Mac'Od Bittty takes off his helmet and puts his axe aside. He calls to Ba'Naer Liffan to bring him a cup of his best stinga rum and takes a sip of it before putting pen to to paper.
Nivia 3, 4th AC, 2577
To Wilk Potskin, greetings.
You will already have received Zo'ro's message from Karan Stevano about the hints from Cuiccio Pernina about the rotoa. That spurred me to make periodic patrols of the mounds every week or so. (*) The first few patrols were discouraging. I do not know how Serae Cuiccio is studying them, but I saw no difference.
Today was different. I started, as I usually do, in Zora. After all, there is a Mound just outside the west gate of the city, and nearby guards to call up for assistance when needed. My first lumios does not do justice to what I saw there, but I do not think that anyone could show in one picture the immensity of what I saw. First, a huge rotoa once again issuing from the mound itself, and around the mound at least eight more rotoa, far larger than usual and in full bloom.
Just outside Zora
Some of the rotoa hand grown so rapidly near the bluffs that guard the city on that side that they had penetrated the overhanging Bark, sending lumps of it to the ground.
The Kitins seem to be stunned by this development. The green workers seem to have disappeared, perhaps hiding in the Mound, and the white kitins were not nearly as observant as they usually are. I was able to get within 20 meters of one of them and had it wander away, then seem to shake itself and call for its companions to help it in chasing me.
I observed this same stupor on the part of the white kitins in all the other Mounds that I examined as well. Likewise the worker Kitins were not visible in any of the six locations.
Naturally I took New Horizons to Hoi-Cho and then to Min-Cho. At the Mound outside Hoi-Cho, the Atrocious white kitins were slightly more observant than near Zora, but not much. In the Grove of Umbra, near Min-Cho, I was able to capture a lumios showning just how far the rotoa have spread.
In Grove of Umbra
In the Knoll of Dissent, it was clear that some of the rotoa are also churning up the Dust with their roots and their growth. In this lumios the two smaller rotoa in the middle distance clearly have pulled up fragments of the bark around their bases. If they are breaking the surface in this way, perhaps the roots are also breaking the kitins tunnels.
In Knoll of Dissent
One last lumios and I will close my letter. This was created near the Observation camp in Heretics Hovel.
In Heretics Hovel
I understand from Zo'ro's letter that Cuiccio is planning a study expedition in the near future. I would suggest that if Zo'ro could get himself invited along as our ambassador that this would be a good thing. I also think that Daeronn and Ardan should be questioned about the apparent affect of the sudden growth of the rotoa on the kitins behavior.
I hope that this letter finds you well. I know that it finds me in a better mood than usual. (Liffan's fine stinga rum may have helped as well.)
Bittty
Bittty folds the letter and seals it, then rents one of Ba'Naer Liffan's izams and ties the letter to its leg. He impresses the location of Almati Woods in its tiny brain, then sets it free. He orders another stinga rum and takes out his journal to write in it.
(*) ((ooc: I patrolled about once a day irl.))
Nivia 3, 4th AC, 2577
To Wilk Potskin, greetings.
You will already have received Zo'ro's message from Karan Stevano about the hints from Cuiccio Pernina about the rotoa. That spurred me to make periodic patrols of the mounds every week or so. (*) The first few patrols were discouraging. I do not know how Serae Cuiccio is studying them, but I saw no difference.
Today was different. I started, as I usually do, in Zora. After all, there is a Mound just outside the west gate of the city, and nearby guards to call up for assistance when needed. My first lumios does not do justice to what I saw there, but I do not think that anyone could show in one picture the immensity of what I saw. First, a huge rotoa once again issuing from the mound itself, and around the mound at least eight more rotoa, far larger than usual and in full bloom.
Just outside Zora
Some of the rotoa hand grown so rapidly near the bluffs that guard the city on that side that they had penetrated the overhanging Bark, sending lumps of it to the ground.
The Kitins seem to be stunned by this development. The green workers seem to have disappeared, perhaps hiding in the Mound, and the white kitins were not nearly as observant as they usually are. I was able to get within 20 meters of one of them and had it wander away, then seem to shake itself and call for its companions to help it in chasing me.
I observed this same stupor on the part of the white kitins in all the other Mounds that I examined as well. Likewise the worker Kitins were not visible in any of the six locations.
Naturally I took New Horizons to Hoi-Cho and then to Min-Cho. At the Mound outside Hoi-Cho, the Atrocious white kitins were slightly more observant than near Zora, but not much. In the Grove of Umbra, near Min-Cho, I was able to capture a lumios showning just how far the rotoa have spread.
In Grove of Umbra
In the Knoll of Dissent, it was clear that some of the rotoa are also churning up the Dust with their roots and their growth. In this lumios the two smaller rotoa in the middle distance clearly have pulled up fragments of the bark around their bases. If they are breaking the surface in this way, perhaps the roots are also breaking the kitins tunnels.
In Knoll of Dissent
One last lumios and I will close my letter. This was created near the Observation camp in Heretics Hovel.
In Heretics Hovel
I understand from Zo'ro's letter that Cuiccio is planning a study expedition in the near future. I would suggest that if Zo'ro could get himself invited along as our ambassador that this would be a good thing. I also think that Daeronn and Ardan should be questioned about the apparent affect of the sudden growth of the rotoa on the kitins behavior.
I hope that this letter finds you well. I know that it finds me in a better mood than usual. (Liffan's fine stinga rum may have helped as well.)
Bittty
Bittty folds the letter and seals it, then rents one of Ba'Naer Liffan's izams and ties the letter to its leg. He impresses the location of Almati Woods in its tiny brain, then sets it free. He orders another stinga rum and takes out his journal to write in it.
(*) ((ooc: I patrolled about once a day irl.))
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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