Totally Normal Garden Party and not an escape meeting

[hotpaprika]

[It's Friday afternoon, and the party is almost ready. Jonathan, with the help of others, have arranged a quaint table setting in the garden, adorned with various flower arrangements. The spread of food seems quite impressive if not... somewhat strange with some of the offerings. Floyd brought takoyaki (careful, some of them have hot sauce in them!), Jason brought donuts, Hadoka brought some scrambled eggs, although not enough to feed all 25 citizens, Brett brought finger sandwiches, Joy brought some fancy flatbread, Mille brought fancy little cakes and pastries, The Undertaker brought some bone shaped biscuits, and Adamon brought some mushroom risotto. For drinks, Jonathan brought over several pitchers of lemonade, enough for everyone at the party and then some.

Nandor also brought ice cubes and Misfire brought one (1) lemon.

If anyone is hesitant about coming, Jonathan will gently find them and tell them that the party "really means a lot to him", with added details about the true nature of the party if they are still resistant. There were really only two people he was keeping this a secret from.

Just before five o'clock hits, Jonathan finds himself looking increasingly nervous. Anxiously tapping the table, looking around for anything suspicious, and taking a quick swig from his flask that he got from the pool to calm his nerves. For those who think that this is just a garden party, this might not exactly look like the most normal behavior ever.

It's a few minutes past five and, once Jonathan does one last look around to make sure everyone is here, he gently taps his glass of lemonade with a spoon and stands up, clearing his throat.]

Thank you all for coming to the party! I have told this to a few of us, but I was not entirely honest when I wrote the invitation. While, yes, part of my motivation is to grow more familiar with the rest of the citizens here, my true purpose is much more vital. I organized this meeting so we can discuss how to escape from this prison the Mayor has placed us in, and I intend to do so before any casualties occur.

I do not want to burden everyone with the details of my life, but I had been held captive before, and I know the horrors of letting my captor know of my escape plans, and that is why I had to be secretive about this. I do not want our opportunities for escape to close because we let it slip that we're trying to leave, and I ask everyone to be similarly secretive about this.

But, on the bright side, we have the numbers I didn't have back at the Castle, and I am confident with our combined efforts we can overthrow the Mayor and get back to our homes before too long!

[And with that, Jonathan sits back down in order to begin the meeting in earnest!]

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Comments

[specialyellthing]

I've been toyin' with the radio, tryin' to see what I can pick up. Got a channel with a bunch of unfamiliar music, but not much else. But the fact that we can connect to anything is impressive.

It's gotta be either comin' from down here, or be a real impressive signal.

[pairtner]

Not exactly. Using submarines as an example, VLF radio waves (3–30 kHz) can penetrate seawater to a few tens of meters and a submarine at shallow depth can use them to communicate. A deeper vessel can use a buoy equipped with an antenna on a long cable.

We don't know how deep this location is, or if it's in an ocean in the first place -- but the point is that radio signal reaching us is not as astounding as long as the right setup exists.

[thanks wikipedia]

[specialyellthing]

My radio trainin' may be a little outta date. [She's sheepish as she admits it-- Oracle had all the brains to handle that part of things in the Birds, so Zinda hadn't bothered digging too far into how everything worked in modern day.]

[pairtner]

Don't feel like you should know the latest about it. I have benefitted from having...a lot of information at hand about many topics, where I come from.

[She's full of so many facts and concepts and interjects so often in her partner's conversations with suspects and the such to explain things like fractals, urban legends, and other miscellaneous things. Apparently not being with her partner doesn't mean this behavior stops, haha]

[prompocalypse]

You know, sometimes they put ciphers in music. Might not be worth the effort but maybe there's something to it.

[inaclearing]

Could you play the music for all of us? Maybe one of us will recognize it. I know I've recognized a few things here that a lot of people probably didn't.

[he's thinking about "maybelline"]

[specialyellthing]

Oh! Sure, hang on, lemme find the channel again -- [Time to fiddle with it---

Oh. There we go. She finally pauses on the right channel, and oh its the same song as before we got double lucky]

[inaclearing]

Ah, more jazz covers. It's like the song they were playing when we woke up - not the original version. I guess they're really committed to this whole aesthetic.