[Since her arrival, Max has been hoarding journals and notes, trying to learn as much as she can about what transpired here and when it all transpired. She has a mostly complete timeline created and extensive notes based on what she's found in various journals, as well as what she's learned from the state of the town itself, including the bodies littered throughout the buildings and streets.
When the power returns, it presents an opportunity to learn more.
Max travels to as many houses as possible, focusing on ones that haven't been claimed by the new arrivals, and immediately goes to any source of technology. Laptops, computers, cell phones. Anything that wasn't working until now, and she dissects unsent emails, stored documents, even the most mundane artifacts like shopping lists.
It's a somewhat exhausting process, but it feels important to discover as much as she can. Anyone who stumbles upon her might end up recruited into helping. Sorry.]
↼ b: signals
[It occurs to her some point during the third time the aurora, that there's something far more useful she can be doing than taking notes on what happened to the people living here.
There are no signals coming in. That doesn't necessarily mean that a signal can't go out.
Max starts at the hunting supply store, grabbing any radio equipment that she can, then she makes her way to the gas station to rifle through any tools, taking anything she thinks might be useful. It isn't nearly as much that she'd like, not nearly as much as she'd have at home, but it's better than nothing.
The end goal, as long as the aurora lasts, is the mines. Not to go into, she's not that stupid, but to the operations center above ground, where she's hoping there will be a radio system.
Maurice trots around outside, keeping watch on the area as Max spends the evening messing around with the radio equipment, trying to do anything she can to boost the signal, sending out occasional broadcasts requesting assistance, naming the town and doing her best to give a description of the location, just in case anyone picks up the signal.
On subsequent nights, whenever the aurora comes, Max tries to make her way back to the mines, Maurice at her side and the both of them moving with purpose. It's clear she's got something going on, but she'll stop to explain if anyone asks.
aurora horrorealis ; ota
[Since her arrival, Max has been hoarding journals and notes, trying to learn as much as she can about what transpired here and when it all transpired. She has a mostly complete timeline created and extensive notes based on what she's found in various journals, as well as what she's learned from the state of the town itself, including the bodies littered throughout the buildings and streets.
When the power returns, it presents an opportunity to learn more.
Max travels to as many houses as possible, focusing on ones that haven't been claimed by the new arrivals, and immediately goes to any source of technology. Laptops, computers, cell phones. Anything that wasn't working until now, and she dissects unsent emails, stored documents, even the most mundane artifacts like shopping lists.
It's a somewhat exhausting process, but it feels important to discover as much as she can. Anyone who stumbles upon her might end up recruited into helping. Sorry.]
↼ b: signals
[It occurs to her some point during the third time the aurora, that there's something far more useful she can be doing than taking notes on what happened to the people living here.
There are no signals coming in. That doesn't necessarily mean that a signal can't go out.
Max starts at the hunting supply store, grabbing any radio equipment that she can, then she makes her way to the gas station to rifle through any tools, taking anything she thinks might be useful. It isn't nearly as much that she'd like, not nearly as much as she'd have at home, but it's better than nothing.
The end goal, as long as the aurora lasts, is the mines. Not to go into, she's not that stupid, but to the operations center above ground, where she's hoping there will be a radio system.
Maurice trots around outside, keeping watch on the area as Max spends the evening messing around with the radio equipment, trying to do anything she can to boost the signal, sending out occasional broadcasts requesting assistance, naming the town and doing her best to give a description of the location, just in case anyone picks up the signal.
On subsequent nights, whenever the aurora comes, Max tries to make her way back to the mines, Maurice at her side and the both of them moving with purpose. It's clear she's got something going on, but she'll stop to explain if anyone asks.