Ardin – Day 1
The crafting of Steven’s first Age has been a long and difficult road, one that neither of us understand given his grip with the D’ni language is far better than my own. His first attempt at Writing Eder Allatwan ended up in failure with the Age proving to be unstable, so like the trooper he is, he salvaged the concepts he wanted to keep and set about starting over.
Upon completing this work, he brought the Book by for us to make the initial Link.
The heat of the Age hit us immediately, the hair on my arms began to rise as I soaked in the warmth from the sun. The surrounding tropical sea giving rise to the fresh salty smell that took me back to my trips to the beach in my youth. We had decided to forgo the use of Maintainer suits, a practice that we are currently debating with the others on whether we should continue.
We did not notice it at first, but the large stone that sat upon the island, was actually being supported beneath with smaller stones. As a result the structure formed a odd room of sorts, as we passed through the growth and entered we discovered the pool that Steven was set on having in his Age, and I can see why, the illusion it gives off is perfect..
But that wasn’t what surprised us most about the pool, no it was the carved ring of stone that surrounded the pool that gave us pause, the indication dawned on both us quickly that this Age was inhabited.
We spent some time investigating the surrounding area more thoroughly and discovered more decoration elements on the stones supporting the main stone, it would seem the population used to come here, but the over grown feeling that hide the area indicates they haven’t been by in a while.
We walked around the shore trying to find other signs of life, but there is a dozen places they could be hidden away, the Age is littered with the same egg shaped rocks, varying in size, indeed one of them which we calculate to be about a mile or two away from us must be incredibly vast in size. Curiously that rock is also the only one that seems to have little points of light glowing from it, not quite sure what it could be, perhaps the signs of life we were looking for.
We shall be heading back (Steven decided to keep the name of the failed Age but drop the Eder) tomorrow with a raft in the hopes of sailing out to the rock and investigating. For now we collected some samples of the surrounding area to take back with us. Steve is planning to return with some supplies to set up a workshop from where we can work.
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