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[appletart]

Who: Escha and YOU!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: SS Starduck, if you like!
When: RIGHT HECKIN NOW!

[ Time for another video from the lab on the Starduck! Escha is smiling for the camera, and there are a whole lot of what looks like metal rods on the counter in front of her. ]

Hi everyone! It's Escha! I've heard about all of the weird things on this planet, and I know people really want to go tracking them down, so I thought I'd try to make something to help out with that... and it worked!

[ She picks up two of the metal rods and holds them up toward the camera, with the tips touching at an acute angle. At first, they look pretty plain - silvery gray, cylindrical like drumsticks - but every few seconds they seem to glow with a soft red light. ]

They're dowsing rods! They're alchemically altered metal, infused with some particular properties from materials I gathered on the surface of this world. If you take them with you and hold them out in front of you like this, they'll start to vibrate if anything weird, strange, or ancient is around! I tested them out for myself, and they do work! I found this!

[ She puts down the rods, holds up what looks like a HUUUUGE shark's tooth. Whatever shark lost that is probably like, unnaturally large. Holy crap. ]

Buuut... It also pointed me toward this, too.

[ She puts down the tooth, and with a sheepish smile, holds up... ... ... an apple. whoops~ ]

Just wanted to be honest about it... But, yes! They do work! For the most part. But, um, apparently every once in a while you'll get an apple instead. And, well, if you don't want apples, you could give them to me, I guess? I'll always take apples! [ Her smile turns a little hopeful~? ]

Anyway, that's all I wanted to share! Good luck looking for things, everyone! If you want to take some dowsing rods with you, come to the lab on the SS Wonderduck and I'll set you up with some!


(( ooc: Word of Mod sayeth they really will work!! Most of the time, they will point you in the direction of a cryptid-related clue or object that will help you out: a tooth, footprint(s), general direction the thing disappeared towards... but every once in a while, they will fail! You can have them just dud out, point at something completely normal, or... an apple. Because why not! So yes, feel free to have your character using these things however/whenever! ))

Comments

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[privateeyed]

ok sure ill take magical sticks to lead me to bigfoot
do you want anything for them
like a trade or something

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[sinistral]

[The fact that they haven't had much interaction despite sharing a ship is on Bucky, really; he's certainly antisocial as a rule. But it's also what he likes about the Starduck; the crew is small enough that everyone can have some measure of privacy. They don't have to trip all over each other all the time, which is actually pretty nice.

Well, as nice as anything comes from being kidnapped onto a strange space reality tv show, but that's neither here nor there.]

Think of anything else you need while I'm planetside?

[Leaning in the door of the lab, but he's not actually entering the space. Bucky's desire not to impose is probably taken to the extreme, but it works for him regardless.]

video

[tempredmental]

Where'd you get that tooth?

video;;

[postocular]

Do you want to go monster hunting with me? I still have to thank you for the brownies.