Nature Exploration

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Who: Mighty Explorers
When: Day 15, All Day
Where: Uncleared areas
What:

[ Who's up for some fun times in nature? ]

[ Oh, and if you're up and out early enough, you may just catch sight of a Lizagon making its way down the big hallway toward the wider open area. A big Lizagon- easily larger than the other ones loitering around this hallway. Its scales have also started changing to a bright, ruby red color, the older green ones shedding off as it walks. ]

[ It doesn't seem to notice you as it passes- it doesn't seem to be stopping for anything in fact. Do you dare follow it? Or are you lucky enough to have decided to go hunting after it passes? ]

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[ It continues to snap its way through the vines, and eventually it hits a wall of vines, plants, and other green things. The wall of the building, from the looks of it. It raises its head, seemingly sniffing at the wall before heading left, keeping itself close against it. ]

[pyxising]

[whispers to Zelda as he follows]

Oi, slow down—

[earthward]

[whisper =x]

Or you could hurry up!

[fuckingnature]

[ The Lizagon eventually stops, and begins clawing at the vines on the wall- as it does, slowly but surely, light, sunlight, begins to break through the plants. ]

[earthward]

[=OOOO

excitedly smacks Ikki since she can't make noise and POINTS!!]

[pyxising]

[ajsdklfjklsl;ak!!!!]

[fuckingnature]

[ It keeps tearing at the vines and the light continues to fill the area- once the hole is big enough it crawls straight through and out. Dare you look through the sunlit hole yourself? ]

[pyxising]

[c-covering his eyes for a moment because holy shit real sunlight - but you bet your ASS I'm looking out that hole myself]

[earthward]

[FOLLOWING!!!]

[fuckingnature]

[ SURPRISE IT'S ANOTHER ROOM. ]

[ ... If the room were a rainforest. It's trees- huge trees that easily go up 140 feet and more above you. Some of them are well over 40-50 feet wide as well. There's long, thick branches, easily large enough for people to walk across, criss-crossing the area, dipping down to the water-covered ground and high up into the canopy of the trees. And piercing through the trees is sunlight, bright and yellow and warm in that patch you're standing in. ]

[ You may also want to notice that you're actually standing at a hole in the side of a building without any balcony space- about 20 feet below you is a very flooded and murky rainforest floor- there are other plants growing everywhere, in the water, on the trees, it's absolutely green as far as you can see. The building itself stretches up for another 40 ft, absolutely covered in vines and greenery. There's more past that, but it's hard to make out in the tangle of trees. ]

[ Congratulations, you two. You've found the outside. ]

[earthward]

Oh...

[pyxising]

[. . . aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!]

[pyxising]

[the advantages of being a storm rider are that trees are really just stepping stones, and being outside is NOT ENOUGH for this one.

Which is why he's picking Zelda up bridal style (because she'll yell if he leaves he behind '-') and jumping, hitting the first branch and letting it spring him upwards . . . and still going, up through the trees. THERE IS SKY AND I WANT TO SEE IT]

[earthward]

[asjdfa;]

I-Ikki!

[but doesn't seem to actually mind

wrapping her arms around him]

[fuckingnature]

[ It's a long and dizzying climb up- the branches go everywhere, but if you keep switching, you can keep going higher and higher, up into the canopies. You pass by wildlife on the way there, but it's all just a blur of colors that fades away when you make your way up one of the trees that towers over the average canopy- tall enough to receive the full light of the sun. ]

[ The view is the tops of trees- as far as you can see in any direction, but the sky overhead is a beautiful clear blue. ]

[pyxising]

[he doesn't stop until he gets to the very top, wincing at the full light but -

stops short, staring, and carefully puts Zelda down, almost mechanically his attention so locked on the sky. He doesn't even seem to notice when he starts crying]

[earthward]

[doesn't actually notice for a little bit either '-' has missed the sky too!]

It's the same color as back home.

[pyxising]

[s-sinking to his knees, still staring]

I-It's real . . . it's real, it's real . . . [keeps repeating it '-']

[earthward]

[...=x

will give him some privacy

turns away a bit and puts her fingers into her mouth and whistles sharply, twice]

[pyxising]

[SORRY I NEED A MOMENT '-']

[earthward]

[comes to sit next to him after a second, but looking up instead of at him]

I guess it's really been a while.

[pyxising]

[scrubbing a hand over his face '-']

Almost a year . . .

[earthward]

...It's probably pretty dangerous out here.

[pyxising]

Probably.

[earthward]

[gives you a few more minutes to stare at the sky]