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Lords. Thank you, all right, I guess we carry on, all
right. It takes you all in all five hours proceeding in this way,
and in that time the heat is really starting to tell on you. So
I would like everyone to make a resistance check, not a cant yes,
sir, all right, Ricardo Vega, resistance got one success? When did
you change my name's October Thorne Diver A long time agovernment? Yeah, when
you made that original joke, I immediately change your name to it. Okay,
two successes. Good shit. You're a lot better at resisting stuff than
I am. All right, So the only person with zero is call mister
Call. You are the proud owner of one level of fatigue? Does fatigue?
Do? I believe in this character sheet it tells you what happens to
the different levels right there. It is okay that that reduced you. You're
a bigger pool by one level one does? Yeah? Okay, as long
as we never get into a fight in the swamp, I'll be fine.
Yeah, I'm there's several levels of fatigue, and the last one kills you.
So I say that's awesome. Honestly, coll is peeling the effects of
the heat. He's slowing down, his heart is racing. He just feels
overall gross. Interesting because he was the one dunked in water. Maybe it's
not evaporating. The community is so high that that water is absolutely not evaporating.
It's just kind of running off of him. You do not want to
bathe in this, Watson, You don't know what this wats are on you?
Well, too late for that. Now this water is more disease than
it is water at this point. Oh, it's so great. Six disease
water. Bottle that and market it anyways, D six h two Oh the
d being disease. I don't actually no cap straight. I'm sorry, but
all right, So we have progressed the eastern zone, so you have reached
the cypress grove. Cypress trees grow here in a very large quantity. They're
odd roots sticking up out of the water like jagged, uneven fangs. There
is a bit more shade here, and it is cooler. The water slightly
clearer here in spots. It kind of has like floating bright green stuff growing
on the surface here and there. But the water very visibly teems with life,
kinds of life. As you approach, there are sudden splashes and swirls
of fish, perhaps swimming away from you. You see a couple of water
snakes lazily making their way away from you. It is definitely as soon as
you get under the shade of the cypress trees, is definitely a bit cooler.
I expect frogs. I expect frogs, but anything alive that's here probably
has the same idea as we do. I think bigger things are going to
be coming out soon. I mean, the guy that wrote Conan was friends
with Lovecraft, so I'm expecting frog people. I don't want frog people.
I would rather not. I also don't want frog people, but I'm expecting
them and we might get it. Yeah, if they're expecting us. The
hair between the trees is less hazy, and your visibility here is improved.
Sick from the border of the tree line, you are able to see far
in the distance between the trees what looks like a largish island. Say word,
can I rule observation now that we're at the trees, and we can
kind of like, I don't know if get odd loose branches or roots or
whatever, but like get a little bit out of the water, stop splashing
about the place. It's not terribly easy to climb a cypress treat because it
has very smooth surface and the bridges tend to be higher up, so if
you would like to climb one, it will be a difficulty. Two athletics
tests not so much like climate climate, but just like use the roots for
stability so that we're not disturbing the water so much. You know, I
don't necessarily want to go up. I just don't want to be standing in
like swirling water and mud. Yeah. So the way cypress tree roots work
is they're like little tiny stillag mites that come up out of the water,
So it would be very difficult for you to stand on them, and they
might break if you try to, I will actually give this a shot and
do the thing that I that I'm known to do, which is climb shit.
You have, in fact climbed some shit to look around before, so
that's true, and it's an athletics test to climb a difficulty two? Yes,
all right? Oh no, what you're seeing my spread here and I
don't have focus. I'm actually going to use a fortune point, which is
the only one success because I don't create without focus. Right, yeah,
okay, roll it. I'm gonna say I'll make the athletics check if you
want three successes. Three successes, there you go. You're able to shimmy
your way up one of the thinner site for trees, and like Socks's point,
you really don't have to get that far up at to have a little
better view of the water itself. So yeah, give me an observation test.
Okay, any bonuses because I'm high up or like you're losing a difficulty
question? Okay, all right, that's that's that's reasonable. Your target number
is going to be one for this, all right, two more successes?
Okay. Oh now, this is one of those things where I can spend
a momentum to ask you have traditional questions, absolutely, alright, So first
starters, what you see is that there is a lot of movement in the
water. When you get up, even with a little bit of height,
you can see that not very far away, there are passing between those patches
of ponds, gum or whatever it is that's growing on the surface of the
water. You see dark shapes moving back and forth. Some of them look
kind of thig not necessarily like crocodile big, certainly nowhere near the crocodile that
you fought in the jungle. But maybe you're looking at It's hard to get
a good estimate, but not quite as long as you are tall. That's
still too big. I kind of hope it's like some kind of octopus turtle
hybrid. I mean, you're from Argos right right? Where are you from?
Day? I'm from a what's fake Spain? Fuck? Uh? It
should be on your characters the top, thank you? Okay, explain singaras
that sorry bad you've spent it off time on the coast that you know what
a fish looks like, right? It just looks like a big fucking fish,
not like ocean fish big. Okay, there's a few of around they're
big boy. Well, you know, this place in general has had a
habit of producing big boys, so that's not too too surprising. Are these
just like intermittent around where I can see like, yeah, okay, and
what I'm observing is mostly the tree area, but I get to see like
a lot further in the tree area specifically, Yes, okay, And yeah,
since you got a little bit higher up, I'll say you can even
see that island a little bit better in the distance. With the sun passing
its zenith, you can see there is light reflecting off of something at the
highest point on that island. All right, I'll make my way to Oh
oh, okay, I might have a question to ask, are there areas
in which the smaller fish and we're concentrated. Yes, you see concentrations of
smaller fish snapping it like food that's flying along the surface, and they tend
to be they tend to split and move away if the bigger fish come around.
Okay. In fact, if you spend a few minutes looking around,
you probably see the occasional sudden slump in the surface of the water where a
fish hit something. You don't really get a clear look at it, you
know, what I mean when they come right, they roll right under the
surface, snap a fly or whatever, and they're back down underneath it.
You see those with the smaller fish, and you're looking at maybe up to
like bass size, maybe ten twelve inches, so like good for eating if
you could catch them somehow right that? And I'm also thinking to try and
chill where there are more concentrations or the smaller fish, just to be safe.
I'm not sure if that is safety or not, but that's like the
thought process that would probably less likely to get fucked up by the smaller fish,
ends on if they are carnivorous. That's true, You're not wrong.
Also, getting some dinner while we're in this hell hole not a terrible idea.
These our rations are gonna last forever, hmm. But I think there
might be something on that island along with just a dry land. We should
make for it, all right, How are you feeling? So all right?
I'm somewhat tired, but I can continue. We push for there,
we can rest. It's going to be a good place for all of us
to take a break. We hope. If there's something there artificial, that
means someone had to put it there, and if those people are still there.
We might have a fight on our hands.