[OPENING] exploration log

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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?]

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[teratias]

A1
The new house was expansive, that was for sure. What Waver first settled on exploring was not the house itself, but the grounds instead. The garden in the rear had his attention in no small part because the place struck him as the kind of location that would have fruit trees or the like. Ornamental and edible.

So he wandered the rear garden quietly, crouching down every so often to get a better look at the plants. He was hopeful about finding food, but also just curious to see if there was anything familiar.

"Damn, it'd be nice if this thing had signs indicating what's what."


A2
Moving inside, Waver had tried to find a room left untouched. He did, eventually, the place feeling less lived in than others he had poked his head in so far. There were a few chairs around, suggesting that it might be a side sitting room, or had been in another life time, and Waver went to settle in one of the chairs.

As he did so, legs feeling a little sore, there was a loud creak under his feet. That was weird. He went back over the same area. The noise sounded again.

"What the hell?" he asked no one in particular, wiggling the area beneath his feet. "That can't be normal."

B1

Going off on his own, Waver let his feet wander where they liked. As he did so, he quietly thought of Iskandar and how the man loved to see new places, how he relished the novelty of it all. It was hard to embrace that mindset, but Waver hoped that he was managing it better than he might have in the past.

His feet led him to a field eventually, wide and open and beautiful. For a few moments, Waver simply stared, noticing the bushes that dominated the landscape.

There was fruit on them. Fruit that, as he approached, looked like a grape.

Wait, was this a vineyard?!

Waver paused, plucking a grape off the vine. He was either about to discover a food source or get himself sick. As he chewed, what should have been a sweet taste was...meaty.

Baffled, Waver reached for the mirror shard, and opened up a broadcast. He showed off the field, his voice coming from off screen.

"I just found an entire field of grapes. Weird grapes."

b1, voice

[rebells]

"Have you tried them? You aren't experiencing odd chills or urges to vomit, are you?"

[teratias]

"Yes, I've tried them." Waver pauses, and picks another grape on screen.

"They taste like meat."

[rebells]

There is a noticeable pause.

". . . they taste like what."

[teratias]

"Meaty," he reiterates. "Like meat. It is weirder than it sounds."

[rebells]

That is decidedly odd. It's also, to someone who's lived on an island full of weird plant life before, kind of fascinating.

" . . . I can imagine. Does it have the texture of meat, or just the taste?"

[teratias]

"Just the taste," Waver confirms. He uses his thumb nail to split the grape open, showing a decidedly grape like texture within. "See?"

[rebells]

"That's bizarre, but I suppose we can't be picky." They haven't found that many potential sources of food on the island, after all. "And you aren't feeling odd or anything?"

[teratias]

"Not yet. I don't know what an appropriate waiting time would be either, sometimes food poisoning isn't instant."

Waver didn't like that, now that he had said it out loud. He might have just gotten himself incredibly sick by accident.

[rebells]

"That's true . . . are you alone? How far are you from camp?"

[teratias]

"I'm in one of the fields by the house."

Waver pauses, then angles his mirror in a way that shows the mansion from the side, probably a quarter mile or so away.

"Does this help?"

[rebells]

"It does. I can be there in, hmm, ten minutes or so?"

[teratias]

"I'll be right here."

Which meant that Waver was standing on the edge of the field ten minutes later, for the sake of being easier to find. No one wanted to muck about in a giant field if they didn't have to.

[rebells]

After around ten minutes, he will indeed see an oddly-dressed boy come down the way, looking around him before spotting the field with an obvious expression of recognition, and striding over towards Waver.

"Still nothing?" Jay asks, raising an eyebrow. "You don't look like you're having symptoms of food poisoning, at least."

[teratias]

"Nothing at all," Waver said.

The odd dress didn't occur to him, in truth. Between Heroic Spirits with their absolutely bizarre armor and everyone being from different worlds, Waver simply rolled with it.

"I think we'd need to wait a few hours though to be absolutely certain.

[rebells]

"That seems likely."

He reaches thoughtfully for the odd grapes, pinching the stem of one bunch before plucking it off the vine and placing it in a drawstring bag he happens to be carrying with him. This merits . . . further examination, perhaps.

"I'm Jay, by the way. Your name--?"

[teratias]

Waver wondered if Jay was picking the weird grapes for later study. If there was a lab or some way to break the grapes down some to understand them, well, that'd be far better than being a human test lab.

Not that Waver hadn't done this to himself, but.

"Waver. Uh, thanks in advance if something happens."

[rebells]

Jay shrugs easily. "Not a problem. We're all in this together for the moment, are we not? And I admit, I was curious about these for their own sake."

They'd be a useful food source, after all, assuming they didn't have the same effect on the coven as the crab had. And they were more evidence of the essentially alien nature of this place.

[teratias]

"Believe me, if these things aren't deadly, I'm inclined to just pick everything I can and haul it back. Anything is better than the crabs."

He sighs, and walks over to one of the vines to examine them better.

"What I can't figure out is if this is a natural field of growth for these things, or agricultural."

[rebells]

"That there's so many of them so close to the house makes me think they were cultivated deliberately . . . but I could be wrong, of course. I'm hardly an expert on these matters."

[teratias]

"It isn't well kept though," Waver said, crossing his arms and staring out at the expansive field. "But that could be because it has been left for some time."

[rebells]

"It's difficult to say how long this place has been abandoned. But it's likely been a while."

[teratias]

Waver frowns.

"Then these things are more likely safe. And we could start cultivating, if someone's willing to do that."

[rebells]

He nods.

"I'm afraid it's not my own area of expertise, but there are one or two people with us who seem to know a bit about plants."

[teratias]

"I can only think of one." Yuuko. She'd probably have a field day with this.

"Who're you thinking of?"