Warpland Fantasy

[jondude]

"So... what? Is this it then? We're on our own from here and you two are just going to wait here till your company comes and picks you up?", Nova asks Crake.

She examines the area a little more, and wonders if she might be able to contribute by fishing or something. She was a great fighter, but unfortunately she didn't really have much in the way of survivalist skills. She could hopefully earn her keep with simple menial tasks like making twine and gathering wood though. Still, it would be better if they could find something a little more... developed. As far as she knew the warp lands were filled with ruins of the old world. The shattered remnants of cities that if the stories could be believed went for what seemed like a 100 miles or more and could host tens of millions of people if not more. If they could find something like that then maybe they could scavenge up some better tools and weapons and what have you so they didn't all end up being mud covered savages with flint spears.

To that end Nova would do her best to scan the horizon ahead on the other side of the river were the woods was denser, looking for any signs of large hills that maybe they could climb to get some high ground and really view what they had to work with environment wise.

[Soru]

Well fuck, seems like they're going to be stuck just in the wilderness with only a chance of finding some sort of settlement or village if Crake has never seen one himself. Though she knows that some must exist considering the store Mitch told her before but that one ended up disappearing. She looks around at their surroundings a bit, their place for camp at least a nice one with little to no signs of taint but it wasn't a place Scarlet wanted to stay in. Part of her wonders if at some point she should try to sneak back into her home city, but without her gear that would be next to impossible. With a sigh she stands up and tries to look around, seeing if there was a high point nearby or a tree that was tall and easy to climb; if she could get a high enough vantage point she could try to scout around for possibly signs of other tainted people out here.

[Taria]

Crake shrugs to Nova somewhat apologetically as he says, "Well, that's pretty much what exile is, yeah. I can get you to somewhere where it's possible to survive, but I can't change society." Without sharing a word it seems that a few of the group decide that the first thing to do is go exploring a bit and to get a better lay of the land, so together they head towards what appears to be higher elevation. The trek itself is easier said than done, however as the woods are old and dense, without landmarks it could get easy to be turned around, but they can at least tell they are heading uphill.

After an hour or so the group manages to reach what seems to be the summit of this hill, at a small clearing.To on end the can see the long wide desert that they managed to surpass, including the structure sitting out there alone in the sands. The river stretches on towards a vast lake in the woods one way, and to the other, snaking rapids that go on and on towards the horizon in the direction of a mountain.

In the other direction... the trees in front of everyone block their view. They would either need to be cleared or climbed over in order to get a better look deeper into the woods.

[jondude]

"I know that jackass.", Nova answers Crake, but with a playful tone. "Just feels like us wandering off into the woods now feels like we're exiling the two of you rather then the other way around. Not that you're specifically exiling us I mean, but... well you know what I mean! There is more of us then you and all!"

Well in any case it seemed like they might be staying together a little while longer yet. They manage to find some high ground to make use of not to far away and they all decide to hike over, soon cresting the hill despite it's dense foliage. Like much of the landscape though it's dominated by various kinds of tall and thick trees, meaning that unless they found a cliff they wouldn't be seeing much, but those same trees had lots of thick sturdy looking branches!

"Well... I guess we shouldn't be surprised.", Nova says, then drops her chains to the forest floor before looking for a good tree candidate for climbing. Tall with lots of think branches obviously would be best. "I don't mind climbing to get a look at things, though a second set of eyes couldn't hurt if someone would like to join me. Just be sure to watch your footing.", Nova says before selecting a tree and starting to climb. After she gets about four feet up though she'd turn back down toward the group and have a coy smile on her face. "And try not to look up my skirt too much yeah?", she'd add on with a laugh before continuing to climb up, aiming to try and get above the leaf canopy. (Bid: 1 physical)

[Kuragari]

Following after the others and wracking her brain, Kayin wishes she had a map to be able to try and guess where they were. If she had something like that, she could at least try to make suggestions and guesses of places from the old world that might still be around. Though it wouldn't surprise her if the first settlement they ran into was just one of the other walled off city states that had no desire for their sorts to be in them. In any case once they crested the hill, she hummed and said, "If I was going to suggest directions to go, it'd be to follow the river either towards that lake or the mountains." Rivers and lakes had been the focal point for early settlements and civilizations, surely that wouldn't have changed out here in the warplands.

[Soru]

Seeing that some of the others had the same idea as her Scarlet figured it would be best to go as a group to look around. After a little while they make it the top of a hill but finds that it was a small clearing with trees blocking their view of the directions that they didn't come. Looking up at the trees Scarlet then starts to stretch, getting ready to climb one of the trees and it seems that Nova has the same idea. While the bunny girl suit wasn't idea it was skin tight, much like her old thief outfit so it shouldn't restrict her movement. "I'll be climbing too." She tells them before leaping up into the tree, acrobatics and climbing things were a specialty of hers. (Bid: 1 physical)