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

The results came in I was elected DRC Liaison along with Eleri, Gadren, Wolfie and Vortmax.

Marie wanted to meet with us today after yesterdays results so I made my way to the Uruto Hood that she had given me a Nexus invite for.

I don’t know what made me think that I should check out the imager as soon as possible but I did, and I discovered the above image on it. Apparently the Age is called Eder Delin, a small Garden Age that Marie has been working on, she said that a lot of rest Ages have similar features. I am looking forward to visiting that place.

Lots to do, the DRC suggested setting up Town Hall meetings between them, Cyan and the explorers. Sounds like a good idea, gives the people who never got to see the DRC around back during the restoration to meet them. They are still trying to get that funding from Blake, I hope it goes well.

I best go upload these transcripts to the site for editing.

I met some interesting people today.

I had been sat for around 20 minutes or so studying the glyphs in Area Two of Eder Kemo when the sky quickly darkened and poured with rain.

I decided to warm up in Gira for a bit, dry my clothes out that the storm had soaked in minutes, before heading into D’ni and visiting some of the other Neighbourhoods I had seen listed in the Nexus.

Most of the ones I had visited were empty, eventually I stumbled into one of them which was populated with a few people sat around by the fountain talking.

Upon being greeted I wandered over to the group to introduce myself.

They had been talking about the Fall of D’ni, Keira Benson, an Archaeologist, had been studying the fall. She had apparently discovered a D’ni corpse in the Age of Kadish Tolesa as well as other bone fragments in Gahreesen and Teledahn.

I sat with them for a few hours, discussing D’ni, whilst people slowly faded into the hood and out, in the end all there was left was myself, Keira and her friend James Rofen, an Architect.

They asked how I had found my way down here, to which I explained that I was a D’ni Historian and had been studying D’ni for a number of years before managing to get down here. Keira said she had stumbled across some relic that had been brought up from D’ni and her interest in those items had lead her here. James said his friend had been contracted to do some work in the Cavern, upon last seeing his friend he had been told of the Cavern and had decided to come see it for himself.

I think we shall be seeing more of each other over time.

The journey to meet my guide was excruciating, the knowledge that after 6 years of studying D’ni I would finally get to see it was overwhelming to say the least. For days I had been dreaming of nothing but standing on strange worlds, glancing out at the horizons.

I met with an explorer who worked with the people helping to finance the DRC. He offered me the small greenish leather-bound book that Linked to Relto, which until recently I had only known as the Interim Age. The rumors about the Relto Books properties were indeed true, the book follows the owner through the Link, and allows for Linking within the same Age.

I had only seen a few photographs of Relto, a small island situated in the clouds, covered in scrub grasses, and shrubberies. Actually being here allowed me to spy several things that had not been seen before. Four small hydrant like objects sat in front of the hut, upon each one different symbols inscribed. But all of them dominated by a spiral hand symbol.

The hydrants would have to wait, as my guide ushered me inside the hut where I was shown his collection of Linking Books. I picked one which turned out to be one that Links to Gahreesen. We wandered around for a while looking over the architecture and the mechanisms that the Guild of Maintainers had put in place.

A lot of the corridors had barriers blocking them off, which I wasn’t sure about crossing so I didn’t.
Before leaving I took a look at the device that dispensed KI’s to visitors. Unfortunately I wasn’t allowed to pick on up for myself.

The next destination was Teledahn, where we spent less time than we did in Gahreesen. Only taking a moment to look at the huge mushrooms that dominated the Age.

I was hoping to explore Eder Kemo, an Age that I had been studying for some time from various photos and documentation. Alas, he did not currently have a Linking Book to that Age. Instead we went to Kadish Tolesa where he left me to my own devices for a while. I decided to explore the forest of those towering trees. Playing with the various scopes I found and inspecting the strange cloths that bore the same spiral hand logo as the hydrants. Finally I discovered a Linking Book that lead to the Gallery in D’ni.

My excitement quickly grew to frustration, the doors leading out to the rest of the Cavern were damaged, and so would not open. I was confined to the Gallery.

Eventually my visit drew to an end, we Linked to The Cleft from Relto and I had finally exhausted the memory on my digital camera. There we parted ways and I decided to explore the surrounding area before starting my long journey home.