august 5th, noticeboard

[shogis]

Hello, everyone. This is Hifumi Togo and Nari Nishitani.

We would like to report a discovery that we found inside one of the trees on the Western side of Umui.

Inside the tree was some sort of tablet with a single entry on it. I’ve (Hifumi) done my best to try and write out a summary of its contents, but if you’d like the entire transcript, please let me know and one of us will provide it to you.


The summary is as follows:

• Date: A.E. 105, Spring Solstice
  
• ARUM-9 was the first of their kind fo be built outside of mere prototype settings. New updates were added almost hourly to their programming. (NOTE: “IT WASNT ENOUGH” was presumably handwritten right after this in some sort of bright red substance.)
  
• Common civilians may have had doubts; scientists, engineers, “the council” and the like must have been relieved?
  
• Resources spread thin
  
• ARUM-9 and their predecessors will help “fill in the gaps where [they] have previously struggled” (repairs, gardening, etc.)
  
• Most importantly, they do not get sick. (NOTE: this line was crossed out with the same red substance. “WRONG” was written right beneath it.)

We hope that this will be helpful in our investigation of this island and what became of its inhabitants. Nari and I are available for discussion.

- Hifumi Togo, Nari Nishitani

P.S.: If y’all come across flowers you might think useful, feel free to bring them to me, Nari, because I found some that can be used for medicine. When in doubt, pluck the sucker and deliver it pronto.

Comments

[shogis]

Yes, absolutely. I'm quite new to this, however, so any suggestions are appreciated.

[ ...even if they're rude! ]

[crosslaced]

There are benefits to both summaries and full transcripts, though yes. Full transcripts are important. On another note-

I would advise you not use the flowers as medicine for now, as they could be diseased.

We've found datapads suggesting that the 'sickness' was named after flowers, which itself suggests that the plague manifests as flowers. [Gonna draw an arrow all the way across the Rock to Aster's transcript of this datapad.]

[everylittlesecret]

[Transcript is appreciated.]

This just makes me want to pick the flowers more, honestly. I have a degree in science, specifically in organic chemistry, so I ain't afraid of catching something from them. May as well have someone who know what they're doing look at them, right?

And if I get sick, I do have medical training, so I can take care of myself.

Thank you for the warning, though. If worse comes to worse, I'll just raze the grounds with the hottest fire I can manage.

[crosslaced]

[He gave due warning, so if this rando does catch themselves something nasty it's no longer his problem. He doubts "medical training" will work- not because of this person, but his [x] doubt in general towards suspicious islands- but who knows.]

Sure. Someone mentioned that the flowers in the buildings burn unusually fast, if you want to investigate the odd ones.