[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?]

Comments

[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?"

[rebells]

"A girl named Haru, and a boy named Jake. I don't think either of them have much experience with agriculture, per se . . . still, if we wanted to try and cultivate these, I'd start there."

[teratias]

"I've met neither of them," Waver admitted. "The person I'm thinking of has the power of growing anything though. Yuuko? I don't know if you've met her."

[rebells]

"I haven't, but I'll have to talk to her." There was the matter of the barren orchard, too, if her powers extended that far. "Do you know anything about the terms of her power?"

[teratias]

"Nothing more than she can make stuff grow," Waver said. His eyes moved back towards the mansion in the distance.

"I'm not sure if prying about powers is ok or frowned on."

[rebells]

Jay wasn't the type of person who would have cared much about whether it was okay to pry into powers or not, but he said only, "I don't see why it wouldn't be. We'll need to use these to help one another, after all."

[teratias]

"That's true. Hm."

Yuuko had mentioned needing seeds though, so Waver grabbed another grape and carefully removed the flesh, so that the seed was bare. He did it for a few more, then pocketed the little collection.

"I'll bring them back for her to look at."