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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[Where is this thing going . . . And where are the walls??

Continues following, squinting up into the treetops as he does]

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[ It keeps walking and the scenery seems the same. Those same clumps of thin brown tree trunks, the purple gourds hanging overhead, vines tangling here and there. The Lizagon snaps through any of the vines that tangle in its way- and steps straight on a smaller Moss Lion, leaving a bloody mess in its wake as it keeps going. ]

[hydralize]

[. . . Do I really want to keep following it or do I want to scavenge that moss lion. HOW CRUSHED AND RUINED IS IT]

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[ That thing is pretty roadkill right now. ]

[hydralize]

[DAMN :U

following the giant lizagon again then]

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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. ]

[hydralize]

[If this thing is just heading deeper into the building I'm going to barbecue it. :U

Slashes at a few vines to mark the way back if he needs it, creeping after the beast]

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[ 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. ]

[hydralize]

. . . [moves around behind it to try and get a peek through the vines at that light]

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[ There's vines in the way- too many, but it keeps clawing them down and more and more sunlight begins to pour into the room, blindingly so. Once the hole is big enough for the Lizagon, it pushes through, spreading its wings and taking off, leaving a gaping hole of light in its wake. Dare you step a little closer and look outside? ]

[hydralize]

[HELL YES I DO]

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[ 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-clearly this used to be a window- 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've found the outside. ]

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[WHATEVER BUILDING WHO CARES ABOUT YOU \o/ Scowl's completely engrossed in staring up at the sunlight filtering through the canopy]

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[. . . And then he very calmly steps back inside towards the center of the room, checks the fuse length on one of the explosives he's brought with him, and lights that sucker. He doesn't toss it until he's sure the timing's just right—enough for the bomb to sear and destroy or damage the plants nearest to the window without detonating too close to the structure of the building itself]

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[ Explosives expert: 1; Nature: ... probably higher right now but. ]

[ The blast does a good job of clearing away the plants and hidden creatures from the open hole in the wall; there's a few tree clumps that are actually tree-like spiders that are writhing on the ground on fire now and black ooze leaking from some vines eroding through whatever other living thing they can touch, but the hole is pretty clearly visible on the wall now- it looks like it used to be a large open window that got knocked through. ]

[hydralize]

[o god tree spiders

. . . kicks the flaming bastards at any foliage that is not yet charred and/or burning]

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[ They do a pretty good job of spreading the flames, but the smoke from the regular vines burning is starting to become pretty thick... and pretty toxic. The breeze by the hole does seem to be catching most of it though. ]

[hydralize]

[WELP. I DID MY PART '-' This section of room'll be good for at least a few hours!!

DUCKS BACK OUT THE WINDOW looking for a tree that looks like an easy climb]

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[ There's dozens of thick branches criss-crossing over the water underneath; a few of them are easy enough to reach with a short jump. ]

[hydralize]

[GOING FOR IT and getting the hell up these trees \o/]

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[ 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. ]

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[He can't help squinting against the light. It's so much brighter than he's become accustomed to in the last year. Even so, he doesn't even think about shielding his eyes from the sun as he takes in the view of the horizon.]

Ha . . . h-hahaha! It's really . . . !

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[ There is so much open sky, Scowl, so much open skyyyyy. ]

[hydralize]

[I JUST. I NEED TO HAVE A MOMENT HERE ;; and be glad no one is around to see me cry again]

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[ The sky will not judge your crying. ]