Natural Resources Hex Sign-Ups

[powersthatbe]

As your characters team up to survey the wilderness of the smuggler's moon, please comment under the week's toplevels below to indicate which hexes you're exploring and who'll you'll be exploring them with. In the body of your comment, please list any relevant skills or abilities that will help you search faster, more accurately, or more thoroughly, such as Control Panel, Questing Sense, Survivalism, etc.



As a note: thanks to the expedition's hover vehicles, you can pick any hex on the map as your starting hex and any subsequent hexes chosen can be anywhere on the map--not necessarily contiguous to your first hex.

Comments

Re: Cycle One

[bite_the_hand]

Eren, Naoki, and Seifer are exploring the hex at row 4 and between columns D and E - the one dominated by the large crescent-shaped bend in the river.

As a member of the Survey Corps, Eren has military level training in survivalism, including exploring new areas, establishing bases, and he knows how to do it all with low-tech methods. He does also have the needed combo of Liminal Manipulation II and Liminal Power to be able to make supplies, but will try to avoid resorting to that unless there's an actual emergency. He also has Assist if one of the others' abilities can get a boost from that without it being too obvious.

[leftbehindagain]

Oh right I need to check in with Naoki's skill assortment.

*everything network, practically, including Psychic Delegate if it for some reason looks necessary/beneficial to put an infiltrator on the line
*Control Panel
*Assist
*Interface, though he's non in a particular hurry to stick his brain in random shit
*Mythobiology and Stellar Education (general with a slight lean toward astronomy, there)
*Water elementalism
*Oracle powers, if Growth would be of particular note/use in a forest (it could also be too much information to easily practice)
*a Slammer Stack with assorted buff pogs in
*Forest Folk Brewery, Alchemy, and a decent amount of ingredient-mixing imagination
*...also if there are any notes about the expedition around, he could doodle on them and absorb all the info immediately?

[powersthatbii]

If you want to risk getting caught by Yuri and Germaine by doodling on their paperwork and possibly getting yelled at, be my guest, my dude.

[leftbehindagain]

He probably won't - I don't think he's realised he can still do that, yet. (And he's going to be very annoyed when he does catch on, the nerd.)

Re: Cycle One

[powersthatbii]

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.