Outpost Introduction

[21:31]	LumineInfinitus	"Let's hope to God that shit doesn't happen again!"
[21:32]	Erit_Invictus	Damian get's in #redpool for shits and giggles
[21:32]	Scantron	"Yes, lets."
[21:32]	Fifthman	"I'd like to go back to that skyworld with the flying sharks and the flying whales."
[21:32]	Sequence	Eva gets into the pool.
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[21:32]	Sequence	Well, she enters the pool room.
[21:32]	Scantron	"That would be enjoyable." Spencer smiles. "I rode a whale."
[21:32]	Salmander	It's the sub bay
[21:32]	Fifthman	"It was really pretty before we got shot at."
[21:33]	Fifthman	"I should have punched that shark while it had me."
[21:33]	Mr_Wilt	And then Nolan was there!
[21:33]	LumineInfinitus	"I want that sniper's hide!" Paresse jumps into the sub.
[21:33]	Erit_Invictus	"Anything we may need before getting into the sub?"
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[21:34]	LumineInfinitus	"I'm set."
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[21:35]	Salmander	Standing beside the sub is good ol' Salman
[21:35]	Salmander	"H-hello poolboys."
[21:35]	Pemander	Marcus salutes Salman. "Reporting for duty."
[21:35]	Scantron	"Evening, Director Corbette."
[21:35]	Mr_Wilt	"Hey, Corbette."
[21:35]	Salmander	The sub he's standing beside is decidedly bigger.
[21:35]	Mr_Wilt	"New sub?"
[21:36]	Salmander	"You'll be performing some espionage and... shipping."
[21:36]	Sequence	"Oh, joy."
[21:36]	Scantron	"Excellent."
[21:36]	LumineInfinitus	Paresse pops out his head. "Didn't realize.."
[21:36]	Salmander	"Hence why you have the cargo sub."
[21:36]	Mr_Wilt	"What sort of 'espionage and shipping'?"
[21:36]	Salmander	"Inside you'll find the radio equipment, navigation equipment, and outpost supplies."
[21:37]	Erit_Invictus	"Couriers?, we are trading with extradiomensional aspects?"
[21:37]	Salmander	"No, no."
[21:37]	LumineInfinitus	"Need to know basis I think guys."
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[21:37]	Sequence	"We're doing this, we need to know."
[21:37]	Salmander	"You, um, you know that... thing that was under the pool when everything went all deserty?"
[21:37]	Scantron	"Yes?"
[21:38]	Salmander	"Well it turns out that it's still there."
[21:38]	Sequence	"What."
[21:38]	Salmander	"And you can enter it through the portion the lake collapsed."
[21:38]	Salmander	"I know, right?"
[21:38]	Salmander	"I was so excited."
[21:38]	Pemander	Marcus scratches his head. What kind of a briefing /is/ this?
[21:38]	Scantron	"Huh. I did not expect that."
[21:38]	Sequence	Eva pinches the bridge of her nose.
[21:38]	Mr_Wilt	"...what was under the pool?"
[21:39]	Sequence	Her day has been dramatic enough.,
[21:39]	Erit_Invictus	Damian wans't there
[21:39]	Salmander	"So we sent in some research guys, cleaned up all the floating owl bodies, and found something that falls under your job description."
[21:39]	Erit_Invictus	"So you mean there's something under the pool, or under the pool in another dimension?"
[21:39]	LumineInfinitus	Paresse scratches his chin.
[21:39]	Salmander	"It's a portal of some kind." Salman waves his hand in the air.
[21:40]	Salmander	"Oh, and, uh, you'll be using the cargo sub for the next little while. Somebody who won't *a-hem" be named had a little accident with the last one."
[21:41]	Fifthman	Cecil starts to speak, but wisely keeps his mouth shut.
[21:41]	Mr_Wilt	"Fair enough."
[21:41]	LumineInfinitus	Paresse nods.
[21:41]	Scantron	Spencer shrugs. "Let's go, then."
[21:42]	Sequence	Eva sighs and enters the sub.
[21:42]	Salmander	"Have a good time!"
[21:42]	Scantron	Spencer goes in after her and sits next to Her.
[21:42]	Fifthman	Cecil hops into the sub. Are there parachutes in this one?
[21:42]	LumineInfinitus	Paresse finds a nice window seat. "Groovy."
[21:42]	Erit_Invictus	"Allright then"
[21:42]	Scantron	*her
[21:42]	Mr_Wilt	Nolan walks on into the sub as well, and takes his place beside Eva.
[21:42]	Erit_Invictus	Damian gets inside, and sits down next to paresse
[21:43]	Sequence	Eva leans a little on Nolan.
[21:43]	Pemander	Marcus heads into the sub.
[21:43]	Salmander	The hatch closes behind them
[21:43]	Salmander	It's cramped, given the abundance of cargo taking up most of the space.
[21:43]	LumineInfinitus	Paresse yawns.
[21:43]	Scantron	Spencer sweats.
[21:44]	Sequence	Eva stifles her own yawn.
[21:44]	Mr_Wilt	Nolan smiles.
[21:44]	Erit_Invictus	Damian starts humming some National argie music
[21:44]	Mr_Wilt	"Right, so, what should I expect?"
[21:44]	Salmander	The sub begins sinking
[21:44]	Fifthman	Cecil takes a seat next to the radio station.
[21:44]	Scantron	"The unexpected. As usual."
[21:44]	Erit_Invictus	"Worms"
[21:44]	Sequence	"Giant birds and worms."
[21:44]	Erit_Invictus	redact
[21:45]	LumineInfinitus	"So.
[21:45]	Mr_Wilt	"Oh, like when we found the golden bird?"
[21:45]	LumineInfinitus	"Save ranged for the birds and melee for the worms.. Or is there some added effect I need to know about?"
[21:45]	Mr_Wilt	Nolan tries not to look angry. Fucking giant birds.
[21:45]	Pemander	Marcus remains quiet and wary.
[21:46]	Salmander	It descends further down into the lake
[21:46]	Scantron	"The difference this time being that the birds resembled owls this time. I got this sword from one of them."
[21:46]	Salmander	The collapsed portion is easy to spot on the lake floor, it's not too deep
[21:46]	Salmander	A large square simply sunken in
[21:47]	Sequence	Eva pats Nolan's leg.
[21:47]	Salmander	The sub heads down and into the square
[21:47]	Sequence	It's okay, the birds won't attack him.
[21:47]	Erit_Invictus	Damian doens't really udnerstand much of the issue
[21:48]	Scantron	Spencer just sits there and feels awkward.
[21:48]	Erit_Invictus	His only relation with the birds It's kidnapping the sun birds only children and turning it into a duck.
[21:48]	LumineInfinitus	Paresse stays cool.
[21:48]	Fifthman	Cecil keeps looking out the window. This is pretty cool.
[21:49]	Mr_Wilt	Nolan sighs, reluctantly easing up.
[21:49]	Salmander	It then enters the once grand "grand" hall
[21:49]	Scantron	Spencer starts singing "Don't Fear the Reaper" under his breath.
[21:49]	Mr_Wilt	Nolan is going to start singing and he will be so mad.
[21:50]	Salmander	The sub heads towards the antechamber the battling owls had fled to earlier. Thankfully the door is quite big.
[21:50]	LumineInfinitus	Paresse closes his eyes and relaxes.
[21:50]	Fifthman	Cecil finds a hollow piece of metal on the hull and starts tapping it in time with Spencer's singing.
[21:50]	Scantron	Spencer sings a bit louder.
[21:50]	Salmander	As they come near the door, the frame begins glowing with yellow runes
[21:50]	Pemander	"I'm sorry, could you please stop that?"
[21:50]	Mr_Wilt	Nolan starts singing along.
[21:50]	Pemander	Marcus sighs.
[21:51]	Sequence	Eva tries to cover her smile.
[21:51]	Pemander	Marcus looks to Eva. "Is it always like this?"
[21:51]	Scantron	They are now singing a duet.
[21:51]	Sequence	"Oh, some days we fight polite, upper class robots instead."
[21:51]	Fifthman	With Cecil on drums.
[21:52]	Pemander	Marcus is blank-faced.
[21:52]	Salmander	The runes begin to swirl along the doorframe
[21:52]	LumineInfinitus	"And... Uh.... Zombies."
[21:52]	Mr_Wilt	"..come on baby, don't fear the reaper.."
[21:52]	Sequence	"Or spoons meld together and come to life."
[21:52]	Mr_Wilt	Nolan peers at the runes.
[21:52]	Salmander	The sub nears it
[21:52]	Salmander	A faint yellow glow emanates from the center of the door
[21:52]	Scantron	Spencer looks at the runes. He plays air guitar along with the song.
[21:53]	Fifthman	Or, cowbell. Cecil's still playing as he watches the runes dance.
[21:53]	Erit_Invictus	"Did anybody notice the glowing stuff next to taht door, guys?"
[21:53]	Scantron	Spencer nods and keeps singing.
[21:53]	Salmander	The front of the sub enters the doorway and disappears
[21:53]	Scantron	He does onomatopoeia during the parts where there are no vocals.
[21:53]	Salmander	And then the rest edges in
[21:54]	Sequence	Eva is shaking with laughter.
[21:54]	Salmander	And the entire team finds themselves in #Desert_Outpost

PORTION OF LOGS LOST TO BACKSROLL AND HUMAN INCOMPETENCE:

The sub surfaces in a cavern, with a small pool of quicksand supporting it. The group steps out and into a desert. There's a 10 foot wall extending from a portion of the plateau behind them that juts out to the edge of the plateau on the other side. Two wooden watchtowers overlook the wall. The group sets up various equipment, including a radio with an antenna that extends back into the pool and an inflatable lab that sends Nolan flying. Part of the group then heads out to a small ghost town in the distance, which has a small sandstone path leading to it from the gate of the wall. The village is mostly composed of sandstone and wooden houses. A large, sandstone structure is in the center of the town, which they examine:

Salmander	Above the double doors is a metal figure of an owl holding the moon
	Fifthman	"Paresse, put those things away. No need to brandish weapons if we aren't looking for a fight."
	Fifthman	Cecil moves up to a window on the larger structure and peers into it.
	Erit_Invictus	Damian looks around, is everything set up in the cmap?
	Mr_Wilt	"Alright, looks like that's everything."
	Pemander	Marcus grunts. "Let him keep his weapons out. Safety first."
	LumineInfinitus	"We don't know what's out here."
	Sequence	"Right. We going to go see if it's hostile?"
	Pemander	"This thing looks like a church or summat."
	Fifthman	"Fair enough."
	Salmander	There's an altar in the center. Pews of stone surround it from all directions.
	Feierzeit	"I don't see why not."
	LumineInfinitus	"Let's go in and scope it."
	Fifthman	Cecil keeps his snubnose stowed. Is the door locked?
	Erit_Invictus	"Shall we catch up witht he scouts then?"
	Salmander	Nope
	Fifthman	Cecil opens the door gently.
	Feierzeit	"I suppose." Spencer walks out of the cavern and out to the gate.
	Pemander	Marcus leans in and does a quick sweep with his weapon out.
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse keeps behind Cecil.
	Mr_Wilt	"If that's want you want, my dear."
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan grins, walking over toward the door with Spencer.
	Fifthman	Cecil lets Marcus sweep the room as he enters behind.
	Salmander	Nothing
	Erit_Invictus	Damian gives Nolan a weird looks, and leaves the couple alone
	Erit_Invictus	redact
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse steps in. "Cecil.. Look around for us. Your sense is better then ours."
	Pemander	Marcus lowers his weapon. <<Place is definitely abandoned. There's a church here.>>
	Fifthman	"Ears open eyeballs click." Cecil responds.
	Sequence	Eva grins back at Nolan and derps towards the door.
	Erit_Invictus	Damia just leaves and heads towards the scouts
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse walks toward alter."
	Salmander	There is also a well at the center of the village
	Pemander	Marcus leaves the church and inspects the well. Can he see the bottom?
	Salmander	yep
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan hefts open the gate, and scans the area. He turns his radio on. <<Hey, Scouts. You guys find anything?>>
	Salmander	Sand
	Sequence	Then she pauses and kisses his cheek.
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse looks behind the alter.
	Pemander	<<Yeah. Village is empty. Well's dried up, so I'm guessing it's been that way for awhile. Everything's intact, though.>>
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan grins, and returns her cheek kiss.
	Mr_Wilt	<<Find any bodies?>>
	Erit_Invictus	Damian stands next to Nolan
	Feierzeit	Spencer does his best to ignore them. He chooses to focus on the inevitable sand in his boots.
	Pemander	<<Nothin'. Just sand and structure.>>
	Feierzeit	Oh god, /sand/.
	Sequence	Spencer has been so quiet, Eva forgot he was there. She thought he went ahead with the others.
	Mr_Wilt	<<Alright, keep looking. We're heading on over there.>>
	Erit_Invictus	<<Hey, There's anything worth bringing here?>>
	Feierzeit	He's been hanging around uncomfortably. The novelty has worn off.
	Feierzeit	Of the desert, that is.
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse leaves the church and heads to the door of the nearest house.
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	Fifthman	Cecil continues to look and listen. Ears and eyes, ears and eyes.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan loops his arm around Eva's and promptly heads on over toward the village.
	Salmander	It's a sandstone house. There is no door, just a doorway.
	Feierzeit	Spencer walks a bit in front of them.
	Sequence	Eva grins at Nolan and continues on to the village.
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse steps in carefully.
	Pemander	Marcus heads to the end of the village opposite of where they came from. Anything on the horizon?
	Erit_Invictus	Damian follows the happy couple
	Erit_Invictus	SInce nothing actually happening he's thinking about bringing some loot with him
	Salmander	It's a two room house. There's some sandstone and wooden chairs along with a table and stone oven in the first room. The second contains a chair and a large bed made of straw.
	LumineInfinitus	No drawers?
	LumineInfinitus	Or wardrobes?
	Salmander	There's a long road of sorts stretching from the town into the horizon
	Salmander	No drawers or wardrobes
	Pemander	<<Something seems a bit...off, here. Why is this place so well-kept if no one is around? Paresse, Cecil, keep your eyes open.>>
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse checks both rooms then heads out, moving to the next house. "Got it.."
	Fifthman	"Seriously feels like we started playing Minecraft. I wanna build a sand castle now."
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse moves to the doorway of the next house.
	Pemander	Marcus turns away from the long road and heads back to the church.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan continues toward the village. Man, what a walk.
	Pemander	"Gotta be something significant here..."
	Salmander	A similar house.
	LumineInfinitus	"Okay..." Paresse moves to a hut to have a look.
	Salmander	It's smaller. There's a bed of straw in the corner.
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse checks through the bed for anything.
	Sequence	Eva just walks along beside him.
	Salmander	OMG Paresse!
	Erit_Invictus	Damian is fucking bored, that village better have something good
	Salmander	You found....
	Pemander	Marcus closely examines the altar in the church.
	Salmander	MORE STRAW!
	Fifthman	Cecil returns to the altar.
	LumineInfinitus	"Hmm.. Well least I tried." Paresse walks out and back to the church.
	Fifthman	Or, for that matter, looks around for insignias, or symbols...
	Salmander	The sides of the altar alternately display the moon and a flying owl.
	Mr_Wilt	They make it to the village yet?
	Salmander	They have
	Fifthman	Cecil walks outside to call Spencer.
	LumineInfinitus	"Nothing in the houses guys.. Place is empty except for basics."
	Feierzeit	Spencer is unimpressed.
	Salmander	pause
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan releases Eva, giving her a quick kiss.
	Pemander	<<You guys said something about owls earlier, right?>>
	Fifthman	"Spencer! Does any of this look familiar to you?"
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	Salmander	The altar is stained with red blood
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	Feierzeit	"Not particularly. But the craftsmanship seems more or less consistent with their technology level."
	Salmander	Preserved by the arid conditions of the desert
	Pemander	<<We've got blood here.>>
	Salmander	unpause
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	Pemander	"Why is it always sacrificial altars...?"
	Pemander	Marcus sighs.
	Pemander	<<An owl and a moon. Is that significant to anybody?>>
	Erit_Invictus	Damian looks around the village, tehre's anything he can bring home?
	Fifthman	"Always sacrificial altars? You talk like you've seen this before."
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse sighs.
	Salmander	Not really, Damian
	Feierzeit	<<The owl people seemed to have a relationship to the moon similar to the other avian species' relationship to the sun.>>
	Feierzeit	Ugh, people who don't already know what you know can be so /annoying/.
	Sequence	<<Probably giant silver owl people.>>
	Pemander	Marcus grunts. "I've seen some things."
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan takes note to have that skull checked out once he gets back home.
	Erit_Invictus	Meh, Damian eventually cathcs up witht he guys at the curch
	Mr_Wilt	He continues to look around the village, checking to see if anything's been used recently.
	Mr_Wilt	Aside from their use, of course.
	Pemander	"Oh, everyone's here."
	Pemander	Marcus waves Nolan over to the church.
	Salmander	Judging by how high the sand piles around everything, nothing's been disturbed in at least the past year
	Feierzeit	Spencer remains unimpressed. And concerned about sunburn.
	Fifthman	Cecil returns to the altar and looks directly above.
	Feierzeit	Spencer enters the church.
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse looks around still.
	Salmander	Above is a mural of a giant owl pulling the moon behind itself
	Mr_Wilt	"Hm. Nothing's been here, that's for sure."
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan looks up at Marcus, and walks on over toward the church.
	Erit_Invictus	Damian looks around the floor, any basement door that may be detectable?
	Pemander	Marcus walks back to the altar, and follows Cecil's gaze to the mural.
	Salmander	No basement door
	Sequence	Eva tries to find things that haven't been looked at.
	Pemander	"Hmph. Apollo."
	Salmander	You'll have to be mroe specific Eva
	LumineInfinitus	"Nothing bad so far."
	Fifthman	"If only this weren't a sacrificial altar, this place would be amazing."
	Sequence	Well, Eva just goes into the church.
	Salmander	Along the edges of the ceiling you can see owl-men stabbing worms
	Erit_Invictus	"Huh, for the looks of it, this is just a normal curch"
	Feierzeit	"It's... interesting, I suppose."
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan walks on into the church, looking around.
	Erit_Invictus	"Let0s keep looking around, there maybe any building we didn't check"
	Mr_Wilt	He scans the walls and floors, checking for any signs of a hidden room, or something similar.
	Erit_Invictus	Damian steps away form the curch from a sec, how many suns are in the sky?
	Salmander	Nope
	Salmander	Just one
	Pemander	"The owls pull the moon. Maybe the birds pull the sun?"
	Erit_Invictus	"Meh"
	Sequence	Eva examines dat sacrificial alter.
	LumineInfinitus	"Maybe once it hits night we'd better take cover.."
	Feierzeit	"I do wonder what exactly this civilization would need a village here for. Their doesn't appear to be any agricultural land or any form of mineral resource as far as I can see..."
	Erit_Invictus	"Say, the birds in the temple from before were fighting for the golden bird?"
	Erit_Invictus	"Perhaps they adores them as goods"
	Erit_Invictus	*gods
	Feierzeit	"And for a military outpost, the defenses are minimal."
	Pemander	"What are these squiggly lines here?" Marcus motions to the worms on the mural.
	Pemander	He turns to Spencer. "Who says it's a military outpost?"
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan checks for any bookshelves inside the church.
	Salmander	Other buildings of note include a large hall next to the church, most likely used for social gatherings and town meetings, a walled sandstone building with a broken gate. Empty shelves with pegs line it, most likely used to hold weaponry. A double story wooden house, probably belonging to the chief or a rich member of the town.
	Erit_Invictus	No cementery?
	Salmander	No bookshelves
	Feierzeit	"I'm not. I'm simply ruling that out as a possibility. What baffles me is why there is any village here at all."
	Feierzeit	"Perhaps the land was arable at some point..."
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan pops on out of the church, and heads toward the walled sandstone building.
	Salmander	No cemetery. It's hard to bury people in sandstone. There's a crypt behind the church.
	Feierzeit	Spencer steps outside and surveys the horizon. Is there anything worth noting in the distance?
	Erit_Invictus	"IM saying let's loot the crypt"
	LumineInfinitus	"We could get Cecil to use the binoculars to look around. We boost him onto the roof and let him look in all directions."
	Erit_Invictus	"Besie the whole anthropomorphical owl things, they looks pretyt much average, no magic stuff"
	Fifthman	"There a way up there?"
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	LumineInfinitus	"By boost I mean we lift him up."
	Salmander	As already mention, a barely visible road leads off into the horizon.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan heads on into the walled building. Anything of note?
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse heads out and around the back of the church.
	Salmander	The racks are all empty except for a few broken bows
	Erit_Invictus	Damian looks at the crypt, any way to get inside?
	Fifthman	Cecil follows Paresse. He seems deep in thought.
	Salmander	A bent sword lies in a corner
	Pemander	<<I'm done here. Gonna go further up the road and see if I can find anything.>>
	Salmander	There's an entrance at the front of the crypt leading downwards.
	Pemander	Marcus heads toward the end of the village and follows the sandstone path.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan investigates the sword. How well was it crafted?
	Salmander	Which path?
	Feierzeit	Spencer wanders around until he finds people. Those people happen to be Cecil and Paresse. "Perhaps if we get some sort of wheeled vehicle here, we could travel that road and see where it leads."
	Salmander	The sword's craftmanship is middling.
	Pemander	The path that goes further away from the base.
	Salmander	It extends far beyond where he can see. Any journey along it would most likely require a few day's rations and good sun protection.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan checks the bows. Do they look similar to the one he found in the watchtower way back when?
	LumineInfinitus	"True.." Paresse was heading towards the crypt.
	Erit_Invictus	Damian walks next to the entrance
	Salmander	They do indeed
	Erit_Invictus	Can he see anything inside the crypt?
	Salmander	It's too dark
	Mr_Wilt	Any there any notable differences between the two?
	Erit_Invictus	"Huuuh damn"
	Feierzeit	"...if anyone needs me, I'll be in the sub." Spencer exits the building and walks back to the sub.
	Erit_Invictus	<<Guys, I need a flashlight tp get inside the crypt, can anybody help me?>>
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse walks up to Damian. "Want me to join ya?"
	Mr_Wilt	<<I have a flashlight on my rifle. Give me a few minutes.>>
	Salmander	No notable difference, just enough in size and shape to inform you they're not identical
	Erit_Invictus	"Yeah, it's too dark to get inside thought, we night a light"
	Pemander	<<Crypt? Wait a minute, I'm heading back over there.>>
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan nods, and meanders back toward the crypt. "Right, you needed a light?"
	Pemander	Marcus does a 180 and heads back to everyone else.
	Sequence	Eva derps along into the crypt.
	Erit_Invictus	"Yep, pitch dark in here"
	Sequence	She was there aaaaaall along.
	LumineInfinitus	Fair enough.." Paresse takes out a flashlight. "I've only got one though so..
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan flicks on his flashlight attachment and wanders on in.
	Feierzeit	Once he's sure that nobody's watching him, Spencer decides to moonwalk for a bit as he goes back to the sub.
	Feierzeit	6df+5 moonwalk
	Glacon	Feierzeit: moonwalk: 6 (6df+5=0, 0, 0, +, -, +)
	Erit_Invictus	Dmian takes note, he will requisition a flashlight once they come back
	Pemander	Marcus arrives at the village and notices everyone shuffling into the crypt. He follows.
	Feierzeit	He's pretty good at it for an older dude.
	Feierzeit	He does so for a few minutes, then goes back to walking normal.
	Sequence	Eva looks around her.
	Erit_Invictus	NOw that there's some actual light, hows does the crypt look inside?
	Salmander	Various beetles skitter away as you shine the light in
	Fifthman	Cecil peers in. He pulls out an evidence bag and attempts to catch one.
	Salmander	It extends a way's down, then flattens out into a not-too-tall hallway
	LumineInfinitus	retcon Paresse having that.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan moves his rifle along the walls steadily, heading further inside.
	Pemander	Marcus shuffles up behind Nolan. "Mind if I take point?"
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse follows.
	Erit_Invictus	Damia throws a rock to the path, how far does it fall?
	Mr_Wilt	"Well, I'm the one with the flashlight and all."
	Mr_Wilt	"And considering that flashlight is attached to a rifle."
	Salmander	It stops at the bottom of the stairwell
	LumineInfinitus	"Makes sense."
	Pemander	Redacting stupidity
	Erit_Invictus	GReat
	Erit_Invictus	More stairwells
	Fifthman	Cecil picks up a bug and puts it in an evidence bag.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan continues down the stairwell, light and rifle pointed forward.
	Pemander	Marcus turns back to Damian. "Watch it with the rocks."
	Erit_Invictus	Damian stands next towards the pollboys armed with the flashlights
	Erit_Invictus	to*
	Salmander	Once you get to the bottom, you can see several holes all along every wall
	Erit_Invictus	"Huh? Why?"
	Sequence	Eva just follows Nolan.
	Salmander	And in each hole is the skeleton of a bird person
	Erit_Invictus	Damian smiles...looting time.
	Sequence	Okay, Eva is getting right up into
	Salmander	Mostly large ones. Every so often you see the skeleton of a child. There's 5 or 6 baby skeletons.
	Sequence	Nolan's personal space.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan walks up to one of the skeletons, pointing the flashlight at a specific one. He turns the skull toward him.
	Erit_Invictus	"Living here must had been hard"
	Mr_Wilt	Does it look familiar to the one from the watchtower, way back when?
	Feierzeit	Spencer chills in the sub. Literally, it's a bit cooler in the sub.
	Erit_Invictus	Damian extends his hand inside a hole, and picks up one of the adult birds's skulls
	Salmander	The beak is much shorter and the skull is more rounded. It's an owl's.
	LumineInfinitus	"Sheesh.. Lots of dead kids... They might have moved here and the kids couldn't adapt properly.. Or something.."
	LumineInfinitus	"Maybe water shortage.."
	Erit_Invictus	"IM standing that this wans't a desert before"
	Pemander	"No reason to think they needed water to survive."
	Erit_Invictus	*thinking
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan plucks the skull, examining a bit more.
	Fifthman	"If that was the case we'd be seeing lots of bodies out there."
	LumineInfinitus	"True.. they could have just left.
	Sequence	"Or maybe they just had a lot of deaths. Might have had a lot of births, too."
	Fifthman	"Bodies don't just move themselves into crypts."
	Erit_Invictus	"Thing may had become a little ahrssh, and they left"
	Erit_Invictus	"Not without proper burial of course"
	Fifthman	"Well, there was that one time..."
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse looks at Cecil."
	Fifthman	"Part of how the Foundation found me."
	Salmander	The skull is plucked
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan offers the skull to Eva. "Mind holding this for me, sweetheart?"
	Salmander	HOO-HOO
	Sequence	Eva nearly drops the skull.
	Erit_Invictus	Anyways, Damian proceeds trought the hall, where does it go?
	Fifthman	Cecil attempts to catch it.
	Sequence	Fucking noises, man.
	Pemander	Marcus shifts into a firing pose and readies his weapon.
	Fifthman	6df catch?
	Glacon	Fifthman: catch?: 0 (6df=+, -, 0, 0, +, -)
	Pemander	"Was that one of you?"
	LumineInfinitus	"no.."
	Feierzeit	Spencer takes the opportunity to cry himself to sleep in the sub.
	Fifthman	Cecil catches it.
	Sequence	"Wasn't me." Eva puts the skull underneath her arm and pulls out a knife.
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse keeps his knives on-hand."
	Fifthman	Cecil, as usual, keeps his Rhino holstered.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan examines the crypt, moving his light along the walls.
	Erit_Invictus	Damian plucks anoter skull fromt he tombs
	Salmander	A wind blows through the crypt
	Salmander	Damian, roll mdef
	LumineInfinitus	"That sounded like an owl..."
	Erit_Invictus	6df+6 meh
	Glacon	Erit_Invictus: meh: 8 (6df+6=0, +, +, +, 0, -)
	LumineInfinitus	"Or a Ho-Oh but I don't think we're dealing with a pokemon here."
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan doesn't get the joke.
	Mr_Wilt	He just continues to look about for whatever made the noise.
	Sequence	Eva got the joke but doesn't laugh.
	Salmander	Damian is almost crippled by a sudden force that encapsulates his mind
	Sequence	They are in an owl crypt, after all.,
	Salmander	A purple aura of sorts flies by the group
	Salmander	At its head is the face of an owl, its eyes glowing red
	LumineInfinitus	"WOAH!"
	Erit_Invictus	Damian stubmles back, and leans against a wall
	Salmander	It turns around and faces the group
	Erit_Invictus	"So apparently the dead weren't so dead"
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan flashes the light on the owl.
	Salmander	~WHO DARES TO DISTURB THE BONES OF THOSE IN ETERNAL SLUMBER?~
	Pemander	Marcus places a shot in-between the eyes of the apparition.
	Sequence	"Holy shit, owl ghosts!"
	Pemander	6df+7
	Glacon	Pemander: 6 (6df+7=0, 0, +, -, 0, -)
	Sequence	Eva glares at Nolan.
	Mr_Wilt	"..Oh, well, that would be me. I apologize."
	Salmander	The shot flies through, clanging on the rocks behind
	LumineInfinitus	"Holy shit..."
	Mr_Wilt	He frowns. "Can I at least get a chance to explain?"
	Mr_Wilt	"I mean, I only took one."
	Erit_Invictus	Damian simply plucks the skull back in.
	Pemander	"Well that did fuckall nothing."
	Erit_Invictus	"I recommend doing th same, Nolan"
	LumineInfinitus	"Nolan.... Why?.."
	Salmander	The skull kind of sticks there then rolls to the side, obviously not going back
	Salmander	~TELL ME WHY I SHOULD NOT PLACE YOUR OWN BONES AMONG THESE RESTING HERE.~
	Fifthman	Cecil looks, his hands raised. Nothing he can do to talk this way out of this one, they did obviously get caught graverobbing -_-
	Sequence	Eva carefully places the skull that Nolan foisted on her back.
	LumineInfinitus	"Please pardon me.. Sir." He says to the owl. "But we would like to know what happened to those who were here before."
	Pemander	"We're...sorry? Didn't mean to offend ya."
	LumineInfinitus	"This is why we came in here."
	Erit_Invictus	"We fought the same enemies as you, spirit"
	Salmander	~THEY FLED THIS PLACE AS THE DESERT BURIED IT AND THE WORMS BEGAN TO INVADE.~
	Mr_Wilt	"I was in a place like this, long ago. I found a skeleton similar to these, but very obviously different."
	Pemander	"Worms...those things in the mural up above?"
	Mr_Wilt	"I want to know why the old skeletons are gone, and these ones are here."
	Mr_Wilt	6df+9 Persuasion, tagging Mediator. "We merely want to learn."
	Glacon	Mr_Wilt: Persuasion, tagging Mediator. "We merely want to learn.": 10 (6df+9=-, 0, +, -, +, +)
	Salmander	~THEY SACRIFICED THE BLOOD OF THE WORMS TO THE GREAT OWL OF THE MOON, WHO SENT ME HERE TO WATCH THEM.~
	LumineInfinitus	"I knew it... We apologize for disturbing this sacred place sir. If there is any other way to make it up to you that involves us remaining of this world. Please say so."
	Salmander	~BUT EVEN A GRETA SPIRIT CANNOT STOP THE FLOW OF SAND.~
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan ponders.
	Mr_Wilt	"Can I offer some of my blood in return?"
	Salmander	~Show me the bones of which you speak, traveler.~ The owl face looks at Nolan.
	Sequence	Eva looks at Nolan. Is he sure he wants to offer this?
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan frowns. "Unfortunately, I do not have the skull with me. I can, however, return with it."
	Salmander	~Then I cannot inform you of what peoples you speak.~
	Erit_Invictus	"It was from a golden race of creatures, they were too killed by the worms, as far as I know"
	Salmander	The owl face and its trailing aura begin to circle around Nolan looking him over.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan watches it as it does so
	Fifthman	Cecil speaks up. "Who do you watch against?"
	Salmander	~You would make a suitable sacrifice.~
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan frowns.
	Sequence	"Hey. He's not available for sacrifice. He hat to come back."
	Sequence	*has to
	Salmander	~I watch only now against those who seek to disturb the bones of the dead, as that is all there is left to protect.~
	LumineInfinitus	"He's like the Great Owl from the Secret of Nymh.."
	Salmander	The spirit moves to circle Damian, who is hit with the feeling of weakness again.
	Salmander	~And you, other pilferer, you too would make for a suitable reparation.~
	Mr_Wilt	"I'm willing to pay a blood price, but not with my life."
	Salmander	The spirit moves between the two
	Fifthman	"Why do you watch the bones of the dead, when the living still require your protection?"
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan continues to watch it.
	Salmander	~One of you will be bound to this place. It will be your duty to protect it, as I have done for ages past. When you die, your spirit will preside over its wellbeing.~
	Erit_Invictus	Damian observes, he's actually considering..."If you cannot fully protect the remains against the enviroment, perhaps you can allow us to prtoect them instead?"
	Salmander	~The living have forsaken this place to which I am bound.~
	Fifthman	"How do we release you?"
	Sequence	"I'll do it."
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan looks at Eva.
	Mr_Wilt	"/No/. You won't."
	Pemander	Marcus looks to Eva. "Don't be so hasty."
	Salmander	The spirit surrounds Eva. ~But you have not made a transgression.~
	Pemander	He turns to the apparition. "Please, enlighten me. What exactly are you protecting? Everything here is dead."
	Mr_Wilt	He turns back toward the specter. "If you hold one of us here, we cannot share with you the skull I mentioned."
	Sequence	"But I am willing to protect this. I don't want Nolan to be forced into this."
	Erit_Invictus	"Even the dead reserve respect"
	Fifthman	"You said you are bound, spirit. How may we release you?"
	Sequence	"And I... understand the importance of the dead."
	Mr_Wilt	"Eva."
	Sequence	"Nolan, they need someone to remember them."
	Mr_Wilt	"I'd rather /I/ stay here, than you."
	Pemander	"Their remembrance is not your responsiblity. Nor is it any of ours."
	Sequence	"And I'd rather I stay here than you! And someone needs to remember them! They deserve it!"
	Salmander	The spirit flies into Marcus's face and looks at him with red eyes. ~TO PROTECT IT AGAINST INSOLENT PILFERERS WHO DISTURB IT BY REMOVING THE SKULLS OF THE DEAD AND TOSSING THEM ABOUT LIKE BALES OF HAY.~
	Erit_Invictus	"Ghost, we can protect the bones even from the dangers of the sand, if you allow us to do so, but bounding as to this location will only ensure that the dessert englufs both the guardiond and the bones""
	Pemander	Marcus is not amused. "I don't like your tone."
	LumineInfinitus	"Uh don't anger the all-powerfull Great Owl dude.."
	Sequence	"Marcus, shut up."
	Salmander	The spirit sighs and drifts to the center of the crypt.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan turns back toward the spirit. "Surely, there is another way. Something we can do."
	Salmander	~You are an insufferable group.~
	LumineInfinitus	"Don't we know it.."
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan smiles, but it quickly fades. "We get that a lot."
	Sequence	Eva pushes her hair back and smiles wryly.
	Pemander	Marcus follows the spirit. "I'm not saying we can't help you, but don't force us into anything. Is that how you want your honored dead to be remembered?"
	Fifthman	Cecil smirks. Insufferable indeed.
	Salmander	It gazes at the walls of the crypt, looking at the various pictographs inscirbed.
	Sequence	Eva also follows the spirit.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan turns as well, lighting up the wall with his flashlight.
	Fifthman	Cecil walks behind the spirit. "There are many of us. Not just those of us here, but also those of us from where we come from."
	Salmander	~Perhaps a compromise is in order.~
	Sequence	"What sort of a compromise?"
	Pemander	Marcus nods. "Compromise is always welcome."
	Erit_Invictus	"DId you heard me? You bones will be protected forever, and you shall rest, if you would allow us to take care of the bone, to move them to a better place"
	Salmander	~An owl may cup his hands to carry a pound of sand, but many can carry one each.~
	Pemander	"Spare us the cheap wisdom and tell us what you want us to do."
	LumineInfinitus	"We take turns protecting this place? Sending people in?"
	Sequence	Eva smacks Marcus.
	Sequence	"Damien, shut up and let it talk."
	Pemander	Marcus takes the slap without response.
	Salmander	~Precisely.~ The spirit turns out. ~Thank you dear lady, I was quite annoyed by this man's speech.~
	Pemander	Marcus raises an eyebrow.
	Salmander	~And yes, you may take turns. Who does when, I do not care.~ Ite begins circling around the group, moving faster.
	LumineInfinitus	"Guys.. Is there anyway to send people out here, to this particular place, to guard it? I mean we know how the pool is."
	Sequence	"You are quite welcome."
	Mr_Wilt	"I'll go first, then."
	Salmander	~Any person of your kind may take this burden, so long as it is covered.~
	Salmander	~And if it is not...~
	Pemander	Marcus puts a hand on Nolan's shoulder. "I will go first."
	Fifthman	"In other words, we bring an outpost here."
	Sequence	"Like we were intending to."
	Fifthman	"Which we were going to do anyway."
	Pemander	"Don't think I haven't noticed that you and Eva are...together."
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan bats at Marcus. "Nope, I took a skull. I might as well."
	Salmander	The spirit stops and aura extends into the chests of each person
	Salmander	It wraps around a glowing circle that appears in the center and tugs
	Salmander	Everyone feels quite nasueous all of a sudden
	Sequence	Eva covers her mouth.
	Salmander	~Well, I'll have to put you all on permanent duty.~
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan grabs at his stomach. His face contorts.
	Fifthman	Cecil feels some bile come up from his stomach. He swallows.
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse shivers.
	Pemander	Marcus leans against the walls of the crypt.
	Salmander	It releases the circles and the nauseousness goes away
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan's face settles again, as does his stomach.
	LumineInfinitus	"So we're cool so long as one remains here?"
	Sequence	"Please don't do that again. It was unnecessary in the first place."
	Feierzeit	Spencer is still asleep.
	LumineInfinitus	"Just clarifying."
	Fifthman	"One of us? Or one of any of us from our world?"
	Salmander	"Any of your... kind. Beakless and smelly.~
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan plops down. "Guess I'll take first shift."
	Erit_Invictus	"I don't get it, we oculd really have protected all the dam cementery forever, why did he ignore me?"
	Sequence	Eva grins.
	Pemander	Marcus raises an eyebrow again. It can smell?
	Sequence	"We are rather smelly, aren't we?"
	Fifthman	Cecil turns to Eva and Nolan. "So we leave you alone to guard the crypt while we get more Poolboys up here?"
	Erit_Invictus	"Whatever."
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse gets ready to head up.
	Sequence	Eva shrugs. "Sounds good to me."
	Salmander	The aura gives Nolan and Damian a strong pat on the back that sends them stumbling
	Salmander	~You, pilferers, will be staying first until more of your kind comes.~
	Sequence	Eva grins again.
	Erit_Invictus	~Your choice owl, but you still doomed your precious bones~
	Fifthman	Cecil winks. "I like it. Very creative way to get some alone time."
	Sequence	Eva just gives Cecil a Look.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan gets comfortable on the ground of the crypt.
	Salmander	~Take it as an act of mercy.~ Damian feels nauseous again.
	Fifthman	"He's waiting." Cecil nods to Nolan as he walks out.
	Sequence	Eva sits down next to Nolan.
	Pemander	Marcus walks past everyone else, toward the entrance of the crypt. "Sorry, pilferers. I'm going to head back to base camp and try to call for backup."
	LumineInfinitus	"Fair enough." Paresse followed him. "I'll join ya."
	Pemander	He makes a 180 for just a moment and looks at the owl spirit. "Don't hurt them."
	Sequence	"Marcus, just go away."
	Sequence	He is not getting on Eva's good side.
	Erit_Invictus	~Mercy? towards who? We could have preserved you bones as long as not only us, but our engire organization lived, yet you conmdem them, bones that were your sacred duty to rptotect, to dissapear in the sand~
	Salmander	Marcus feels his throat constrict
	Mr_Wilt	"Hey, when you guys get back, can one of you get Corbette to get somebody to bring me that birdman skull?"
	Mr_Wilt	"Might as well do a little work while I'm in here."
	Salmander	~Should I silence him?~ The aura lifts Marcus in the air
	Salmander	The spirit ignores damian
	Sequence	"Uh, no, let him be. He just needs to learn manners, that's all."
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse looks up, not going to do shit, they can't harm this thing at the moment.
	Mr_Wilt	Nolan waits for a response.
	Mr_Wilt	He really wants that birdman skull here.
	Salmander	The spirit coos its face in an eerily owl-like manner, then releases Marcus and drops him to the ground. ~Shoo.~
	Pemander	Marcus shrugs when his feet touch the ground and he continues to exit the crypt.
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse follows. "Let's go tell the director fast."
	Mr_Wilt	"Make sure he gets somebody to get me that skull!"
	Salmander	As they exit they can hear the spirit begin to speak to Nolan and Damian
	LumineInfinitus	Paresse took out a pen and wrote it on his arm.
	Salmander	~So what do your people eat? Worms? Grass?~