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

[byanyother_name]

"Or we figure out our own." Not that Kurama blames the androids, either. He doesn't even dislike them. But he also considers that maybe their first priority could be saving their world over returning their new assistants.

Which he also wouldn't blame them for, but he has his own priorities.

And he coughs a little at the last thing Stone says. Yeah, that sounds familiar. He's definitely changed forms a time or two as a reflexive defense when something hit him hard enough. "I can imagine. I did catch sight of you on the beach, you're quite a bit larger than any of these tunnels. At least the worst I would manage is to hit my head on something."

[scarsolderthanyou]

Stone is probably a little meaner than Kurama is, which doesn't help matters in the blame game, or the saltiness. "Usually it happens in reverse-- you're hit too hard in the bigger form, and it knocks you down into the smaller one, to conserve energy. But I've never been hit by anything like that before, so I don't want to take any chances."

[byanyother_name]

It's not actually hard to be meaner than Kurama. He's ruthless and a goddamn troll, but not actually mean. He hums thoughtfully.

"Understandable. I've gone both ways, to be honest. Knocked down to conserve energy, or up as a defense mechanism. If I were in your position, I wouldn't be eager to test it, either."

He sighs and glances off to the side, in the general direction of 'out'. "I don't doubt we still have enough ground to cover outside, even with all of us working on this."