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

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.

[dubiouslychthonic]

Less glamorous than most kids assume. Involves a lot of time spent at close quarters with a relatively small group of people, mostly, and when you're not operating under official marching orders, a fair amount of careful negotiation to try and get the least objectionable and most competent group of people to be stuck in those close quarters with.

Salvage work on abandoned colonies is interesting, though. I liked that better than smuggling or piracy.

[riderofcharlemagne]

[He can relate to part of the experience- namely being part of a small team and wanting them to be the least objectionable as they can be. For competency, well, he's one of the incompetent ones.]

Well, it's more honest work by far. It's good to help people when you can.

[dubiouslychthonic]

[She chuckles, shrugs.]

Smuggling ain't always so dishonest, at least not when the folks setting the trade regulations are corrupt as all getout. I'll give you piracy, though.

[riderofcharlemagne]

[He thinks on it a little.]

I guess you're right, just as long as nobody gets hurt by it.

[dubiouslychthonic]

[There are very few enterprises involving one or more trolls where nobody is getting hurt by it, but it's cute that he thinks that way.]

And you? What is it you did for a living back home?

[riderofcharlemagne]

In my life, I was a paladin to my King, as well as an explorer. It's not really making a living, but close enough.