Excavation: Completed

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily heads back, and makes sure Raleigh is follwing. "Okay, we need to run tests on the soil samples, and get a bigger group for looking around the forest. Any other ideas?"

Maybe get some samples of the trees themselves, but something seems wrong about that.

[Raleigh]

"Possibly collecting a water sample if we find any while investigating the jungle. Never can tell, perhaps some differance in the temperature on the water to the outside of the forest or something might be causeing that wierd wind event we encountered. Other than that, no real new ideas to mention for now."

[Chibi MitchellTF]

"Okay, Good plan." She makes sure to look for any water while on the way out.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Donald inspected the pieces of pottery, glad that Holly had cleaned them off so well. Indeed, each piece, while smoothed over and missing smaller pieces in places, did seem to show evidence that they could have been part of the same pot. Not seeing any paintings, he inspected either side of the pieces, looking for clues for what the pot may have been used for. By the residual traces of the contents, his best guess was that it had stored food; however, he didn't recognize what kind, as he was only sure of the signs that indicated meats by look alone. It was a good find, and worth doing more with before sending it to a museim.

"Ah, this one certainly looks like the sort of pot that would be used for a kitchen back then." He said, more to himself. Then, once he was regarding Holly, he smiled and told her: "Good find, and good work recovering it. Could you place this on one of the examination tables, and start the initial report on it? I'm going to check the horses, and see if they need more water."

He looked as if he were going to say more, but he couldn't remember what his other reason was. Well, he figured that he would remember in good time. Though he did silently curse his old age.

The examination tables (of which there were two), were under the same pavilion as the table with the map and the table with refreshments.

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The only water in the area, was the dew that had remained in the shade of the trees by that time in the early afternoon. The river leading out of the Southern part of the forest was a few miles away from them. The stream (that they got their water from) was from a stray branch of that river, starting on the opposite side of the forest from where they had traveled around to reach the excavation site.

On their way out, however, they would both be able to notice a shiny object fall from a branch ahead of them, that stretched out beyond the main canopy of the forest. They would not see which branch among those in the area that it had fallen from, but they would see its path to the ground, and where it landed. Should they investigate, they would find a polished pebble, light grey in color, on a very fine blue string. In fact, if it weren't for the color, then it could have been mistaken for hair. The strangest part (if one were to inspect it closely), was that there did not seem to be the smallest hint of a tunnel for the pebble to be strung on.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily looks at the shiny pebble, and the string. "Okay, now this is the height of weirdness. We have unexplicable wind, and now a pebble dropping from nowhere. This string would need to have been planted, and we need to figure out where it leads. But, this is the kind of thing that would be used as a trap. Grabbing the string would make us the fish on the hook...we might want to split up."

[Mitera Nikkou]

No use for getting split ends by splitting up. The hair was fine enough to float, so it took a while for it to fall to the ground after the initial impact pulled much of the hair down. Where it had come from, was obviously from above. Why it had come from the branches of one of the trees was anyone's guess at that point.

Upon further inspection, one would see that the pebble had strands of hair coming out of it from opposing ends, as if the pebble were a bead on a necklace. However, the hair was a bit long for a necklace...

[Stellar]

Holly got up and took the peices of pottery to the table and began to fill out the report the proffesor mentioned.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily, even more confused, simply looks at the tree, and starts trying to climb it.

[Mitera Nikkou]

The tree appears to be normal, and nothing odd occurs while Lily tries to climb it. And if she were to manage to get a good look at all of the branches, she wouldn't see anything out of the ordinary. If the pebble had dropped from the tree, then there was no sign of anything else now.

[Raleigh]

"Lily, you sure you should be doing that? How about I climb up there and look for you? For that matter, shouldn't we just head back to the base camp at this point, rather than risking injury climbing a tree?"

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily looks down from the top of the tree, and hears her friend's idea. "You have a point...I'll be down in a second."

She climbs down to the bottom, taking it slowly. "Stupid curiosity, guess I'm the cat that gets killed. Thankfully, not literally. Yet."

When she gets back down, she breathes in and out. "Sorry, it's just that this place gets curiouser and curiouser."

[Raleigh]

"Why did that phrase fill me with a sense of foreboding? Though I do agree with you. Still, I think it is best we get back before it gets much later or we get hurt. Cheer up, we found something to investigate."

[Chibi MitchellTF]

She nods. "Yup...Let's go."

Suiting actions to words, she leaves the forest with all her equipment, making sure Raleigh is following her, and does not let anything 'strange' distract her, simply making mental notes of it.

Before leaving, she also makes sure she didn't drop anything.

[Stellar]

With the time given, Holly finishes the report she began and sat at the table looking out at everything to behold.

[Mistress Guendolen]

And in another part of camp, a girl by the name of Brenna was, unfortunately for her, just waking up. She rolled over, arm shading her eyes from the light penetrating through the door flap. "Wstfgl?" she said, as eloquent as just about anyone else at the moment of awakening. One hand awkwardly fumbled for her glasses as she sat up. That was when she realized it was a lot later than she had first thought....
"Oh, rats! I need to get out there!" She tried to leap out of bed, but instead only managed to tumble onto the floor. Undaunted (as this happened pretty much every morning, along with oversleeping), she dragged herself to her feet and scooted across the tent, rummaging for whatever clothes were nearest at hand. Luckily for her, dressing was simple, due ot her utilitarian wardrobe and the fact that combined laziness and general lack of shame led her to usually fall asleep in her underwear (if anything at all, on particularly hot days). She hastily threw on a pair of baggy cargo-style work pants and thrust her arms through the sleeves of the nearest shirt, then took an extra couple of minutes to run her fingers through her deep purple hair and put it into a hasty braid. Then, dragging on her favorite work boots, she threw open the tent flap and hustled out into the compound, eager to see what she could discover today. Though she belatedly realized that she might want to finish buttoning her shirt, first....

OOC: Okay, hope this is okay. If there are any world parameters I'm breaking, just let me know so I can edit. Don't know if unnatural hair colors or glasses exist in this universe, or just how people dress, so any clarifcation will be helpful. I can also write up a profile, too, if you like.