[OPENING] exploration log

[spellbindmods]

Who: Explorers and Co.
Where: Around the island and at the newly discovered house
When: Day 10
Open/Closed: Open to All
Note: Feel free to create your own logs for individual island explorations. A prompt is for house exploring, and you can list off multiple A prompts like A1, A2, etc. for more than one prompt within the house. B prompts (B1, B2, etc) are for exploring the island and may be open to all OR select friends who your character is exploring with.

[It's tough to live on an island that doesn't have many resources outside of the limited food sources and running streams. While Brie is aware of some other minor sources of food, like fish and frogs, one person exploring an island on their own means there are a lot of secret spots left to uncover. Despite adventuring for three years, her time on the hub itself has been much shorter, only staying for days or weeks at a time. Now that there are more people on this journey, covering ground is a lot easier.

Recently she's discovered another large estate -- much larger than her current shared mansion, which might also mean it has some supplies inside. On the morning of Day #, she's called together those who are hankering for more supplies in order to bring as much back as possible. Congrats, you get first dibs.

A. Upon approaching the house, the first thing that's noticeable is its size. It's all one story, but very flat and spacious. There are gardens in both the front and the rear, and upon entering (Brie might have enlisted you to help break the door down, oops) the inside is also quite vast. There are tons of rooms, multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, two kitchens and other rooms that aren't even explorable because they need keys to be entered. Unless you can find these keys, that is?

B. Alternatively, or maybe even aside from exploring the house, Brie's also suggested that you do some exploring on your own. Again, she's one woman with limited time to scout the island herself. What can you find? What resources are there to be harvested? Will you share in this bounty, or keep it to yourself?]

Comments

a

[splinten]

[Dirk genuinely hates alcohol, so his eyebrows flicker up behind his shades.]

Everyone here has way too fuckin' much of that. Anything interesting on the receipts?

[andsobelow]

[ She'd hate it more if she wasn't used to the necessity of it, of living in a place where water was not always reliable, where spirits were a way to drink something and trust it a little more. Even then, she's better used to mushroom vodka over wine: no grapes to grow underground.

The receipts she hands over as she unfolds them, looks them over herself, ]

Large amounts, no transaction details. Either lazy book keeping or something to hide.

[ Not enough details to tell, not enough evidence it matters. ]

[splinten]

[Huh. Dirk can't make sense of it; he has never spent money on anything in his life. Except stupid game money that doesn't even count.]

Hard to work out with the household being what it is. I'm still a little curious about how this place came to be a floating space rock, but this probably doesn't tell us.

[andsobelow]

Not how, but I think it at least suggests it was not always isolated in this plane.

[ She unfolds the last few receipts, looking them over, but they don't tell much. ]

There must have once been someone else to trade with, and there is little other evidence of such economy on the rest of the island.

[splinten]

The beach huts suggest it. [She may not know this weird fact about stupid things humans used to do, but Dirk has some familiarity with it from research, so,] Beach huts were built on beaches to help make them more commercially viable tourist locations.

[andsobelow]

[ She doesn't have much context for a 'tourist location' so she has to take the words at face value, contemplating. ]

I had taken them for servants' quarters.

[splinten]

[It's a possibility he hadn't thought of.]

Maybe? I thought servants usually lived in the same house as the owners, just in the shittier wings.

[He doesn't have any experience with it firsthand, after all, so he'd trust in her authority.]

[andsobelow]

[ Not in Vos, they often had their own homes within the city, then came in to work each day... But... without any of the former residents to ask, how are they to know? She says as much: ]

I don't think either defies logic, but nothing here strictly points to either.

[ A shrug. ]

Though I wonder why there are no... bodies. Did they somehow evacuate before this place was ripped from its mooring?

[splinten]

I've been wondering if some event swept through the area that forced them out, then Qri took it. It doesn't look like we have any evidence for murders.

[It's something he has been wondering about. There were too many signs of habitation interrupted for it to be peaceful and normal.]

[andsobelow]

I found a plot that looked like headstone markers, but there were no bodies there. I don't know what that's meant to tell me. Even had they burned the bodies, there would be bones, somewhere.

[splinten]

[It's interesting and unexpected.] I'd appreciate it if you'd show it to me. [He's very curious about how that looks.]

[andsobelow]

[ A faintly raised eyebrow. ]

Fine.

[ Although since the plots lacked any real graves, she's not sure what he expects to find there. ]