Bittty sits at the table in Ba'Naer Liffan's bar and composes a note to both Salazar Cardini and to Zo'ro-Argh. After he writes each paragraph he copies it, first on another letter, and then into his journal.
Serae Salazar, nair-Zo'ro, greetings to you this 2nd Day of Pluvia, 1st AC, 2578.
Zo'ro --
I took your suggestion to heart and, after donning my heavy armor and equipping my bag with numerous vials of clarified shell, I set off to Zora to inspect the easiest of the mounds to reach, the one that is in the Knot of Dementia just outside the western gate of that city. It was the first day of winter, 1st of Nivia. Imagine my surprise at finding a pair of healthy rotoa plants flanking the canyon that leads to the city gate! If that were not enough, the field outside, near the mound, was full of rotoa in clumps and lines surrounding the central mound, from which yet more rotoa grew!
The rotoa, not satisfied with re-growing after a time, have spawned yet another cycle of growth. It has been almost a year since the first re-growth, which occurred last winter. Perhaps the rotoa feel the chill of and find it similar to the ever-lasting cool of the Prime Roots, their natural habitat. I do not know, nor are we likely to find out unless we are blessed with rotoa on the surface for another year.
Blessed is the word I will use, for they are beautiful. I have made lumios of them, but will include them with a separate letter. This letter is just to cover the vials of dust that I have collected. You will find, in the same bag with this letter, 18 vials of dust, gathered in three different locations relative to the central mound of each of the six mounds on which Cuiccio Perinia planted the seeds. I visited each site in the time from 4hr on 1st Nivia to 6hr on 2nd Nivia (approximately one day). Some of those areas were difficult of access, so I have only enough sample to analyze myself and to share with N'ASA . I have sent you the majority of the sample that I was able to collect, since the visual observations that I have made do not degrade the samples.
The six locations are coded Z (for Zora, even though the mount is in Knot of Dementia), CoI (for the mound outside Hoi-Cho), GoU (for the Mound in the north of Grove of Umbra), KoD (Knoll of Dissent), UB (Upper Bog) and HH (Heretics Hovel). To each code is appended -A (for dust collected close to the central mound), -B (for dust collected near the concentrations of the rotoa in a ring around the mound), and -C (for dust collected well outside the area where the rotoa are growing).
My visual examination shows that the -C samples have little or none of the black dust, the -B samples have the largest amount and the -A samples have a lesser, but still large amount. An additional observation on my part is that the white kitins do wander out to the edge of the growth, but not much beyond, and they still seem to cluster around the central mound.
Salazar --
I remember Serae Cuiccio commenting that the roots of the rotoa were distasteful to the kitins, but tasting bad is not the same as being poisonous, nor yet drug-like. My observation of the white kitins is that they are even more distracted / drugged / inattentive than they were before. Once they notice a homin they pursue with great vigor, but that observation seems to be severely impaired. I am sorry that I have no large amount of samples to send, but perhaps you can agree with Zo'ro to share particular samples with Cuiccio.
I give you good day, and may the Powers bless this endeavor.
Mac'Od Bittty
Bittty shoves one copy of the letter into a bag full of vials that he attaches to the leg of an izam. That one is sent to the mental image of the brash Tryker Zo'ro-Argh. The second letter is tied to the leg of another Izam and it is imprinted with the mental image of the high-born Salazar. They wing their way side by side towards Verdant Forest.
Satisfied with his work, Bittty orders a hot stinga rum toddy to break the chill of the winter day.
Serae Salazar, nair-Zo'ro, greetings to you this 2nd Day of Pluvia, 1st AC, 2578.
Zo'ro --
I took your suggestion to heart and, after donning my heavy armor and equipping my bag with numerous vials of clarified shell, I set off to Zora to inspect the easiest of the mounds to reach, the one that is in the Knot of Dementia just outside the western gate of that city. It was the first day of winter, 1st of Nivia. Imagine my surprise at finding a pair of healthy rotoa plants flanking the canyon that leads to the city gate! If that were not enough, the field outside, near the mound, was full of rotoa in clumps and lines surrounding the central mound, from which yet more rotoa grew!
The rotoa, not satisfied with re-growing after a time, have spawned yet another cycle of growth. It has been almost a year since the first re-growth, which occurred last winter. Perhaps the rotoa feel the chill of and find it similar to the ever-lasting cool of the Prime Roots, their natural habitat. I do not know, nor are we likely to find out unless we are blessed with rotoa on the surface for another year.
Blessed is the word I will use, for they are beautiful. I have made lumios of them, but will include them with a separate letter. This letter is just to cover the vials of dust that I have collected. You will find, in the same bag with this letter, 18 vials of dust, gathered in three different locations relative to the central mound of each of the six mounds on which Cuiccio Perinia planted the seeds. I visited each site in the time from 4hr on 1st Nivia to 6hr on 2nd Nivia (approximately one day). Some of those areas were difficult of access, so I have only enough sample to analyze myself and to share with N'ASA . I have sent you the majority of the sample that I was able to collect, since the visual observations that I have made do not degrade the samples.
The six locations are coded Z (for Zora, even though the mount is in Knot of Dementia), CoI (for the mound outside Hoi-Cho), GoU (for the Mound in the north of Grove of Umbra), KoD (Knoll of Dissent), UB (Upper Bog) and HH (Heretics Hovel). To each code is appended -A (for dust collected close to the central mound), -B (for dust collected near the concentrations of the rotoa in a ring around the mound), and -C (for dust collected well outside the area where the rotoa are growing).
My visual examination shows that the -C samples have little or none of the black dust, the -B samples have the largest amount and the -A samples have a lesser, but still large amount. An additional observation on my part is that the white kitins do wander out to the edge of the growth, but not much beyond, and they still seem to cluster around the central mound.
Salazar --
I remember Serae Cuiccio commenting that the roots of the rotoa were distasteful to the kitins, but tasting bad is not the same as being poisonous, nor yet drug-like. My observation of the white kitins is that they are even more distracted / drugged / inattentive than they were before. Once they notice a homin they pursue with great vigor, but that observation seems to be severely impaired. I am sorry that I have no large amount of samples to send, but perhaps you can agree with Zo'ro to share particular samples with Cuiccio.
I give you good day, and may the Powers bless this endeavor.
Mac'Od Bittty
Bittty shoves one copy of the letter into a bag full of vials that he attaches to the leg of an izam. That one is sent to the mental image of the brash Tryker Zo'ro-Argh. The second letter is tied to the leg of another Izam and it is imprinted with the mental image of the high-born Salazar. They wing their way side by side towards Verdant Forest.
Satisfied with his work, Bittty orders a hot stinga rum toddy to break the chill of the winter day.
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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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