OKAY SO. There's actually what looks like a series of cairns of river stones that have been placed at the edge of the river. They aren't uniformly spaced from each other, but they do look to have been deliberately placed there. The stones seem to have been selected for their aesthetic purposes. They are non-sentient. If crushed into powder and mixed with enough water to give a syrup-like consistency, they would actually make a decent meal for a Hecatite.
They'll be able to find and catalogue dozens of new species of plants and fungi. One species of fungi is poisonous to humans, but perfectly fine for Gorgons to eat. There's a species of flowering berry bush growing outside the shade of the trees where the crushed buries can be fermented for alcohol. Some of the root vegetables could also probably be turned into alcohol, but might not be so pleasant on their own. Naoki can attempt to mix in other plants they've found.
The small animals of this planet exhibit bilateral symmetry but have three sets of limbs instead of the two that earth animals usually have. They would have likely encountered a kind of flying small mammal that looks like a mix of squirrels and bats.
Re: Cycle One
They'll be able to find and catalogue dozens of new species of plants and fungi. One species of fungi is poisonous to humans, but perfectly fine for Gorgons to eat. There's a species of flowering berry bush growing outside the shade of the trees where the crushed buries can be fermented for alcohol. Some of the root vegetables could also probably be turned into alcohol, but might not be so pleasant on their own. Naoki can attempt to mix in other plants they've found.
The small animals of this planet exhibit bilateral symmetry but have three sets of limbs instead of the two that earth animals usually have. They would have likely encountered a kind of flying small mammal that looks like a mix of squirrels and bats.