hadriel | Text Notification/Report #1

Attention: Hadriel Residents
Subject: Additional Phone Applications

Please find attached two additional applications for the phones:

[1] Clock. I have spent the last 26 days timing the light intensify and de-intensify periods. Despite the imprecision of my tools (and the impediment of the fog for that period), I am 92.58% confident that the current settings are accurate. I observed 17 hours of light, 7 of dark. The light intensifies and de-intensifies at apparently the same time each day. The days are not getting longer or shorter, which is perhaps unsurprising, given the light does not imitate the movements of the/a sun. As such, I have set the clock such that light intensify ('sunrise') begins at 04:30 and light de-intensify ('sunset') begins at 21:30. I will continue to monitor and make updates as necessary.
Other features: Timer, Stopwatch, Alarm.

[2] Pedometer. The hardware of these phones contains composite sensors enabling step detection and counting, as reliant on the accelerometer. This 'app' when active will do as its title suggests: count your steps. It will also calculate distance traveled. That feature has been less accurate in testing, but suffices for an approximation. You may reset and/or save a record of both as you like. If you download the clock, it will reset each day at 00:00 and keep a record of the previous day's activity, with the number of days stored theoretically limitless.

Both applications permit user choice between constant background service and activity on selection alone. Obviously I recommend the former for the clock in particular, but it will sync via the network upon opening should you choose the latter and close then open it.

Final notes: If you have no use for either or both, then do not download them. There is no need to comment to that effect.

Admittedly, the daily reset and recording of steps and distance may be especially frivolous. I doubt any of you are on a fitness track. I added it because such applications tend to have that feature and for organization's sake. You may also turn that off. If for whatever daft reason you want that, but not the clock, too bad. I could do it, but at that point, you might as well download the clock.

Please do comment if you have any serious suggestions.

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[ ooc: Posts/permissions re: clock app (note certain idiosyncrasies re: the alarm and time format), pedometer ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Sent members of the guard out to greet the newcomers and make sure they won't die needlessly, patrol the perimeter of the city, and reinforce the barricades.

[ Hermann nods. From the debriefings on the previous 'events', it wasn't as though they could do much more. How could the guard prepare for half the population waking buried alive? They'd put sensors in the ocean, at the breach, at many points, gathering constant data, but even if such technology could be done, it likely would be too late for anything meaningful.

They are forced to be reactive, over all. Little wonder that girl had been driven to desperate, foolish action. ]

Have any newcomers died? One would think Mr. Hope would have put something in place in the coliseum, knowing that monsters arrive just as regularly.

Only injured thus far. [Needless to say, they've been lucky. That won't last.] That would require him to care about our welfare beyond his own convenience.

Well -- [ the slight smirk ] -- Someone might suggest it is for his convenience, as he does oblige by resurrecting us. I suppose he has his hands full pushing them out of the city, but some sort of guardian or defense wouldn't be remiss.

That's not a bad idea. [Maketh considers it.] It would go better if I was not the one to suggest it, though. Would you be willing to bring it up?

[ An odd thing to say, from someone who had received the god's blessing. There's a question in the angle of his brow, the crease, but he doesn't ask it. ]

Certainly. I may need to speak with him regardless. If we put together a decent guide application, I think it would be of most use if it was already on the phones. As his message is, he seems to be the one to ask.

When I do, what sort of thing should I request for the purpose of coliseum defense?

A sort of "safe zone" for the new arrivals, so they have a chance to collect their bearings. [She answers immediately. It's the simplest choice. The threats they face are so wide ranging that a single defensive maneuver would fail to cover them all. If Hope agrees, then Maketh supposes he can find a way to see it through.]

[ A thoughtful nod.

Despite having perused the bestiary, there's no way to predict with certainty what beast may come through with the new arrivals. He and Newton had spent an awful lot of time analyzing the kaiju, recommending offensive and defensive upgrades to the Jaegers and defense systems.

It is similar and dissimilar -- a wall would not have worked, despite the hopes of politicians, the public, and ~~his father~~ scientists alike, because of the certainty in the numbers, that the kaiju would only be bigger, more frequent, stronger, better. He knows enough of how little he knows to likewise hypothesize that any particular offensive or defensive tool would be likely be inadequate.

A 'safe zone' is rather like a wall, but different enough, as are the circumstances, to make it the most practical proposal. Furthermore, ]

As he does a similar sort of thing with the city itself, that sort of thing sounds like it ought to be in his capability. Of course, the response might be, he does that already, he's already trying to push them out -- but even when he had less control, he'd had strength in his temple.

That is, perhaps we could offer as an exchange, to set up a sort of mini-shrine for him in the coliseum. Perhaps he could better protect that as a safe zone.

[Maketh nods slowly.] And it could be incorporated into our patrols. If we could narrow done the area where the newcomers are dumped, even by a small margin, the guard would be much more effective in dealing with them when the time comes.

A more organized, welcoming experience for all.

[ Musing. While he doubts anyone fresh arrived would feel hopeful, no matter how much they strove to improve the transition, they might at least feel less despair, rage, confusion, and fear, than they currently do.

That should appeal to the god. ]

Yes, I'll message him, I think. Perhaps, so to consolidate, when I've a better idea of the look of a guide application.

[ There's likely not time to arrange it before the next batch, in any case, with three days remaining. ]

[Maketh nods.]

Let me know if you need any help. It's a worthy venture.

I will, thank you. Though, access to your reports with clear directives as to what may and may not be published on the network would be more than enough.

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