Team BlueBusy now to actually read everyone as I usually do and post an action (probably later), but I still don't understand how we were able to first notice, then avoid, and then enter the "normal zone". Because if the time or objects are not affected in any way, we shouldn't have known that it exists. Well now that we enter it, it "feels a bit odd," but I'm going to assume that it was entered it if not explored it, way back when we first discovered it.
((How to notice? When the rocks you throw are no longer slowed nor hastened but rather behave as expected, then you noticed a piece of land that seems more or less normal; a normal zone or as Vich told Zephy: An area (seemingly) without an anomaly. Sure, there should be no way to know if you're not already in it (well except for feeling odd, but that was discovered just now). Since the time distortions seemingly formed a wall, we just assumed there also was some kind of boundary when stepping into the gap - which seems to hold true if feeling weird indicates anything.))
((Also am I right that only Flint entered so far? If yes:))
"I'm gonna stay here for now, I'm feeling uneasy enough without being surrounded by physical shenanigans.."
Stay here with the team, outside the gap. Unless we decide the whole team should go through in which case I follow along.
Well...Bishop is staying here, so You suppose you will as well. Vich and Flint no doubt have all the dangerous stuff well and truly handled without your help. No reason for you to have to stick your head into potentially fatal situations. Nope. Just gonna stay right here.
"Hmmm... I'm not sure what good the landlines would do if you went into one of those distortions or not. You may as well just keep going, but it's your choice if you want to go back for the landlines or not. If you don't want to go any further, head back out and we'll check out zone 4."
Keep watch on Flint's progress and on the area in general.
You sit outside the effected area and watch as flint very slowly wanders around, throwing handfuls of rocks in all directions and tip toeing about. You yawn and stretch your legs. Though exponentially more safe, this isn't exactly as exciting.
Flint Westwood - Blue squad - Sector 3
"This feels odd... It's not a thing, it's just... strange. I'm going to go further in."
See if I can determine the kind of strangeness I feel or its source. Take some ground samples. Map further into the "normal" zone and check if the base can hear me and if there is any delay due to the anomalies in between the base and us. Look around for anything else that seems strange.
@Bishop: "Hmm... I just thought of something. If these things mess with light, it's quite possible that our radios won't work beyond it. Should I go back and get those land lines blue leader?" ((And also conveniently take my exosuit?))
((vv Thanks! Good luck with your May encounter and whatever piecewise does for the anniversary. Oh, and better wish Jim\SerCon some luck too if you are the superstitious type. Things aren't looking good on their end.))
The strangeness seems to be a general feeling of floaty, lightheadedness and of moving ever so slightly slower; like the feeling of resistance as you walk through water, but much less so. You can't tell the source of it; it seems to be all around you. You take a sample of the ground, though it doesn't appear to be any different from anywhere else around here, and radio your mapping progress back to base. It seems to work just fine; if there's a delay, you don't notice it. One thing you notice, though, is that as you get farther in the effect, though slight, seems to be increasing. You're feeling light headed even more, and movements are meeting with more resistance.
Busy now to actually read everyone as I usually do and post an action (probably later), but I still don't understand how we were able to first notice, then avoid, and then enter the "normal zone". Because if the time or objects are not affected in any way, we shouldn't have known that it exists. Well now that we enter it, it "feels a bit odd," but I'm going to assume that it was entered it if not explored it, way back when we first discovered it.
((Wouldn't you say the yellow is a normal zone? And then when you start walking in the yellow and start feeling weird wouldn't you say it's something different then the green zone, even though you can't define the exact boundary?))
((But we only began walking in it this turn, before it we didn't feel weird, so we supposedly did not step in it at all. Also, before the second expedition the map looked like this: http://s1308.photobucket.com/user/Horrible_illustrations_for_ER/media/map2_zps9456ebe9.png.html
Wouldn't you say it would be logical to continue exploring the anomaly on it's side instead of discovering the "Stop Anomaly"? To us it was the edge of the anomaly.
Also, that was quite the trip back we did to the opening in the anomaly. I'd have said to continue exploring it's boundary if I had known better.))
"It feels odd? Did anyone besides me had odd dreams this night? Unless you object Team Leader, I'm stepping in to check. Also, if Flint needs company I could join him. It's my fault he's here without his endeared suit.
Or we could go in teams of two on both sides of the normal zone, and map both edges at once."
Step inside the anomaly to check if the odd feeling feels the same as the one caused by the dreams. Also, how far away from us is Flint? Can we see him?
PS: Tell me if the lonk doesn't work. For me, it works in one browser, and doesn't work in the other. 
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The feeling you felt in the dream is somewhat the same as this, but the one in the dream didn't make you light headed, and it was more like wading through jelly, much greater then the feeling you have here, which is so minor you wonder if you're not just imagining it.
Flint is a few miles away; just a little dot by this point, but still visible, especially using the zoom on the visor.
Team GreenVisor zoom, observe the distant things
The appear to be long, vaguely serpentine but with large, individual body segments; like a string of boulders swimming very slowly through the molten sea. You can't see much of them, beyond glimpses as they barely break surface and then descend again.
"Well."
Try and scan the shadows.
It reveals nothing. No math, no information, nothing. They flicker from one position to the next, slowly getting closer the longer you stare at them.
Lars surveyed the sea. Auron's suggestion stuck in his head- a pipeline here, headed back to the main base... interesting. Anyway.
"Let us continue."
Keep going "south" and around. If this would lead too far (more than two smallhexes) into the next bighex down, stop.
Lars, with most of his team, follows the Iron sea down and around until they find what they believe is the point at which it turns and starts to slowly arch back and complete its circle. However, it looks like following the lake along it's beach of hardened iron nodules and metal coated stone would take the team rather deeper into the next zone then they were prepared to travel.
Team RedGet going towards where we stopped mapping the edge of our vision anomaly zone. Drag anyone of team red who tries dilly-dallying any further. Once there, try to further map the edge of the distortion zone using the modified mapping drone.
"Team red, we're moving out. That includes you, Michael. Leave the experimenting to Simus, that's her job after all."
Lukas shrugs. "Well, let's go then."
Assist Miyamoto in dragging unwilling team members along convincing the other team members to follow us.
(( 
Sorry, I have very little inspiration with regard to things for Lukas to say atm.))
Put strange grass stuff in vault and follow team
"Guess we might as well get going if we're done here."
Get ready to head out with Red team.
Red team marches at double time, exploring large swaths of land and marking the edges of the visual anomaly by carefully stepping in and out of it with someone always holding their other hand, ready to drag them back. They find two new anomalies; an area where the tint of the world seems to be off; as though they're viewing the world through a broken monitor. Red is green, yellow is blue, blue is purple, it's all very odd. Another area like this lies on the opposite end of the anomaly 'Bubble', except there the colors seem to be inverted, rather then randomly different.
Team Trusting Mesk With medical matters. "So, you ever had an amputation and limb replacement procedure done before? Oh, what am I saying, of course not. Well, that's alright. I've never performed one."
Assemble the necessary equipment, apply localized anesthesia to Anton's left arm, and run a mental checklist of stuff I need to do. Get that sweet, sweet dynamic bonus going.
"I'll do your left hand first. That's your non-dominant side, right? This way if something goes catastrophically wrong because I have no idea what I'm doing... well, at least you'll still have your dominant."
((Heh, I knew something like that would happen sooner or later. This was rather sooner than the sooner I expected though. 
Also, waiting for that updated map so I can update mine. Or really, I could just send you the PSD. ninja'd!))
Anton's eyes widened as he saw the damage to his hands, but his resigned and slightly depressed nature took over a little too quickly, causing his reaction to be rather subdued.
"Well that's just grand. Fuck me sideways. I guess I missed the "H" in "HMRC".
...
Okay, Mesk, you're the medic here. If you say that's the way to fix it, then that's the way to fix it. Hell, even I can tell when a machine's too broke to repair, and these seem to have gone past "burned out" and into "extra crispy". Darn flimsy organic machinery...
So... let's get on with it, I guess."
Cooperate with the replacement procedure. Attempt to give helpful comments on mechanic appendage intergration.
Mesk preps for surgery, getting scrubbed up and ready while anton makes himself comfortable on the table in the surgical theater. A quick shot of pain killers to help with the slowly building pain from the nerves still alive on the edge of his dead hands makes this fairly easy. Mesk, fully prepped, rolls out his tray of surgical tools and the parts needed to replace Anton's hands and sets himself up beside his patient after hooking up the various monitoring equipment as well as the IV machine to make sure Anton is constantly supplied with more blood, fluids or pain killers if he needs it.
Now mesk, on your tray of tools here we have a set of scalpels and cutting instruments, bone saw, lots of tiny little bioelectric translator clips, an artificial skin mesh with small, precut holes in it, a prosthetic mounting plate, with one side covered in nodes for bioelectric translators and the other with attachment points for the artificial limb. And then you have the artificial limb itself, for the right hand, and a mounting plate brace with the hardware to attach it to the flesh and bone of the remaining arm.
What do you do first?
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http://i.imgur.com/3Gn5G7T.png
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