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Aye and Genea land in Frostpunk
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"I'm Aye!"

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"Genea."

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"Welcome, as much of a welcome as an icy snowfield is. So, will you two help us? There are hundreds of souls depending on our finding and securing the generator."

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"I'm very helpful!"

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She's liked these people, but they should probably - "We can help with work, and protecting people - from elements or hunger, also. If we need to fight we should probably know more."

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"I have every hope fighting will not be necessary. Depending on how powerful you are - the answer seems to be very, which is very slightly worrying, I will admit - with your help perhaps we can even go back, save the Lords or other refugees as well. It'd be the decent thing to do."

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Nod. "That's - very good of you."

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"I'm all for saving people! Also powerful."

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"You have no reason to trust it, but you don't need to worry."

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"We all do what we can, don't we? It brought us this far. How much can you teleport? Limit on number of targets? On weight? How far? How much can you heat? What else can you do?"

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If she does one maximum-distance teleport (while saving for emergencies), such-and-such far. If she spaces it out a little, a bit more. That's for about a day, though she doesn't think she can keep that up literally forever. Or at least not at home.

"Don't know exactly, would need to try. Think I can go less far with more people? Or weight. Probably trades off till I wouldn't be able to get much of anywhere.

Like, if I just stand around making it hot, or the way I did it back there?

Scrying, crops stuff, wards. Energy blasts, fire. Pretty good on endurance, so if you need someone to walk into a blizzard or climb a mountain they might fall off or spend a few hours underwater or something I can do that. ...Guess the last one's not really endurance. Healing. Pulling water out of the air, if that comes up for some reason. Some mind stuff - I'm not going to grab people without permission but I can do it. I can talk in people's heads if I get to know them some - and them to me back. Languages - that's why I'm talking yours. Probably more things, go ahead and ask if you want. Probably more things than know."

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"Water won't be an issue, I think. Getting people and supplies to the generator sooner might be the best thing you can do for us, but I want to learn a bit more before calling it... I was thinking permanent, or at least sustained, heat, like a fire. If you can do that in place of pouring coal into the generator, it will leave more hands for other work, and there's plenty of work. Endurance would be helpful for scouts... Mental effects. Hmm. Can you communicate with people over long distances? Can you find people?"

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"I can do more heat like I did back there. Can make it last longer if I'm at it longer. 

Oh, endurance is mostly just me, though maybe I can help with something in there.

Longer than shouting, yes. Longer if I know them more than not. Maybe if I like them? Not sure. Very long and I'll need to set it up on both ends and it won't be instant, but can do.

I found you? Don't think I could find literally anything, don't know exactly where the limits go. Someone lost?"

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"I don't think so, nobody's lost yet. There are a lot of interesting possibilities... But I think for now, transport is the most urgent one. I think you should teleport most of us and most of our supplies to the generator, if you can find it - I can describe it pretty well, if that helps, and we know where it should be, on this map. Once we're there, we can start building. A few of us should keep hiking and mark the trail, just in case. And then if you still have some potential for the day, perhaps you should go back to the boats and help them teleport people and supplies off, and move inland. What do you think?"

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"Map should help, yep. How far's it suppose to be?"

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"Eighty-five miles inland. Maybe down to seventy-five as the crow flies."

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Fortunately it seems like he knows about how far distances mean, so she can translate those back and forth too. 

"And who'd I be taking?"

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"Everyone here except Raolf, Kenny, Genevieve, Leanne, and Fraiser, and all our packs. There should be building supplies there."

Those five people helpfully raise their hands and separate out a bit. It leaves 28 people-to-be-teleported, each carrying a big backpack, a few dragging sleds loaded with stuff too.

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"Think I can do that! Map? Generator?"

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"Excellent. We can get started on building about four days early..."

Here is the map.

"The Generator is a giant cylindrical structure made of metal, pipes and tubes, and a large spherical boiler at the core. Taller than ten of us, and about thirty feet across. It should be in a wide pit in the ice, perhaps with scrap and debris surrounding it. I can draw a sketch if you need it."

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She looks at the map. "Let's try scrying! Might be a little, don't worry." In lieu of calling up water, this time she lies down on her back on the snow and closes her eyes.

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There's a lot of frozen wasteland. There are even a lot of big metal machines and buildings in this frozen wasteland.

There's something that fits the description of the Generator, surrounded by fallen trees, ice, and a few piles of debris and wreckage. Cold and abandoned.

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She jumps up again, makes her water screen, calls up the Generator image on it. "This it?"

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"That's it! I've seen the plans, but seeing it for real... Oh, it's almost in reach. Salvation from this damned cold. Hear that, everyone?" There is a ragged cheer.

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"Alright! Everyone going to generator-land, come over here. Everyone else, don't do that."

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