DUNGEON LOG: KEYSTONE SHORE

[phantasmods]

The morning of the 9th, everyone will get a message sent to their communication devices -

Okay, guys! I think we have enough stabilizers to try and get the shoreline stable. If you want to help out, grab your supplies and come on up to the roof!

When characters arrive at the roof, they'll find Top - with a wheeling table full of many copies of the same odd-looking device - the two exploratory drones, and a ramp down off the roof to the ground. (The latter looks a little hastily constructed.)

"Okay," Top says, picking up one of the devices. "Here's the stabilizers. Stick them to walls and stuff - mostly out of the way places where they're not going to get knocked off - and then press the buttons along the side."

They demonstrate, unfolding the set of legs at one end of the device before showing the buttons to anyone who's close enough. "Go ahead and take a couple, especially if you've got one of those space-saving inventories going on, I know there's like four of you with those? Strange got some first aid kits together, too, if you want."

Sure enough, another table nearby has the med kits... As well as traditional paper bag lunches, courtesy of Bottom. Don't question it too much.

"We'll be staying back here to keep track of the stabilization progress and work the drones," Top says, "but don't hesitate to call if you get in trouble! We'll send one of these guys down to get you an evac if you need it."

And with that, you're free to go down the ramp... Or to make for the beach however else you might choose to go.

Comments

[riderofcharlemagne]

Mar 10, Day, Tempest Seacaves

[Perhaps someone less excitable than Astolfo would be better suited for navigating this place- if he were someone calmer and more collected, there wouldn't be such a sizable wind barreling through the caverns.

As annoying as it is to keep having his cape and hair blown back into his face, he continues to gleefuly explore eastwards of the caves, admiring the glowing crystals and dropping a transmitter here and there.]

Isn't this place cool? These crystals are so pretty!

Mar 11, Night, Glitterstone beach

[In the later hours, Astolfo can be found wandering up and down the water's edge, occasionally splashing his feet around when the tide comes to meet him. He looks out onto the ocean, water pooling around his ankles.]

Ah, it'd be so nice to go for a swim right now.

March 11th

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Maaaaybe in slightly safer waters. I'm no Sirene.

[Pidonus had walked, this time, her steps more-or-less audible as she approached Astolfo. Notably, she was still walking in heels despite getting on Violet Evergarden's cse for doing the same thing, even on the loose gravel of the beach.]

[riderofcharlemagne]

Are these waters particularly unsafe?

[Is that even likely to stop him?]

[have_hat_will_travel]

Sharp rocks thanks to the scales, large lizards who look very likely to react poorly to our presence... Doesn't sound like a particularly funtimey combination to me.

[riderofcharlemagne]

[He gives it a moment of thought.]

Large lizards, you say? How large are we talking?

[have_hat_will_travel]

The one I saw was at least ten feet long. Definitely in the category 'danger noodle'.

[riderofcharlemagne]

Ten feet long?

[He adopts a devilish, scheming, grin.]

Hey, Pi, how do you feel about going noodle hunting?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... I'm so very not sure this is a good idea... My best damage tricks are electricity, which in water...

[riderofcharlemagne]

Don't you have any weapons?

10th/day, sometime afternoon

[founderinglight]

They're magnificent. Certainly finer than similar deposits on Eos.

[Conversely to the constant wind around Astolfo, Izunia's emotions - almost always under tight control, sometimes shockingly numb - add almost nothing to the wind. Still, he doesn't seem to much mind, his coat pulled closed over his shirt and his scarf trailing in the air. Long as that doesn't attempt to blow free, he doesn't much care.

Seems he's picked up another crystal to toss idly in his hand again.]

[riderofcharlemagne]

If we have anything like this on Earth, I haven't seen it.

[He doesn't sound disappointed about it. Instead, he speaks with a tone of eagerness- for all the sights he would otherwise be unable to see back home, and for all that is left to be discovered on Earth, too.

He continues wandering further down, dividing his gaze between the surroundings and Izunia.]

Hey- what kind of place is Eos like? [Apart from lacking horses, as he learnt from Prompto.]

[founderinglight]

Mmm, well, a bit less overtly magical than here, considering.

[He gestures around at the crystals around them.]

Lower technology level, at least in all eras I'm familiar with... I don't know, it's rather hard to describe an entire world in a few short sentences, isn't it?

[riderofcharlemagne]

You don't need to restrain yourself, I'd be happy to listen to far more elaborate ramblings.

[He curiously touches some of the crystals on the walls as he passes by.]

How about this, instead: what did you like most about it?

[founderinglight]

...To say 'the people' is a bit of a cliche, isn't it? Hmmm.

[He thinks for a minute.]

Probably the view from Ravatogh. It's a single, massive volcano jutting up without any other mountains really nearby, so from anywhere near the summit you can see for miles and miles. Quite a trek even discounting the monsters that populate the mountain, but certainly worth doing at least once in your life.

[riderofcharlemagne]

A little, but I couldn't criticize you for it.

[He listens attentively as he describes the place. It sounds, in all honesty, like somewhere he'd love to explore. Then again, so do most places.]

You're not gonna tell me you only scaled it once, now?

[founderinglight]

...Technically, if we count what I did with my own flesh, it was only once.

[He just hitch-hiked on his descendants a few times since one of them decided to have their tomb put up there, y'know, it's fine.]

[riderofcharlemagne]

[He chuckles at the particular way he's worded it.]

Ah, well- why spend your time chasing after experiences you've already had when you can go after brand new ones, right?

March 11

[dubiouslychthonic]

I don't know, I saw something pretty big moving around out there earlier.

[Jetshard's a little more cautious of the surf than he is, but she's not exactly keeping her distance, either, so she's probably not all that concerned about the possibility of sea monsters. That is, she's entirely serious about having seen something in the water - she's spotted a number of the eels. But they glow brightly enough that she's not particularly worried about being ambushed on the shore.]

[riderofcharlemagne]

Oh really? How big are we talking?

[And now he's kicking off his boots, placing them a little ways from the water and stuffing his socks into them too.]

[dubiouslychthonic]

Not enormous, but big enough. Twelve, fifteen feet long? I wasn't able to get a close look at it - might not have spotted it at all if it hadn't been glowing.

[riderofcharlemagne]

[He tries to visualize it, and a big glowing sea serpent all adds up to something he really wants to sneak a peek of. He unhooks his cape, and turns back to her.]

How's your swimming?

[dubiouslychthonic]

Completely nonexistent.

[riderofcharlemagne]

That a personal thing or a species thing?

[dubiouslychthonic]

[She shrugs.] The area I grew up in was landlocked, and I've spent most of my adult life either underground or in space.

[riderofcharlemagne]

Oh, really?

[He pauses in his haste to run off into the ocean.]

What was that like? Especially living in space.