closed mingle: welcome to amity island.

[highflights]

[ Kara has cleared out a landing site just outside the area of the ship Mimi was camped in. Each member of the party has been given a rough map marking the more thickly forested areas, contours marked for hills, and an arrow in the water indicating the general direction back to the underwater base. There are Xs for where the old shipwreck emerges through the green, but only those visible from the air, if you're on foot you're on your own. In Kon's handwriting, the maps are all labelled Amity Island in block letters. The wildlife is friendly unless provoked; we can't vouch for the plants. ]

[ The body itself is in a sturdy wood coffin resting on a bed of freshly dug earth, the lid can be easily pushed off. Time to get cracking. ]

[ ooc info about the island can be found here and here. any questions should be directed to the mods at the second link. ]

Comments

[despairing_hope]

I hope he doesn't get lost on the way. Or step on the prints. But, hopefully it shouldn't take too long.

It sort of makes me want to explore more while we wait.

[hopefragment]

[he's not going to step in the footprints... this isn't his first murder investigation!

It does take several minutes after Kanaya's text for Hajime to arrive at the scene, stepping carefully around the tracks so as not to mess them up.]

Hey.

[despairing_hope]

Hinata kun!

[He called out in the most friendly of tones.]

I was hoping you were familiar enough with our communicator devices. I don't really know them very well.

[hopefragment]

Ah... I took one apart, once. Back when Karkat infected them with a virus. I helped Dirk program the Report Card mode, too.

[Which... seems like a really long time ago. Abruptly, Hajime's homesick, but he keeps it from his face as he brings his wrist up to take a look at his own communicator.]

Kanaya said you found a map of the whole planet? That would be useful... let's see.

[He tabs through his communicator to his Report Card mode, bringing up their map of currently explored areas he and Dirk had equipped it with.]

I wonder if there's a way to sync them together? Let me see what you've found.

[despairing_hope]

[Nagito turned and gestured to the control room. holographic mapThe holographic map was still on display.]

I got it on, and have more or less figured out how to manipulate it and make areas larger and more detailed. But... I'm not really sure how to go about saving it. I didn't want to push too many buttons in the chance I delete it by accident or something.

[He sighed a little and looked down at the communicator.]

So the safest way would be from the communicators side.

[And he hadn't been sure where to start with that. Things were just too alien from what he was familiar to have a sense of base knowledge.]

I was thinking the marked areas should be explored soon as well. They're probably important. I don't know if they're related to the murder, but they're definitely worth looking into.

[hopefragment]

Mm.

[He hums quietly, moving closer to stare up at the map with a frown before moving to the control panel. This is incredibly alien to him, and he doesn't even know what buttons to start with.]

I'd be reluctant to touch anything myself... I don't have your luck, after all. We could record it and try to recreate it on our own maps, or maybe...

[He trails off mid-sentence. The last sentence sounded more like he was talking to himself, anyway.]

You can't read that stuff, right? Like, the translator isn't working for you either?

[despairing_hope]

Not at all. It would be a lot easier if I could read any of it. Though I've figured out how to manipulate the map at least. I'm just not sure how to save it. I was hoping since all of this technology is rather futuristic there would be some kind of function where it could just scan an area and pull data out of it.

That's a bit much to ask for though, isn't it?

[He then pushed some buttons, purposefully, and the map shifted and zoomed in on various areas.]

[lightbulbvampire]

[Kanaya checks her device again]

It seems that Dirk will be coming as well. I'm sure that they will be able to safely navigate their way to us, and avoid destruction of evidence.

[Kanaya puts a finger to her lips as she considers the benefits of further exploration]

I did tell them that we were in the back of the ship, so I suppose that would remain true as long as we didn't wander too far.

[despairing_hope]

It could also be interesting to make them have to find us. But, I can see the point in waiting.

[lightbulbvampire]

Now is not exactly the time to do that.

[Don't want to give any premature heart attacks from shock.]

Although, we can always take a closer look at the preceding rooms and then meet them at the entrance.

[Or just wait for them here? Kanaya's okay with either option.]

[despairing_hope]

Maybe just waiting for them would be better. If the ship is fairly large we can ask them to help search it too.

[lightbulbvampire]

True. With the four of us, we should be able to cover enough ground to search the entire ship.

[despairing_hope]

And maybe find something else useful.

[lightbulbvampire]

Indeed. Well, shall we be off?