[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

[andsobelow]

[ The quirk of a dark smile. They didn't bury their dead in the Underground. They were left out in piles to be consumed by those insects which ate flesh. Graves, as they were, were mass affairs, piles upon piles of bones... But she knows what the Sol-folk like to do with their dead. Let them rot, like they let their living rot in the sun, meat spoiled with magic. ]

Graverobbing is dirty business.

[ A non-answer. An obscured allusion to the differences between rotting corpses and cleanly pits filled with skeletons. ]

[rebells]

[A small smile. She's being cryptic, but he doesn't mind that, precisely.]

It wouldn't have been robbing if you left everything where it was, I don't think.

[andsobelow]

There was no need, the ground was too hard packed to have been dug up.

[ Which meant there was nothing buried there anyway. ]

Perhaps the markers denote something else.

[ A shrug. She was reporting what she found, she's not sure she cares what it is she found. ]

[rebells]

Odd, to have a graveyard with nothing buried in it . . . .

[He's clearly thinking about why that might be, frowning. Made in preparation for something, perhaps--?]

Thank you for the information, in any case.

[andsobelow]

I can make copies of this map. I am quite practiced, from my time at university.

[ It's not an unselfish offer, she wants a copy for herself. ]

[rebells]

Copies would be helpful to have at hand. I have a little bit of extra paper I can give you for that.

[andsobelow]

Yes.

[ She has a bit of her own, she came from a world without digital media, it had seemed important to her upfront to have some way to take notes. So she'd rather keep her stock and use his. ]

I'll do it now.

[ She's quite a quick study at it, she has a bear trap of a memory from which little escaped, and she was very good at recreating intricately detailed things. It was something she enjoyed, in its own way. ]

[rebells]

[He hands over the paper, then, and watches her work silently. One might get the impression he's paying very close attention: taking notes for later, even.]

[andsobelow]

[ When she is done, the map she's drawn on her empty piece of paper is near to identical to the original as can be. ]

I suppose, in thanks, I can return with any additions I find.

[ As if begrudging to such a reciprocal relationship. ]

[rebells]

[The corner of his mouth quirks, as if he's amused by something, but whatever it is, he doesn't say anything about it.]

That would be much appreciated. I'd be happy to update you with any additions I've found as well.

[andsobelow]

Good, see to it.

[ Rather than anything like a thank you. All business. ]