[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

[burnblonde]

Would the cliche answer of 'It's Magic' be enough do you think?

[Yang glanced over her shoulder, even as she pulled the duffel and dropped it on the floor. It made a clunk and then a rattle sound--something was in it.]

Although, it's not completely stuffed...so I imagine if you arranged it right you could hide it.

[windeity]

"Magic" is probably the only answer that makes enough sense that people will never really question. [His eyes drift to the bag once it's on the floor.]

So I guess the next question is what is so important they needed to hide it. Are you going to open it?

[burnblonde]

Good question. Of course I am going to open it! What would be the fun if I didn't?

[Yang unzipped the bag without waiting much longer. It was pretty exciting...until she saw what was inside. Her smile dropped and turned into more of a look of skepticism.]

Well that's just disappointing.

[She shows the open bag to him...it's only got cans of beans in it.]

[windeity]

[Yeah, he can see that and that...is not nearly as exciting as he had hoped.]

So the better question is why would anyone need to hide a can of beans in the first place? Are they even good still?

[burnblonde]

[Yang shrugs and picks out one of the cans, she tosses it to him.]

You can always check the expiration date. Although I guess if it doesn't have one the only other way would be to try and eat some.

[Yang is daring...she's not sure she's quite that daring after the whole crab fiasco.]

As for why to hide beans in a duffel bag...your guess is as good as mine.

[windeity]

[He'll catch it easily and he's already turning the can around to check for an expiration date.]

Either they were using it as a weapon somehow, or they were hiding from a bean thief. We could open a can and feed it to the boars outside to see if they're okay still. That should give us an idea.

[burnblonde]

Oh yeah...I guess this would hurt if you were hit with it. Bit of an improvised weapon though, they must have been desperate if that were the case.

But aren't animals able to eat things we can't sometimes? That might be a problem if we're trying to figure out if we can eat them or not, but I guess it's a start.

[windeity]

I think beans can work for both us and animals, mostly because I do not think they do better eating expired food? But I don't know, I haven't tried this before. It's the only idea I have right now.

[burnblonde]

I mean, it makes more sense to try it on the boars. I doubt we have anyone gullible enough to try them for us. Especially after the crab meat fiasco.

Want to get working on a trap then? The boars are supposed to be in the forest and it'll probably take some time to lure them into eating this stuff.