Character Name Type Player Sex Notes ..Arawn...........Druid...John.Haight........Ma..Alfar/Backup Navigator ..Dorhak..........Warrior.Kevin.Newark.......Ma..Captain/Leader/Dwarf ..Fremea..........Sidh....Tobie.Bonahoom.....Fe..Faerry/Archer/Magician ..Kiet............Acrobat.David.Sanders......Ma..Human/Magician ..Pyandalgor......Hunter..Panthera...........Ma..Human/Hunter ..Raddok..........Miner...Bess.Hadley........Ma..Human/Miner ..Tsia.Phan.......Thief...Don.Ker............Fe..Human/Thief ..Unali...........Ninja...Wout.Broere........Fe..Human/Dagger Maiden ..Upus............Warrior.Gerald.Ford........Ma..Normal/Barbarian Warrior ..Kimis...........Warrior.NPC................Fe..Normal/Diumgi Companion ..Z'leyra.........Healer..Alex Koponen.......Fe..Human/Shaman/1st Mate ..Barbosa.........Warrior.Npc................Ma..Dwarf/Outcast ..Bes (2).........Warrior.npc................Mo..Bes.............. 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The art of flying recon can be tricky to find the correct place to go or find as things fly past far faster and the brain has to be trained to decipher what it sees. The silo notebook, not tree one, did mention a Eagle Rock. Not a true rock but a overhang. But from the silo it would've been impossible to see it even with the magical spyglass so he must've known about it by other methods. The cave drawings / message King Strata talks about the same thing. The area or cave where a possible portal is located. It speaks of a rock that has the appearance looks like a creature of flight. Fremea gets to the edge of forest in only 5 minutes. She flies over the tops not really looking much down as she watches the mountains. There are a half dozen mounts in sight. All but one is rounded and last one is pointed. Rounded ones imply recent volcanic activity. As well as a lot of rock slides. Fremea flies higher about a thousand feet to get a better view. She spends 30 minutes so far back and forth looking over 3 mountains. Soon she'll have to go back to meet the party. The fourth mountain she covers the north side and finally on the east side is a overhang that perks her interest. Doing this by land would've taken hours to find so a Faerry is certainly a great bonus. She dives down to about 50 feet and spots the overhang. The mountain is about 2-2.5 thousand feet high so a small one indeed. The overhang looks to be dark black and brown that juts up and out. The base juts out at 45 degrees for about 30 feet. Then levels out to a flat surface that is a strip of rock 40 feet long and 30 feet wide. It looks like a cross with the sides jutting out 20 feet on each side from the middle. So in fact with the sides its about 70 feet. The 'sides' jut up and down like a arc which from below does look like a possible 'wing'. The front juts up about 3 feet then out and curse like a 'head' and 'beak'. This has to be Eagle Rock as seen from below. But in fact its just a natural overhang. While it is not uniform in proportion the overall structure is lop-sided if truly study it. Fremea studies the rocky surface of the mountain. It raises upwards another thousand get or so at a incline of about 40 degrees. Below is a forest where the tree line is about 200 feet below. Fremea scans for a cave and spots what could be depressions covered by plant life. But as she moves closer she hears a sudden crash of a tree falling below. It is followed by more crashes and noises. If a tree falls by itself it may only make 1 noise. If its this noisy there must be something behind it. She moves lower and below the canopy of trees. That's when she spots a forest giant knocking over a 50 foot tree he just knocked down. Fremea can also seeing about 80 feet away another forest giant sitting against a tree eating something. Besides this giant is a human skeleton in a pile of bones. Unless it was a elf? Then again it could've been a dwarf it is hard to determine size from bones. Fremea wonders if these are just resident Giants or Guardians? She decides it is time to report back. As its been 40-45 minutes and party should be at forest edge soon. [Time: 5:50 pm MW time] The party nears the forest now maybe a few hundred feet away. Barbosa looks to the Bes king. “This seems all too easy? What are the odds of us finding a silo and the chance of finding a cave in all of this wilderness? Whoever used that Silo thing...was there for a reason. In all this terrain hundreds of square miles we just find it by luck?” King Strate shrugs, “Bes and his fellow gods are mysterious. They may not have direct influence but indirect influence may be possible. It does seem...odd that those females came at the exact time we did.” [Time: 6:04 pm MW time] As the party reaches the forest Fremea finds them. She lands to explain what she saw. It is probably 2 miles to the north east and she explains about the 2 forest giants. Barbosa turns to Dorhak, “what's the plan?” GM: Actions? Comments? Next update....Saturday? GM: A short update but heard from Tobie so figured why not. A couple days early. That way my last 2 days off can chill before Xmas. Happy Christmas and Holidays to all out there. I may delay next update as its only a day after Xmas and folks may be busy or away out of town. So may do it next week (Tuesday) or such. We probably have 1 or 2 updates for 2020. I'm sure we'll be glad to see 2020 leave! Happy Solstice! Below marching order may be useless now? GM: Groups- [here to remind me of walking groups] 1st Triad – Dorhak, Barbosa, Raddok 2nd Triad – Z'leyra, Tsia, Unali, King, Arawn. 3rd Triad – Pyan, Opus, Kimis, Kiet.