Beneath - An Uru Explorers Journey Through D'ni and its Ages

Today I surprised myself.

More information has been filtering down about “Cate”, with many interesting and humorous theories on who she is. Some are complaining about her being “in control” of the DRC, some are mad at the DRC that Cate is there in the first place.

Me?

Well I am quite happy to just sit back and see what happens, to wait for the annoucement that is coming up. Now this is what surprised me, back in the day I used to be impatient about events going on in the Cavern, or with Ages/Areas being opened. Now I’m not, I feel that it’ll happen when it happens.
What caused this change? Was it the 2 years of being around the Cavern without the DRC? Was it the waiting for funding to return but expecting it to take more than 2 years? Perhaps it was a combination of all of these aspects.

I have been spending some serious time in D’ni lately even if I do have work to do, thankfully I can steal into the RestorersGuild’s Hood and use their computer set up that they “liberated” from the DRC (as Keira likes to say). UruBlogs is getting alot of interest which is cool, will be even better when we move to the new domain. Currently there is a problem with “beta” Blogger accounts, the feed doesn’t work with our script so Denis is working on a new script which apparently works with Blogger feeds.
Anyway lots of people in D’ni as it should be, areas are still closed off after what is being dubbed “The Great Link” of the 19th. I managed to scale down from the Tokotah II rooftop into the courtyard today, registared the Nexus points I could access to make life easier for me.

The DRC have been making regular visits, Engbergs back in the cavern which is good. Have been a little disappointed by some of the behaviour of the explorers. Some of the comments have been rather immature and hostile. It’s been 2 or 3 days since everyones returned and they are expecting miracles, I know its christmas and all but for Keraths sake have some patience.

The rock is hard.
The rock cutter is patient.
~ D’ni Proverb

I was saying to Marten the other day that people seem to rag on the DRC because people were doing it the first time around (back in 2003) and so it must be okay now or it must be okay cause other people are doing it. Now I remember how the DRC used to be, I was there along with others, and I can tell you compared to how they are now, the DRC have changed drastically.
Before they were distant, they seldom shared information and they made some silly moves (taking Phil for example). Now they have taken on D’ni Restoration Council Liaisons to open up channels of communication, they have Restoration Engineers giving orientations to new explorers, they are more forthcoming with information regarding various subjects. Is it perfect? Proberbly not to be considered perfect people would want full disclosure, and even then people would complain that the information is being given to them and they want to find out for themselves.

Kodama said new books are coming, this will be good, the city will be opened up soon too hopefully the cap in the Nexus will be raised then.

Today was proberbly the strangest day I have had within D’ni. I was in the Nexus when it happened, a loud Bahro screech and then I was linked back to Relto. Apparently this Bahro scream could be heard throughout the Ages and the Cavern at once, everyone was linked back to their Reltos.

There was a lot of people to witness it too, we had a Town Hall meeting with the DRC today and the turnout was huge, there were also people in Ae’Gura too. Due to the large traffic in the hood the DRC moved the meeting to another one which annoyed some of the explorers.

Tomorrow the DRC are reopening the Cavern, things will be hectic I think unless people end up being to scared to return after today.