audio; un: y.mikotoba

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(ooc: please feel free to threadjack around with discussion and info, yujin (& ciri!) are running around and might not get to everybody! their search request for context.)

[Somewhat uncharacteristically for Professor Mikotoba, the post's made in a hurry and with very little preamble. There's no video, and the distinct background shuffling seems to suggest that he is moving-- and that he isn't alone.]

Please listen, everyone. We have a lead on the orb.

[There's another bit of shuffling background noise, and what sounds like Ciri's voice, before he continues.] Spoke to Chief Yerek. The lamawei are the source of their Mother Light-- there is an old and enduring original flower, deep in the forest, though it's hard to reach--

[Suddenly, Ciri's voice in the background becomes easier to make out. She's complaining, and moving quickly past Yujin; he hustles a little to keep up with her, breaking off his train of thought.]

For ages-- ["Hurry up!" calls Ciri,] it's bested all predators and weeds, even without poison or thorns; its defense is simply by being. The nearby blooms even began to grow to resemble it. [Yujin exhales, rushing his last few thoughts. Ciri, why are you so fast???]

Search for plants nearly three huts high... large petals two or three Hivawei high. Like the tablecloths and tapestries they use.

["--going now--"] Miss Ciri!

[The feed cuts.]

video to text | night of 3rd day

[hindsights]

[ there's a moment when the camera turns on and shakes, before cal's face comes into view. he's got wind pushing his hair back and he's wind-flushed, a little out of breath.

beside him is a very large toad, sitting serenely. cal nearly drops the camera and then curses, before everything goes dark because he's dropped it on an expanse of dark blue. uh. okay. then everything changes to text. because sharing this information while talking outloud means 1) bugs in the mouth, 2) everyone listening to a skullmask attack or 3) grovin hearing all he has to share. daetcheu-nono, as a certain yellow dog would say. ] Sorry for the rocky start, guys. It's-- Cal. Cal and Jake.

First thing -- Jake and I found Grovin, the Sage that was supposed to lead the festivities our first night and, uh, we're taking him back and he's going to tell the Chief what's coming.

We learned a couple things from him.

Hey, everybody. It's Jakey talking now. I'll keep it short, but this guy Grove, he's been around this planet for a long, long time. His whole species lives long, though there ain't many around these days. Such is the way of us all, right? Anyways, his role and the role of the Sages before him isn't to keep history so much as... speak to the world? Like, literally, they can talk to one another. And the planet's known about the meteor coming for a while now. Grove's a good guy, him not attending the festival wasn't out of nefariousness. He's just... old.

[ And honestly, Jake trusts the toad at this point. He'll take him at his word on that. ]

The Hivawei are part of a continuum here on this planet, at least that's how I understood him. Death into life in a cycle, was how he put it. I know what that means to me, but I guess we'll see what it means to the Hivawei when we get there. Shouldn't be more than... five more hours until we're back. [ Jake may be talking over text, but somehow he still sounds exhausted. Wing cramp was real, man. ] Eesh.

[ there's an awkward pause before more info comes! right! cal's cue to take over while jake's trying to keep them up in the air! ] Yeah. All that.

He also told us about the Mother of Light too. Well, that there is no Mother Light. It's just something the Hivawei turn to when they're stressed but it's based on lamawei. I think someone said it's the flower? [ look! he's kinda behind on network stuff! and also local jedi was busy with talking to a toad??? ]

[ ooc: jake is the yellow-orange and cal is the indigo text! feel free to threadjack and comment around as always! here is the search request for those who haven't seen! ]

audio: Gutterson.T

[walkingtrigger]

[ After seeing this communication on the network, though Tim has made an effort to tell his fellow teammates what he learned from Keremo, he decides it might be best to do a carpet bomb approach. ]

Yeah, hey.

I'm new here and don't know enough folks to be sure I've told enough folks this.

Met a fellow out in the forestland, think he fancies himself an adventurer, naturalist, whatever they call it he made a point of speaking too how much he's mapped this planet. Had a lot of sketches and notes, so I got no reason to figure he bullshitting me about his investigations.

I thought for a brief period he might have had direct contact with the orb, he was talking about getting off this planet and continuing his explorations out on other planets, but I think that's just a dreamer speaking. However, something of note. Given how proud he was of all the places he'd been, I asked him if there was anywhere on this planet he hadn't been, or determined too dangerous to try to reach.

He mentioned 'going deep in the forest is really hard... especially past where the lamawei grow, no one really goes there. Not that I couldn't! But it's easier if you have wings'.

I don't have wings, and technically speaking this is my first orb rodeo, so I figured I'd best pass this along.

[ OOC: This has already been posted up on the baton pass, but wanted to make sure to cover all IC bases. ]