week 1 - hiro - tuesday afternoon

[completelycrazy]

[May as well hike up a potentially active volcano to look for interdimensional portals as a way to take their minds off of the whole murder thing! Up they go, and it's, frankly, more physical activity than Newt signed up for. It's hot, and this island life sounded way more exciting in theory.]

Yeesh, no wonder no one else has checked this place out yet. [Have they?? Newt didn't spend much time asking around. They are trailblazers, he and Hiro, for sure.] It's not exactly easy to get to.

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[zerotohiro]

So who's pulling their strings? That's the biggest question I have now that, surprise surprise, we aren't getting an answer to.

[But okay. He's...going to carefully peer at the volcano. How the hell did they get up there? WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE. This is not how science works probably but whatever.] I've never seen lava up close, but this looks pretty normal to me. So. If there's a portal on this island it's not here. I guess maybe the heat would really melt it down anyway so...[He scratches the back of his head.] Back to square one.

[completelycrazy]

Same here, dude, and I have a feeling we're not going to get an answer anytime soon. Even confirming that someone on the outside is pulling the strings would give us way too much information about the world we're working with here.

[Newt will join Hiro at the volcano's edge and PUSH HIM IN HAH HE WAS THE MAFIA THIS WHOLE TIME jk but he sure is checking out that lava down in there. Neat!]

The Breach isn't so much a physical construction as it is, like, a bridge between two dimensions. I don't think a volcano would melt it down. That said, a volcano definitely would melt down some robots, so... Yeah, looks like we struck out. Bummer.

[zerotohiro]

You really think so? Maybe they wouldn't care about letting that slip since we can't do anything with it.

[And this is how Hiro Hamada died.] I wouldn't look at this as striking out, dude. We still learned something and who knows? Maybe volcanic knowledge is actually gonna help us at some point. You know. Assuming they didn't go with the Breach idea from your world.

[completelycrazy]

[Newt just nods along, staring down at the lava. Okay, yeah, this isn't striking out.]

It's gotta mean something that they plopped us on an island with an active volcano, too. Especially if it's a simulation. This has gotta be a Chekhov's gun situation.

[Which he should maybe sound more worried about???]

[zerotohiro]

You'd think so. They don't seem like the type of people just to do it for appearances. But then again, we all showed up in swimsuits so maybe we're off on that, too.

...maybe that's why we'll only be here for two months. If we don't kill each other first, the volcano will do it for us.

[completelycrazy]

[...Oh shit.]

You might be onto something there. That's, uh, unsettling. [...] Doesn't look like there's much else to see up here, though. We should probably head back before it gets dark.

[zerotohiro]

Yeah...we should. [There's a beat as he bounces on the balls of his feet for a bit, a little more nervous at the idea that that's how they're going to go.] Race you to the bottom? [And he's already off. Come on, Newt. Keep up.]

[completelycrazy]

[NEWT TRIES TO KEEP UP AND SLIPS ON A ROCK BECAUSE OF HIS OLD MAN KNEES AND FALLS AND DIES OH GOD HE'S DEAD.]