Radio “Voice of the Wasteland”
Hear my words and bear witness to my vow! Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my... Wait, that was for something else. Murch is here, your sentinel of the abandoned radio station in the middle of the mountains, and this is the new episode of “Voice of the Wasteland”.
Option number two was chosen, but we will approach the plan’s execution a little from afar. Because today’s episode begins with an unusual experiment, specifically with a top comment about the previous episode (spelling and punctuation are preserved):
“Like if you're so inconspicuous that you can take a picture from under the subject’s wheels”
Sometimes it seems to me that you are here only for my super-detailed photos of armoured vehicles and a red envelope. Why do you think I set up all these camera traps? To mention them in the text and simply forget about them afterwards? It took more than a week to install them. Or maybe you don’t understand how boring and lonely it can be here at times? You actually begin to get into the camera traps installment? So let me tell you.
- First you go to a local village and find the first camera trap in a pile of junk.
- Then you break it when you try to figure out what you are holding in your hands.
- You pay for your mistakes with coins.
- You dig out another one and this time you act more carefully.
- In total, you find a dozen of these traps from the owner. Apparently they were packed in the same package once. At least they look similar.
- You bring them to the radio station and lay them out in front of you.
- You dismantle them and examine the broken apparatus.
- You begin to understand how it works.
- You learn that the traps require film.
- You’re dragging yourself to the market again. Fortunately, things are not bad with the film in the villages nearby. Maybe there was once a film storage nearby? Who knows.
- You set up camera traps along the perimeter around the station at a distance of about a meter and for almost a week you just try to take a picture of anything.
- To be more specific, you manage to take a picture right away. But how do you know that everything is working as it should when you don’t have a single soul around? Run around the camera traps, trying to trigger them.
- Of all the functions, you manage to find only triggering for movement and shaking. Your knowledge ends there. And you don’t need more than that, really.
- For some time, you specifically look for, order, ask all the merchants about these camera traps (the merchants already recognize you as a guy buying some nonsense).
- Then you stretch the whole net along the mountain slopes around. One under a stone, another one on a ledge and you hit a sandstone to get a fracture to install another one.
- When you think that something interesting has fallen into the trap, you go to the trap.
- You open it, covering it with a rag from direct sunlight. You take out the film.
- You take the film to the station for developing.
- But you can’t do the same with all cameras, as uninvited guests of not the most friendly kind hang out nearby.
- So, you make a decision about the place that should be monitored in order to understand whether that camera trap will be triggered from close movement or not.
- At night you will have to crawl and risk yourself in order to simply publish something in a new episode.
And someone will say “why the trouble, just take a picture of what you need through binoculars”, to which I will respond “then I wouldn’t be able to show you this”.
Well, survivors. What are we going to observe this week?
- Road to the mountain in the south;
- Road to the mountain in the east;
- Plateau, already occupied by a group of strangers;
- Anything at all;
- My own closet.