[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

[actus]

That's good. At least you have some kind of heads-up.

[ mental note: don't touch this guy without his permission. it feels kind of invasive. ]

[rebells]

That's about the only thing good about it, yes.

[actus]

At least your hands don't catch on fire. It's kind of awkward when you forget about it and accidentally tell a joke.

[rebells]

[Okay, that gets a laugh.]

Maybe that's a sign you should be telling fewer jokes.

[actus]

Probably.

[ he laughs, too. ]

Old habits die hard, I guess.

[rebells]

Oh? Are you a jester as well as a phantom thief?

[actus]

You've discovered my deep, dark secret.

[rebells]

Oh, dear.

Well. [With a smile:] I've been told I'm good at that.

[actus]

Is it your job?

[rebells]

[Well, not anymore, which is the thing.]

To find out people's secrets? In a manner of speaking.

[actus]

So a spy. That's cool.

[ super secret spy? ]

[rebells]

I enjoyed it.

[But his expression has taken on an oddly fixed cast.]

[actus]

Did you stop?

[rebells]

I came here, didn't I?

[actus]

Right. I wouldn't say that's stopping, though. It's not by choice. Just because you're here doesn't change who you are.

[ .... a beat. ]

...Though I guess if the person you're spying on isn't here, there's not really a point.

[rebells]

I spied on everyone. Information in general was my business.

[He doesn't know why he keeps talking about this. It's painful to think about, considering how thoroughly he torched that life of his before he came to this place. But maybe part of him wants to remember. He hadn't been lying: he had enjoyed information-gathering, the excitement of finding things out, feeling yourself at the linchpin of complicated geopolitical machinations. He's been doing some of that trying to unravel this situation with Qri, but it's not the same.

. . . he misses the Legacy. But there's no point in thinking about that now.]

The situation here, however, is different. We're all comrades of a sort, facing some fairly difficult circumstances . . . so a different approach is necessary.

[actus]

So you don't feel the need to spy on us.

[ akira concludes, a grin appearing as he peeks over from one of the boxes he is still going through. it's all junk and packing material, but he's so determined. ]

I think that says a lot about you.

[rebells]

I wouldn't go that far.

[The smile is wan, but it is there.]

But I find that people tend to dislike it when you spy on them.

[actus]

That's a pretty general statement, yeah. I wonder if spies like being spied on.

[ he's talking to one, maybe jay will answer ]

[rebells]

That depends on who and why. Ah, and how good they are, I suppose.

[actus]

Would you be more okay with a super-cool, super-notorious spy?

[rebells]

Hmm.

I think if I was aware there was such a person, I'd want very badly to know which of us was better.

[actus]

I wonder what kind of competition could prove who was the better spy.

[rebells]

Oh, I'm sure between the two of us, we could think of something.

You ask such interesting questions, phantom thief.