DUNGEON - BELLMARE MOUNTAINS, PT 1

[phantasmods]

Expedition day dawns with the androids in a final flurry of activity - this time, it's in the glider hangar, where they're furiously setting up racks of heavy coats, piles of warm socks, and snow boots, as much as they could manage to pull together. If you've already got your own, great! Otherwise, you can grab some here, though it will be in the usual amount of mismatched Keystone chic.

There's also a variety of emergency flares and the like. Strange is there to admonish everyone to take at least one - unlike Earth flares, they're magical and silent, and will recharge over time - just in case.

Because you're going up into the mountains, and even more so than the usual abandoned places that you explore, it's going to be dangerous just by the nature of the place, nevermind what you might find up there. Incendia was the biggest market for the Bellmare mountain resort, after all, and you're all quite familiar by now with how long that's been abandoned. More to the point, it's far easier to lose track of each other in the snowy slopes. Keep your phones handy and look out for each other, as well as anyone else you might find up there.

Indeed, in addition to the clothes offered for you now, Strange will push extra warm clothes on anyone with hammerspace, and Down, surprisingly enough, has emerged from their usual place with a good number of extra communication devices to hand out. You should still have signal in the mountains, even in a blizzard, but it's better to be prepared for things to screw up.

Once you're all bundled and ready to go, it's off with a wave, into the land of ice and snow.

[OOC: There is an exploration header for each area of the dungeon! Please limit yourselves to 3-5 characters per thread, and don't double dip in order to allow everyone the chance to explore! Otherwise, feel free to top-level as normal.]

Comments

[byanyother_name]

Hardly anything to be ashamed of. Despite my survival skills, mountaineering certainly doesn't suit me.

[In a sparkle of crystalline green that might look familiar if she's seen Izunia or Ardyn use their Armigers, Kurama produces a bowl of stir fry with rice and a fork. It's still hot, steaming gently as he hands it to her. It's really good food, I can't believe he nat 20d Fissure provisions.]

[tomatowizard]

This really wasn't very well organized, was it?

[Samata stared at the stir fry for several seconds, but eventually her hunger overpowered her curiosity and she took it.]

Thank you.

[byanyother_name]

We do our best but there's only so well we can organize. The Fissures make it difficult to prepare beyond the basics. We knew it would be cold up here but we couldn't exactly run reconnaissance.

[Nothing to see here but stupidly useful magic that was supposed to be bloodline? Kurama settles down by the hearth and gently pokes at the fire to spread the ashes out a bit.]

It's no trouble. You're welcome. Those of us with inventory space do try our best to have things available.

[tomatowizard]

At least we can all communicate with these things.

[She held up her smart phone.]

It's really useful, you know. I have NO idea how it works, but I can tell you they don't use magic at all.

[byanyother_name]

No, pure technology. Electricity through metal conduits and embedded instructions. They're amazing, aren't they? Where I came from was roughly twenty years behind this, so I was fascinated when I first got my hands on one.

[tomatowizard]

Who would have thought you could do so much with electricity. I can't even imagine what a society would look like where everyone had something like this.

[She's trying, though.]

[byanyother_name]

It has good and bad points, from what I've learned. But I only had a few days to poke around. It's to be expected, however. No matter what type or style of advancement, people will be people nonetheless.

I certainly don't have any intent of giving mine up even if it wasn't a channel for some of my powers.