written on message board, 16/7

[crosslaced]

More umui discoveries.

We dug credit where credit is due, Lance and I did some excavation in the houses (the ones in grids, full of plant growth) and Gladiolus graciously ripped entire chunks of the floor out with his bare hands.

Found sheets of metal in the ground underneath? Same material as the house, seemed to be at least several layers of metal packed on top of each other. Didn’t get to see if there was anything else underneath, you’re free to try digging deeper.

Comments

[thegoofball]

Or we could try a long-distance detonation?

[k e i t h]

[thermalwind]

We don't have the tools for that. I haven't found anything I could use to build a detonator switch and I'm not scrapping my broken scanner for this.

[thegoofball]

[hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm]







I could shoot it?

[thermalwind]

[...]

The Bayard's pretty powerful and this is an old style bomb. It would probably destroy it.

Wait. I think this does come with a detonator. I was checking over the wires and.

Okay. Nevermind, we're good.

[thegoofball]

You couldn't have looked at it BEFORE offering to blow yourself up???????????????

[He is going to yell at you about this when he gets back to the shack!!]

[thermalwind]

I WAS GOING TO SET SOMETHING UP!
Look, you want to blow this spot up or keep hacking away at the metal?

written emphatically beneath

[counterblows]

Frag grenades
Not as powerful as a bomb but safer
I will let you use one if it means you actively try to not blow yourselves up

[thermalwind]

No. It's okay.

Sorry for being alarming. It's just this stuff is so old tech compared to what I was dealing with back home. It took me a bit to realize what method the detonation takes.

I'm good now.

[counterblows]

If your friend blows himself up I am not picking up the pieces.

[thermalwind]

Course not.

That's my responsibility. I'll make sure he doesn't.

[counterblows]

[...good.]

[He doesn't add anything else. He only chimes in when he needs to - when it looks like things are about to get spectacularly messy if he doesn't.]

[thegoofball]

PUTTING YOURSELF IN THE BLAST ZONE ISN'T SETTING SOMETHING UP!

But fine! It's not a bad idea, but you better not get yourself hurt. Or killed.

[thermalwind]

I won't be IN the blast zone.

Relax. I can see exactly how this works now. It's earth tech. Old earth tech.

[thegoofball]

How would you have been able to predict the blast zone when you weren't even sure what kind of bomb you were dealing with yet???

What's earth tech doing on here, though?

[thermalwind]

I have no idea what Earth tech is doing here. Especially stuff this far back in our history.

It's like that here. Stuff seems to come from all realities and times just like us.

[thegoofball]

Please don't talk about other realities.

I mean I know that's HAPPENING here but I don't want to be reminded of Slav.

[thermalwind]

Let's just never bring him up at all.

Ever.

So, we know what our jobs are right now. Let's focus and get them done.

[thegoofball]

It's too hard to forget him. I've tried so much.

But you have a point. I'll meet you there?

[thermalwind]

Yeah. On my way.