(I've skipped people who are basically doing the same thing as someone else in their proximity.)
Flint Westwood - Blue squad - Sector 18
You're gonna grab something from the surface of an alien planet and jam it in your mouth? Just like that?
((Yeah, you're right. I can't jam something from the surface of an alien planet in my mouth just like that...
I'm going to have to cook it first!))
"On the other hand, putting strange alien crap in my mouth might not be a good idea. Oh well, there's always mapping to be done. And when we capture a whole beetle, then I can analyze it, then cook it and then, if it's safe, eat it."
Keep on mapping. See if I can see what's in the nearby zone.
((Flint's death from food poisoning will be the stupidest death we've had yet. Well, aside from all the other stupid deaths, but it's stupidity is very... special.
Also, we might want to wait with capturing those magma slugs until near the end of our stay. No need to waste a lot of power supporting them, when all we're doing is preparing them to be raised into the Sword.))
Well, keep on walking (unless Bishop says to rest). I'm not the one to complain, and not much else to do. I mean, I could start weaving some intrigues, but I think that'd be overkill for a simple walk around those towers.
Blue Team
"Alright everyone, good work so far. Let's take a break here for a bit..." Bishop panted, slumping down in a spot that looks a little bit softer than all the others, even if it isn't. "Man... I should put in some padding for the feet in this thing..."
Take a break and send the map data back to base. Observe our surroundings and see what the zones next to us look like, and the possibility of using a drone safely.
Team Blue maps a bit more, until they come to a strange sort of mixing of the black towers and the gel sea; a coastline of sorts where the sea appears to have flowed inland a bit and swallowed up the bottoms of the towers. They still stand, onyx rods rising from a purple jellysack, but getting through the place would require walking on the gel itself.
As per what the team can see of the other zones, zone 36 appears to be hidden beneath an all encompassing yellow fog. Hard to tell if thats dangerous or not. But it probably is.
((I thought the suits would be fine in the molten iron.))
"Eh the suit should be fine"
Head to the volcanic zone using the extra resistant containers to sample the liquid from both the surface and from just under the surface if it is under one of or both of these categories;
-There are lifeforms heading towards it or dont appear to have recently "grazed"
-A lifeform is leaving the pool or is currently passing through it
You Dip another container into the fluid and it takes all your strength to get it out again, struggling against the great weight of the liquid and the suction of the vacuum your pulling is creating. You do manage to get it out and back onto the solid shore, but you now have a slight dilemma. The partially full surface sample weighs around 40 pounds. The full deeper sample weighs at least twice that. So you've now got 120 pounds of slowly hardening iron to work with.
"Well fuck. Hrmm. I wonder..."
Remove shovel from goo, wipe it off on the ground, and start digging a hole next to the edge of the sea. When I get about three feet down, try and dig into the sea, and prepare to get out fast if the sea rushes in.
Ground is made of pretty much solid stone. Even if you're strong enough to dig through it, the shovel is gonna give out long before that stone does.
((Oh baby.))
Geam Treen
Observe the penetrations. Do they stay penetrated or does the surface reform. Walk over to a undisturbed spot- will it support my weight? Try to walk a few feet out if so- no more than eight feet.
Generally observe.
The pierced areas do seem to be sealing themselves, though it's slowly enough that the only way you can tell is by watching the edges and how they seem to become less jagged over time. You walk a good few dozen feet away and, after a good amount of poking and nervous leaning and testing and hopping, conclude that the gel does indeed hold your weight. Although you sink down about 2 inches on either foot, longer if you stand still. And it seems that if you stand still long enough you eventually feel yourself hit bottom. Hmm. Probably shouldn't do that when you're 8 feet out. Or maybe you should? It would be interesting.
Red Team
Back away to a safe distance and continue mapping.
You map a little bit more around the edge, but the chasms and the electric fields block things off going this way. The only way it would seem possible to continue mapping the volcanic zone is either going back around the other way or crossing over the ironfalls.
build a box for capturing a slug thing. Make it heat-resistant but not insulated. Make it so that the left and right lid can be taken off.
[handi:4]
You weld together a heat resistant, but not heat insulated, metal box with two sort of slot like lids that can be removed. Yay bug box.
Anton Chernozorov, Red Team technician/explorer.
"Yeah, no immediately important-looking bits here. That means either the creatures are the source of the ground's properties, the lights in the sky are, or the ground itself is now permanently this way. Any option has uses, but not for me and not now. Alright then."
Try to return the drone to me, then scoot back and try to find the trailer. Once there, hitch it up and drive to the Temporal Anomalies, using the map and any visual cues to try and avoid running headfirst into one.
"Anton Chernozorov to whichever team was scouting Sector Three, the Temporal Anomaly zone. Have you marked the edges of the anomalies at all? I'd like to perform some experiments there, but if at all possible not on myself."
Driving over to the Temporal anomalies is easy, and finding their bounderies is even easier. Someone has quite thoughtfully marked them with a combination of spraypaint, stones around the edges and, occasionally, stones just kinda floating in mid air. Welp.
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