[video; open]

[resetbutton]

Robert Franklin has opened communication!

[The video crackles to life and reveals someone awkwardly trying to hold the camera right. He doesn't exactly succeed as it's slightly crooked, but he doesn't seem to notice and instead starts to talk.]

Hi, I'm Robert Franklin and I'm in charge of the library in the Cave. It's my job to help out anybody who wants to use the library to learn about how things were before the Disaster or even other academic subjects that might be either an interest to you or something useful for your job. Even if you don't need a book, I'm always happy to help answer any questions you may have about the Cave or even things in the Overworld like the City.

[There's a short pause as he thinks for a moment, trying to remember something, but shrugs it off pretty quickly.]

I'll be in here more often than not, so everybody is welcome to come on by. You can even contact me with the communicators if you need to. I've heard that some of you are already in the City, right? If you ever have any free time, I'd like it if you could come over and tell me about how it is there after all these years. The City must be really different from what I remember and what I've read about.

[About five minutes after his initial post, he turns his communicator back on, looking like he has something important to say.]

Oh and I would also like to mention that we do not carry fiction books in the library. You're going to have to look elsewhere for them, I'm afraid.


((Note: For this post, all of Robert's replies will be from prettyspryforadeadguy instead of the mod account due to an icon shortage.))

Comments

[prettyspryforadeadguy]

It must have been a drastic climate change for them to migrate this far south.

For the most part, yes. Most of the Workers aren't allowed to leave the Cave and then ones who can are only able to do so for specific reasons, so I don't get information about the Overworld as it is now very often.

[tartanisstylish]

It's a desert.

But you want information.

[prettyspryforadeadguy]

That's odd. The giant cats that I know of lived in the mountains and unless the terrain in the area somehow changed to mountains, they wouldn't be here.

I do. If I was capable of going out there for myself and learning about how things have changed on our planet in only a hundred and fifty years, I would go and do it. Since I can't, I have to rely on you guys to find out.

[tartanisstylish]

I don't. Remember any of that.

I can give you as much information as I have, for all the good it will do you. I don't even you being stuck there.

[prettyspryforadeadguy]

Of course you don't, you just woke up. It takes time for the memories to return.

I would really appreciate it. I can collect the information and show it to newly awakened Sleepers when they wake up.

[tartanisstylish]

Yes, so I've heard.

You're at the Library, you said? I can find you easily enough if you'd like, or write it all down if that's easier.