Beneath

Rils, Douglas and Nick have returned from their trip to Negilahn. What they found shocked them, apparently they discovered a fresh kill. Pieces of the corpse were everywhere, it had been ripped apart. No tracks had been found, only some scratch marks in the trees, which has cause people to think it could be an airborne attack.

Not surprisingly a fair few people think it is the Bahro doing, based solely on the fact that they can Link at will and fly. A weak argument if you ask me, and one that is devoid of logic. Whats the point of the Bahro doing it? Some feel its a warning to us, I feel that if I was going to make a warning, I would snatch one of the explorers from the city, not some animal from a museum Age.

With the rumors of sightings in the hoods, I have decided to open a dialogue with them, at least that is the plan. Whether this will work or not remains to be seen, the Bahro are here to stay we need to approach them and see how things will work between us all.

Seems as I have been writing this entry a Bahro has appeared in the hoods and placed a Bahro Stone to Ae’Gura there, does that sound like the actions of a being who is slaughtering animals?

I have not encoutered them, not yet but it is only a matter of time. I have recieved a could of interesting KIimages of the Bahro in the hood.

Heading up to the surface tonight, I have a meeting to attend tomorrow, and a visit to the new family member to make. I should drop by Tehren and see if the RG guys need any supplies brought down.

The DRC released the second “Pod Age”, Dereno it is called, an arctic area with most of the Pod submersed under the water.

Pretty cold there, need to remember to take a jacket with me next time, I think Keira and Steven want to check the place out so I might see about going with them.
Was speaking to Jen last night about history books, I said I should talk to Nick or Cate and see if I can get the DRC to release some new history books. I really enjoyed the resource they have at the Hall of Kings, would be nice to see more like that.

Well Sharper has definitely returned and is doing the rounds. I did laugh at the explorers asking if he minded that they read his journal. Morals aside, if you are going to read the journal just do it, don’t ask and don’t allow them to know you are reading said journal. As a result Sharper now knows we read it, and so if he wants to dish out dis-information he can, and we will lap it up. This kind of thing happened before, it just blows my mind.

He’s off to Negilahn with Nick and Rils to deal with this “predator” that has been eating the wildlife, apparently there was a blurry photo of some of the remains, morbid for sure but I would like to get a copy of this photo.

Have been spending some time out and about with my camera, started taking panoramic shots of all the Ages and area’s. Even made a trip back to Ahra Pahts and took one there.

Had a little trouble with exposure at first but I have managed to solve the issue, I think the Eder Delin one has got to be my favorte so far.
I decided to set up a new section of the album for the panoramic shots.

We finally got everything sorted, Joe decided to come with us. Nick said that there is something in the jungle that has the other animals scared, Whil’s suggestion about Sharper is a good one, wonder if that is what they will get him to do.

We went out looking for evidence of this animal, but we couldn’t find any. So we started collecting information for the DZS. Joe was getting a sample of the “Snake Vines” when we heard this crashing coming through the Jungle, scared the hell out of us, the thing was freaking huge.
I don’t think we have ever run so fast in our lives, Joe fell and hurt himself pretty bad. Steven and Keira are taking him up to the surface so we can get him checked out at the hospital.

I don’t plan on getting that close to an Urwin any time soon.

The team came back with the test results from Fahets, they were all green the Age is safe.

I returned without the Maintainer suit, despite it being one of the slimmer models of suits the Maintainers had I still find it rather restrictive.

I spent the morning down in the basin studying the various plant life and making notes for my ongoing flora and fauna classification project. The pod plants seem to be a large fruit of some sort. The centers are a similar structure to tomatoes but they have a very sweet scent to them. I harvested a collection of them at several stages of growth to run some tests on and see if they are edible.

It is very peaceful here, the sound of the waterfall and the birds, the occasional buzzing of insects. I did spy what appeared to be a beetle of some sort flitting around the rocks and settling on the trees. I am hoping I can catch one for further study.
I brought in a ladder with me to get up to the second level that surrounds the basin. It is an enclosed area with walls of rock but from what I can glimpse the Age expands out further through a forest like area. Perhaps I can see about cutting through the rock and opening a channel to this secondary area at some point.

In the mean time I have set myself to mapping the initial area. Sophie voiced an idea of setting a camera up on a helium balloon and letting it go to see if we can capture some images of the surrounding area. Evidently she had read an article about some school children doing something similar to take photos of Earth from the edge of space with great results.