DUNGEON LOG: KEYSTONE REEF

[phantasmods]

Expedition day dawns, as usual, with an android mass text -

Okay, so, this time we're aiming to go out and stabilize the Fissure in the reef you can see up a little to the north of here. The waters are usually pretty calm this time of year, so if you can swim instead of needing to take a boat, that'd be a great help. We only have a few of them.

Also, I know that last time was a mess, so I'm just gonna say this: If you need to get out for any reason, just send us a message and a picture of your location. We'll get a drone out to you as soon as we can and bring you home. No questions asked.

( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/ Stay safe out there! When you're ready to go, meet us down at the beach. The rocky, sparkly one, not the sandy one.

Unlike previous expeditions, this time there's no rooftop sendoff - instead, as Charm noted, the tables are set up on Glitterstone beach, along with a series of boats pulled up on the sand. Two rowboats that could maybe sit six people but probably better suited for four, a trio of inflatable rafts (with motors attached to the back, all mismatched) of about the same size, a two-person dinghy and a long canoe that could hold two or three.

Besides the little fleet, there's also the usual bagged lunches (in gallon ziplocs this time, and other such watertight containers), and every boat is equipped with a large number of those chepa dollar-store water bottles, all with their airtight store seals. There's also a selection of life vests and other floatation thingies in a box next to the table. Strange hovers over the setup, checking watertightness of a handful of first aid kits with a spritzer and a bucket to submerge things in. They give a little wave to anyone passing by headed to the boats.

For those who opt instead to swim, everything seems perfectly normal until you reach the border of the Fissure... When, very suddenly, it isn't.

Comments

[dubiouslychthonic]

[Jetshard grins - she's not the sort to take the risks directly herself, but, well, she's inclined to stand a little too close for the sake of watching the fireworks.] I hadn't thought there were still any around, but from what I gather, the set Lightweb uses are an ancestral heirloom. I've seen her in action with them enough times to be very glad to be able to count her as an ally rather than an enemy.

[riderofcharlemagne]

[Every dramatic risk-taker needs someone to stand by and watch, and possibly enable them too.]

I hope I might be lucky enough to see them in action, someday. Or better yet, have the chance to wield something like that myself.

[It'd obviously be a great idea.]

[dubiouslychthonic]

[Look, it's what happens when you're raised by mothman, you develop a taste for watching disasters happen.]

Well, if I ever find anything of the sort, I'll pass them along to you. I've already got one card in my strife portfolio I'm not sure how to use, I don't need to add dicekind to the mix.

[riderofcharlemagne]

I knew I could count on you!

[Thumbs up.]

By the way- you'll have to explain to me how your weaponry works.

[Cards?? Portfolios??]

[dubiouslychthonic]

How - oh, no, the weaponry's pretty straightforward, it's just the inventory system I use to keep mine at hand that's complicated. [Weaponry, medical sharps, a fucking clarinet. Same difference.]

[riderofcharlemagne]

Oh- so you can have one without the other?

[Not that he'd object to a complicated inventory system.]

[dubiouslychthonic]

Have you seen me using my sylladex? The strife portfolio is part of that - it's a shortcut that lets me retrieve weapons without going through the whole fetch modus interface.

[riderofcharlemagne]

Aah, I see. [Nodding.] It's like that, huh. I understand everything now.

[Doesn't get it at all.]