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Shannon chooses to either {{anchor|The Rum Colony|go to the Rum Colony bar}} or {{anchor|The Mucky Mammoth 3|browse the ''Mammoth'''s video collection}}.
[[File:Mucky Mammoth cabin draftlower deck.jpgpng|thumb|right|''CATE: The nice thing about the story cliff is you can start reading anywhere you want. There's no ''beginning'' or ''end'', just a bunch of ''middle''.'']][[File:Echo River 2.png|thumb|right|''WILL: It's not usually on the ''lake'', though ... that was strange.'']]
=== The Mucky Mammoth ===
On board, Ezra makes observations from the captain's chair and Cate talks to him about the floating gas station, what the dials and gauges on the dashboard mean, and her home-brewed "[[wikipedia:kykeon|kykeon]] [[wikipedia:kombucha|kombucha]]." She tells him that she relies heavily on landmarks and lights, as compasses don't work well on the Echo. She tells him about the landmarks they've passed so far – Duck Island, the Lighthouse, and the Story Cliff. Noticing they should have passed Dinosaur Rock by now, but haven't, she sends Ezra to the map room to help Will update the charts.
[[File:Echo River 2.png|thumb|right|''WILL: It's not usually on the ''lake'', though ... that was strange.'']]
On his way there, Ezra records more sounds. He encounters Conway, who tells him that he doesn't use maps, and instead remembers roads using landmarks or asks for directions. After walking past Shannon, who is trying out Clara's [[wikipedia:theremin|theremin]], Ezra finds Will who asks him for information to update the charts, since locations on the river often end up shifting in position. As a thank you, he offers a selection of old maps charting underwater islands.
[[File:Phone 2.png|thumb|right|''NADIA: Maybe you know him better than I do, but ... I just don't believe anyone would really want to die alone.'']]
The phone rings and Shannon answers. [[James B. Carrington|Carrington]], if encountered in [[Act I]], is [[Wrongle|seen at a payphone]], carrying his signature pair of antlers, as a neon sign reading "Hard Times" illuminates the brick wall behind him. He says that he was trying to call a friend who is a lighting designer in Chicago, but believes the storm is affecting the phone lines. He asks Shannon for her help with his upcoming [[Death of the Hired Man|play]], which will be held at dawn in the location provided in [[Act II]]. Besides the fact the cast and stage crew are all delayed by the bad weather, he needs help on deciding how to show the image of the moon in the performance, as light is a central theme in [[wikipedia:Robert Frost|Frost]]'s original poem on which the play is based. Shannon suggests a solution – either a photo of the moon, an actor in costume, or telling the audience to close their eyes and imagine it – and he . He thanks her and says he hopes they will be able to make it to the premiere.
[[File:Dogs lounging.png|thumb|right|''If a few stray stones ended up at the bottom of Lake Lethe, too, we'll never know.'']]
=== The Mucky Mammoth ===
Will narrates the scene:
:''That right there is Ratliff Monuments, if you ever need a headstone carved ... for a loved one, I mean. The "showcase," a mock cemetery out front, was mostly washed away. […] If a few stray stones ended up at Young Earl is the bottom last of Lake Lethehis short line, tooprofessionally, weand there'll never knows nobody around qualified to carve his monument, so he's already claimed one of those at the bottom of the river for himself.''
The group either {{anchor|The Radvansky Center|stops at the Radvansky Center to earn some cash}} or {{anchor|The Mucky Mammoth 5|plays a card game aboard the boat}}.
=== The Radvansky Center ===
Security camera footage begins playing. Two employees, [[Mimi]] and [[Jenn]], watch and discuss the undated video tapes of the group's visit to the center, mentioning were discovered by their coworker [[Darryl]] along with old questionnaires that were never processed. The two read the group's completed questionnaires and reference them against the security footage they're viewing. In the first tape, Shannon wanders around a room to inspect a poster and bookcase before sitting down to answer written questions on the purpose of her visit, her first memory, descriptions of the items in the room she just looked at, etc. Upon seeing the name "Márquez" on Shannon's file, Mimi is taken aback, and recollects her time with [[WEVP-TV]], a community television station and cooperative forcibly-funded by the [[Consolidated Power Company]] which used to screen video art she created before it was demolished in a flood. She says that she hasn't heard of Shannon Márquez, but did know [[a ''Weaver '' Márquez]] , who worked at the station before leaving on "weird terms." As they switch to an extended monitoring tape showing the group's arrival at the dock, Jenn remarks that Conway looks like "one of those creepy distillery guys."
[[File:Radvansky Center draft.jpgpng|thumb|left|''MIMI: Weaver's video showed up again right before the flood. Actually, I think it might have been the last thing we ever broadcast.'']][[File:Radvansky Center 2.png|thumb|left|''MIMI: I just get this awful feeling whenever I see them. Like I knew them once, but not anymore ... like when they make up a dead person to look like an old photograph of themselves. <br />JENN: Sort of familiar, sort of strange. '']]
The next video shows a cat, [[Coconut]], who Jenn mentions disappeared from the center one day without a trace. Shannon walks over, underneath an archway, to feed Coconut. The video cuts to yet another room where Shannon listens to a tape of doors opening and closing, with a questionnaire asking her to recall her thoughts before and after listening to the recording. Mimi and Jenn switch to viewing an extended monitoring tape showing Will sitting in a waiting room; Mimi comments that he looks familiar, likely having worked at the university when she was an undergrad. Mimi recounts her time in college and her distressing final year in which her boyfriend, [[Charlie]], died suddenly by falling off a roof while back home visiting his [[:Category:Lysette's family|family]].
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The two pull into the entrance to the Echo River Central Exchange. Shannon sees [[Flora]] who has come to retrieve her paper boat. She reveals she drew a picture of Ezra inside it, and that it's traveled 250,000 miles. On the other side of the river, Shannon talks with Dashiell who is repairing old phones at a reception desk. He tells her about its history as a train station, reclaimed by the Bureau for the phone company after a flood. He mentions he works on wiring for WEVP in the Crystal Room, an underground area of resonant, amplifying rock formations where the cable signal is located. He says he used to work with Weaver, who handled archives, but doesn't know where she ended up and that she isn't too popular around the station anymore. For more information, he directs her to the Silo mail stop, where other volunteers are located.
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