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

Our previous expedition into the City had proved fruitless in regards to finding some Ink and Books to bolster our failing supply.

As a result I’ve decided to head back up with Sophie and search some other areas of the city to see if we can find anything.

I’m worried there may not be anything left after being plundered by Gehn and other explorers. At this point I’m thinking we need to look to the lake and the private islands there, although I don’t think we’ll find any in K’veer.

I’m just waiting for Sophie to meet me here at the Ferry Terminal before we head up.

It’s been a while since I have been back to Fahets, the Age has changed dramatically in the last year or so.

The constant rain had filled up the area surrounding the Link in point, it’s now several feet deep, as a result dormant wildlife has flourished, growing all over the place.
Unfortunately the Roseleaf tree we had implanted into the Age had not been so lucky, the ground it was planted in became so water logged it had nothing to cling to and toppled over and slowly died.

We spent the day looking over the basin, and constructing some wooden decking that we’re thinking of extending out into the rest of the Age, the problem being the rest of the Age is blocked at the moment thanks to the wildlife so we’ll have to look over that.

Seeming that there is technically not that much to sort out, we should be good to release the Book for the Age soon. We just need to run some tests on the wildlife, and we can always release the Age in stages and just allow for visits to the initial Link in point.

I wanted to give it a few more days to settle down but curiosity got the better of me, so I grabbed a Maintainers suit and Linked to the Age.

A lot of the ground has fallen away taking the well with it. Thankfully the the Link in point was still in fairly good shape.

I don’t think the Age is going to be safe to visit for a while.

It started mid afternoon with a muffled rumbling. I didn’t think much of it at first and we continued working away at the makeshift camp we had set up.

The rumbles continued to increase both in frequency and volume as the afternoon went on. Cracks started to appear around the edge of the well and the fissures that riddled the ground were emitting an increasing amount of steam.

At about 7 o’clock there was a sharp ear splitting cracking sound and we witness part of the ground give way, a crack had made its way towards the camp. I risked approaching the area that had given away, getting as close as I could, the heat coming from the hole was immense. I didn’t have to look over the edge to know what was below, the tell tale orange glow told me it was lava.

We decided to gather everything up, and not a moment too soon, as we packed there was a violent shudder in the earth that threw us to our feet, the entire earth continues to shake nonstop and we witnessed the cracks in the ground expanding, snaking their way towards us.

Sophie was the last to leave, she said as she put her pack on and prepared to link the ground started to give way and lava started spewing up.

We were lucky.

Sul has been shelved for now, it’s to dangerous for the Age to be released. We’re going to see if we can observe the Age over the next few days or weeks to see if it settles down.

The question is, what caused this? Was it the construction of the well or was it something else? Until I can return, I’m not going to be able to answer that.