[muffled spooky scary skeletons playing in the distance]

[geonomy]

Who: You! Me! Everybody!
Broadcast: idk but we've sure got a pretty broad cast of folks eh, eh
Action: HECK YEAH PLANET MINGLE
When: 10/7 until plot update or recaptcha

It's a deep, deep forest filled to the brim with fungi, mysterious life forms, and pitch black darkness. Explore if you dare and discover all these things and more! Just don't get lost...

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[bryces_pup]

A. Landing

[When the ship finally lands, Riona is out of the ship in a shot, Kiter in tow. The little pup darts around, happy to be off that tin can and able to run around. For the time being, Riona avoids the forest proper, and actively has to shoo Kiter away from the woods.

Barred from exploring, Kiter will happily run up to other people, with wide puppy eyes in the hopes of entertainment or, even better, belly scratches.]

B. Exploration/Searching for that SOS

[Riona finds it hard to ignore the call of the wilds for long. With Kiter safely on the ship, she sets off, armor on and sword and shield on her back. The urge to romp around in the wilderness is strong and she's been cooped up too long to ignore it.]

So, what shall we do? Get lost or try and find the source of that distress signal? I've no bloody idea where that might be, though.

B.

[save_the_souls]

[Allen, freshly healed and extremely antsy to get back into action, of course has agreed to join her. He's got some armor on him, but it's much less than what she's wearing, and a crossbow seems to be the only visible weapon he has on him. ]

I'm curious about the distress signal, but...it'd probably be bad to just run off into the woods without a clue.

[bryces_pup]

I suppose so. Maker, I wonder how long it's been going for?

[Was it recent? Or had it been sitting there for years, ignored and forgotten?]

Perhaps we should just head into the forest and see what's in there first. As unsettling as this place seems.

[save_the_souls]

...If I could guess, probably long enough that the chances of us finding someone on the other end of it is pretty slim.

[With a basic message like that with no following responses? It's probably just running on automatic, if that was his guess.]

Good idea. Won't know until we look, after all.

B. They'll totally find nuggalopes and get distracted >.>

[wolfehawke]

[By this time, Adalwolfe has followed suit in concern for his pup's safety. If he was full grown then maybe, but as a puppy there's no way he's going to let the animal go sloughing off into uncharted mushroom forest even under his watchful eye.

He's geared up as well, laden with Champion armor and his custom staff on his back, plus rations and potions just in case. No lyrium, so he'll have to be careful, though he does have those leaves that sort of help. Thank goodness for the elfroot though or he'd have to think twice about this.]

I've got an idea of a general direction, but that's about it. Still, we should be able to find it that way eventually. Plus we can map our way as we go for the rest of the fleet's use later.

yes good

[bryces_pup]

Then I'll let you lead.

[Though she'll stick close by. He might be armored, but she's the one with a shield.]

Let's hope we don't get lost. Something about this place makes me uneasy.

[wolfehawke]

The mage in the font? Novel idea.

[He grins, but it's entirely a joke. He's so used to leading and since there are only two of them anyhow, they can walk side by side save for where the underbrush is the thickest.]

I don't think we'll get lost. The sun's at our left, so to get back we just need to put it to the right.

[Provided they can still see it under all the mushroom cover. But that's a problem for the future Champion and Warden Commander.]

B

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka wishes he had the right tech to go hunting for that beacon. Or better still, the time to build something that could do it.]

I have a bad feeling they wouldn't be mutually exclusive of one another. We can get lost looking for where it comes from.

Ugh, this would be a billion times easier if we had someone on Communications.

[bryces_pup]

That is quite likely to happen, yes. This place makes the Brecilian Forest seem tiny in comparison.

[Luckily she has an okay sense of direction.]

Yes. I sort of wish my augment hadn't changed.

[alwayscomeback]

I'm going to assume that's a huge forest.

[He glances around, squinting.]

Oh well, we'll just work with what we got. Try and make a map while we go so we don't get lost.

a.

[steeledskin]

[ she, too, avoids the woods. but (somewhat impressively) she does venture outside of the blue fish and onto the mesa where they've landed. sansa does tend towards familiar faces, however -- and kiter, followed by riona, are both comfortably known to her.

heedless of the dirt, sansa drops to her knees to better scratch the pup's belly. funnily, most of her more rigid manners seem to melt away when there's a dog to coddle. ] Kiter's growing well, [ she comments. ]

[bryces_pup]

[Kiter happily delights in the belly rub, giving her a small bark in greeting before plopping onto his back and entering into doggy bliss.]

Mm, he has grown a little. Believe it or not, though, he's not as big as he should be. I don't know if something was done to him, given how he was brought here, but he was larger when he was this age back home.

[Mabari grow very quickly. He's still quite small, comparatively.]

A full grown mabari will reach my waist in height.

[steeledskin]

So, nearly like direwolves. [ she cuddles him. and she coddles, too, because she has a marked soft-spot for dogs and hounds and wolves of any sort. they make her eyes light up like so little else does, except perhaps her family. ]

Mayhaps he enjoys staying pup-sized. He gets more scratches that way.

B

[dancingmd]

[Beverly is uneasy on this planet, remembering what had happened with Iroh and with Kairi on the last world like this. However, Allen is doing all right, no sign of the Noah, so perhaps this place is not as... aggressive as the last.]

Preferably not the former.

[bryces_pup]

Not up for a good old fashioned romp in the woods?

[Her tone is teasing, but frankly, Riona doesn't want to get lost either. It's just usually what happens.]

[dancingmd]

[Beverly snorts.]

The last romp in the woods I had on a planet like this I almost got eaten by a tree.

[tallasaking]

[She isn't the only one, and Tyrion gives her a sharp smile as he looks into the forest proper.]

I believe we should try to find that distress signal, naturally, but I also think we might want to find a way to mark our pathways out, so we know where we are going, where we have been ... and most importantly? How to get back.

[bryces_pup]

Draw a map, essentially, if we can. Yes, that would be wise. Besides, who knows where this signal is coming from right now anyway?

[tallasaking]

Precisely. Now, we cannot get sensors in here, but we do have sticks we can use as markers... [He took out his notebook.] And I can draw the map, if you will be as so kind as to kill anything that might try to kill us?

A.

[faithfulwisdom]

Why, hello there, little one.

[Finrod kneels down, offering his hand for Kiter to inspect before complying with the request for belly rubs- and grinning up at Riona.]

Your friend here is quite charming.

[bryces_pup]

[Oh!! A new person!! Kiter barks excitedly before sniffing his hand because yes, must inspect first. New person doesn't smell funny and Kiter can sense he's a good, so he rolls onto his back and takes in that belly rub.

Meanwhile, his mistress laughs a little.]

It's almost rather confounding. Just a flash of the puppy eyes and he has people wrapped around his little paw.

[faithfulwisdom]

Never doubt the power of puppy eyes- on puppies or people, for that matter. [He laughs a bit in return.] May I ask his name?

[And then, as he rises to his feet-] And yours, of course, my lady.

B. /slides in late with nugs and happiness

[nugqueen]

[it was just like old times, honestly. Kiter trotted along on one side of the two of them and Schmooples poked his head out of their bag of supplies that was slung over one of Leliana's shoulders.]

We could wind up doing both if we try to find the signal. We need to narrow down a direction, if possible.

\o/

[bryces_pup]

That would be ideal, but I also fear getting lost. Not that that's anything new to us, but we're not as well equipped or supplied. And there's not telling what's in this place.

[She doesn't like not knowing what they're going into. Sure, that happened plenty of times during the Blight, but she could at least have some educated guesses. Here, who knows what's in this forest.]

[nugqueen]

Hmm.

[Leliana can't really find all the answers right away, with such little to go on. Riona's right. If they get lost they could very well stay that way for a while and with little supply. The last thing they need is Sokka or Allen becoming more stressed on their behalf.]

Then I suppose we'll just have to test our luck.

[She grins, feeling a bit adventurous for a change. She'd grown cynical over the years and overly cautious. Somehow being with the Warden made her feel bits of her old self slipping back into place.]

What do you say? We don't have to wander far, just enough to perhaps explore an hour or two and then come back.

[There was minimal chance of getting lost that way, she thought. Not to mention if they stayed in a radius where Kiter could lead them out - it wouldn't be so bad, right?]