HIRUNE: Attempt to salvage situation.

[austereastronomer]

You wake from sleep in a cold sweat, and go immediately to your husktop, typing out a memo in spite of your hands shaking. If you haven't just gone COMPLETELY INSANE, there's no time to lose.

-- CURRENT austereAstronomer [AA] RIGHT NOW opened memo on board Alpha Team, this is very important! --

CAA: I believe at the moment we are down to four players.
CAA: I haven't been able to reach Phaest in some time and I am starting to fear the worst has happened.
CAA: And... based on some information passed on to me,

...hopefully no one will ask from where.

CAA: I think it may be necessary to bring other players into the game.

Comments

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
i think you are right
i haven't
heard anything from Nuvo|a
so if Phaest is gone too we rea||y are down to four peop|e
but urm
if i may ask something?

[austereastronomer]

Of course.

[flowerwhisperer]

who
urm
was your informant
about us needing to bring in more peop|e
though i guess it wou|d have been pretty obvious we'd need to do that anyway

[austereastronomer]

shit shit shit shit shit how are you even going to explain this without sounding like a complete nutbar

Well,
I don't entirely know who it was, since it was dark and difficult to see, and they didn't give a name.

Which is ACTUALLY TRUE! At least you didn't hear anything that sounded at all like a name.

However, the idea seems sound, as you said.

[flowerwhisperer]

urm

That sounds INCREDIBLY SUSPICIOUS, but you figure right now you can forget about that considering this concerns the survival of whoever's left.

hm
supposing that since this game was made for a set number of p|ayers
and there are apparent|y ro|es p|ayers have to p|ay
i don't think it should be impossib|e to bring in new p|ayers
to fi|| in those gaps
i guess?
though
urm
i guess we shou|d go check
if there's anyone |eft to bring in to begin with

[austereastronomer]

I just checked; there are some names still active on my Trollian list that aren't in the game.
So that's something, at least.
My personal thought is to try to find people who can handle the challenges we have encountered so far,
though as I said to Kalfour, the fact that we know more about the game now should help new players' progress.

[flowerwhisperer]

oh
urm
that's Andezo
i can think of a few peop|e who wi|| be ab|e to he|p out

...Though really, it's more like you'd rather THEY NOT DIE BY METEORS.

[austereastronomer]

That's great.
If you think they'll be good additions, feel free to contact them and send them the files.
I recall Phaest saying that the game can optimally support up to twelve,
so I think it would be reasonable to recruit up to eight new players.

[flowerwhisperer]

and hopefu||y we won't a|| die?

[austereastronomer]

It is my great hope that will be the case.
It will be difficult, but I believe that if we work together, we can get through this without further... ah, fatalities.

[flowerwhisperer]

how would entry work for the new p|ayers?
since, urm
some of us wi|| need new servers

[austereastronomer]

We'll have to figure something out.
We could probably rehash the entry chain, and then add the new players on at the end...

[bizango]

Ah. You are not as surprised by this as you perhaps should be...

sh*u|d we risk i+ given +he dea+h c*un+ s* far

[austereastronomer]

I hope I'm wrong, but if we don't bring in more people, that number might go up anyway.
Since everyone in the game is supposed to fill some kind of role, I worry that one of the people we...
...lost, might have been important to our success in the long run.
The fact that we know far more about the game now than we did before entry will help, I think, as we'll be able to brief them on what they will face.
And of course, we ought to try to choose people we think will be able to handle it well.

[bizango]

yes - *f c*urse
i am *n|y hesi+an+ +* give any*ne fa|se h*pe if we can he|p i+

You can recognize objectively that not trying at all is probably worse in the long run, but you have a hard time reconciling that with your worrying...

did y*u have any*ne in mind

[austereastronomer]

I intend to be up-front about the risks inherent in this endeavor.
It would be irresponsible to give anyone the idea that this will not be lethally dangerous.
I believe Kaprao had some people in mind, although I have a few that might be worth attempting to recruit, as well.
Some of them aren't... my first choices, but I do know that they are competent.

[bizango]

g**d
+hen i+ seems we have a p|an - i supp*se
i wi|| see if i can c*me up wi+h any*ne as we||