mapping party redux

[rebells]

Who: mapping party! (late signups for mapping party can go here)
Where: the near western side of the island
When: Day 85
Open/Closed: semi-open! feel free to mingle/run into mapping party at any of the locations. if you would like to be in mapping party, signups are above!

[So maybe you were invited along on this expedition by Jay or a friend. Maybe you heard a telepathic message a couple days ago looking for people with scouting and mapping skills and answered the call. Maybe you just happened to be in the area. Whatever the reason, there's a small group of people and dragons assembling on the beach near the huts, and Jay appears to be in the center of it, checking that everyone he's expecting is accounted for.

They'll be going by air to map the near western coastline and circling back around to camp, touching down every so often to look for landmarks and other potentially useful areas on the way. You're welcome to come along, if you can bargain yourself space on dragonback.]

Comments

AT CAMP - SETTING OUT

[rebells]

[Mingle, introduce yourself to people you haven't met yet--there are quite a few coven members assembled near the beach today--or try to find yourself space on a dragon or Pokemon.]

[rootandbranch]

[A DRAGON IS HERE. he's enormous and stretched out in a lazy sprawl across the sand of the beach, eyes closed, taking advantage of the organizational efforts of everyone else to soak in the sun while he's waiting for passengers. there seem to be two options to snag that requisite space on his back: wake him up and introduce yourself politely, or just climb onto him like he's a glorified jungle gym. which to choose...]

[rootbound]

[hm

sits higher up on the bridge of his nose, where the scales are firmer, and tickles the soft part with all his fingers...]

[rootandbranch]

[...Geir wrinkes his nose and draws his head back slightly

it's coming

A TINY SNEEZE]

[rootbound]

[laughing softly...]

Sleepyhead.

[rootandbranch]

Veeeeeeeern. It's warm...

[he doesn't open his eyes. even without Vern's voice, he'd know who was on his nose anywhere, not least because no one else would be using him as a percussive instrument. he might not let anyone else, either.]

You woke me up!

[rootbound]

We're leaving soon. Maybe we'll find a cave today!

[wheedling, just a little]

[rootandbranch]

Is anyone else ready to go yet?

[Geir yawns hugely, then raises his head to look around him, the bright interest in his expression belying his assumed sleepiness.]

I bet there will be caves somewhere in those mountains.

[rootbound]

I think so...

[clings on as Geir's head rises, still on his nose; this is certainly a way to get a view]

Hopefully one big enough for you?

[rootandbranch]

I don't see why there wouldn't be one. There ought to be a lot of places a cave could form, in a mountain.

[with a trace of wistfulness:]

If there isn't, maybe someone here has the power to make one... I really want a place to get out of all this rain. It was okay in Aimintas, but enough is enough.

[rootbound]

Yeah, we can't really fit you in those little houses. You could wear one like a hat.

[skriiitch]

We'll find something.

[rootandbranch]

[looks at Vern on his nose, crosseyed]

I do like being underground or underwater, when there's a way out! I didn't realize that till we were in Aimintas. I thought I just hated it, but it was strange not to ever have someplace like that to go.

[rootbound]

...it's too bad there's not much ocean here for you...we might be more likely to find a tunnel network, though.

[rootandbranch]

Don't worry, a cave will be enough! I don't need that much underground. They're just nice to look out of... does that make sense?

[it's the dragon version of watching the rain from your porch, or the snow from behind a window. security and a view in one package.]

[rootbound]

...I think I get it...

[he does, though he doesn't quite have the words for it. he parses it in terms of looking up at the sky from the deep nest of Geir's enormous coils, though, and that's similar enough that he makes the right mental association for once.]

Let's see if we get lucky, yeah?

[rootandbranch]

Uh-huh.

...can you even get to my back from up there?

[he uses telepathy to send Vern his mental image of Vern climbing up the rest of his nose and sliding down his neck to his back like a child rolling down a hill. that would be very silly.]

[rootbound]

[snorts laughter]

Noooo, definitely not. Put me on there...

[rootandbranch]

[Geir SIGHS DEEPLY, as if it's a terribly hard request, but a moment later he lowers his head again and lays it on his wing so Vern can climb off onto his back easily.]