Episode 2: Week 6
Opening Static noise
Gabe:
Hello?
Is anyone out there?
I’m broadcasting again
I really can’t be the only survivor so if you’re out there
…
Okay
My name is Gabriel Blythe
I’m in the greater salt lake area
I’m trying to reach out to anyone who might be…
Cognitive of what I’m saying.
The people on the street they seem..
They seem docile.
Not like you would see on TV
They’re pretty chill!
I mean..
Most serials and films say they should be…
Well you know
Aggressive and trying to attack you
I don’t even want to call them…
You know the Zed word
It seems
Degrading
Since they are people.
And seeing them as people
Makes me think that all of them walking around out there aimlessly.
Will snap out of it!
Knights!
Maybe this will just be fixed like people waking up from a coma
Just
Snaps fingers
magically
Like this is something we just go through and think
“well that was weird”
Everything was fine in the end and they’ll just say it was a small thing, just a blip.
King and country maybe it’s just localized here.
Then we wouldn’t have to meet up in the end.
You cause it’s all just temporary!
Well you know what they say:
Plan for the worst hope for the best and all that.
But I don’t know if anyone actually planned for this
Not even those preppers could have planned for this.
Could they?
No
I mean, how could you plan to be all alone at the end of the…
At the end of the….
Sighs
If I say it out loud it feels just extra real
Never mind living it for so long
Wait a minute.
How long has it been?
Six weeks I think maybe/
Maybe, two months?
It’s hard to keep track of time.
Ok ok back to business Gabe.
OK
If you can hear my broadcast
If you can hear my broadcast, I'll be at the stadium just off of Main Street, just sitting in the middle of the field, real easy to spot me.
I'm trying to reach out to you so we can meet up and work together.
I I have a lot of questions, but mostly, I'm just lonely, and it can't be healthy being alone for so long.
Sigh
So, I'll be there Wednesday tomorrow from noon to about 1800 hours or midday to, you know, sundown.
frustrated sigh
Now that I have, I have this hope that I could meet someone, it is a bit easier to keep track of the days.
So that's that's something.
Right?
At first,
I- I appreciated the silence.
You know?
The lack of responsibility and no social obligation or norms to follow.
I didn't do anything crazy, mind you.
Just felt nice to not have to do anything.
Nothing expected of you.
But now it's several weeks with no communication, no dialogue with anyone.
I I kinda miss people.
Ugh Never thought I'd hear myself saying that, but you know where we are right now.
It makes sense that you're bound to change.
I guess you can figure I'm I'm I'm pretty introverted.
Laughs
Thus, all this mindless rambling.
Unfortunately for you, I can't read your facial expressions to know if I'm bothering you or not.
I can just sit here and talk your ear off, assuming you are hanging on every word and enjoying this fascinating conversation about what's going on.
Well, that was dumb.
Stupid gabe.
I'm sorry.
I don't really know - I don't really know how to hold a conversation, especially that's this one-sided. But if you wanna meet up and not be alone, great transition gabe, real real smooth.
We can meet Wednesday, and I'm already repeating myself.
Maybe I should wrap it up.
I - I don't know what I'm saying anymore.
I'm just rambling away.
Sighs
Oh!
You don't have to worry about the battery dying on me this time though.
That's nice.
I found more cells and I was able to string them together.
I even found some more panels.
Surprisingly, it takes a lot of power to get this up and going and I'm getting distracted again.
Listen, if you need help or support or food I have food.
I have water, and I'm I'm making this space a little more bearable day by day.
I don't know why we're the ones not affected by what happened in the event.
Oh, man.
There's gotta be a better name.
Regardless, you don't have to be alone even though a lot of what's going on makes it feel like you're supposed to be.
Right now, it's safe.
The people, the the zed words, they're not hostile, and you can just walk right by them.
They don't they don't notice you.
If we can meet, we can start working together to make something better and start working on making things as they were.
I'm just rambling again.
I keep trying to figure out how to end this, but I'm not used to any form of conversations.
I'm sorry.
Okay, here we go, Gabe.
Ending it officially.
Psych up breathing.
I'm going to put this message on repeat, and I'm going to blast it over and over again.
And then monitor all the frequencies well, the ones I can monitor and the ones I have access to.
I'll monitor those every morning from 9 to 11 AM.
2 hours to tell me how I can help you.
You deserve help too.
You you deserve that.
You deserve help.
Don't let this isolation tell you anything less.
I hope to see you tomorrow, Wednesday.
So this is Gabe? Over and out.
Well, that's stupid.
Good thing no one heard you. Right? Yeah... That's the thinking that'll get you out of this.
Sighs and turns off signal with a click
