DUNGEON LOG - TELOVIA MINES

[phantasmods]

The day dawns bright and early - the same as most every expedition. The only difference is that you'll need to take the teleportation pad to Lodestone as a starting point - the gliders and drones are already there. There's clouds on the horizon, though, so if you're going to take a glider and go, you'd better get going.

There's some new additions, though, to the usual group of androids seeing you off. Tau is checking over the drones ready to carry those who can't or won't use the gliders, and Muon is practicing opening and collapsing the wings of a glider with bright yellow sails. She grins at anyone who approaches, shooting them a thumbs up.

"Don't worry about getting lost or falling behind! As long as Tau's here, they'll keep us all together."

And with that bit of bright cheer, it's off towards the mountains you go...

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From the air, the remains of the mining town are almost impossible to tell from any other part of the forest. The trees - especially the old ones - are much thinner, and that's really the only sign of what's below.

But Muon's bright yellow glider, leading the way, dips down into the treeline before landing in an open space, and anyone who isn't paying enough attention to follow will feel their glider being herded in the same direction by Tau's power - control not outright taken, but more of a nudge, like, hey buddy it's this way. The group lands just beyond the border of the Fissure - a tiny stable spot in whatever's left of this world.

And a good thing, too, because landing in the Fissure itself could prove quite difficult...

Comments

[hairpincurves]

[She starts moving towards the small area in base camp she's claimed as her own, marked by one of the suitcases from the shop in Incendia. She unzips it to pull out a pair of cushions. ... These probably shouldn't be on the ground but it's not like they can't be washed.]

This Fissure's definitely a pain... [As she pulls a notebook and pen out of a smaller bag.]

[theserpentsmiles]

It's been easier to operate blind than I'd thought, at least. I can work around it.

[The burning city at least had obvious dangers to avoid....this one doesn't seem dangerous so much as just tricky.]

[hairpincurves]

Sight's an easier loss to compensate for than other things I imagine.

[She pulls out her phone and pulls up the photo she took of the grief weeds, then starts sketching a picture of them in her notebook.]

Balance is... trickier. And frustrating.

[theserpentsmiles]

People rely pretty heavily on vision, but that also means there are a lot of existing methods to deal with it...

It's been kind of fun to work around. I can see why balance would be...less, though.

[hairpincurves]

I already managed to sprain my ankle. Turns out naturally being a show-off combines really poorly with a lack of balance. Who knew.

[... Okay that last bit was maybe a little sarcastic.]

I was going to record things about this Fissure, but... haha, so much for that.

[theserpentsmiles]

[He laughs a little, sympathetically. At the sarcasm, not the sprain. This Fissure is pretty bad.]

I know what you mean. I was ready - recon and observation are within my specialty, but I can't exactly take notes if I can't see. [He shows a page of his notepad with some of his blind scribblings. Some of these arcane symbols almost resemble words!]

[hairpincurves]

Well, those could be translated given time. Probably.

[Okay, she can't help but snort a little.]

I guess we'll just have to really start with that sort of thing with the next one, huh? I can give you the notes I did take about this Fissure when I'm done if you want to copy those down.

[theserpentsmiles]

I don't know....but maybe I could pass for a doctor. [Writing blind in Roman characters is hard I don't want to imagine what fresh he'll blind kanji might be.]

I'd appreciate that. And I can share what I've learned, too. Though admittedly most of it has been strategies for dealing with blindness... I wonder what the next one will be like.

[hairpincurves]

[She snickers.]

I managed to collect some crystals, too, so we can write stuff about those here or at the station. Hopefully whatever the next Fissure is, it'll be less frustrating than this... At least we won't be seeing a repeat of those damned plants.

[theserpentsmiles]

I'd like to study them more. There's no magic at all back home, so this is all completely new.

Maybe the next one will be fun, like....zero gravity.

[hairpincurves]

Magic isn't a thing back where I'm from, but psychic abilities are, so the differences are pretty neat.

Zero gravity would be cool. Especially if there's a neat space aesthetic somehow, too!