prettypurpleparlor]

In fairness, I don't think we have the option of an island that isn't a disaster, it's just a question of what new and interesting kind of potentially fatal mess we're going to get into this time.

But someone has to look into these things, because I have no doubt whatsoever that if we leave them alone and just hope the disaster happens to someone else instead, it will eventually come back to make us all regret ignoring it somehow.

Whereas if we gather tools and information now, we might have something useful to work with when it inevitably does its' best to kill us.

[Muffet's approach to exploration, explained. She's an optimist at heart, sort of.]

at least it isn’t death and taxes

[thermalwind]

Something happened to the spirit...gods? Of these lands so I’m guessing any island is going to be something or someone trying to murder us. [Feels a bit like home.]

But the only way we’re getting any answers is exploring these islands. I checked the dock we found this near there’s nothing else in this area.

[thegoofball]

I have a name, you know. [He doesn't, but it's still a cool line.

He does transcribe the page as asked, making a note of who found it, where, and when.]

Is, uh, is everything around here out to kill us? Because it seems like everything ever here wants to kill us.

[Read: he sees no reason to not be reckless about this.]

[prettypurpleparlor]

Thank you for sharing, dearie, we can all use more information. I'll let you know if I happen to turn anything up.

[Muffet sounds sincerely grateful for this, in her own polite, restrained way. Sharing is caring is not getting caught off-guard by weird island horrors, children. Know it, love it, avoid your imminent demise.]

[thegoofball]

[At least someone appreciates his efforts! And it's reassuring to know that other people are just as weirded out by this whole thing.]

Appreciate it - I would recommend looking in buried boxes. Like someone didn't want anyone to find it.

[Which, if it's someone's diary, makes sense! That's private.]

[thermalwind]

Thanks, we'll keep everyone updated if we find out anything else. [Here is Keith being very serious. His game face is on.]

Haven't found any animals or wildlife, yet. You?

[counterblows]

Paper isn't very durable. How old do you think it is?

[Getting right to it, no big.]

[thermalwind]

I’m not sure. It was found in a half-buried box. The fact it’s readable at all might mean this wasn’t that long ago. But everything we’ve seen has been so...aged.

[fireindreams]

[After Grimm had embarked on his own search with the Knight, he had information on this to impart.]

Greetings. Both myself and my friend searched this island as well and discovered a piece of technology. It is technology I am not personally familiar with but it has some words that may be useful. Forgive any pauses as it appears to be heavily damaged and fragments of the message is missing.

[Grimm pauses for a moment and there is a quiet shuffling before the Troupe Master processes to repeat what is said.]

If anyone wishes to see this item in person, myself and my friend can be found along the shoreline.

[prettypurpleparlor]

[None of this news is reassuring- more and more it is becoming clear that this place was the setting for a terrible tragedy of some kind, but at the last two sentences Muffet hisses quietly under her breath.]

'The draperies of our fiction'...? I've heard that before, and it meant nothing good for us all. Forgive me, I don't recognize your voice- are you a newcomer, or were you here when we saw the island of Ai'tuoh?

[She spent a long time memorizing those terrible laws of theirs, knowing that her unconventional appearance would not allow her even the slightest leeway, were she to risk setting foot on their island. She remembers how they ended.]

["So it is, so it was, and so shall it ever be."]

[thermalwind]

Do you mind transcribing that on the message board? Just in case that device fails any time soon.

[...He doesn't like any of this. He wants to take everyone and run far from here then come back and investigate himself. But no one will go for that and they need speed. It causes a pause in his talking.]

I can also confirm I heard that last line before. [He breathes out slowly.] Anyway, so whatever got these people had stages to it. And fire didn't help but this Fluro did.

Except it was killing them too. ...I wonder if the robot...care takers were really immune. Or it's been that long since this happened.

[savedbyasong]

Astragalus? That is the name of the largest genus of plants... At least in my world. It has about three thousand species and belongs to the legume family fabaceae and the sub family faboideae. Some species are poisonous to animals, only if they contain swainsonine... but I've never heard of a disease called Astragalus.

[He stops babbling for about two seconds, but only to go through the message again.] Many species in the astragalus family have bell shaped flowers. For example Astragalus desperatus, Astragalus vexilliflexus and Astragalus gracilis.

A lot of them really...

[want_to_belong]

Where'd you find it? I mean, just sitting around or something? You think it was left as a warning? Or did it have a specific person it was addressed to?

[Prompto didn't necessarily have detective skills for this, but he could at least ask questions he thought of.]

[thegoofball]

It was in a box, half-buried in the sand near a dock - maybe about a mile and a half south, south-west from the dock? [Hopefully miles are actually a universal measurement. Lord knows time isn't.] And not really - seems whoever it was was just taking record to have some proof of...of themselves, I guess.

[solperierat]

Was there any mention of a sickness in there? Me and a couple others went searching in the big building near the mana pool and found a medical lab of some sort. Most stuff in there was deteriorated too far to get much of an idea, but it had something to do with all the flowers on the island.

[thegoofball]

No, nothing about sickness at all. Not really a lot about the island as a whole, unless you count calling it the "new colony". [Hmm.] Could possibly pre-date all of the flowers, then?

[thermalwind]

No mention of a sickness. I think it pre-dates everything we see. Maybe a before some disaster happened. Since...it seems like disasters are cycling according to this scroll.