IC Contact Post [for savetheearth]

[elfstoned]

Please specify whether it's text, voice or video and the date your message is left!


PERSONAL CELL PHONE: XXX-272-4076

"Aaron Strider. Leave a message."



CLINIC PHONE: XXX-353-7727

"LSR Clinic. Hours are 8AM-10PM weekdays, 10AM-10PM Saturday and Sunday. If this is an emergency, hang up and call 911, or XXX-272-4076. Otherwise, leave your number and a message and your call will be returned tomorrow."

AS OF 2-28-2015, the only way to contact Aaron is through the Network.


NETWORK NUMBER: 43254644263

Comments

phone; text

[disdainfully]

What is the "something worse"?

[It's good that this isn't voice because he is ...rather impatient over here. If it is worse, he wants the information now, so he can take steps - everyone in the mountain has had contact with Liam.]

phone; text forever

[elfstoned]

[...Thorir will feel the seconds tick by as Aaron thinks about how much to say. His first instinct, of course, is to say nothing: this is a matter of privacy for Julien, Thorir doesn't need to know what could happen, this could start a panic--

--but then, he remembers what happened the last time he withheld information. Many, many more people could die this time. There might be something Thorir can do about containing this, and besides, he trusts Thorir.]

A highly contagious and deadly strain of avian influenza. On another Earth, its effects were apocalyptic.

[disdainfully]

For Men and birds alike?

[Then it is likely that Elves and Dwarves would be affected, too... most likely. There are no books on the physical properties of either, so who even knows, but it isn't really all that far-fetched to believe so.]

I will make sure that nobody leaves the mountain before we know more.

[elfstoned]

It was responsible for destroying most of the human population, yes. Keeping the mountain quarantined for tonight is a good idea.

If you want to know more about the virus, you'll have to ask Julien yourself. He didn't tell me much, and it was a year and a half ago.

[disdainfully]

Everyone who is currently here is either Elf or Dwarf, at least for the most part, so we'll likely have less of a a problem than Men [...catching himself the second time around] than humans would, but we'll take care of it.

He vanished a number of days ago, apparently after another physical echo. I haven't been able to find out more than that he is most likely still in Germany or Austria- I was planning to go looking for him soon.

[elfstoned]

Don't go until I've confirmed whether or not Liam's illness came from him. But I may be able to help you with the search.

My number came back today, and with it an item that might help us find him. I've actually been using it to search from here, while keeping an eye on the patient. No luck so far, but I'll keep trying.

[disdainfully]

...If your number came back, we'll be able to go quickly to wherever he is.

[And after a moment he ends the connections and reconnects through the network instead.]

This will be safer.

woop woop network text 5eva

[elfstoned]

I heard something about a teleporter. Is it true?

[disdainfully]

Yes. I know where it is located.

[elfstoned]

That's the first bit of good news I've had all day. GETTING to him won't be a problem, then - it's FINDING him that will be the tricky part. You're sure he's in the Germany/Austria area?

[disdainfully]

That is what everyone could agree on.

[elfstoned]

I'll search there, then. This thing shows me places but not specific people -- I can't look at it and think, 'I want to see Julien.' This may take a while.

[disdainfully]

I doubt that he will leave the general area.

[Because who knows what echoes will be lost? Reduced echoes might, at this stage, very well be lethal - Thorir knows that some people with larger changes has voiced that worry before.]

[elfstoned]

What makes you so sure? Don't we lose our changes when we go far enough away from places like Locke?

[disdainfully]

Not all of them, and we can't control which ones remain.

[elfstoned]

I can see how that would pose a problem.

[disdainfully]

Especially if he is even more of a bird now than when I saw him last.

[elfstoned]

I predicted this a year and a half ago, you know. It upset him, so I didn't bring it up again.

[disdainfully]

He didn't want to hear it later, either.

[Aaron wasn't the only one who brought it up at some point.]

[elfstoned]

[God damn. Not surprised at all.]

I'd better let you go. Using this thing takes concentration. I'll let you know the second I've got something concrete.

[disdainfully]

Just send me a text then.

[And with that, he's gone.]