C3 - Tailies' Camp - Shore and Water

[Hollywood Heidi]

Shore and Water of Tailie Survivors

Location found in box C3 below:

Each box is 3 miles by 3 miles. It takes an hour to walk 3 miles. But also keep in mind that hiking (like that really steep hill to get to higher ground) will take a heck of a lot longer and that if you're running (like from some jungle thing), that you'll get somewhere faster.

[Lady Lee-o]

DAY ONE

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The turbulence shook the entire plane for several minutes before the plane started to go down. Masks fell from overhead, people panicking but for the tail section, terror grew. The tail section of the plane started to break off and the wind tore people from their seats- the tail section of the plane crashes into the water, survivors swim to shore. Several people dive back in to save those who can't save themselves.

CPR is performed on a young girl; Emma, her life is saved.

10 minutes after the crash, Goodwin rushes out of the jungle calling for help to rescue Bernard from a tree.
They rescue him from the tree.

Goodwine builds a signal fire


Bernard asks Eko if found an "African-American Woman" among the bodies, referring to his wife, whom he can't find; Eko tells him no, but he will pray for her and for their rescue.

That night, three of the adults are taken and Eko kills two of the Others with a rock when they try to take him. From that night on, he refuses to speak.

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DAY TWO

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The tailies discover they are not alone on the Island.

As penance for his act of murder, Eko begins a vow of silence and arms himself with a stick. People discuss the best way to avoid kidnap (by the Others) is to set up camp somewhere else.

Cindy explains that chances of rescue are poor because the plane was traveling in the wrong direction for 2 hours before crashing.

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DAY THREE

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The tail-section survivors search desperately for food.

Donald is close to being the 4th to die from the badly wounded.

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DAY FOUR

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TBT

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DAY FIVE

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Donald dies and is buried on the beach.

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DAY SIX

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TBT

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DAY SEVEN

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The tailies catch a chicken.


Libby tries conversing with Eko, in vain.

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DAY EIGHT

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TBT

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Fellow Tailies can help fill in the blanks with what their character(s) were doing For the last eight days. 

[Hollywood Heidi]

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Day 12

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[Ariel]

Ripples broke out around Harley-Rae as her head emerged from below the ocean's surface, filling her lungs with air once more. Bringing her hand to her forehead, she pushed her dripping red curls out of her face as she stared out into the never ending blue abyss of water that appeared to go on for thousands of miles. No sign of boats. No signs of surrounding islands. No signs of life. She sighed with slight disappointment as she didn't know what she was expecting to find out here. Peering down through the crystal clear water at her sand engulfed toes, she saw some sort of object half buried in the sand by her feet. With stark curiosity, Harley bent down and reaching her hand into the water she retrieved the object. Bronze with rust, the object appeared to be a flattened can of some sorts with a strange octagon symbol stamped in the middle of it. Harley tried to make sense of it, yet there were no words. Peering over her shoulder at the beach, she spotted Derek. If anyone would know what this symbol meant, surely it would be him. She waded through the water back to the beach in Derek's direction as she studied the strange looking symbol some more.

"Morning Professor," Harley greeted Derek as she stepped foot back onto dry land, "Out for a stroll?" She asked, grabbing the towel she had placed on the beach and began to dry herself off.

[DarkSideCookie]

With his black leather jacket casually shouldered, Derek had decided to go on a walk along the beach this morning. An interesting finding of his yesterday's routine had kept him busy for a whole day, although, in the end, he had to come to the conclusion of actually have found nothing but a piece of igneous glass which still meant an interesting finding but nothing to push his private little research about this island any forward. Plus it had caused only more aggravation of the situation with the tiny police lady. They hadn't bandied any words with each other since the last time he had made the mistake to make an approach to her by actually his own free will, but sometimes looks were speaking volumes. And oh my god, her looks were able to speak a whole collection of them.

Derek's low speed allowed him to clear his mind with every step he did. He liked to make a walk like this whenever he felt like he was overfraught with theories or thoughts of any sort. Just him, his steps and the nature around.

"Morning Professor,""Out for a stroll?", suddenly a familiar voice spoke up to him.

Derek turned his head to the side to face the young yoga lady who seemed to just have come out of the water. He actually hadn't noticed her before, just as he hadn't noticed that he'd almost trod on her towel.

"Good morning, Harley.", he replied with a smile. He could have told her to just call him by his first name instead of Professor, but then again, he actually liked to get called by his professor title a little too much. "Yes - uh - a stroll is always good to restart your mind. Just like a matutinal swim, isn't it?", he added with a flirty smile. The flirty attitude was simply part of his nature so he couldn't help it, irrespective of age differences. An attitude that never had him encountered disapproval though. As a matter of fact, he always thought to have attracted rather approval even. But despite all that, Derek never had crossed the line of decorum. Any morally questionable flirt, especially when it had affected the teacher-student relation, had been just a flirt. Well, that had been before he'd met his ex-wife in one of his lectures some years ago...

[Ariel]

"Yes - uh - a stroll is always good to restart your mind. Just like a matutinal swim, isn't it?"

"Nothing like a dip in the ocean to cleanse and recharge the mind and soul," Harley smiled sweetly at Derek as she continued to dry herself off before tossing her towel to the side, "But speaking of minds, I was hoping the grand one sitting in your pretty head could help me solve a mystery," Harley's glowing red locks brushed against her cheek as she peered down to the flattened, rusted can in her hand before handing it over to Derek, "I found it in the ocean. It's got a strange symbol on it, I was hoping you might have some sort of idea of what it might mean?" Harley cocked her head to the side in puzzlement as she watched the professor examine the peculiar object.

[DarkSideCookie]

"But speaking of minds, I was hoping the grand one sitting in your pretty head could help me solve a mystery,"

He would have lied if he said this wasn't music to his ears because who actually didn't like to get a compliment like that. This was not about him though. She seemed to be needing his help and he was willing to offering it. Actually, Harley had come out as the nicest person around. Everyone else was demanding something of him while she just asked nicely. The tiny police lady really could learn a thing or two from her.

Derek wordlessly received the can from her, turning it around in silent amazement before it was the symbol right in the middle of it that got his full attention.

"I found it in the ocean. It's got a strange symbol on it, I was hoping you might have some sort of idea of what it might mean?"

"This is called a Bagua.", Derek finally started to explain the symbol in general. "It's a feng shui related thing. The solid and broken line combinations mean different things which basically are linked to astronomical events of the sixth millennium BC." Actually, he could have go on telling her everything he knew about this really old existing symbol but that would have gone beyond the scope of her actual question about the strange symbol on it which he assumed to be meant the one in the middle.

"Usually there's the Yin and Yang symbol in the middle of it but this..." He made another pause in which his thumb was tracing along the uncommon part before he suddenly stated rather tersely: "I've no idea what this part in the center means. I'm sorry."

[Ariel]

"This is called a Bagua.""Usually there's the Yin and Yang symbol in the middle of it but this..."  


Harley eagerly listened as Derek explained the meaning of the symbol. Intelligence truly was of a second nature to this man, and Harley envied how he always made knowing the facts look so damn easy. Her eyes followed his movements as he traced his thumb along the printed symbol on the metal, as he appeared to be just as intrigued as she was.

"I've no idea what this part in the center means. I'm sorry."


Harley didn't react to his apology, for she wasn't the slightest bit disappointing. If anything, she was more captivated by this mysterious find than before.

"It's strange, isn't it? To find something like this on a deserted shoreline?" Harley took a few steps closer towards Derek before looking left and right over her shoulders to see if anyone else was around before addressing the professor once more but in a lowered voice, "Do you think it's possible that we're not the only ones here on this island?" If this new revelation was to be true, then Harley everything that they knew thus far was about to change drastically.

[DarkSideCookie]

"It's strange, isn't it? To find something like this on a deserted shoreline?" Derek's attention was still aimed at the can in his hand, primarily at the symbol in the middle of it.

"Do you think it's possible that we're not the only ones here on this island?"

Her sudden question about them possibly not being alone here on this island made his gaze turn upwards all of a sudden. For a moment he was giving her a thoughtful expression before he finally shrugged his shoulders and answered with a sudden coolness: "Well, a lot is possible. But if there really is something like an old cult living in the jungle... don't you think they would do anything to fight off people like us who, in their eyes, are breaking in their territory? Means..."

Derek leaned a little closer towards Harley although there was nobody around who could hear them anyway. "Let's better not play detectives fishing in foreign waters." He sensed that she was as curious as he was and that was actually what made him worry, because he would never be able to forgive himself to have supported just that when something happened to her.

[Ariel]

"Well, a lot is possible. But if there really is something like an old cult living in the jungle... don't you think they would do anything to fight off people like us who, in their eyes, are breaking in their territory? Means..."
"Let's better not play detectives fishing in foreign waters."

Harley knew Derek was right in the fact that if they truly were not the only people alive on this island and if they investigated further than they would most likely find themselves get caught in a web full of trouble. But their findings opened a can of so many questions and pondering thoughts - their own safety included.

"After what I experienced the other day in the jungle, there is no doubt that it would be a foolish idea to gather the scooby gang into the mystery machine and head back out there," Harley agreed with Derek as she shed some more light of concern, "Do you think we should be worried? About something - or someone coming after us?" Harley felt that the item which they were holding onto was now proof that there was much more to this place than meets the eye, it was no longer just based off of a negative energy that she couldn't possibly describe to someone of science rather than faith.

[DarkSideCookie]

"After what I experienced the other day in the jungle, there is no doubt that it would be a foolish idea to gather the scooby gang into the mystery machine and head back out there,"

Derek was glad that she was agreeing. Of course, he would like nothing better than to dig deeper into this matter but he wouldn't want anybody to get hurt just because of his scientific curiosity. And so he replied her statement with no more than a confirming nod. Harley was a smart young woman, but he also sensed the same dangerous urge to explore in her that he'd had since he was a little boy and had gotten this set of research tool for kids on his seventh birthday.

"Do you think we should be worried? About something - or someone coming after us?"

Maybe it was just this fact of feeling solidarity towards her, almost like seeing himself back in the days when he had been tutoring at Athen University, that caused him to give her, or rather himself at that, a sudden promise. "We should be careful beyond all question, but be sure that I won't allow anything - or anyone to harm you." As he had the feeling that this whole conversation had been starting to sound a little too much like the teaser for a new teenage horror movie, Derek added slightly smirking: "But let's not naysay. Maybe we're all just a little overstretched." Inwardly he was far away from believing in his own words though, since curiosity had taken on a life on its own already.

"Uh - do you mind if I borrow this for a second?", Derek suddenly added, still holding the can she had found in his hands.

[Ariel]

"We should be careful beyond all question, but be sure that I won't allow anything - or anyone to harm you."  "But let's not naysay. Maybe we're all just a little overstretched."

"You're right," Harley nodded as she let out a light sighed of slight comfort knowing that she had Derek's support and that they were able to settle on a conclusion of reason amidst their alluring theories that had been brewing in their minds, "I'm sure it's means nothing more than someone's ancient supper." 

"Uh - do you mind if I borrow this for a second?"

"It's all yours, Professor," Harley chimed as she bent down to whisk her towel from the oceanfront ground which they conversed on, "I should go find my sister. Maybe find a mall somewhere," She snickered softly behind her rosy lips that pursed into a grin, "Let me know if you find anything more on our little discovery. Have yourself a good morning!" Harley backed up slowly up the beach, holding her towel against her chest with one arm she waved goodbye to Derek with the other before turning to return back to the camp.

*** Harley exits ***

[DarkSideCookie]

"It's all yours, Professor,"

"Many thanks. I promise to give it back.", Derek stated with a smile. And so he would, for it was not his intention to collect stuff but to study it.

"I should go find my sister. Maybe find a mall somewhere,""Let me know if you find anything more on our little discovery. Have yourself a good morning!"

"Same to you, Harley.", he replied with a wave back to her before his attention got drawn back to the can in his hands, his thumb tracing once more along the middle part of it. That symbol...

For the rest of the day, Derek spent his time examining every angle and every edge of the girl's find, every now and then writing something down inside the raddled diary he was always carrying with him, while whispering thoughts to himself.

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[Hollywood Heidi]

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The rest of Day 13 and all of Day 14

pass by fairly uneventfully. It is now:



Day 15 - Mid-Day

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[Hollywood Heidi]

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The rest of Day 15 passes by. It is now:


Day 16 - Morning


Thursday, October 7, 2004

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