4/10/23 - Calum and Harry in Naybree

[Traveler263]

(04/10 19:56:43) Detective Harry Williams: hello
(04/10 19:56:50) Calum Traveler: mh, evening.
(04/10 19:57:03) Calum Traveler shoulders a bag of supplies and climbs up a ladder...
(04/10 19:57:05) Detective Harry Williams: Safety check of this Age, I presume.
(04/10 19:57:14) Calum Traveler: yep.
(04/10 19:57:22) Calum Traveler: gonna get to installing those safety nets in a couple of days
(04/10 19:57:30) Calum Traveler: want to make sure the cliff isnt destabilizing further
(04/10 19:57:39) Calum Traveler: been meaning to get to this sooner but... eh. life.
(04/10 19:58:03) Calum Traveler kneels down...
(04/10 19:58:28) Calum Traveler lays bag on ground and inspects cliffside...
(04/10 19:58:31) Detective Harry Williams: Yeah... let's hope those moons don't mess with the cliffs any time soon.
(04/10 19:58:42) Calum Traveler: too late for that.
(04/10 19:58:52) Calum Traveler: the surface up there's gotten worse and worse the last few times I've checked
(04/10 19:59:01) Calum Traveler: Something's going to give eventually.
(04/10 19:59:46) Detective Harry Williams: Well, I, for one, wouldn't want to be crushed by an avalanche.
(04/10 19:59:51) Calum Traveler: nor would I.
(04/10 19:59:57) Calum Traveler: rock slides are pesky...
(04/10 20:00:08) Calum Traveler secures self, and peers over the edge of the cliff.
(04/10 20:00:35) Calum Traveler hums in contemplation
(04/10 20:00:50) Detective Harry Williams: The night sky here is both beautiful and cliff-breaking.
(04/10 20:00:55) Detective Harry Williams: those moons...
(04/10 20:01:14) Calum Traveler: be grateful Earth's moon is gradually pulling away from us instead of getting closer.
(04/10 20:02:00) Calum Traveler: the problems that come from a lunar body crashing into its planet is a lot worse than drifting away.
(04/10 20:02:17) Calum Traveler: once they lose cohesion...
(04/10 20:02:28) Detective Harry Williams: well, it may not be cliffs cracking, but I've been hearing some sounds in this Age, too. And it wasn't water or birds.
(04/10 20:02:34) Calum Traveler shakes head, and mumbles something about alternate timelines...
(04/10 20:02:45) Detective Harry Williams: It was a JACKHAMMER.
(04/10 20:02:59) Calum Traveler: ugh, probably whoever's been bringing power tools in.
(04/10 20:03:17) Calum Traveler: not much we can do about it. explorers are going to do what they want to.
(04/10 20:03:27) Calum Traveler examines the large crack in the wall closer
(04/10 20:03:49) Calum Traveler: as long as they're being careful and don't hurt themselves, that's all I can ask.
(04/10 20:04:29) Calum Traveler nods in approval of the lower cliffside...
(04/10 20:04:38) Detective Harry Williams: That Explorer was probably just trying to reach the beach by lumberjacking their way through those roots.
(04/10 20:04:45) Calum Traveler: probably.
(04/10 20:04:59) Calum Traveler: not that they're going to have much luck
(04/10 20:05:04) Calum Traveler: the wood is pretty sturdy
(04/10 20:05:21) Calum Traveler starts checking the upper cliff...
(04/10 20:05:46) Detective Harry Williams: How much damage do you think the wood can take?
(04/10 20:06:05) Detective Harry Williams: I'm guessing a LOT
(04/10 20:06:47) Calum Traveler: hmm?
(04/10 20:06:51) Calum Traveler: probably... rough guess...
(04/10 20:07:03) Calum Traveler: you'd probably need an explosive amount of shearing force.
(04/10 20:07:32) Detective Harry Williams: Explosive?
(04/10 20:07:39) Calum Traveler: you know. rocks flying at speed.
(04/10 20:07:52) Calum Traveler: cement trucks evaporating
(04/10 20:08:03) Calum Traveler: crash test dummies flying at terminal velocity.
(04/10 20:08:12) Detective Harry Williams: Um... okay. That's a lot of damage.
(04/10 20:08:30) Calum Traveler: sorry, Mythbusters on the brain.
(04/10 20:08:57) Calum Traveler: nothing's invulnerable,
(04/10 20:09:05) Calum Traveler: given enough time, or force, anything can be broken.
(04/10 20:09:28) Calum Traveler: the smallest sized branches need power tools to clip
(04/10 20:09:38) Detective Harry Williams: And the roots?
(04/10 20:09:39) Calum Traveler: the larger roots probably need a matching exponential amount of force
(04/10 20:09:54) Calum Traveler 's pauses upon hearing something rattle...
(04/10 20:10:12) Calum Traveler: ....
(04/10 20:10:28) Calum Traveler puts it off, not hearing anything else
(04/10 20:10:33) Calum Traveler continues surveying the cliffs...
(04/10 20:10:46) Detective Harry Williams: oh no... not another quake...
(04/10 20:11:17) Detective Harry Williams: You know, I think I remember feeling something when Logan fell.
(04/10 20:11:40) Calum Traveler: mmh. wouldn't be surprised if either his fall sent shocks through the wall
(04/10 20:11:47) Calum Traveler: or if a minor tremmor made him trip
(04/10 20:12:10) Detective Harry Williams: Probably the latter - it felt like the ground was shivering a tiny bit.
(04/10 20:12:23) Calum Traveler shrugs
(04/10 20:12:29) Calum Traveler: wouldnt be surprised either way.
(04/10 20:12:44) Calum Traveler comes to the slippery part of the cliff...
(04/10 20:13:10) Detective Harry Williams: I think you're standing right where Logan fell.
(04/10 20:13:13) Calum Traveler braces self against the broken lamp post, and peers at the cliffside
(04/10 20:13:20) Calum Traveler: yeah... going to be putting fencing in here for sure
(04/10 20:13:33) Detective Harry Williams: Yep, that's the place
(04/10 20:13:48) Calum Traveler: gotta wonder what triggered this colapse up here.
(04/10 20:14:05) Calum Traveler: Athsheba carving the statues, or a quake setting things off?
(04/10 20:14:26) Calum Traveler: this poor lamp post certainly's seen better days.
(04/10 20:14:42) Detective Harry Williams: Yeah, it looks like the firemarble fell out.
(04/10 20:15:22) Detective Harry Williams: i wonder if it's the same firemarble that sank to the bottom of the river...
(04/10 20:15:42) Calum Traveler: i think that one's sized for the post in the river itself
(04/10 20:16:25) Detective Harry Williams: Okay, yeah, I see it.
(04/10 20:16:35) Calum Traveler: yeah, im definitely putting in fencing up here.
(04/10 20:16:38) Detective Harry Williams: The other one, though...
(04/10 20:16:52) Calum Traveler: things seem stable, so its likely whatever broke up here was a long time ago and not something too recent.
(04/10 20:17:10) Calum Traveler: though, considering the lamp shade seems to have been used as a hat by Athsheba, that's not-
(04/10 20:17:15) Calum Traveler stops again, hearing another rumble...
(04/10 20:17:16) Detective Harry Williams: There are *three* lamps with missing firemarbles.
(04/10 20:17:42) Detective Harry Williams: Uh... I think I found the other two firemarbles...
(04/10 20:17:45) Calum Traveler carefully descends down the cliff as quickly as possible
(04/10 20:17:56) Calum Traveler: mh?
(04/10 20:17:57) Detective Harry Williams: Chezahcen's eyes
(04/10 20:18:20) Calum Traveler: oh, yeah, that's two of the smaller lamp posts' top lights alright,
(04/10 20:18:32) Calum Traveler: got the same holders and everything
(04/10 20:19:07) Calum Traveler shields eyes while gazing upwards
(04/10 20:19:48) Calum Traveler tips hat to the one hat wearing statue...
(04/10 20:20:01) Calum Traveler: hmf, well, hopefully those cliffsides will hold
(04/10 20:20:01) Detective Harry Williams: athsheba must have taken the firemarbles from the lamps and used them to build her statue.
(04/10 20:20:09) Calum Traveler: probably.
(04/10 20:20:20) Calum Traveler: she definitely stole a couple from the statue frame
(04/10 20:20:23) Calum Traveler: one's in the bedroom
(04/10 20:20:30) Calum Traveler: i think the other one's in the statue's hands there,
(04/10 20:20:39) Calum Traveler jabs a thumb over at the smaller statue
(04/10 20:20:43) Detective Harry Williams: five firemarble moved
(04/10 20:21:08) Calum Traveler: yeah, marbles have a way of moving around in this adventure... sorry, silly joke.
(04/10 20:21:28) Detective Harry Williams: Four by Athsheba, one by... the moons? I see, you've lost your marbles.
(04/10 20:21:50) Calum Traveler: i have a feeling atsheba was involved in all of the movement
(04/10 20:22:22) Calum Traveler: nothing but a gut instinct there, though
(04/10 20:22:26) Detective Harry Williams: including *that* one? That one looks like it fell and was washed downstream.
(04/10 20:22:35) Calum Traveler: yeah, probably
(04/10 20:22:41) Calum Traveler: that post was like that when we got here
(04/10 20:22:45) Calum Traveler: with the rope around the bent post
(04/10 20:22:59) Calum Traveler points
(04/10 20:23:12) Detective Harry Williams: I see the rope.
(04/10 20:23:34) Calum Traveler: yep, either she was trying to get the thing, or she was using it as a swing...
(04/10 20:23:41) Calum Traveler: and the post broke and dislodged the marble
(04/10 20:23:51) Calum Traveler: either way, marble got washed down stream
(04/10 20:23:51) Detective Harry Williams: That makes sense
(04/10 20:24:05) Detective Harry Williams: and ended up down there, I see.
(04/10 20:24:27) Detective Harry Williams: I heard that someone wanted to dive for it
(04/10 20:24:30) Calum Traveler examines the fissure in the wall closely...
(04/10 20:24:38) Calum Traveler: its pretty deep down,
(04/10 20:25:18) Calum Traveler: i dont think anyones getting their hands on that thing
(04/10 20:25:36) Detective Harry Williams: Calum, if you want to come to the back area, there's one spot that looks like it's ready to fall.
(04/10 20:26:33) Calum Traveler: gimme a minute
(04/10 20:26:42) Calum Traveler: which back area?\
(04/10 20:26:54) Calum Traveler: before i go climbing up a bunch of roots
(04/10 20:27:22) Detective Harry Williams: "Which" back area?
(04/10 20:27:25) Calum Traveler: i've had a long day and id rather not put in some extraneous climbing before im ready to.
(04/10 20:27:40) Calum Traveler: yeah, the back half of the garden or the back river area?
(04/10 20:27:44) Detective Harry Williams: river
(04/10 20:27:46) Calum Traveler: k
(04/10 20:28:46) Calum Traveler: point me at it?
(04/10 20:29:01) Detective Harry Williams points
(04/10 20:29:12) Calum Traveler: mmmhh..
(04/10 20:29:30) Calum Traveler: kinda hard to see in this lighting
(04/10 20:29:46) Calum Traveler gets out a flashlight and points it at the cliff...
(04/10 20:30:02) Calum Traveler tries a few angles...
(04/10 20:30:43) Calum Traveler: hm, im going to need to get up to the top and take a look...
(04/10 20:30:49) Calum Traveler: brb
(04/10 20:30:50) Detective Harry Williams: See it?
[Calum Links to Chiso, and returns to Naybree]

[Traveler263]

(04/10 20:32:36) Calum Traveler ascends to the clifftops...
(04/10 20:32:50) Calum Traveler shines the flashlight across the river...
(04/10 20:33:02) Calum Traveler: there's some fracturing up top.
(04/10 20:33:11) Calum Traveler: might be an issue, alright.
(04/10 20:33:14) Detective Harry Williams: Yeah, that's what I saw
(04/10 20:33:38) Detective Harry Williams: So I don't plan on climbing on *those* roots anytime soon
(04/10 20:33:46) Calum Traveler: smart idea
(04/10 20:33:53) Calum Traveler: im going to circle around and get a closer look
(04/10 20:34:01) Detective Harry Williams: That jackhammering lumberjack, though...
(04/10 20:34:04) Calum Traveler navigates some upset geometry up on the cliffs...
(04/10 20:34:39) Detective Harry Williams: I hope his attempts to reach the beach don't end with him being crushed by that cliff falling on him.
(04/10 20:35:18) Calum Traveler: id be more concerned about someone setting it off
(04/10 20:35:45) Calum Traveler: geeze, the ground's getting unstable up here...
(04/10 20:35:53) Detective Harry Williams: yeah, that could happen, too. But it doesn't have to be a PERSON. The moons could set it off, too. Or the ROOTS.
(04/10 20:36:12) Calum Traveler: if anything id wager the roots are holding this thing together at this point
(04/10 20:36:40) Calum Traveler: eeesh... yeah, it's unstable up here.
(04/10 20:36:54) Calum Traveler: good grief. looks like the start of a sinkhole's starting to form.
(04/10 20:37:01) Detective Harry Williams: Oh my God.
(04/10 20:37:13) Calum Traveler traces some fissures back to the cracking...
(04/10 20:37:34) Detective Harry Williams: Don't set that thing off, Calum
(04/10 20:37:43) Calum Traveler: im being extremely careful-
(04/10 20:37:53) Calum Traveler pauses as another rumble runs through the cliff...
(04/10 20:38:17) Calum Traveler: okay, yeah, this is.
(04/10 20:38:17) Calum Traveler: nope
(04/10 20:38:20) Calum Traveler: getting off of here
(04/10 20:38:29) Calum Traveler jumps to the river
(04/10 20:38:30) Detective Harry Williams: I am linking back to Chiso NOW.

[Calum and Harry link back to Chiso]

(04/10 20:39:06) Calum Traveler: yeah, that's not looking good
(04/10 20:39:12) Calum Traveler: i need to go make a post on the forums
(04/10 20:41:29) Detective Harry Williams: I am NOT climbing up on those cliffs again. I don't think a Relto book is enough to protect me from what I saw there.
(04/10 20:41:51) Calum Traveler: it'd be a Phil-like scenario, for sure.
(04/10 20:42:41) Detective Harry Williams: Phil, that's the guy I heard got crushed by a wall collapsing on him, right?
(04/10 20:43:24) Calum Traveler: supposedly
(04/10 20:43:36) Calum Traveler: everyone thought he'd died, because all they found was his crushed up KI
(04/10 20:43:41) Calum Traveler: turns out the Bahro saved him.
(04/10 20:43:47) Calum Traveler: Phil was weird.
(04/10 20:44:01) Calum Traveler mumbles something and types into his forum post.
(04/10 20:44:37) Detective Harry Williams whispers to himself about hypocrites
(04/10 20:45:16) Calum Traveler snorts
(04/10 20:45:19) Calum Traveler: dont get me started on that.
(04/10 20:45:23) Calum Traveler: too many of those in the world.
(04/10 20:46:40) Detective Harry Williams: No, it was just... I thought that... well, you called PHIL "weird" after sleepwalking and writing poems like that one in your journal
(04/10 20:46:49) Calum Traveler: ...oh,
(04/10 20:47:00) Calum Traveler: i didnt mean like that,
(04/10 20:47:36) Detective Harry Williams: Then what did you mean?
(04/10 20:47:48) Detective Harry Williams: I don't know this Phil, so...
(04/10 20:47:49) Calum Traveler: weird didnt mean bad?
(04/10 20:48:01) Calum Traveler: i mean, guy was practically acting high on shrooms every time after he 'died'
(04/10 20:48:14) Calum Traveler: but he had his logic to it.
(04/10 20:48:30) Calum Traveler shuffles through notes, and gazes at a photo for a moment...
(04/10 20:48:56) Calum Traveler: Phil was weird. That's really the only word that describes him.
(04/10 20:49:02) Calum Traveler: Phil is to Weird as Water is to Wet.
(04/10 20:49:32) Calum Traveler: i dunno what that guy's up to these days, but he's probably still marching to a beat of his own drum.
(04/10 20:49:45) Calum Traveler sighs
(04/10 20:50:14) Calum Traveler shoves the photo into a book like a bookmark.
(04/10 20:50:21) Calum Traveler sits back down and knuckles down to the post.
(04/10 20:51:17) Detective Harry Williams: I've been thinking a lot about my seashell recently and what Runa'mei said to me...
(04/10 20:51:22) Calum Traveler: mh?
(04/10 20:51:27) Detective Harry Williams: I want to go to Rei'schu.
(04/10 20:51:54) Detective Harry Williams: i need to learn more about these crystals.
(04/10 20:52:17) Detective Harry Williams: and these guys know a lot about them.
(04/10 20:53:00) Calum Traveler: i'll bring it up the next ambassadorial meeting
(04/10 20:53:21) Detective Harry Williams: when do you think that'll be?
(04/10 20:53:52) Calum Traveler: dont know
(04/10 20:53:54) Detective Harry Williams: Speaking of Rei'schu, did I tell you my theory about the knife war?
(04/10 20:54:06) Calum Traveler: i barely know when my own life schedule will have openings in it
(04/10 20:54:19) Calum Traveler: ...it escapes me.
(04/10 20:54:29) Calum Traveler: but honestly im not in the mood for theorizing at the moment.
(04/10 20:54:43) Calum Traveler sighs
(04/10 20:54:45) Calum Traveler: post posted
(04/10 20:55:00) Calum Traveler: honestly wish i'd gotten more time to survey things today.
(04/10 20:55:11) Calum Traveler: real life took an unexpectedly big bite out of my scheduling time this week.
(04/10 20:55:19) Calum Traveler: surface life, real life,
(04/10 20:55:21) Calum Traveler: whatever
(04/10 20:55:33) Calum Traveler: things that deem themselves important outside of the cavern...
(04/10 20:56:33) Detective Harry Williams: Yeah, I have no way of knowing when someone's going to show up with a case, and-
(04/10 20:56:42) Calum Traveler: that's life.
(04/10 20:56:48) Detective Harry Williams: Speaking of which, I'd better go.
(04/10 20:56:51) Calum Traveler: mmh
(04/10 20:56:53) Calum Traveler: same
(04/10 20:56:58) Calum Traveler: i've got some things to poke at.
(04/10 20:57:02) Detective Harry Williams: Goodbye.
(04/10 20:57:04) Calum Traveler waves goodbye
[Dt. Williams links out.]
(04/10 20:57:14) Calum Traveler sighs
(04/10 20:57:18) Calum Traveler: well, thanks for the company.