The Secrets of Glass Mountain 2 - RPLOG
From Flexible Survival
Participants
Date
11/5/2012
Log
A night had passed. Sil and Zarwae ended their data's collection and visit of the local area, while Lyli, Rosalyn and Aidan gave the last checks to the equipment for the first part of the exploration. The whole place isn't that vast, the mountain is just few hours from the glade.. but the group decided to place a camp there, making easier and faster to explore. While everyone is sleeping inside the huge tree, Aidan is outside, sitting in the middle of the glade as the sun is rising, waiting for her family and friends to wake up.
Having made sure not to get up to any hanky panky and NOT to let her foxy get her pregnant again, Lyli got a good nights sleep and starts to rouse as light begins to kiss her cheek. Giving the day a few minutes extra, after that, the monochromatic mephit begins the process of choreographed yawns and stretches that a skunk requires to wake up.
Sil seems to already be up. The lamia is sipping on a cold mug of..something. Smells like tea. Her serpentine self is coiled up just outside the stree, her backpack strapped onto her back, and the suitcase, closed and locked, sitting next to her. She's watching Aidan from afar, as well as the various beings that seem to live in the glade with a rather content expression..
At the sounds of Lylianna's movement, Rosalyn stirs from where she spent the night, lying nestled in one corner against the moss covering the walls. Rocking back and forth for a few moments, she finally rubs her nose vigorously against the back of her hand and lifts her head, letting out a wide yawn before standing to stretch.
Zarwae wakes up in the last position, and worst, keeps hugging the coverts because sunlight isn't clearly the dark elf friend. She grmbles and stands, washing quickly her head for clearing her thoughts.
The glade is quite lively, actually. Sil had counted dozen of Aidan's sons and daughters going around, most of them with vulpine or lupine's traits, even if jackals with dragon wings are there as well. Aidan herself seems to just relax right now, clearly focusing her mind on the task ahead.. the origin of her form is out there, both frightening and attracting her. When she sees people waking up, the fox stands up and walks back to three, offering the first smile of the day. "Good morning... I hope you rested well. Our next night won't be comfortable as this one." Aidan chuckles softly, going to give a kiss to her beloved... which leaves Sil out of it and with just a hug, for now at least.
Still yawning and stretching, Lyli catches the kiss on her cheek, not wanting to submit Aidan to her morning breath. "Mmmm, morning? Ugh, I don't want to go to school, ten more minutes!" she exclaims but can't help a giggle as she slowly works her way toward standing, at last giving up and dropping to all fours to make her way over to the kettle, filling it and pushing it over the coals of the fire, giving them a bit of a stir to get them hot.
The lamia returns the hug lightly. "Good morning to you." she says, a light smile moving her painted lips. A sip of the cold fruit tea gets enjoyed, before she holds up the thermos with her other hand. "In case anybody wants some, I have made a little bit more." she offers before she sets the thing down onto the grass again. The smile tugs into a light grin at Lylianna's words. "Oh man. Those were the days..."
Rosalyn stretches each arm above her head in turn, bends to one side and then the other, and finally stoops to retrieve her clothing. Her motions quicken as she hears Lyli reanimating the kettle, and a few fingers dip into a pouch to retrieve a packet of instant coffee as she looks up to greet Aidan's approach with a wide smile.
Zarwae starts to put her armour on her. First the reinforced shirt, then the armor itself. She spends the time taken by the other for their breakfast to check her weapons and such.
"We are all tea-lovers here.. I'm a bit addicted to Lyli's tea." Aidan smiles at Sil, before giving a look around the room, focusing on her 'zombie' family. She chuckles a bit and murrs, "Definitely, the best moment to come here and invade the area would be in the morning..". Of course, the fox cheated and woke up a hour ago, hiding her zombie-form. She stretches out a bit, inhaling the fresh air of the morning and going to give an extra hug to Zarwae, before pulling her to share the breakfast with them, "So, today is the beginning of our adventure... All the equipment is checked and ready."
Huddling close to the fire, her fur soaking up the heat almost as fast as the kettle, Lyli looks over and gives the packet Rosalyn carries a dirty look, "You bring that abomination here?!?" she exclaims, pointing at the packet of coffee, "Ugh, alright, but I am not making you a pot, you just get a cup." she adds, pouring boiling water into the teapot, adding tea and beginning the steeping.
Sil smiles at Zarwae, nodding to the drow. "Good morning to you." she says with a smile, before she downs the rest of her tea in her mug, before she begins to rise, her 'hips' lifting off her coils. At Lylianna's sudden outburst she blinks, golden eyes widening in alarm...before she closes them and softly exhales, letting out a soft chuckle. Coffee.
Rosalyn shrugs affably at Lylianna, comandeering a mug of the hot water before it all gets used for the teapot. "One cup of this stuff's all I'll need," she comments, tapping the packet along the base before stirring it into the water. She lifts the steaming mug in a silent toast to Sil in acknowledgement before sipping carefully at its contents.
Zarwae nods at Sil, greeting her back, "Good morning to you too." She answers before hugging Aidan. "And no thanks. I don't eat often." she shrugs as she is pulled in the group.
Aidan pats gently both on Lyli and Ros's heads, ruffling them a little before moving closer to Sil and Zarwae. "How did your tests go, yesterday? Found out anything of interest?" the fox asks, curious.
Pouring out some cups, Lyli offers anyone who wants some to grab a cup, holding up one of her breasts, she expresses some milk into one cup, handing it to her mate, "Anyone else want some milk?" she offers, clearly not really caring how it might be taken.
"There were a few...interesting observations." Sil murmurs, clasping her hands behind her back, now that her mug is back inside the backpack. "The nanites in this area...well." She pauses. "It seems like they most certainly seem focused on the tree. Even more so, its roots. It also seems that, interestingly enouh, the activity of nanites in the area is stable now, but used to be quite..fluctuating during the first few years. I've taken a few nanite samples from the tree in a mostly noninvasive way, so I can analyze them more properly in the lab."
Aidan kisses Lyli's cheek as she gets the offered cup, waiting for it to cool down a bit before starting to sip from it. "Fluctuations.. this is quite unusual. I thought that the bubble should had got stable almost immediately..." the fox comments, scritching her chin, "So, the tree has actually attracted the nanites into it?". Aidan thinks for a bit, "As for us, Ros checked the equipments, while me and Lyli made sure to not had forgot anything. We are ready to depart as soon as everyone will be ready."
Rosalyn steadily works through her coffee as she listens to Sil's findings, and returns her mug to its place once the final drops have been consumed. "Well then," she begins once Sil has finished, "I think I'm all set!"
Looking around and grabbing the thin, plastic coat she had grabbed for this particular endeavor, Lyli puts it on and reaches for her pack, double checking everything tea-related before just giving the other things a cursory inspection, "Ready when you are." she adds, pulling it on, drinking down her cup of tea at paw.
