[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

[splinten]

[Dirk selects an orange crayon and immediately starts writing. It is also math, just dumb problems with matrices. They are both terrible.]

[p_mortem]

[ I guess they're doing math now.

The practice problems in the book are quick to get through, and for once, Minato knows all the answers without having to guess. It makes him feel smart and empowered. ]

...I wonder if a kid used to live here. I picked up their bag, with toy cars in it.

[splinten]

[You are smart and empowered, Minato. Good for you.

Dirk doesn't fully glance up at Minato's voice, or draw away from the work. He glances sideways at him.]

That seems probably. This is a big place, so maybe some kind of wealthy family. Their kids, and maybe the servants' kids.

[p_mortem]

And all of it abandoned.

[ Minato's work slows at the thought of leaving a home behind, when he never really had a place to call home. He'd think it were a waste, if it were deliberate. ]

Did you check out the entire place?

[splinten]

As much as I could.

[Dirk's relationship to the idea of 'home' has always been sketchy. There's a place, an apartment that was made for him, left behind for him to live and survive in. But more than that, there are people. People who he wants to return to. It's the only way he truly understands home.]

There are a lot of things that can leave behind empty homes. Even empty cities.

[p_mortem]

...Natural disasters. [ But the house is still upright, even if it is pretty shabby. ]

Disease? [ There are no other people here, and Brie and Genette are also relative newcomers. ]

...Maybe they found a way to leave, and couldn't take anything with them.

[splinten]

War, enslavement, murder. The threat of something terrible forcing them to flee to somewhere that might be safer with only the things they could carry.

[It happened to so many cities in his world. Why not here?]

Or maybe they were just written out of existence. The theory that they found a way to leave is a nicer one, but it still implies we're in a place where bad things were going on.

[p_mortem]

[ Minato's optimism doesn't stand a chance against Dirk's reality check, but he tries to hold on anyways. ]

If it's people fighting people, then the evidence... We haven't found a cemetery yet, or bodies.

[splinten]

You're right; people don't usually bother to clean up warzones.

[So it makes enslavement or murder more likely. Because he's not an optimist.]

It would help if we could read what they left behind.

[p_mortem]

[ I guess!!! Especially if this is a rich family's house, that's all the more incentive to murder them and loot the place... kind of like what they're doing now. Theoretical thieves don't know the value of a good textbook though, so that's their loss.

Minato straightens up, flipping the textbook shut. ]

What'd they leave behind? There's context, even if we don't know exactly.

[splinten]

Receipts, apparently. I also found alcohol. And tooth picks.

[Why.]

[p_mortem]

Toothpicks can be useful. Drinking alcohol or cleaning alcohol?

[ Receipts... if they're written in another language, then yeah, that can't be helped. ]

[splinten]

Drinking. [Dirk doesn't like drinking alcohol. His tone is flat.]

[p_mortem]

[ There's disappointment on this end ]

Pure alcohol would have been useful to sterilize and cause fires... Where they all found together? Receipts for the alcohol?

[splinten]

They were another room. The person who found them said they were for high sums but with no details.

[So. Who even knows.]

[p_mortem]

[ Definitely a rich family, but that's not new news. ]

I guess while we're snooping and looting... We should look for currency, or expensive items to pawn later.

[splinten]

You mean on planets we visit. [Hm.] It's hard to guess what resources might be scarce enough to be worth trading.

[p_mortem]

Yeah. It doesn't have to be scarce though. What's something that's always needed? Like food...

[ Though. Yeah, it's something they need too, and can't exactly afford to trade too much of their supplies off.]

[splinten]

Raw supplies would depend on the location. Maybe skills and services.

[possibly??]