Into The Jungle, Day 2

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	Echo	Jason stops walking and raises a palm.
	Balthazaar	Mark stops and tightens his grip on his rifle
	Echo	He unclips himself from the paracord stringer, unclips his pack from the top shoulder straps, drops his assault pack, and sits on top of it.as it hangs behind him.
	PaulS_laptop	Bill stops
	PaulS_laptop	sits leaning against his pack
	Echo	"Ya know... I had an even better system'n this figured out while I was in Iraq."
	Balthazaar	Mark hunkers down and pulls off his boots
	Echo	"You know those little foldin' chairs, that's just the little u-shaped tubes'a metal, hooked together, with the little canvas on top?"
	Echo	"Tied one to my buttpack, so if I leaned back just right, it'd open up, and I could just sit down on it an' unfold it the rest'a the way."
	Balthazaar	"Camp stools?" Mark is finally able to scratch his itchy foot.
	Echo	"Yeah, those."
	Balthazaar	Mark laughs. "Nice."
	PaulS_laptop	"That's a pretty neat idea"
	PaulS_laptop	"Shoulda done that, had you mentioned it"
	PaulS_laptop	"Course, I dunno if I could have carried the extra weight"
	Balthazaar	"Still, I was always a fan of just sitting on the ground."
	PaulS_laptop	"camp stool'd make it easier for me to get up again"
	PaulS_laptop	Bill unbuckles his pack "feel this shit"
	Gara	Loren unbuckles the back, drops it and sits.
	Echo	Jason unbuckles the bottom straps from his back, and steps over to Bill. "Gimme that shit, Toby."
	PaulS_laptop	Bill passes it over
	Balthazaar	Mark looks at the vegetation growing around them with a smile.
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	Echo	Jason's arm drops a little from the unexpected weight before he catches it, then swings it around his back, bends over, re-buckles the shoulder straps, and stands up.
	Echo	"Shit, dude..." Jason hops up and down a couple times, settling the weight.
	PaulS_laptop	"told you"
	PaulS_laptop	"Mark, try this shit"
	Balthazaar	Mark stands up. "Okay, give us a go."
	TheRaven	"See, that's why you don't pack a .50"
	Echo	Jason unbuckles it and passes it over to Mark.
	PaulS_laptop	"Add another forty or so pounds of ammo for what I've got on my chest rig"
	Echo	".50's good if we run into contact."
	PaulS_laptop	"Shit's fuckin heavy, but I figure if I can't solve the problem with that much fifty...I done fucked up somewhere"
	Balthazaar	Mark nearly drops it. "Fuck me, that's heavy."
	Echo	"If it ain't hidin' behind two inches'a steel, it's gonna be fucked."
	Echo	Jason looks back at Loren. "You doin' all right with that?" He nods at her pack.
	PaulS_laptop	"if we gotta run, though, I'm dropping this shit."
	Balthazaar	Mark passes the pack back to Bill. "I'm glad I packed fairly light then..."
	Gara	"Yeah, just fine."
	Echo	"Not rippin' on ya, but if it gets heavy, just let us know and we'll spread yer load out."
	PaulS_laptop	Bill sets it down, then sits atop it "It's the curse of packing the heaviest weapon"
	PaulS_laptop	"That said, I wonder if cloth belts might be lighter than twenty four barret mags"
	Balthazaar	Mark takes off his pack, opens it, and takes out a dog collar, he stares at it sadly, then puts it back and retrieves the little bit of food he was looking for.
	Echo	Jason returns to his own pack, folds the map pouch out of the way, and rummages through it for a moment, coming back up with two one-hundred-round belts of 7.62. He lays a pair of rifle mags aside, closes the pack, shoves the pair of mags into the side pouches on his buttpack, and drapes the two belts over his shoulders before sitting back down on his pack.
	Echo	"They wasn't lyin' when they said this shit was outta way, was they?"
	PaulS_laptop	"nope. Course, we're also making pretty slow going"
	PaulS_laptop	"terrain's making it impossible to go as the crow flies"
	Balthazaar	Mark eats slowly, lost in thought
	Echo	"Such is life."
	Gara	"Neh, I'm good."
	Echo	"Any'a y'all want some water? I've got a half-gallon weighin' my pack down."
	Gara	"Water sounds good."
	PaulS_laptop	"Could go for some"
	Balthazaar	"Got my own..."
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	Echo	Jason stands up off his pack again, goes back through the map pouch, and comes back up with a heavy plastic pouch that looks about half-full. He tosses it over towards Loren. "Ladies first."
	Gara	Loren gatches it, and has some waer.
	Balthazaar	Mark rubs his face and shakes his head. ~I miss Johno...~
	Echo	"Might as well drink outta this. Be easier to fill this back up than everybody diggin' into their own. Better to keep the shit yer wearin' on ya topped off anyway."
	Gara	"Yeah yeah yeah, you just want a lighter load."
	Balthazaar	"I'll be fine, done this a thousand times. We can't have you losing your water too."
	Echo	"I could be a smartass there, but I'm not goin' to."
	Echo	At Loren.
	Gara	"Damn."
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	Gara	"I give you a nice set up, and you spit on me. For shame."
	Echo	Jason glances over at Mark. "Nah, my shit's wired tight. Got about a gallon in the Camelbak, quart in the canteens. I've been drinkin' outta the bag there."
	Echo	He looks back to Loren. "You got cooties now."
	Gara	"Oh, no.'
	Balthazaar	Mark shrugs. "Fair enough."
	Alivi	Everyone 1d10
	TheRaven	1d10
	Glacon	TheRaven: 5 (1d10=5)
	Balthazaar	1d10
	Glacon	Balthazaar: 4 (1d10=4)
	Echo	1d10
	Glacon	Echo: 5 (1d10=5)
	Alivi	Gara:
	Gara	1d10 Sorry
	Glacon	Gara: Sorry: 10 (1d10=10)
	Alivi	Taggart, Jason, you are bitten by a mosquito. 1d2
	TheRaven	1d2 malaria or yellow fever?
	Glacon	TheRaven: malaria or yellow fever?: 1 (1d2=1)
	Echo	1d2
	Glacon	Echo: 2 (1d2=2)
	Alivi	Man those mosquito bites itch…how annoying.
	PaulS_laptop	1d10
	Glacon	PaulS_laptop: 8 (1d10=8)
	Echo	Jason scratches at the bite, then buttons his sleeves another notch tighter over his gloves.
	Balthazaar	Mark sighs and then puts his boots back on.
	Echo	Jason looks over at Spear. "We're gettin' close, right?"
	Balthazaar	Mark gets up and rubs his eyes.
	TheRaven	"You getting anything from that book, Loren?"
	Alivi	Spear looks over. "Yes…."
	Alivi	"You know I listen to you all day. And you are very strange for Foundation."
	Alivi	"Are many people at your home like this?"
	Gara	"Yes, they are."
	Echo	"You've seen other Foundation troops?"
	Balthazaar	"Pretty much." Sounding sad.
	Alivi	"What do you mean?" He looks at Jason confused.
	Echo	"You said we're strange for Foundation."
	Alivi	"Yes….what about the Foundation?"
	Echo	"Could someone else help explain this?"
	Echo	Jason re-attaches his pack and stands.
	Balthazaar	"Sure" To Spear. "When did you meet other Foundation guys?"
	Alivi	"I never have personally."
	Alivi	"You are the first."
	Alivi	"However your tribe and ours go back far. They were the ones to teach us English."
	TheRaven	~Well, that explains that, I guess.~
	Balthazaar	"Oh okay. When was the foundation here then?"
	Alivi	"Lost to time, legend really. Many of us were not sure you exist. But Tarlock said you did… Apparently you came recently after disappearances started…."
	Alivi	"I do not know much else..."
	Alivi	He shrugs.
	Balthazaar	"Huh. Well, that makes sense."
	TheRaven	"Wait, recently?"
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	Gara	6df+8 Tagging Curiosity, hopefully.
	Glacon	Gara: Tagging Curiosity, hopefully.: 7 (6df+8=-, +, +, -, -, 0)
	Alivi	Loren, it is written entirely in code you think you understand it. You really need to sit down and read it. Translating a page might take well into a day or at least half a day.
	Gara	"It's encoded, so, it'll take a good long while to get it."
	Alivi	Even worse it isnt a regular code, but actually a code version of an ancient writing form used. There are pictures in the journal.
	Alivi	Depticting manners of life in a civilization.
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	Balthazaar	Mark looks at Spear. "Hey, can I ask you a question?"
	Tehpillowstar	Chloe is totes there
	Alivi	"Yes Love?"
	Balthazaar	"Does the colour of the clothes your tribe wears mean anything?"
	Gara	Loren knows his one.
	Alivi	"What do you mean?"
	Balthazaar	"Well, I noticed that the women either wear plain white, or colourful clothes. Does that... Mean anything?" Mark suspects some things
	TheRaven	~It means you've probably got dickrot...~
	Gara	~Someone didn't read their paperwork.~
	Alivi	"Ah White are unmarried."
	Alivi	"Congratulations by the way."
	Balthazaar	Marks eyes widen. "... Wha? What?"
	Tehpillowstar	Chloe walks up to Taggart. "So, was your night just as uneventful as mine?"
	Alivi	Spear grins and cracks up laughing
	TheRaven	Taggart starts laughing his ass off when he hears Mark.
	Tehpillowstar	Chloe grins and chuckles.
	Balthazaar	"... Am I... Am I married now?"
	Alivi	Spear cannot speak he is laughing
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	Balthazaar	Mark looks around at the group. He has an unusual expression on his face. "Am I married?"
	Gara	"I hope so."
	Tehpillowstar	"Pfft,"
	TheRaven	Taggart finally slows down a bit and replies to Chloe. "Yeah, pretty much."
	Echo	"Married?"
	Tehpillowstar	"I guess he's now a Mr. Williamson,"
	Balthazaar	Mark is looking at Spear, waiting for an answer
	Alivi	He is still laughin
	TheRaven	"I believe that's a no."
	Alivi	Spear comes to a stop.
	Echo	Jason raises his left hand, palm flat
	Gara	Loren halts.
	Alivi	"…I will not go furthur than this."
	Alivi	"You continue on path and ruins will be there."
	TheRaven	"How far?"
	Alivi	"Not too far….you will see soon.
	Alivi	He turns around and starts back towards the village
	TheRaven	He checks the time.
	Echo	"Hey, wait! What are we lookin' for? This thing. Describe it."
	Balthazaar	Mark still looks like a stunned mullet
	Alivi	He is gone Jason
	TheRaven	"...that's not a good sign."
	Gara	"..."
	Echo	Jason wonders how the guy cast Dimension Door, then wonders how he knows what Dimension Door is. Probably one of Alice's video games.
	Alivi	He went into the jungle off the path
	Alivi	he probably knows it better than ya'll do
	Balthazaar	~Am I married?~
	TheRaven	"Okay, let's keep moving." What time is it, roughly?
	Echo	"Well, fuck it. Lotta help that was. Anyone else think it's even a little bit fuckin' weird they wouldn't say shit about what we're even lookin' out for?"
	Tehpillowstar	"Well, that's fan-fucking-tastic,"
	Tehpillowstar	"I'd be an insult to our intelligence not to think all this is weird as fuck,"
	Alivi	It is almost sunset.
	TheRaven	"We gotta get going, I'd like to have camp set up by dark."
	Echo	"Christ..." Jason checks his machine gun, racks the charging handle, and safes it. "Set for max destruction. Fuck it, let's roll."
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	Balthazaar	Mark follows the path, he's very quiet.
	Alivi	What seems like a short time elapses….and Loren sees a familair scene. Something in the pictures from the journal.
	Echo	Jason follows behind Mark, weapon at the ready.
	Gara	"I've seen this.'
	TheRaven	"Please don't tell me it was in a dream."
	Gara	"No, Taggart, worse."
	Gara	"In the encoded journal."
	Alivi	In the journal, the picture was more complete….and…detailed in horrificness
	Echo	What's the place look like?
	Gara	"There was a giant stone gate... human sacriface got it open."
	Gara	"This is a bad place."
	TheRaven	"Oh fuck."
	Alivi	Its basically a giant stone gate…or what appears to be….. there are vines everywhere. It blocks the stones in places but there is a reddend stone.
	Tehpillowstar	"Sounds great,"
	Tehpillowstar	"Just like Disneyland,"
	Echo	How tall is the gate?
	Balthazaar	Mark swallows nervously. He's getting creeped right the fuck out.
	Alivi	Its pretty massive. At least 30-40 ft tall….
	Alivi	You cannot see the top edge, vegetation blocks the way
	TheRaven	"I say we do /not/ camp near this thing."
	Echo	"And this is why I'm lodgin' a complain against the ops planner when we get back..." Jason turns away from the get and steps to the back of the group and takes a knee, propping the 60 up his left knee.
	Balthazaar	"... Yeah, good idea. I can try and find us a good spot in the jungle if we want... somewhere defensible..."
	Tehpillowstar	"Alright,"
	Echo	"Yeah, we're right behind ya, Mark."
	TheRaven	"Let's do that."
	Balthazaar	Mark shrugs and heads into the jungle, after he's a fair bit in, he looks for a good spot.
	Alivi	mark perception
	Balthazaar	Not survival?
	Alivi	perception
	Balthazaar	6df+9 Tagging in the tall grass
	Glacon	Balthazaar: Tagging in the tall grass: 11 (6df+9=0, +, -, 0, +, +)
	Gara	"Somewhere, deep in there? Is where the monster lived."
	Alivi	You narrowly avoid a spider web to the face
	Balthazaar	"Pffft, spiderweb..."
	Echo	"Did it say anything about what the 'monster' *is*?"
	TheRaven	"...wonderful."
	Gara	"No."
	Gara	"Beyond that it's down in there? No."
	Echo	"And yeah, so not the place we wanna be stuck in after dark anyway."
	Gara	"Maybe I'll find more when I review."
	Balthazaar	Mark continues to search for a likely spot
	Balthazaar	Does he find anywhere?
	Alivi	No, everything here is too thick.
	Alivi	You;ve have to chop things down to clear enough for all of you to sleep
	Alivi	not to mention to light a fire without causing an Eriko-like forest incident
	TheRaven	Would they have time before it gets dark?
	Alivi	its fading pretty fast. Likely not
	Balthazaar	"Bloody hell, this isn't great."
	TheRaven	Taggart sighs. "Okay, do we wanna try here, or go back?"
	Balthazaar	"We'd have to make a clearing if we want to sleep here."
	Echo	"There any sign that somethin' besides people uses that trail back there?"
	Balthazaar	"Dunno, I didn't check."
	Echo	"Not too far. If it looks clean, we just head back to the wide spot we took the security halt in right before we got here, post up there."
	TheRaven	"That sounds like a good idea, actually."
	Balthazaar	"Let's go then."
	Tehpillowstar	Chloe marches right with them.
	Balthazaar	Mark goes
	TheRaven	Taggart brings up the rear as usual.
	Echo	Jason keeps it tight beside Loren. "They said the thing hits the village, didn't they? Every night or somethin'?"
	Gara	"Yeah."
	Alivi	mdef
	Balthazaar	6df+6 mind of steel
	Gara	6df+6 Huh. I didn't know we were in Panama.
	Glacon	Balthazaar: mind of steel: 5 (6df+6=0, -, -, +, 0, 0)
	Glacon	Gara: Huh. I didn't know we were in Panama.: 7 (6df+6=+, -, +, +, 0, -)
	TheRaven	6df+6 wuuut
	Glacon	TheRaven: wuuut: 1 (6df+6=-, -, -, -, -, 0)
	Tehpillowstar	6df+10 tagging
	Glacon	Tehpillowstar: tagging: 9 (6df+10=-, -, -, +, +, 0)
	Echo	6df+10 Tagging IFF. Jason's quickly losing his patience with this place and its people, and is in no mood for horseshit.
	Glacon	Echo: Tagging IFF. Jason's quickly losing his patience with this place and its people, and is in no mood for horseshit.: 12 (6df+10=-, +, -, +, +, +)
	TheRaven	"Maybe we should check out the ruins more..."
	Gara	"Why?"
	Gara	"Why would we /ever/ do that, in the middle of the night?"
	Tehpillowstar	"Why?"
	TheRaven	"It's still light."
	Echo	"No, fuck that. Goin' in blind, night time, overgrown as fuck? Use your head. We need to hit that shit in daylight."
	Echo	"Yeah, and it's gonna be dark quick, fast, an' in a hurry."
	Gara	"No, out voted, we're not going to do that."
	TheRaven	"Ugh, alright."
	Balthazaar	Mark shrugs. "I'll do either." ~Am I married?~
	Tehpillowstar	"We don't have NVGs, we're just going to stumble around blind,"
	Gara	"... Why the fuck don't we have NVGs?"
	TheRaven	He tries very hard to push the idea from his mind.
	Tehpillowstar	"Why don't we have gas masks? Fuck if I know,"
	Echo	"They wouldn't issue 'em. I tried to pull'em from supply, but they wouldn't hand'em out."
	Gara	"..."
	Alivi	Its nearly impossible taggart
	Gara	"I fucking hate my job."
	Alivi	its so easy.
	Alivi	Just go over there and get some blood on that stone. You have a gut feeling
	TheRaven	"Loren...something occurs to me. Does it say we have to sacrifice a human specifically?"
	Alivi	its soooo gonna work
	Gara	"No."
	Gara	"Well."
	Gara	"I don't know."
	Echo	"Nah, you love it. Let's just get back to where we took the security halt. Nice'n wide, open, clear line'a sight up'n down the trail."
	TheRaven	He pushes /hard/. "Okay. But that fucking thing is what we need to be investigating."
	Gara	"Yes."
	Gara	"Very good."
	Gara	"It's also about to be the middle of the night."
	Echo	"Yeah. Let's do our Scooby-Doo shit when it's daylight, and when we're not gettin' ourselves killed in the dark. Whole lot easier to investigate shit when you're not blind'r dead."
	Echo	"It's some serious shit out here, dude. Getcher shit together an' think, man."
	TheRaven	"...that thing must be fucking with me. I was just saying we should get the hell away from it."
	Alivi	It starts to get cloudy
	Balthazaar	"Ah... Shit. Rain."
	Alivi	like magic!
	Alivi	It starts to rain
	Echo	"Welp. That's why we brought poncho liners."
	Echo	"Least we got trees over us."
	TheRaven	"Okay, this should go without saying, but from now on nobody goes anywhere alone. I don't care if you're just going to the latrine, I want everyone to stay in sight of at least one person at all times."
	Echo	Jason fishes his poncho out of his buttpack and pulls it over him.
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	Gara	"Also make sure you have loaded guns."
	Balthazaar	Mark pulls up his hood. ~Great. First accidental marriage, now rain outside the temple of doom.~
	Alivi	it starts raining pretty hard
	Alivi	you should set up camp where-ever you decide
	TheRaven	Taggart pulls on a poncho.
	Balthazaar	"Okay, so what are we going to do? I don't want to stay out in this rain."
	Gara	"Well, we have to set up camp."
	Echo	"Then just stay under the trees. Keep the tents minimal? Throw a few down under the trees, stack up in there, few people to a tent?"
	Balthazaar	"Sounds good. Let's go."
	Echo	"Right behind ya, man."
	Balthazaar	Mark gets himself under some tree cover. "Let's set about clearing a spot to set up."
	TheRaven	Taggart starts setting up.
	Balthazaar	Mark gets to work
	Echo	Jason pulls out his Goliath and starts hacking at foliage.
	Gara	Loren uses her Fancy machete.
	Tehpillowstar	Chloe puts on her ponch and starts hacking at foliage with her machete
	Balthazaar	Mark gathers the cut foliage into a pile. "We can use this as camouflage, just in case."
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	Alivi	Jason perception
	Echo	6df+10 Tagging. Jason's still in a foul mood, wired tight, and wound up.
	Glacon	Echo: Tagging. Jason's still in a foul mood, wired tight, and wound up.: 9 (6df+10=0, -, 0, 0, +, -)
	Balthazaar	*Vegetation cutting sounds*
	TheRaven	Chopping intensifies
	Alivi	THERE ARE MONKEYS AT THE TOP OF THAT VEGETATION STOP RUINING THIER HOME JERK
	Echo	He keeps hacking away at the forest's low-lying scrub, occasionally pausing to adjust the 60 now slung against his back. He stares up at the monkeys in the trees for a moment, then goes back to chopping away. "There's uh, there's some monkeys up top in the canopy."
	Gara	"Yeah?"
	Echo	"Might wanna keep yer guns ready."
	Echo	"If you see one down here, cap his ass, show the others what happens if they get too close."
	TheRaven	"We're not just shooting random wildlife."
	Balthazaar	"Now that's just unnecessary."
	Echo	"No, we're not. We're keeping a bunch of wild, possibly disease-carrying animals out of where we're sleeping."
	Balthazaar	"You want em gone, just fire a warning shot in the air. They won't be back."
	Alivi	One of them lowers itself down to see what the commotion is, curious monkey so curious
	Balthazaar	"Oi! Get out of here!"
	Tehpillowstar	Chloe unslings Bill's rifle and flicks the safety off.
	Tehpillowstar	"I can take first watch,"
	Alivi	it tilts its head and grumbles
	Echo	Jason stands up, sheathes the Goliath, pulls the 60 around, and aims in at it.
	Gara	6df+6 I agility manuver.
	Glacon	Gara: I agility manuver.: 6 (6df+6=+, -, -, 0, 0, +)
	TheRaven	"So what're the bunk arrangements? I'm guessing Loren and Chloe are sharing, unless one of 'em wants to go with me." He laughs.
	Alivi	Monkey hobbles over to Jason to get a better look.
	Balthazaar	Mark fires a shot into the air to scare off the monkeys.
	Alivi	6df+7 RUN AWAY
	Glacon	Alivi: RUN AWAY: 9 (6df+7=0, 0, 0, +, +, 0)
	Alivi	Oh man they BOOK IT
	Balthazaar	~Sorry Jason, but I don't want them getting shot.~
	Echo	"Women, Taggart. We been over this. There ain't a single kangaroo for a thousand miles."
	Alivi	monkeys are gone
	Echo	Jason slings his 60 and starts laying out a tent. "Thank God for rain flies."
	Tehpillowstar	"Sorry Taggart, but I don't like you that way,"
	TheRaven	"I know, I'm just messing with you."
	Gara	"I don't have a pouch."
	Tehpillowstar	"I know,"
	Balthazaar	Mark starts setting up another tent. "Want to pile the stuff we chopped on the tents for camo?"
	Echo	"Hell, go for it."
	Balthazaar	"Good insulation too."
	TheRaven	"Handy if we need to make up ghillie suits."
	Balthazaar	When he finishes setting up the tent, he starts piling vegetation on top of the tents. "I always called them yowie suits."
	TheRaven	"Yeah, good way to get yourself shot if you're in the wrong place."
	Echo	"Gonna be hard to make a ghillie suit if ya didn't bring one with ya."
	Balthazaar	Mark gives Taggart a 'Chill out' look
	TheRaven	"Not like that, man."
	Echo	Jason finishes setting up his tent, steps under the fly, pulls his poncho off, and hangs it over the entrance. "Anybody wanna crash in here with me? I don't snore, don't smell, and I got the most important thing you could ask for right now."